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Rival StarCraft II League 2015 Season 3

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[e][h]Rival StarCraft II League 2015 Season 3
League Information
Organizer:
Hawkeye
Server:
North America
Type:
Online
Location:
United States Fargo
Format:
1v1
2 Group Stages
Single-elimination Playoffs
Prize Pool:
$700 USD
Start Date:
2015-10-02
End Date:
2015-10-25
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Participants
Number of Players:
32
Protoss 13
Terran 4
Zerg 15
Maps
Chronology


The Rival StarCraft II League was founded in early 2015 by Jake 'Hawkeye' Kohl. The intent is to bring a tournament experience to non-professional StarCraft II players. This invite is offered to players around the world, but games are played primarily on the North America Server. This is the last Heart of the Swarm tournament put on by the league, with upcoming seasons and events focused on Legacy of the Void.

Format[edit]

  • Group Stage #1 (Round of 32): Dual Tournament format.
  • Round of 32 will consist of 8 groups labeled Groups A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H
  • Each group will have four players in it and compete in a GSL Style Group Stages.
  • Initial Series: First 2 players play a best of 3 series and the Second 2 players will play a separate best of 3 series.
  • Winner's Series: The winners of the two initial series will face off in a best of three and the winner will advance to the next round as the 1st place winner of their group.
  • Loser's Series: The losers of the initial two series will play against each other in a best of three, with the loser of this series being eliminated in fourth place of the group.
  • Final Series: The loser of the winner's series and the winner of the loser series will play a best of three, with the winner advancing to the next round as the 2nd place winner of their group and the loser being eliminated in third place of the group.
  • Group Stage #2 (Round of 16): Dual Tournament format.
  • Round of 16 will consist of 4 groups labeled Groups A, B, C, and D
  • Each group will have four players in it and compete in a GSL Style Group Stages.
  • Initial Series: First 2 players play a best of 3 series and the Second 2 players will play a separate best of 3 series.
  • Winner's Series: The winners of the two initial series will face off in a best of three and the winner will advance to the next round as the 1st place winner of their group.
  • Loser's Series: The losers of the initial two series will play against each other in a best of three, with the loser of this series being eliminated in fourth place of the group.
  • Final Series: The loser of the winner's series and the winner of the loser series will play a best of three, with the winner advancing to the next round as the 2nd place winner of their group and the loser being eliminated in third place of the group.
  • This should effectively allow 8 players to move on to the next round.
  • Quarterfinals: Single-elimination playoffs.
  • Round of 8 will form the single elimination brackets in the following format dependent on the results of the Round of 16.
  • Set 1: 1st place of Group A vs. 2nd Place of Group C.
  • Set 2: 1st place of Group B vs. 2nd Place of Group D.
  • Set 3: 1st Place of Group C vs. 2nd Place of Group A.
  • Set 4: 1st Place of Group D vs. 2nd Place of Group B.
  • Each match up will play a Best of 5 series.
  • The winner will move on to the Round of 4 Semifinals.
  • The losers of this round will be considered 5th-8th place equally.
  • Semifinals: Single-elimination playoffs.
  • Round of 4 will continue the single elimination brackets set up from the previous round as follows:
  • Series 1: Winner of Set 1 vs. Winner of Set 2.
  • Series 2: Winner of Set 3 vs. Winner of Set 4.
  • Each match up will play a Best of 5 Series
  • The winners will move on to the Grand Finals
  • The losers will be considered 3rd/4th place equally.
  • Grand Finals: Single-elimination Finals.
Grand Finals will consist of the winners from the Semifinals series in a Best of 7 Finals.
The winner will be 1st place while the loser will be 2nd place.

Map Pool[edit]

Season 3 - 2015 WCS Season 3

  • Bridgehead LE
  • Coda LE
  • Dash and Terminal LE
  • Moonlight Madness LE
  • Terraform LE
  • Cactus Valley
  • Iron Fortress LE

Prize Pool[edit]

$700 USD is divided among the top eight finishers. The list of sponsors for this season are as follows:

Participants[edit]

Protoss Protoss (13) Terran Terran (4) Zerg Zerg (15)
Rival StarCraft II League 2015 Season 2 (4)
United States Zeal
Team AcerTeam Acer
Ukraine Bly
Kazakhstan PiLiPiLi
Endurance eSportsEndurance eSports
Germany KiToO
Rival StarCraft II League 2015 Season 3 Qualifiers (28)
mCon esportsmCon esports
Netherlands Marsman
Endurance eSportsEndurance eSports
South Korea EJK
United States GAMETIME
Deadly GamingDeadly Gaming
Canada HuShang
Team AscensionTeam Ascension
United States Dolan
Team AscensionTeam Ascension
Canada Bioice
Sweden Zalazane1
Deadly GamingDeadly Gaming
United States Epic
Team AscensionTeam Ascension
United States darLinG
South Korea Picasso
Karnage eSportsKarnage eSports
Finland Haspe1
Endurance eSportsEndurance eSports
United States Crayon
Endurance eSportsEndurance eSports
United Kingdom TeebuL
DetonatioN GamingDetonatioN Gaming
Japan Vaisravana
ECVisualizeECVisualize
Luxembourg JackO
Karnage eSportsKarnage eSports
Sweden Namshar
Rival GamingRival Gaming
United States Seigifried
eSubaeSuba
Czechia nExt
CascadeCascade
Russia Strange
Invasion eSportInvasion eSport
United States PandaBearMe
Endurance eSportsEndurance eSports
Colombia AsusWing
Ørdo EquitumØrdo Equitum
Venezuela ByRada
PSISTORM GamingPSISTORM Gaming
United States MygraiN
FlipSid3 TacticsFlipSid3 Tactics
United States JonSnow
Team Exile5Team Exile5
Canada Believe
Endurance eSportsEndurance eSports
Mexico JimRising
Team AscensionTeam Ascension
United States Creature
Rival GamingRival Gaming
United States CalebAracous
Team Menace.fiTeam Menace.fi
Finland ZhuGeLiang

1 Zalazane has dropped from the tournament and has been replaced by Haspe. [1]

Group Stage #1 (Ro32)[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
October 11, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. Venezuela Zerg ByRada 2-0 2-1
2. Mexico Zerg JimRising 2-1 5-3
3. United States Protoss Zeal 1-2 1-4
4. Canada Protoss HuShang 0-2 0-0

*HuShang forfeited his Matches.

Group B[edit]

Group B
October 2, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. Canada Protoss Believe 2-0 4-0
2. South Korea Terran EJK 2-1 4-3
3. United Kingdom Protoss TeebuL 1-2 2-5
4. United States Zerg darLinG 0-2 2-4

Group C[edit]

Group C
October 4, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. Ukraine Zerg Bly 2-0 4-0
2. United States Zerg Crayon 2-1 4-3
3. Finland Terran Haspe 1-2 2-4
4. United States Terran Dolan 0-2 1-4

Group D[edit]

Group D
October 3, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. Russia Protoss Strange 2-0 4-1
2. United States Zerg JonSnow 2-1 5-3
3. United States Protoss Creature 1-2 3-5
4. Czechia Zerg nExt 0-2 1-4

Group E[edit]

Group E
October 8, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. Kazakhstan Protoss PiLiPiLi 2-0 4-0
2. Luxembourg Protoss JackO 2-1 2-3
3. United States Zerg GAMETIME 1-2 1-4
4. Canada Zerg Bioice 0-2 0-0
Group E Matches
CanadaZergBioice
L
W
United StatesZergGAMETIME
LuxembourgProtossJackO
W
L
CanadaZergBioice

*Bioice forfeited his Matches.

Group F[edit]

Group F
October 9, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. United States Zerg PandaBearMe 2-0 4-1
2. Sweden Zerg Namshar 2-1 5-3
3. Netherlands Protoss Marsman 1-2 3-4
4. United States Protoss Seigifried 0-2 0-4

Group G[edit]

Group G
October 10, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. Finland Zerg ZhuGeLiang 1-0 3-1
2. Japan Zerg Vaisravana 0-1 1-3
3. Germany Zerg KiToO 0-0 0-0
4. United States Protoss MygraiN 0-0 0-0
Group G Matches

*KiToO and MygraiN forfeited their matches.
The remaining players played a Bo5 for placement.

Group H[edit]

Group H
October 11, 2015 - 15:00 EDT
1. United States Terran Epic 2-0 2-1
2. South Korea Protoss Picasso 2-1 3-2
3. Colombia Protoss AsusWing 1-2 0-2
4. United States Zerg CalebAracous 0-2 0-0
Group H Matches
United StatesTerranEpic
W
L
United StatesZergCalebAracous
United StatesZergCalebAracous
L
W
ColombiaProtossAsusWing
South KoreaProtossPicasso
W
L
ColombiaProtossAsusWing

*CalebAracous forfeited his Matches.

Group Stage #2 (Ro16)[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
October 15, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. South Korea Protoss Picasso 2-0 4-1
2. Canada Protoss Believe 2-1 5-4
3. Venezuela Zerg ByRada 1-2 3-5
4. Japan Zerg Vaisravana 0-2 2-4

Group B[edit]

Group B
October 16, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. Sweden Zerg Namshar 2-0 4-1
2. Russia Protoss Strange 2-1 5-2
3. Ukraine Zerg Bly 1-2 2-4
4. Luxembourg Protoss JackO 0-2 0-4

Group C[edit]

Group C
October 17, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. United States Zerg JonSnow 2-0 4-1
2. United States Zerg PandaBearMe 2-1 2-3
3. United States Zerg Crayon 1-2 2-4
4. Kazakhstan Protoss PiLiPiLi 0-2 0-0
Group C Matches
United StatesZergCrayon
W
L
KazakhstanProtossPiLiPiLi
United StatesZergPandaBearMe
W
L
KazakhstanProtossPiLiPiLi

*PiLiPiLi forfeited his Matches.

Group D[edit]

Group D
October 18, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
1. United States Terran Epic 1-0 3-1
2. South Korea Terran EJK 0-1 1-3
3. Finland Zerg ZhuGeLiang 0-0 0-0
4. Mexico Zerg JimRising 0-0 0-0

*ZhuGeLiang and JimRising forfeited their matches.
The remaining players played a Bo5 for placement.

Playoffs[edit]

Quarterfinals (Bo5)
Semifinals (Bo5)
Finals (Bo7)
South KoreaProtossPicasso
L
United StatesZergPandaBearMe
W
October 22, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
Picasso didn't show up.
SwedenZergNamshar
W
South KoreaTerranEJK
L
October 22, 2015 - 19:00 EDT
EJK didn't show up.
United StatesZergPandaBearMe
0
SwedenZergNamshar
3
Matches were played on Oct. 22nd due to player availability.
United StatesZergJonSnow
3
CanadaProtossBelieve
1
United StatesTerranEpic
1
RussiaProtossStrange
3
United StatesZergJonSnow
2
RussiaProtossStrange
3
Matches were played on Oct. 23rd due to player availability.

Distribution[edit]

Map Statistics[edit]

Terran vs. ZergZerg vs. ProtossProtoss vs. TerranMirrors
Map#ΣTerranZergTerran%ΣZergProtossZerg%ΣProtossTerranProtoss%ProtossTerranZerg
Bridgehead8----52340.0%----1-2
Cactus Valley27110100.0%1510566.7%42250.0%313
Coda3541325.0%147750.0%31233.3%626
Dash and Terminal41010.0%1010.0%------2
Iron Fortress212020.0%126650.0%21150.0%113
Moonlight Madness1----110100.0%-------
Terraform3421150.0%145935.7%220100.0%4210
Total Sum (Σ)130103730.0%62313150.0%116554.5%15626

Official Links[edit]

References[edit]