StarCraft II World Championship Series

Prize Money Awarded:

$10,072,574.42 From 174 Tournaments

Recorded Date Range:

2012-05-01 to 2019-11-01

The StarCraft II World Championship Series is a series of events organised by or in cooperation with Blizzard Entertainment. Its goal is to identify a true global champion, as players enter and qualify through open tournaments starting at the national level.

The National Championships are designed to appoint national representatives, who will earn spots at their continental Finals events, which will be an all-out brawl between neighboring countries to decide who will represent their continent at the Battle.net World Championship.

Largest Prize Pools

	Tournament Name	Prize Money
1.	» WCS 2017 Global Finals	$700,000.00
2.	» WCS 2018 Global Finals	$700,000.00
3.	» WCS 2019 Global Finals	$700,000.00
4.	» WCS 2016 Global Finals	$500,000.00
5.	» WCS 2012: Global Finals	$250,000.00
6.	» WCS 2013 Global Finals	$250,000.00
7.	» WCS 2014 Global Finals	$250,000.00
8.	» WCS 2015 Global Finals	$250,000.00
9.	» WCS 2015 Season 1 Premier League	$217,000.00
10.	» WCS 2015 Season 2 Premier	$217,000.00
11.	» WCS 2015 Season 3 Premier	$217,000.00
12.	» WCS Korea 2014 Season 2 Premier	$158,011.53
13.	» WCS Korea 2014 Season 3 Premier	$154,753.20
14.	» WCS Korea 2014 Season 1 Premier	$151,934.79
15.	» WCS 2013 Season 1 Finals	$150,000.00
16.	» WCS 2013 Season 2 Finals	$150,000.00
17.	» WCS 2013 Season 3 Finals	$150,000.00
18.	» WCS 2016: Spring Circuit Championship	$150,000.00
19.	» WCS 2016: Summer Circuit Championship	$150,000.00
20.	» WCS Europe 2014 Season 1 Premier	$131,000.00
21.	» WCS Europe 2014 Season 2 Premier	$131,000.00
22.	» WCS Europe 2014 Season 3 Premier	$131,000.00
23.	» WCS North America 2014 Season 1 Premier	$131,000.00
24.	» WCS North America 2014 Season 2 Premier	$131,000.00
25.	» WCS North America 2014 Season 3 Premier	$131,000.00

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Top Players

	Player ID	Player Name	Total (League)
1.	Serral	Joona Sotala	$533,300.00
2.	Dark	Park, Ryung Woo	$375,267.29
3.	Rogue	Lee, Byung Ryul	$367,555.48
4.	sOs	Kim, Yoo Jin	$281,933.78
5.	Neeb	Alex Sunderhaft	$235,900.00
6.	soO	Eu, Yoon Su	$235,114.52
7.	Stats	Kim, Dae Yeob	$219,857.78
8.	Byun	Byun, Hyun Woo	$201,632.36
9.	SpeCial	Juan Carlos Lopez	$179,525.00
10.	INnoVation	Lee, Shin Hyung	$178,574.43
11.	Classic	Kim, Doh Woo	$167,768.92
12.	Life	Lee, Seung Hyun	$166,676.65
13.	ShoWTimE	Tobias Sieber	$164,450.00
14.	Polt	Choi, Sung Hoon	$162,896.51
15.	Reynor	Riccardo Romiti	$161,400.00
16.	Elazer	Mikołaj Ogonowski	$157,000.00
17.	PartinG	Won, Lee Sak	$139,464.86
18.	MMA	Moon, Sung Won	$138,800.00
19.	Nerchio	Artur Bloch	$131,175.00
20.	Maru	Cho, Sung Choo	$125,532.94
21.	Scarlett	Sasha Hostyn	$123,850.00
22.	Zest	Joo, Sung Wook	$123,706.83
23.	Bomber	Choi, Ji Sung	$122,565.60
24.	Snute	Jens Aasgaard	$120,800.00
25.	Jaedong	Lee, Jae Dong	$115,496.51

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Top Games

	Game Name	Prize Money
1.	» StarCraft II	$10,072,574.42

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Online/LAN Breakdown

Location	Prize Money	% of Total
Online Only	$633,879.61	6.29%
Offline/LAN	$9,438,694.81	93.71%

Top Countries

	Country Name	Prize Money
1.	Korea, Republic of	$5,236,136.15
2.	Finland	$596,700.00
3.	United States	$513,700.00
4.	Germany	$420,200.00
5.	Poland	$396,275.00
6.	China	$348,196.76
7.	France	$335,325.00
8.	Canada	$296,775.00
9.	Taiwan, Republic of China	$267,768.75
10.	Mexico	$235,200.00

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