2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals

2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals [edit]
League Information
Organizer:	Electronic Sports League Blizzard Entertainment
Server:	Europe
Event Type:	Offline
Location:	Ukraine
Format:	1v1, Double Elimination
Prize pool:	$15,000
Start Date:	2012-07-21
End Date:	2012-07-22
Links:	Official Website
Winners
TitaN   Happy   sLivko   Aristeo
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:	16
6    4    6
Maps
WCS Cloud Kingdom LE • WCS Daybreak LE • WCS Ohana LE • WCS Antiga Shipyard • WCS Entombed Valley • WCS Shakuras Plateau • WCS Tal'Darim Altar LE

The 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals is a StarCraft II tournament hosted by Blizzard for 16 players from Russia. The top 3 players will qualify to the Europe Finals.

About

The 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russian Nationals is StarCrat II tournament held in Kiev, Ukraine from July 21st to 22nd, 2012. It will feature 16 players with a prize pool of $10,000 and seeds to the Europe Finals later this year.

Format

• Double Elimination
• All rounds best-of-three.
• In the Grand Finals, the player coming from the Lower Bracket has to win two best-of-three series.

Map Pool

• WCS Cloud Kingdom LE
• WCS Daybreak LE
• WCS Ohana LE
• WCS Antiga Shipyard
• WCS Entombed Valley
• WCS Shakuras Plateau
• WCS Tal'Darim Altar LE

Prize Pool

$15,000, and three paid trips to the 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series Europe Finals is spread among the players as seen below. The player finishing first will qualify directly for the 2012 Battle.net World Championship.

Place	Prize	ID	Team
1st	$6,000 + Paid Trip	TitaN	RoX.KIS
2nd	$3,000 + Paid Trip	Happy	Team Empire
3rd	$1,500 + Paid Trip	sLivko	RoX.KIS
4th	$900	Aristeo	Team Empire

5th-8th	$450	Click "Show" to see players
5th-6th	$450	Roll	Virtus.pro
5th-6th	$450	Neytpoh	Virtus.pro
7th-8th	$450	Turuk	Virtus.pro
7th-8th	$450	Pomi	RoX.KIS

9th-16th	$250	Click "Show" to see players
9th-12th	$250	Noname	3D Clan
9th-12th	$250	Siw	Virtus.pro
9th-12th	$250	LiveZerg	RoX.KIS
9th-12th	$250	Abver	RoX.KIS
13th-16th	$250	Revolver	Virtus.pro
13th-16th	$250	Strange	RoX.KIS
13th-16th	$250	Creed	RoX.KIS
13th-16th	$250	ho8ot	Empire

Qualifiers

Click [show] on the right for a detailed list of qualifiers and their winners
League	Date	Qualified Player #1	Qualified Player #2
ESL Qualifier #1	2012-04-22	Happy	ho8ot
ESL Qualifier #2	2012-04-29	Neytpoh	Noname
ESL Qualifier #3	2012-05-06	TitaN	Turuk
ESL Qualifier #4	2012-05-13	Abver	Pomi
ESL Qualifier #5	2012-05-20	sLivko	LiveZerg
ESL Qualifier #6	2012-05-27	Aristeo	Revolver
ESL Qualifier #7	2012-06-03	Siw	Creed
ESL Qualifier #8	2012-06-10	Roll	Strange

Participants

Protoss (6)	Terran (4)	Zerg (6)
Neytpoh	Happy	ho8ot
TitaN	Noname	Abver
Pomi	Turuk	sLivko
Siw	Creed	LiveZerg
Roll		Aristeo
Strange		Revolver

Results

Bracket

	Round 1				Round 2				Round 3				Round 4				Round 5				Round 6				Grand Finals
	Winner's bracket
	Happy	2
	Strange	0
					Happy	2
					Turuk	0
	Turuk	2
	Aristeo	1
													Happy	2
													Roll	0
	Roll	2
	Pomi	0
					Roll	2
					Neytpoh	1
	Neytpoh	2
	Revolver	1
																					Happy	2
																					TitaN	1
	Siw	1
	Abver	2
					Abver	0
					sLivko	2
	ho8ot	0
	sLivko	2
													sLivko	0
													TitaN	2
	LiveZerg	2
	Noname	0
					LiveZerg	1																			Happy	1	0
					TitaN	2																			TitaN	2	2
	TitaN	2
	Creed	0
	Loser's bracket
					Neytpoh	2
	ho8ot	0
					Siw	0							sLivko	2
	Siw	2							Neytpoh	2
													Neytpoh	0
									Turuk	0
					Turuk	2
	Creed	0																			TitaN	2
					Noname	0									sLivko	2
	Noname	2																		sLivko	0
																		Aristeo	0
					LiveZerg	0
	Aristeo	2
					Aristeo	2							Roll	0
	Strange	1							Aristeo	2
													Aristeo	2
									Pomi	1
					Abver	0
	Revolver	1
					Pomi	2
	Pomi	2

Racial Distribution

	Protoss	Terran	Zerg	Random
Round of 16	6 4 6
Round of 12	5 3 4
Round of 8	4 2 2
Round of 6	3 1 2
Round of 4	1 1 2
Round of 3	1 1 1
Grand Finals	1 1
Winner	1

See Also

• Leagues Portal
• Minor Tournaments
• 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series
• 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series Europe Finals

External Links

• Official Website
• Official Bracket with Replays