E-Sports World Championship 2014

6th e-Sports World Championship, Baku 2014

Official logo of the World Championship
Date November 12, 2014 (2014-11-12) - November 17, 2014 (2014-11-17)
Location Baku,  Azerbaijan
Also known as IeSF 2014 World Championship
Organised by International e-Sports Federation
Overall cash prize $110,000
Official game titles StarCraft 2, Dota 2, Ultra Street Fighter IV, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Website ie-sf.org

The e-Sports World Championship 2014 (officially: "6th e-Sports World Championship, BAKU 2014" [1]) was the 6th edition of the annual Electronic Sports World Championship held by the International e-Sports Federation. The event took place in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, starting from November 12, 2014 and ending on November 17th, 2014.

Background

The 6th e-Sports World Championship was the 2014 event of the annual e-Sports World Championship held by IeSF.

This event was the third IeSF-organized eSports competition to be held outside South Korea, after the IeSF 2013 World Championship was held in Bucharest, and the IeSF 2014 Asian Championship was held in the Philippines.

Speculations about Azerbaijan being picked as the host country of the 2014 championship emerged in early January 2014, but it was only in May of the same year that Baku was officially announced as the host city of the championship.[2] Also, the event is the first to feature the series' new official name: "eSports World Championship", after "IeSF World Championship" was used for three years in a row.

The 6th e-Sports World Championship was the first international e-Sports event to be held in Azerbaijan.

Official casters

On 26 October 2014, the IeSF have officially revealed the caster lineup for the competitions:[3]

Official tournaments

In May 2014, the International e-Sports Federation announced three official titles for the event: Dota 2, StarCraft 2, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.[5]

Some fans of the IeSF found the choice of Dota 2 as official game title over its competitor game League of Legends strange, as League of Legends was the official title of IeSF 2013 World Championship. It was explained that one of the reasons League of Legends was not picked was due to several undisclosed restrictions placed by developer Riot Games in order to operate a League of Legends tournament.[6]

Hearthstone and Ultra Street Fighter IV were later added as official titles, thanks to the recommendation of the host, Azerbaijan CyberSport Federation.[7]

StarCraft 2 has returned as official title for the 4th year in a row, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 also returns as official title.

Alliance of Valiant Arms was not selected as an official title, marking 2014 as the first year on which A.V.A isn't an official title of the World Championship.

Initially, competitions for Dota 2, StarCraft 2, Hearthstone and Ultra Street Fighter IV were made as men-only tournaments while women-only competitions was held for StarCraft 2 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2. A PC Gamer article regarding the separated male and female competitions sparked a major outcry against IeSF policy on social media.[8] Following the news, IeSF swiftly responded by holding an emergency meeting of the Board[9] resulting in an immediate policy change which allowed women to participate in the previously male-only tournaments. The IeSF also posted an apology on its Facebook page,[10] and added an "Open for All" Tekken Tag Tournament 2 tournament to the main roster of competitions.

Name Type Number of participants[11] Prize amount ($)
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Open for All 15 players 10,000
Dota 2 Open for All 14 teams (70 players) 50,000
Hearthstone Open for All 15 players 10,000
Ultra Street Fighter IV Open for All 9 players 10,000
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Open for All 12 players 10,000
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Women only 7 players 5,000
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Women only 10 players 5,000

Results

StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm

Open for All

Place Player [12] Prize
1st South Korea Ju "Zest" Seong Wuk $5,000
2nd Sweden Anton "Zanster" Dahlström $3,000
3rd Romania Silviu "NightEnD" Lazar $2,000

Women Only

Place Player[13] Prize
1st China Ma "Mayuki" Xue $2,500
2nd Finland Niina "Soyhi" Kahela $1,500
3rd Sweden Emily "QueenE" Krumlinde $1,000

DotA 2

Place Team [14] Players Prize
1st China Newbee

China Wang "SanSheng" Zhaohui
China Wang "Banana" Jiao
China Wang "Rabbit"Zhang
China Chen "Hao" Zhihao
China Zhang "Mu" Pan

 $25,000
2nd Romania TeamRORomania Borceanu "Illusionist" Razvan

Romania Razvan Andrei "Keyano" Nicolae
Romania Strat Andrei "Synergy" Razvan
Romania Aliwi "w33" Omar
Romania Andrei "Zizou" Zisu

 $15,000
3rd Finland Team FinlandFinland Joona "fragi" Laine

Finland Simon "hopis" Lawrence
Finland Jesse "JerAx" Vainikka
Finland Tuomi "Okke-Virtahepo" Ville
Finland Kalle "Trixi" Saarinen

 $10,000

Hearthstone

Place Player[15] Prize
1st Tunisia Amine "las3ed" Ben Messaoud $5,000
2nd Austria Urim "Yhone" Bajrami $3,000
3rd South Korea Chae "SeungJae" Seung Jae $2,000

Ultra Street Fighter IV

Place Player Prize
1st South Korea Lee "INFILTRATION" SeonWoo $5,000
2nd Finland Joni "Jonsai" Wielert $3,000
3rd Romania Mihai "Pokeshark" Ene $2,000

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Open for All

Place Player Prize
1st South Korea Kim "JDCR" Hyun Jin $5,000
2nd Denmark Mark Andersen $3,000
3rd Romania Alexandre Prodan $2,000

Women Only

Place Player Prize
1st Russia Sofia Degay $2,500
2nd Serbia Milica Tešović $1,500
3rd Finland Tuula Rantala $1,000

Overall performance

Prize given to the nations with the best performance in the World Championship in all official game titles. This is determined by the IeSF Scoring Regulations.[16]

Place Nation Prize
1st  South Korea $5,000
2nd  China $3,000
3rd  Finland $2,000

References

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