StarCraft 2 is one of the disciplines that WESG has been including every year since the foundation of the tournament. This year's StarCraft 2 Open Online qualifiers are scheduled from November 14 to December 30. Closed qualifiers are scheduled from November 22 to December 14. UCC will organize and host online qualifiers this year.
Attention! Further information describes only those regions’ qualifiers for which UCC is responsible.
WESG has dropped the single nationality restriction from its rules for this year’s event. Now teams are allowed to have up to two foreigners on their rosters. This means that only three players have to be the representatives of the country.
StarCraft II Online qualifiers are non-monetary. Participants will compete for the slot at WESG Grand Final.
Qualifiers’ Format
Online Open qualifiers with a Single Elimination bracket
Online Closed qualifiers with a Double Elimination bracket
Final qualifiers are played in Bo5
Overall qualifiers
StarCraft II qualifiers necessarily include 2 Open qualifiers, according to the results of which the participants advance to the Closed qualifiers or Final qualifiers
Open qualifiers Finals
Some regions do not have Closed qualifiers and 2 participants from the Open Online qualifiers advance to the Qualifiers Finals to compete for a slot at WESG Asia Pacific Final:
West Asia, South Korea и MENA
Participants from Chinese Taipei will advance to the WESG China Final through Open qualifiers’ finals.
Participants from Africa will compete for the slot at the WESG Grand Final
Closed qualifiers
The number of participants that qualify for Closed qualifiers depends on the region.
In Closed qualifiers, participants from Open qualifiers and invited participants will compete for a slot at WESG Grand Final. The number of participants depends on the region.
Participants from the Asian Closed qualifiers advance to the WESG Asia Pacific Final
Slots distribution per region:
South Korea — 4 participants from open qualifiers and 4 invited participants
CIS — 2 participants from open qualifiers and 2 invited participants
East EU — 4 participants from open qualifiers and 4 invited participants
North EU — 4 participants from open qualifiers and 4 invited participants
Benelux — 2 participants from open qualifiers and 2 invited participants
France +Monaco + UK/GB — 4 participants from open qualifiers and 4 invited participants
Iberia — 2 participants from open qualifiers and 2 invited participants
German + Austria — 2 participants from open qualifiers and 2 invited participants
Central Europe — 2 participants from open qualifiers and 2 invited participants
Open qualifiers registration: link
Anyone can apply to make their own broadcast on: link
Slots distribution per countries and regions: link
WESG Online Qualifiers schedule for all regions: link
WESG Online Qualifiers SC2 schedule: link