2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series

Esports tournament 2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals StarCraft II 2016 Anaheim, California Blizzard Entertainment Anaheim Convention Center $500,000 Byun "ByuN" Hyun Woo Park "Dark" Ryung Woo 2015 2017 The 2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) is the 2016 edition of the StarCraft II World Championship Series, the highest level of esports competition for StarCraft II.Bigger, better, stronger: the World Championship Series is back with a new tournament format for 2016 https://www.eslgaming.com/article/bigger-better-stronger-world-championship-series-back-new-tournament-format-2016-2469 December 17, 2015 ESL Hans Oelschlägel Jan 30, 2019 April 23, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190423034440/https://www.eslgaming.com/article/bigger-better-stronger-world-championship-series-back-new-tournament-format-2016-2469 dead The tournament series' Global Finals were won by South Korean professional player Byun "ByuN" Hyun Woo. http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/21304420/blizzcon-2017-south-korean-teams-dominate-blizzcon-competition BlizzCon 2017 - South Korean teams dominate BlizzCon competition 5 November 2017https://www.gamespot.com/articles/heres-who-won-the-overwatch-world-cup-hearthstone-/1100-6454677/ Here's Who Won the Overwatch World Cup, Hearthstone Invitational, and StarCraft 2 Championship Format StarCraft II World Championship Series#History The 2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series continued the trend of increasing region-locking and residency restrictions. Competition was separated into two regions, World Championship Series Circuitand World Championship Series Korea. The WCS Circuit transitioned from a league format with three seasons per year to a tournament circuit with three stops. WCS Korea featured two seasons each of the two Korean leagues, afreecaTV's Global StarCraft II League (GSL), and SPOTV's StarCraft II StarLeague. Unlike previous seasons which ranked players purely by WCS points, 2016's WCS guaranteed 8 slots of the Global Finals to each of the two regions, guaranteeing a larger non-Korean presence. The prize pool for the Global Finals was doubled, from $250,000 in 2015 to $500,000 in 2016. Additionally, a group stage was introduced for the first time for the first stage of play, with four groups of four players feeding into a bracket from the quarterfinals to the finals.https://www.pcgamer.com/starcraft-2-wcs-prize-pool-climbs-to-2-milion-for-2016/ StarCraft 2 WCS prize pool climbs to $2 milion for 2016 PC Gamer 17 December 2015 Seeding Eight players from each of the two WCS regions qualify to the event based on their WCS Points-based rankings. Winners of WCS Circuit stops, GSL Code S events, and SSL Premier events receive automatic qualification. The sixteen players are then seeded into four four-player groups for the first round based on their region-specific ranking. A draw is held for the quarterfinals bracket, with winners of each group facing second-place finishers of other groups. Results Global Finals The WCS Global Finals were held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California as part of BlizzCon 2016. http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/18009503/blizzcon-starcraft-ii-world-championship-spectacle-starcraft BlizzCon StarCraft II World Championship The Spectacle of StarCraft 9 November 2016 They featured a group stage as the first round of play, played out the week prior to the main event, followed by bracket play from the quarterfinals onward at the convention center itself.https://www.pcgamer.com/the-story-of-starcraft-ii-in-2016/ The story of StarCraft II in 2016 PC Gamer 31 December 2016 Herrmann Oliver no GER ShoWTimE 1 POL Elazer 3 KOR Dark 3 USA Neeblet 0 KOR TY 1 KOR ByuN 3 KOR Zest 2 KOR Stats 3 POL Elazer 0 KOR Dark 3 KOR ByuN 3 KOR Stats 1 KOR Dark 2 KOR ByuN 4 References Category:StarCraft II World Championship Series Category:2016 in esports