StarCraft II World Championship Series

Prize Money Awarded:

$8,794,326.41 From 153 Tournaments

Recorded Date Range:

2012-05-01 to 2019-01-21

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 2016 Global Finals	$500,000.00
4.	» WCS 2012: Global Finals	$250,000.00
5.	» WCS 2013 Global Finals	$250,000.00
6.	» WCS 2014 Global Finals	$250,000.00
7.	» WCS 2015 Global Finals	$250,000.00
8.	» WCS 2015 Season 1 Premier League	$217,000.00
9.	» WCS 2015 Season 2 Premier	$217,000.00
10.	» WCS 2015 Season 3 Premier	$217,000.00
11.	» WCS Korea 2014 Season 2 Premier	$158,011.53
12.	» WCS Korea 2014 Season 3 Premier	$154,753.20
13.	» WCS Korea 2014 Season 1 Premier	$151,934.79
14.	» WCS 2013 Season 1 Finals	$150,000.00
15.	» WCS 2013 Season 2 Finals	$150,000.00
16.	» WCS 2013 Season 3 Finals	$150,000.00
17.	» WCS 2016: Spring Circuit Championship	$150,000.00
18.	» WCS 2016: Summer Circuit Championship	$150,000.00
19.	» WCS Europe 2014 Season 1 Premier	$131,000.00
20.	» WCS Europe 2014 Season 2 Premier	$131,000.00
21.	» WCS Europe 2014 Season 3 Premier	$131,000.00
22.	» WCS North America 2014 Season 1 Premier	$131,000.00
23.	» WCS North America 2014 Season 2 Premier	$131,000.00
24.	» WCS North America 2014 Season 3 Premier	$131,000.00
25.	» DreamHack Austin 2018 (SC2 - WCS Circuit)	$101,000.00

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Top Players

	Player ID	Player Name	Total (League)
1.	Serral	Joona Sotala	$419,500.00
2.	Rogue	Lee, Byung Ryul	$343,555.48
3.	sOs	Kim, Yoo Jin	$281,933.78
4.	soO	Eu, Yoon Su	$211,114.52
5.	Stats	Kim, Dae Yeob	$207,857.78
6.	Byun	Byun, Hyun Woo	$201,632.36
7.	Neeb	Alex Sunderhaft	$191,100.00
8.	INnoVation	Lee, Shin Hyung	$178,574.43
9.	Life	Lee, Seung Hyun	$166,676.65
10.	Dark	Park, Ryung Woo	$165,267.29
11.	Polt	Choi, Sung Hoon	$162,896.51
12.	SpeCial	Juan Carlos Lopez	$143,600.00
13.	MMA	Moon, Sung Won	$138,800.00
14.	ShoWTimE	Tobias Sieber	$135,100.00
15.	PartinG	Won, Lee Sak	$133,964.86
16.	Elazer	Mikołaj Ogonowski	$128,000.00
17.	Nerchio	Artur Bloch	$127,350.00
18.	Bomber	Choi, Ji Sung	$122,565.60
19.	Snute	Jens Aasgaard	$120,800.00
20.	Zest	Joo, Sung Wook	$119,206.83
21.	Classic	Kim, Doh Woo	$116,768.92
22.	Jaedong	Lee, Jae Dong	$115,496.51
23.	TRUE	Bang, Tae Su	$111,765.63
24.	Scarlett	Sasha Hostyn	$101,950.00
25.	Maru	Cho, Sung Choo	$101,532.94

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Top Games

	Game Name	Prize Money
1.	» StarCraft II	$8,794,326.41

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Online/LAN Breakdown

Location	Prize Money	% of Total
Online Only	$475,631.60	5.41%
Offline/LAN	$8,318,694.81	94.59%

Top Countries

	Country Name	Prize Money
1.	Korea, Republic of	$4,805,136.15
2.	Finland	$482,900.00
3.	United States	$431,600.00
4.	Poland	$347,400.00
5.	Germany	$331,500.00
6.	France	$278,300.00
7.	China	$263,842.76
8.	Canada	$251,100.00
9.	Taiwan, Republic of China	$232,489.90
10.	Mexico	$184,000.00

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