World Championship Series Overview

by Blizzard Entertainment 13 Apr 2012 18:56 BST
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World Championship Series Overview

The StarCraft II World Championship Series is underway! Leading up to the 2012 Battle.net World Championship, which will occur later this year, this inaugural series consists of over 30 eSports events to be held around the globe, hosted by both Blizzard Entertainment and official tournament organizers.

Learn more about this global eSports spectacular and keep up-to-date on upcoming events, tournament coverage, and more below. Be sure to check back regularly, as we'll be sharing additional information as the Championship events progress.

 

What is the World Championship?

Learn more!
Everything you need to know about the upcoming Battle.net World Championship.
FAQ
Find the answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding the 2012 World Championship Series.

 

Regional Tournament Finals

Asia
See who will become the champion of Asia and earn a chance to compete for the title of World Champion.
North America
See who will become the champion of North America and earn a chance to compete for the title of World Champion.
Europe
See who will become the champion of Europe and earn a chance to compete for the title of World Champion.
South America
See who will become the champion of South America and earn a chance to compete for the title of World Champion.
Oceania
See who will become the champion of Oceania and earn a chance to compete for the title of World Champion.

 

Regional Tournament Information

Asia
Learn more about regional events occurring in China, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.
North America
Learn more about regional events occurring in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Europe
Learn more about regional events occurring in over 14 European countries.
South America
Learn more about regional events occurring in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Colombia.
Oceania
Learn more about regional events occurring in Australia and New Zealand.

 

Upcoming Tournaments

Date Region Tournament
September 15 - 16 Europe - Stockholm, Sweden Europe Finals
October 13 - 14 Asia - Shanghai, China Asia Finals
November 17 - 18 Global - Shanghai, China Battle.net World Championship

 

 

 

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etienneboss #179
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etienneboss
08/11/2012
for me rain he's favorite and outsider's are Stephano , Scarlett, PartinG and HerO.
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Ooiz #219
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Ooiz
16/09/2012
Thorzain-Grandma: freud. Am I the only one who thinks this?
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Eric #1399
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Eric
30/08/2012
wollah bielah
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YOLOMaryJane #468
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YOLOMaryJane
24/08/2012
Jag vann op
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thededman #588
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thededman
03/08/2012
really unfair make one every year atleast at one arabic country lets make it uae
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Nico #2401
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Nico
01/06/2012
Put Israel on the map!!!
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ZerglingPudu #908
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ZerglingPudu
04/06/2012
@Nico: The Israeli and South African candidates are playing in the European Nationals, along with all the European countries who didn't get their own series. The top 2 from the EU Nationals go to the EU Grand Finals.
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Bertu #317
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19/06/2012
@ZerglingPudu: South Africa FTW!
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lao
27/04/2012
World Championship - bad name , random country champ... fix it
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Gramm #405
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Gramm
21/04/2012
yeah...... no go for Israel ??? :\
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ProxyCola #184
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ProxyCola
19/04/2012
Why is Israel not on the european country list? :O
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hOms #752
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hOms
23/06/2012
@TheJudicator: cause its not in europe...
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Sneikku #552
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Sneikku
15/04/2012
And 4 from Australia....wut? xD. This is total fiasco
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Sneikku #552
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Sneikku
15/04/2012
Only 1 person goes to european finals from Finland? WHAT? We have one of the best players in the world like Naama, Satiini, Elfi and Welmu and ONLY 1 goes to european finals. Are you joking me? At the same time there goes 3 from sweden....errr? Blizz failed. (from Ukraina only 2 players, and they got soo much great players) When last time swedish sc2 player done something?
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Moog #509
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15/04/2012
@SnakeQ: I think you are joking right?
Naniwa (currently the only Code S foreigner, MLG winner)
Jinro (Round of 4 in GSL code S)
ThorZaIN
Sjow
Morrow
HayprO
Even TLO moved to Sweden to get at good practice environment, some would call it the European South Korea...THATS why they got so many spots, and Finland and Denmark for instance got less...
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Diabulus #446
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15/04/2012
Hmmm Honestly i think it will be a really small prize pool, Blizz is really selfish when it comes to money, i also think, that this format is going to be really hard to play through, you have to play through qualifiers, nationals then finals then Global finals to win the prize pool, i think pro gamers will agree that its too much work for little pay (that is IF the pool is small like NASL`s false advertisement.) 100,000 $$$ and yet its through 4 seasons i believe...
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TagaBearClaw #640
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14/04/2012
@Grovbolle.
Wow the arrogance and ignorance of "EU"
who is pro from mexico,peru and chile ?
Stop excluding us from everything.
btw we have tournaments as well such as (SA only) http://www.dogamingleague.co.za/

and which some pro's from around the world would know http://polarfluke.co.za/ which is a 900$ prize pool we have had the likes of dimaga, goody , sati and more that have competed in polarfluke.

in 2011, almost 3.9 million physical games were sold generating over R900 million in revenue which is $113 million ( round about there ) not so great but still worthy enough of having Battle.net World Championship Series

and a blue post said there's a high chance of South Africa being added
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Pinfi #285
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15/04/2012
@illidanRa: +1
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Grovbolle #219
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Grovbolle
15/04/2012
@illidanRa:
Peru: coL.CatZ and IM_Fenix
Chile: dKiller
Mexico: xSix.Major

Besides from that, it is not my arrogance, I hope that Africa are added to this championship, for it to be a real world championship, it has to feature most of the world.
Didn't know that polarfluke was an African tournament...
So chill bro, I am not against you, I just tried to explain the reasoning behind why Africa might not be added.
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KåptainAFK #799
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29/04/2012
@Grovbolle:
Many of us in South Africa (a country not a continent) play on EU server (latency better than any other bn region).

Why not add us as a country in EU?
I am not a good player but there may be some good enough to compete - often I watch streams and find others from my country in the chat...

Just a thought.
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Grovbolle #219
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Grovbolle
14/04/2012
As much as I feel for the people from Africa, you have to admit that the African scene has produced 0 known/famous players (Pandatank is the only semi known player). Also Africa does not have it's own server, since it is by Blizzard considered not a large enough market to justify the investment of a separate server.

I'm sorry Africa, that's the way it is.
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GizmomcS #260
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13/04/2012
could at least make Iberian cup and winner of Portugal qualifier goes play in Spanish finals
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TagaBearClaw #640
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13/04/2012
BLIZZARD put africa!!
we also got computers, im from South africa .
FFS, SA hosted 2010 soccer world cup.
why are there so many damn misconceptions about south africa / africa ? -_-
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TerranisT #878
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TerranisT
13/04/2012
@illidanRa: lol'ed so hard. but you got a point my friend. blizzard please don't ignore continental of Africa.
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Sunflare #886
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15/04/2012
@illidanRa: As much as I think Africa is a valid continent to have it's own server, qualifiers and so forth, the general world picture of the entire African continent is simply that it is underdeveloped, and there's gonna be at least a couple of years before it is profitable enough.
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Tripe #929
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Tripe
13/04/2012
what about portugal?????? oh come on they make it terribly hard for any portuguese to be a pro gamer, and they are GOOD
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HyDrA #191
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HyDrA
13/04/2012
Africa? what about Portugal?
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TeamEight #417
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TeamEight
12/04/2012
"World Championship". Ummm... you know Africa is part of the world, right? You know, the second largest content with 15% of the world's population? Ever heard of us?

I understand that we might not have a large StarCraft community, but at least mention that you know we exist...
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Poes #363
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Poes
13/04/2012
@TeamEight: Well said, often the forgotten continent.
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Eric #1399
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30/08/2012
@TeamEight: I wish the best for Africa
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Noispaxen #127
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12/04/2012
So, I am polish, but at the moment staying in Taiwan and going to Poland just to play it is obviously not an option... Does that mean I can't take part in the tournament?
I don't have taiwanese citizenship, but I am studying here - does it qualify me to take part in taiwanese tournament?
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Sunflare #886
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15/04/2012
@Noispaxen: I think you can participate in anouther asian countrys qualifiers, but i don't know
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