Starcraft II

Important Tournament Update

May 13, 2020
SC2

StarCraft II & Warcraft III competitions are set to return from June 2020 in the lead up to the Masters Championship of 2021. They’re also coming back bigger than ever before as we’ve installed an increase of over 75 days of competition across both titles compared to our original planning. We’ve made changes that players, fans & community members can get excited about; we believe this to be the best possible system we could have rebuilt.

Starcraft II

Master Tournaments

All SC2 tournaments in 2020 will take place online as multi regional competitions, with a return to offline events expected in 2021. There will be 3 seasons of competitive play:

DreamHack SC2 Masters: Summer
DreamHack SC2 Masters: Fall
DreamHack SC2 Masters: Winter

Each season will consist of 6 regional divisions:

Each season will be played across a 5-6 week period starting with qualifiers and concluding with a Season Finals.

Show how a season works

Show more about the format

ESL Open Cups

All cups receive a $300 increase (+300%) and will move from Sunday to Monday starting May 18th ending January 18th, 2021. This decision was made based on the upcoming TeamLiquid Starleague & EPT competitions that will take priority on weekends. The decision here is to allow players a choice to compete in both. The prize money increase per region is a decision made after evaluating the recent success of an increase in participation and viewership, we are happy to reward the competition with this upgrade.

1st place: $200 & 10 EPT points
2nd place: $100 & 5 EPT points
3rd/4th place: $50

This $34,200 increase will expire on January 18th, 2021. With this change, we are also changing the Ro4 matches to Bo5.

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Tel.: +49 221 - 880 449 - 0 | Fax: +49 221 - 880 449 - 999 | info@eslgaming.com

ESL Gaming GmbH
Schanzenstraße 23 | 51063 Cologne, Germany
Tel.: +49 221 - 880 449 - 0 | Fax: +49 221 - 880 449 - 999
info@eslgaming.com

	Prize Money	Points
1.	$1,600	375
2.	$1,000	187.5
3.-4.	$600	100
5.-6.	$400	62.5
7.-8.	$200	31.25
Q 1:2 [6]	$0	12.5

	Prize Money	Points
1.	$2,400	750
2.	$1,200	500
3.-4.	$800	312.5
5.-8.	$600	150
9.-12.	$400	75
13.-16.	$200	37.5
Q 1:2 [8]	$0	18.75

	Prize Money	Points
1.	$2,400	562,5
2.	$1,200	375
3.-4.	$800	237.5
5.-8.	$600	112.5
9.-12.	$400	56.25
13.-16.	$200	31.25
Q 1:2 [7]	$0	12.5

	Prize Money	Points
1.	$3,500	220
2.	$2,500	100
3.	$1,600	50
4.	$1,200	25
5. - 6.	$900	10
7. - 8.	$700	5
9.	$300	0
10. - 11.	$200	0
12. - 15.	$150	0
16. - 23.	$100	0

	Prize Money	Points
1.	$3,500	220
2.	$2,500	100
3.	$1,600	50
4.	$1,200	25
5. - 6.	$900	10
7. - 8.	$700	5
9.	$300	0
10. - 11.	$200	0
12. - 15.	$150	0
16. - 23.	$100	0

	Prize Money	Points
1.	$8,000	400
2.	$4,000	250
3.	$4,000	140
4.	$3,000	85
5. - 6.	$2,000	55
7. - 8.	$1,500	35
9. - 10.	$950	20
11. - 12.	$750	15
13. - 14.	$550	10
15. - 16.	$350	5
17. - 18.	$160	0
19. - 22.	$100	0
23. - 30.	$60	0

	Prize Money	Points
1.	$12,500	600
2.	$7,500	150
3.	$5,000	300
4.	$3,000	250
5. - 6.	$3,000	195
7. - 8.	$2,500	155
9. - 12.	$2,000	120
13. - 16.	$1,750	90
17. - 20.	$1,250	70
21. - 24.	$1,000	50
25.- 28.	$750	35
29. - 32.	$500	20
33. - 36.	$250	5
37. - 44.	$125	3

	Championship
1ST	1800 points
2ND	1400 points
3RD-4TH	1100 points
5TH-8TH	700 points
9TH-11TH	330 points
12TH-14TH	200 points
15TH-16TH	105 points
17TH-19TH	60 points
20TH-22ND	0 points

Starcraft II

Important Tournament Update

Starcraft II

ESL Open Cups

AMERICAS

ASIA

Europe

China

TW/HK/MAC/JPN

Latin America

Oceania

North America

Europe

China

1

$3,500

2

$2,500

3

$1,600

4

$1,200

5 - 6

$900

7 - 8

$700

9

$300

10 - 13

$175

15 - 22

$100

TW/HK/MAC/JPN

1

$3,500

2

$2,500

3

$1,600

4

$1,200

5 - 6

$900

7 - 8

$700

9 - 10

$300

11 - 14

$175

15 - 22

$100

Oceania

1

$3,500

2

$2,500

3

$1,600

4

$1,200

5 - 6

$900

7 - 8

$700

9

$700

10 - 11

$300

12 - 13

$210

14 - 15

$120

16 - 17

$100

18 - 21

$80

Latin America

1

$5,000

2