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Esports World Cup 2025 - Brackets Revealed

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-07-14 17:55:16
July 14 2025 17:40 GMT
#1
The Esports World Cup has revealed the brackets for its 2025 StarCraft II tournament through its official website.

EWC 2025 consists of three tournament phases.

The tournament begins with a preliminary play-in stage, where the four players from the global qualifier (the "last chance" qualifier) contend for two spots in the main event.

The main competition then commences with the round-of-16 "group stage," which is essentially two double-elimination brackets consisting of eight players each. The top four players from each bracket/group advance to the playoffs.

Finally, the remaining eight players compete in a single-elimination playoffs for the world championship.


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Kreuger
Profile Joined October 2011
Sweden721 Posts
July 14 2025 17:46 GMT
#2
Nice brackets.

Know the usual meme is that Serral allways gets the easy way, but having either Rogue in a ZvZ or imo the best Protoss atm in Classic in the qualifying match is not a lucky draw :D

Will be great games!
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33388 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-07-14 17:56:26
July 14 2025 17:48 GMT
#3
On July 15 2025 02:46 Kreuger wrote:
Nice brackets.

Know the usual meme is that Serral allways gets the easy way, but having either Rogue in a ZvZ or imo the best Protoss atm in Classic in the qualifying match is not a lucky draw :D

Will be great games!


It's almost certainly seeded based on Aligulac rating from mid-June (when all the players were confirmed). They didn't say this officially, but the match-ups line up perfectly by rating.
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Kreuger
Profile Joined October 2011
Sweden721 Posts
July 14 2025 17:55 GMT
#4
On July 15 2025 02:48 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2025 02:46 Kreuger wrote:
Nice brackets.

Know the usual meme is that Serral allways gets the easy way, but having either Rogue in a ZvZ or imo the best Protoss atm in Classic in the qualifying match is not a lucky draw :D

Will be great games!


It's almost certainly seeded based on Aligulac rating from mid-June (when all the players were confirmed). They didn't say this officially, but the match-ups line up perfectly by rating.


Ah yeah, that might be it.

How things can change in a couple of weeks,

We have Classic that are in great shape, Clem in good shape byt showing some vulnerability in his TvP, Serral we dont know since he doesnt show up to smaller cups.


22/7 cant come soon enough :D
PremoBeats
Profile Joined March 2024
431 Posts
July 14 2025 18:57 GMT
#5
Damn, I wanna see a Rogue versus Serral ZvZ!! Although seeing Serral go against Classic after the recent loss would be super interesting as well.
Maru versus Reynor could also be a banger.
TeamMamba
Profile Joined June 2025
62 Posts
July 14 2025 22:07 GMT
#6
All the matchup seems pretty “fair” and well balanced.

Only Maru vs trigger and hero vs lancer sticks out like a sore thumb.
Agh
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States974 Posts
July 14 2025 23:11 GMT
#7
The play-in in to get either Serral or Clem always makes me chuckle, so Brutal.

Looking forward to the games.
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JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4407 Posts
July 15 2025 01:22 GMT
#8
The brackets are very balanced much more so than in most world championships. Maybe the bottom one is a tiny bit stronger. Really whichever half Byun ends up in will be the harder bracket.

It's also particularly good for Maru, he has a very high chance of getting straight to the ro8. Especially if Shin beats Reynor.

Kinda weird that they're doing a third place match. Is this the first world championship with a 3rd place match for SC2? I guess it gives time for the finalists to prep which is nice.
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3397 Posts
July 15 2025 02:42 GMT
#9
I guess the player qualify from the play-in upper bracket will face Serral and the lower bracket will face Clem.
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1177 Posts
July 15 2025 04:18 GMT
#10
On July 15 2025 10:22 JJH777 wrote:
Kinda weird that they're doing a third place match. Is this the first world championship with a 3rd place match for SC2? I guess it gives time for the finalists to prep which is nice.


I think it is just a thing they do throughout the entire EWC. Every discipline has divided points between 3rd and 4th place, so SC2 had to do it aswell.
In general it feels like the Bronze-match has a bit of a comeback this year in other games aswell, considering that it was pretty much dead for the last ten years
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6929 Posts
July 15 2025 08:46 GMT
#11
On July 15 2025 08:11 Agh wrote:
The play-in in to get either Serral or Clem always makes me chuckle, so Brutal.

Looking forward to the games.


It's an additional 10k so definitely worth it
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DarkGamer
Profile Joined November 2012
Germany323 Posts
July 16 2025 05:50 GMT
#12
The brackets look very balanced. im a bit sad for rogue, who has a very hard bracket :o

Shin Vs Reynor will be fun and beside it's a zvz, it is a must watch for me! Cure vs Showtime will be close as well, i think.
Yrr
Profile Joined June 2012
Germany804 Posts
July 16 2025 07:46 GMT
#13
What's the reason the Play-in Stage exists as part of the main tournament?
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Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1177 Posts
July 17 2025 00:46 GMT
#14
On July 16 2025 16:46 Yrr wrote:
What's the reason the Play-in Stage exists as part of the main tournament?


The Playin-Stage awards 7500$ for the last place, I think the least the players can do is travel to Riyadh for that

"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6929 Posts
July 17 2025 08:04 GMT
#15
On July 16 2025 16:46 Yrr wrote:
What's the reason the Play-in Stage exists as part of the main tournament?


Drama, make a "last chance" tournament, hype if someone from play-in actually wins a round, money
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
Nostromo1
Profile Joined April 2016
37 Posts
July 19 2025 00:01 GMT
#16
Well all the people that like to complain that Serral always gets very favorable matchups in groups/brackets definitely can't complain on this one could have to face Byun for first series which albeit isn't that bad but then either a ZvZ against Rogue or series against Classic who is in absolute top form right now for the potential qualifying match to the playoffs is without a doubt the worst potential 2 opponents for any player in their respective potential playoff qualifying match.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10342 Posts
July 19 2025 04:37 GMT
#17
classic, rogue, serral have to play that early? holy moly...
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hivi786cc
Profile Joined July 2025
2 Posts
July 19 2025 07:20 GMT
#18
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Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2087 Posts
July 19 2025 18:48 GMT
#19
After many years, im excited for another sc2 tournament again. lets gooo
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Denmark1215 Posts
July 20 2025 09:27 GMT
#20
Looks great - a lot of great SC2 coming up next week!
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