ESL Masters Winter - Regional Playoffs

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by Wax

With two weeks of group play concluded, it’s time to move onto the playoff phase of the ESL Pro Tour Winter regionals.

A number of major changes have been made since EPT Summer. First, the playoff format has been changed from single-elimination to double-elimination. As this has increased the number of playoff games, the duration of the playoffs has also increased from one week to two weeks (total match days: 5 -> 8). Also, the number of main event seeds awarded in the Asia region has increased from one to two.

Schedule & Format: All three regions are played using a double-elimination bracket (8 players for Americas and Asia; 16 players for Europe). All rounds are best-of-5 until the grand finals. Grand finals are best-of-7 with the winners’ bracket player having a one map advantage.

Week 1 – November 9-12: Double elimination brackets. Half the players from each regional competition are eliminated in week one.
Week 2 – November 16*-19: Remainder of double-elim bracket is played until all regional champions are decided.

EPT Asia start time: 12:00 GMT (+00:00)
EPT Europe estimated start time: 14:00 GMT (+00:00) (begins after EPT Asia concludes)
- *One additional day of EPT Europe will be played on Thursday, Nov 16 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) due to its larger bracket.
EPT Americas estimated start time: 18:00 GMT (+00:00) (begins after EPT Europe concludes)

Streams (English)
Top four players win ESL Masters Winter main event seeds.

Group Stage Results:
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Group A:
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Group B:

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Top two players win ESL Masters Winter main event seeds.

Group Stage Results:
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Top two players win ESL Masters Winter main event seeds.

Group Stage Results:
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Harris1st

Germany5710 Posts

Dang Serral starting with two ZvZs

tigera6

2646 Posts

Watching the PvT make me realize another change for Protoss, make observer cheaper on gas so that Protoss can build more of them (maybe). Its sickening to see they are losing units to drop, and the invisible mine keep getting to shot again and again.

Kreuger

Sweden413 Posts

nice games today, awsome seeing the stream average 14-16k viewers the last hours

Antithesis

Germany874 Posts

Man, Harstem almost got the reverse sweep against Reynor. Just should have pushed after Reynor’s wasteful attack in the final game.

tigera6

2646 Posts

If Harstem stop making Phoenix and get out just 2-3 Carriers it would help him so much, or just 4-5 Archons would also be huge. Either way it was great match.

Edit: Great news for IEM 2024 as well as the World Championship middle of the next year. SC2 is alive.

Balnazza

400 Posts

I know I’m apparently the only one that gets bothered by it, but that weird “Note” over the group-stage on Liquipedia is still bugging the hell out of me. SC2 is really the only community who has to be “uhm ackchually” about the swiss-format, which is used everywhere else and everyone understands how it works and what it means?

Three great brackets around the world, but even though I’m rooting for my boy Serral, I’m really mostly interesting in the Asian Bracket. If there was ever a chance for anyone (Firefly) to overcome Oliveira, it definetly should be about right now.

Pentarp

167 Posts

On November 10 2023 02:24 tigera6 wrote:
Watching the PvT make me realize another change for Protoss, make observer cheaper on gas so that Protoss can build more of them (maybe). Its sickening to see they are losing units to drop, and the invisible mine keep getting to shot again and again.

Playoffs by race

EU
7 Protoss, 3 Terran, 6 Zerg

Americas
3 Protoss, 2 Terran, 3 Zerg

Asia
5 Protoss, 2 Terran, 1 Zerg

What happens if your change goes through? Do we have too many Terrans?

Antithesis

Germany874 Posts

On November 11 2023 01:52 Balnazza wrote:
I know I’m apparently the only one that gets bothered by it, but that weird “Note” over the group-stage on Liquipedia is still bugging the hell out of me. SC2 is really the only community who has to be “uhm ackchually” about the swiss-format, which is used everywhere else and everyone understands how it works and what it means?

Yeah, that note was appropriate when ESL first introduced the current version of the Swiss format into ESL Pro Tour, but keeping it there for every edition of the tournament is pedantic and distracting.

FCHK

158 Posts

That started terribly though

SmoKim

Denmark10263 Posts

wild ZvZ so far

dysenterymd

954 Posts

No idea why Serral keeps going corruptors against Mutas, I feel like he never wins with them. Fun series so far though.

Beelzebub1

996 Posts

Good match up but gah, I just can’t help but go do anything else when I see a TvT and a PvP coming up after a ZvZ.

I realize mirror match ups are a part of the game but I prefer when they are the minority of matches. A TvZ, ZvP and TvP is alot more interesting.

Great play from Serral of course though, and props to Elazer for hanging in there, really showing his chops.

argonautdice

Canada2541 Posts

Four 3-2’s so far today. Hope it keeps going 😀

SmoKim

Denmark10263 Posts

lmao poor Skillous

tigera6

2646 Posts

PvP at primetime.

Nakajin

Canada8546 Posts

On November 13 2023 03:38 tigera6 wrote:
PvP at primetime.

It was a remarkably boring end game, got flashes of 2015 mech

Edit: omg recall vs recall what a time to be alive lol

darklycid

3012 Posts

didnt think someone would beat maxpax in his own game.

Infested.rine

25 Posts

After game 1 of showtime vs maxpax I knew showtime wasn’t playing around and came super prepared. He was always one step ahead in the sky wars. A bit sad to not have the top 4 of Europe in the semis though, but super well deserved by showtime.

Gescom

Canada3174 Posts

Beautiful weekend of top tier SC coming up. Let’s go!
Serral v Clem, Reynor v Showtime and some dirty NA PvP ;]