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Blizzcon: The Numbers
The WCS Grand Finals at Blizzcon have gathered the top 16 earners in the WCS system for the ultimate tournament. Below are some of the numbers that will help you appreciate just how skilled these players are, and what their roads to this point looked like. And a lot of other stuff.
The WCS Grand Finals at Blizzcon have gathered the top 16 earners in the WCS system for the ultimate tournament. Below are some of the numbers that will help you appreciate just how skilled these players are, and what their roads to this point looked like. And a lot of other stuff.
The winrates
Overall winrates
INnoVation: 67%
sOs: 66%- Polt: 65%
- TaeJa: 65%
- Dear: 63%
- Mvp: 63%
Jaedong: 62%- NaNiwa: 62%
- MMA: 62%
- Bomber: 62%
- Soulkey: 61%
- MC: 61%
- HerO: 61%
- aLive: 58%
- Maru: 57%
- duckdeok: 56%
- Jaedong sports the highest win rate in an individual match-up, 74% in ZvZ.
- Jaedong also has the lowest win rate in an individual match-up with his 53% ZvP
- MC has played the greatest amount of televised games of all attending players, with 1414 recorded competitive games.
- Dear has the least amount of televised games, at 207. He has never lost a Bo5+.
- On average, Dear lifts a trophy every 69 games.
- Mvp has a near-80% (78.95%) win rate in Bo5+ series. He has lost 8 (out of 38) in total, 5 of them to attending players.
- Soulkey is the only player at Blizzcon that hasn't lost a series to a foreigner, ever.
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INnoVation 18.93% 15.24% 18.81% 30.24% 16.77%
Polt 13.48% 7.46% 14.01% 17.36% 47.68%
MMA 10.97% 7.53% 17.31% 20.47% 43.71%
TaeJa 9.51% 10.21% 17.57% 16.17% 46.54%
Dear 7.08% 8.95% 17.52% 12.99% 53.46%
sOs 6.93% 6.58% 13.00% 34.07% 39.42%
Mvp 6.35% 4.97% 10.41% 25.96% 52.32%
NaNiwa 5.37% 5.01% 11.90% 21.75% 55.97%
Bomber 4.65% 4.54% 11.14% 23.38% 56.29%
Maru 4.57% 6.59% 12.24% 21.96% 54.65%
HerO 3.86% 4.26% 8.69% 22.60% 60.58%
Soulkey 2.89% 5.16% 13.53% 34.40% 44.03%
MC 2.03% 4.58% 9.01% 39.03% 45.35%
Jaedong 1.99% 4.28% 12.62% 43.07% 38.04%
aLive 0.70% 2.46% 7.11% 27.77% 61.96%
duckdeok 0.70% 2.18% 5.12% 8.77% 83.23%
The money
- Jang "MC" Min Chul $406,788
- Jeong "Mvp" Jong Hyeon $380,020
- Choi "Polt" Seong Hun $245,670
- Mun "MMA" Seong-Won $223,175
- Song "HerO" Hyun Deok $206,524
- Yun "Taeja" Young Seo $136,823
- Johan "Naniwa" Lucchesi $120,593
- Choi "Bomber" Ji Sung $114,315
- Han "aLive" Lee Seok $104,540
- Lee "INnoVation" Shin Hyung $87,665
- Lee "Jaedong" Jae Dong $67,910
- Kim "Soulkey" Min Chul $67,635
- Baek "Dear" Dong Jun $61,000
- Cho "Maru" Seong Ju $50,749
- Kim "duckdeok" Kyung Deok $42,890
- Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin $35,260
- 98.4% of Dear's prize money comes from WCS events
- Only 9.4% of MC's prize money comes from WCS events
- Innovation has earned the most money from WCS events with $66.000 from WCS Korea and Season Finals alone.
- Innovation is also the highest earner of 2013 overall, with $83.200 in prize money this year.
- With $55.500, Mvp has earned less money this year than any other year of his SC2 career. He is the 12th highest earner of 2013.
- Out of the attending players, aLive has earned the least money this year at $28.840
- Unless Innovation finishes 2nd, the Blizzcon champion is guaranteed to have earned the most money this year.
The championships
- Polt and Taeja have won 3 tournaments each this year. Taeja won Homestory Cup VI, Asus ROG and Dreamhack Bucharest. Polt won MLG Spring and WCS America Season 2 and 3.
- Out of the 16 attending players, aLive, Jaedong, sOs and Naniwa are the ones to not have won a tournament in 2013. Of those four, only Jaedong and sOs are without major championships in Starcraft II, but they have taken second place in one Season Finals each.
- Soulkey has not participated in any offline tournaments (that award WCS points) besides WCS this year
- Naniwa has earned the least amount of WCS points from official WCS tournaments, at 2000.
- Soulkey has the most WCS points from official WCS tournaments, at 6250.
- Polt beat only Koreans to win WCS America Season 3
- Jaedong has played in 4 finals this year, more than any other player.
- It has been 11 days since Dear last won a championship (WCS Season 3 Finals)
- It has been 1173 days since Jaedong last won a championship (WCG Korea 2010)
- Mvp has won the most championships out of any attending player, at 9 (11 counting Gainward Tournament and Arena of Legends)
- Dear has played in the fewest tournaments of any attending player, at 3.
The games
- Mvp pulled off two insane comebacks in WCS this year. One against Tefel and one against Innovation. Both games were declared lost before he came back and won.
- In his last 10 TvZs, Mvp has gone 10-0.
- Bomber has only played 5 maps since dropping out of Code A, less than any other player in the same time period.
- Innovation has twice as many games featured in TeamLiquid's "Best Games of 2013" as the next player. Unfortunately, many of those end with him losing.
- There have been no battlecruisers or carriers (deliberately) produced in any WCS Finals so far this year.
- Forge first in PvP is still just as impossible to make work as when Oz tried to use it in Code S in 2012.
- TvT and ZvZ are the two match-ups to not have been played in a WCS finals.
The other stuff
- Soulkey has a history of always losing the first series at tournaments which doesn't bode well for single-elimination
- Innovation's new software update has arrived! Now with 48.54% more confidence in TvT and TvP but with 21.07% less confidence in TvZ
- Taeja and HerO can potentially end up facing each other in the finals. The last two times HerO and Taeja played an offline Bo5+, HerO won convincingly.
- Along with his Season 2 money, Bomber wants to use the $100.000 first prize to buy a house
- Every WCS Season Finals has ended in a very one-sided stomps. If Blizzcon does as well, the grand total will be 16-0.
- None of last year's WCS champions will play at Blizzcon. WCS Asia champion Rain came closest but ended up in 19th place.
- If Jim had been able to attend the Season 2 Finals, aLive would not be at Blizzcon as he would only have 3125 points, 75 less than the minimum.
- Every match-up is possible in the finals. Yes, even ZvZ.
- Four WCS finals re-matches are possible in the finals: Bomber - Jaedong, Innovation - Soulkey, sOs vs Innovation and MMA - MC.
- An EG team-kill is possible in the finals.
- A minimum of 46 games will be played at Blizzcon. The maximum amount of games is 77.
- Blizzcon has the largest prize pool of any SC2 tournament ever.
- The Blizzcon Live Report thread currently has 276 pages, more than many GSL finals.
Time until Blizzcon
Stoked!
