2015 StarCraft II World Championship Series

Esports tournament 2015 StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals StarCraft II 2015 Anaheim, California Blizzard Entertainment Anaheim Convention Center $250,000 Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin Lee "Life" Seung Hyun 2014 2016 The 2015 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) is the 2015 edition of the StarCraft II World Championship Series, the highest level of esports competition for StarCraft II.https://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/470347-blizzard-announces-2015-wcs-changes Blizzard announces 2015 WCS changes The tournament series' Global Finals were won by South Korean professional player Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin, becoming the first two-time StarCraft II world champion.https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/7/9689632/starcraft-2-world-championship-series-global-finals-blizzcon-sos-life Protoss player SoS becomes the first two-time StarCraft 2 World Champion at BlizzCon Polygon 7 November 2015https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/the-end-of-the-heart-of-the-swarm-and-a-new-beginning-for-starcraft-ii/ The end of Heart of the Swarm, but a new beginning for StarCraft II 27 November 2015 Format StarCraft II World Championship Series#History The 2015 StarCraft II World Championship Series introduced greater region-locking restrictions in reaction to Korean dominance across all WCS leagues. WCS America and Europe's Premier and Challenger leagues were merged into a shared league, dropping the continental naming convention. In Korea, a second Korean league formed alongside the long-running Global StarCraft II League (GSL), SPOTV's StarCraft II StarLeague (SSL), replacing the defunct Ongamenet Starleague (OSL). Both Korean leagues featured three seasons of regular play, as did the WCS Premier League.https://starcraft2.com/en-us/news/18291114 The WCS Global Finals at BlizzCon 2015 2019-02-04 2019-04-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20190423232944/https://starcraft2.com/en-us/news/18291114 dead Seeding All WCS-sanctioned events gave out points to players based on their ranking and the event's tier. The sixteen highest-ranking players received invites to the Global Finals, seeded into a bracket based on their rank. As there were two players tied for the 16th seed, a tie-breaker match was held prior to the commencement of the Global Finals.https://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/496003-wcs-tiebreaker-fantasy-vs-hyun-wcs-2015 WCS Tiebreaker: FanTaSy vs HyuN - WCS 2015 Results Global Finals The WCS Global Finals were held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California as part of BlizzCon 2015.https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzcon-crowns-winners-in-heroes-of-the-storm-sta/1100-6432260/ BlizzCon Crowns Winners in Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft 2, Hearthstone, and World of Warcraft They featured bracket play in the round of sixteen, played out the week prior to the main event as part of BlizzCon Opening Week, with the quarterfinals onward at the convention center itself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmW-3dHjOjQ - YouTube YouTube no KOR herO 1 KOR Classic 3 KOR INnoVation 1 KOR Life 3 KOR Rain 0 KOR sOs 3 KOR Hydra 1 KOR Rogue 3 KOR Classic 2 KOR Life 3 KOR sOs 3 KOR Rogue 0 KOR Life 3 KOR sOs 4 References Category:StarCraft II World Championship Series Category:2015 in esports