The 2012 Battle.net World Championship — Day 1
Updated 06:45 a.m. PST, November 17, 2012
After eight months of qualifiers, national championships, and unique continental tournaments, the Blizzard World Championship Series began its epic conclusion tonight at 6:00 p.m. PST with the opening ceremony for the 2012 Battle.net World Championship at the Shanghai Expo-Mart in Shanghai, China.
All 32 finalists in the StarCraft II Global finals were introduced to thunderous applause, and play got underway with eight groups of four players – each group including players from three different continents – facing off in best-of-three , double-elimination group play, with two players advancing from each group.
The following VODs and links contain no spoilers. We will continue to post no spoilers in this Day 1 compilation:
Group A
Illusion (USA) vs. Fenix (Peru)
PartinG (South Korea) vs. Socke (Germany)
1st Group Deciding Match
Group Elimination Match
2nd Group Deciding Match
Group B
ViBE (USA) vs. VortiX (Spain)
Comm (China) vs. Suppy (USA) Part 1, Part 2
1st Group Deciding Match
Group Elimination Match
2nd Group Deciding Match
Group C
Sen (Taiwan) vs. KiLLeR (Chile)
HuK (Canada) vs. Grubby (Netherlands)
1st Group Deciding Match, Part 2
Group Elimination Match
2nd Group Deciding Match
Group D
State (USA) vs. BabyKnight (Denmark)
Rain (South Korea) vs. MaFia (Australia)
1st Group Deciding Match
Group Elimination Match, Part 2, Part 3
2nd Group Deciding Match
Group E
Stephano (France) vs. HerO (South Korea)
IdrA (USA) vs. RorO (South Korea)
1st Group Deciding Match
Group Elimination Match
2nd Group Deciding Match
Group F
Curious (South Korea) vs. TitaN (Russian Federation)
MajOr (Mexico) vs. herO (South Korea)
1st Group Deciding Match
Group Elimination Match
2nd Group Deciding Match
Group G
Insur (USA) vs. LoWely (Belarus)
Levin (Brazil) vs. LucifroN (Spain)
1st Group Deciding Match
Group Elimination Match, Part 2
2nd Group Deciding Match, Part 2
Group H
mOOnGLaDe (Australia) vs. Scarlett (Canada)
Nerchio (Poland) vs. Creator (South Korea)
1st Group Deciding Match
Group Elimination Match
2nd Group Deciding Match, Part 2
Comments (3)
Thank you Blizzard for showing us what a true professional tournament hosted by you looks like .
It's really sad that the finals of this otherwise so well produced and interesting to follow championship had such issues. I would've expected more. It's somewhat painful to admit that I'm glad I didn't stay up to watch these live.
The WCS is a fantastic thing for SC2 in terms of visibility and prestige and I hope we'll continue to see it with HotS, sans the issues!