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ZOTAC Cup
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ZOTAC Cup
Series Information
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
Start Date:
2010-02-28
End Date:
2015-01-30
Game version:
Server:
eu/na
Type:
Weekly
Format:
1v1, Single-elimination
Cumulative Prize Pool:
≃ $25,044 USD
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Description[edit]
The ZOTAC cup is a weekly, open-access tournament that gives out 100 euros to the winner of the European one-day tournament, and 100 dollars to the winner of the North American one-day tournament. It is recognized in the Warcraft III community, with more than 300 installments for that game alone. Originally planning the first StarCraft II beta tournament for the 10-02-21, it was pushed back to 10-02-28, due to waiting for confirmation from Blizzard.
In preparation for StarCraft II, ZOTAC began running a weekly cup for StarCraft: Brood War to spread awareness in the StarCraft community of their competition. They ran 35 weekly cups before stopping the tournaments for their StarCraft II beta competitions.
The ZOTAC cups are played at 2pm CEST every Sunday and individual cups are currently held only for EU. The last NA cup was held on January 25, 2014.[1]
Starting July 2011, ZOTAC organized a Monthly finals gathering the top 16 players of the weekly ZOTAC Cups over a month with a prize pool increased to 800 euros. The last Monthly Finals was held on January 2014. It was replaced in 2014 by Season Finals, each season covering three months of weekly cups. The first cup was shortened to two months only due to the last Monthly January cup.
On January 30, 2015, ZOTAC announced on their homepage that they were dropping StarCraft II and FIFA to replace them with Hearthstone in Europe and North America.
Format[edit]
Weekly Cup[edit]
- The number of players allowed in the tournament is set with a number of sign-up spots and at the day of the tournament only half of the available sign-up spots are allowed to check-in to the actual tournament.
- The tournament is run in Single-elimination best of one format until the quarterfinals, the maps are vetoed until one map is remaining.
- From the quarterfinals onwards, the tournament is played in best of three format.
- The Finals are played in a best of five format.
Monthly Final[edit]
- Top 16 players of the weekly ZOTAC Cups over the month where they could get points as follow:
- Cup winner: 5 Points
- Runner up: 3 Points
- Semi-finalist: 2 Points
- Quarter-finalist: 1 Point
- Single-elimination bracket.
- All matches were best of three and the Final best of five.
Season Finals[edit]
- Top 16 players of the weekly ZOTAC Cups over the Season (three months) where they could get points as follow:
- Cup winner: 5 Points
- Runner up: 3 Points
- Semi-finalist: 2 Points
- Quarter-finalist: 1 Point
- Group Stage:
- Four groups of four players each played in dual-tournament format.
- All matches are best of three.
- Playoffs:
- Double-elimination bracket.
- First place of each group start in the winners' bracket.
- Second place of each group start in the losers' bracket.
- All matches are Best of three and the Final best of five.
Results[edit]
Season Finals[edit]
Year | Season | Dates | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Replay pack |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Season 4 | 2015-01-19 - 2015-01-21 | Polt | Lilbow | Nerchio | Kas | |
2014 | Season 3 | 2014-11-20 - 2014-11-22 | YoDa | Lilbow | Nerchio | First | |
2014 | Season 2 | 2014-08-27 - 2014-08-29 | jjakji | Happy | Bly | Patience | Download |
2014 | Season 1 | 2014-04-30 - 2014-05-02 | HyuN | First | jjakji | Hurricane | Download |
Monthly Finals[edit]
Heart of the Swarm[edit]
Year | Month | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | January | Arthur | Solar | Tefel |
2013 | December | Armani | Tefel | Nerchio |
2013 | November | jjakji | Bly | Arthur |
2013 | October | Solar | eMotion | Tefel |
2013 | September | Solar | Trend | Arthur |
2013 | August | Nerchio | TAiLS | Tassadar |
2013 | July | Bly | elfi | DIMAGA |
2013 | June | VortiX | Lucky | Bly |
2013 | May | Tefel | hOpe | Nerchio |
2013 | April | Snute | Polt | TAiLS |
2013 | March | HyuN | DaNa | JonnyREcco |
2013 | February | HyuN | Happy | Arthur |
Wings of Liberty[edit]
Year | Month | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | January | Snute | HyuN | fraer |
2012 | December | Welmu | LiveZerg | fraer |
2012 | November | HyuN | Revival | siw |
2012 | October | Sage | fraer | TAiLS |
2012 | September | fraer | Revival | HyuN |
2012 | August | Nerchio | HyuN | fraer |
2012 | July | HyuN | TitaN | fraer |
2012 | June | HyuN | Revival | Bly |
2012 | May | TitaN | fraer | HyuN |
2012 | April | Bly | sYz | LiveZerg |
2012 | March | fraer | Seiplo | Crane |
2012 | February | fraer | LoWeLy | HyuN |
2012 | January | fraer | Seiplo | Revival |
2011 | December | Bly | Beastyqt | GoOdy |
2011 | November | viOLet | GoOdy | Sleep |
2011 | October | Nerchio | Beastyqt | Happy |
2011 | September | DarKFoRcE | roof | Nerchio |
2011 | August | GoOdy | LucifroN | Nerchio |
2011 | July | Nerchio | Rain | sC |
Weekly Cups[edit]
Europe Cups[edit]
All results can be found here.
North American Cups[edit]
All results can be found here.
External links[edit]
- ZOTAC StarCraft II Cup EU HomePage
- ZOTAC StarCraft II Cup NA HomePage
- ZOTAC StarCraft II Monthly Final Archive Page
- Official TeamLiquid Thread
- Replays of all EU and NA Cups
- GLHF.TV - ZOTAC English Vods
References[edit]
- ↑ The ZOTAC StarCraft II NA Cup will come to an end sc2na.zotac-cup.com