



About [ edit ]

The 2012 MLG Winter Arena was an 32-player tournament held from February 24 to 26 at the MLG headquarters in New York City. It marked MLG's first 2012 LAN event as well as the debut for the new MLG Pro Circuit system. The event had no live spectator audience was only about to be watched through online streaming video.[1] On February 13, it was announced that the Winter Arena would be completely pay-per-view, with no free stream option.[2] Tasteless, Artosis, djWHEAT, and Rob "Malarh" Simpson were confirmed as the event's main casters. Additionally, Tumba, itmeJP, Robin, and Adebisi were confirmed as side casters for the event.[3]

Tournament Information [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

The $26,000 prize pool was spread amongst the players as shown below:

The top 16 players were seeded into pool play and received an all-expenses paid trip to the 2012 Winter Championship in Columbus. The bottom 16 players were seeded into the open winners bracket round 5.

Format [ edit ]

Best of 3

Double-elimination

Extended Series

Participants [ edit ]

*Artist was able to qualify but canceled his participation, a consolation bracket was played where DeMusliM came out victorious.[4]

Qualifiers [ edit ]

119 players based on results in various tournaments in 2011 were invited to compete in three regional qualifiers. The top 8 of each qualifier will join the top 8 players from 2011 MLG Pro Circuit Championship Providence to participate in the main event.

Results [ edit ]

Winners Bracket

Round 1 Leenock 2 dde 1 ThorZaIN 2 Sheth 0 NesTea 1 DeMusliM 2 Oz 2 IdrA 1 HuK 2 Minigun 1 Socke 2 DdoRo 0 Ret 2 SaSe 1 San 0 Mvp 2 DongRaeGu 2 GanZi 1 Pomi 1 PartinG 2 Drewbie 0 TheStC 2 merz 0 MC 2 HayprO 0 SjoW 2 Axslav 1 viOLet 2 LosirA 1 MarineKing 2 Grubby 1 NaNiwa 2 Round 2 Leenock 2 ThorZaIN 1 DeMusliM 1 Oz 2 HuK 2 Socke 0 Ret 2 Mvp 1 DongRaeGu 1 PartinG 2 TheStC 0 MC 2 SjoW 0 viOLet 2 MarineKing 2 NaNiwa 0 Round 3 Leenock 0 Oz 2 HuK 2 Ret 1 PartinG 2 MC 1 viOLet 0 MarineKing 2 Round 4 Oz 0 HuK 2 PartinG 0 MarineKing 2

Losers Bracket

Losers Round 1 dde 1 Sheth 2 NesTea 2 IdrA 0 Minigun 1 DdoRo 2 SaSe 2 San 1 GanZi 2 Pomi 0 Drewbie 0 merz 2 HayprO 2 Axslav 1 LosirA 0 Grubby 2 Losers Round 2 NaNiwa 2 Sheth 1 SjoW 1 NesTea 2 TheStC 2 DdoRo 0 DongRaeGu 2 SaSe 0 Mvp 0 GanZi 2 Socke 2 merz 0 DeMusliM 2 HayprO 0 ThorZaIN 1 Grubby 2 Losers Round 3 NaNiwa 2 NesTea 1 TheStC 0 DongRaeGu 2 GanZi 2 Socke 1 DeMusliM 2 Grubby 1 Losers Round 4 Leenock 1 NaNiwa 2 Ret 0 DongRaeGu 2 MC 0 GanZi 2 viOLet 2 DeMusliM 0 Losers Round 5 NaNiwa 0 DongRaeGu 2 GanZi 0 viOLet 2 Losers Round 6 PartinG 3 DongRaeGu 4 Oz 2 viOLet 0

Final Bracket

From Winners Bracket HuK 0 MarineKing 2 From Losers Bracket DongRaeGu 2 Oz 1 Losers Finals HuK 0 DongRaeGu 2 Grand Finals MarineKing 1 3 DongRaeGu 2 0

Extended Series rule: Best-of-seven series start off 2-0 or 2-1 based on results from previous meeting. In the Grand Final, an extended series occurs when the finalist coming from the losers' bracket wins the first best of three.

Coming from the Winners Bracket, MarineKing only had to win a best of 3 to take first place. If not, the series would extend into a best of 7. DongRaeGu won the first series 2-1, but MarineKing came back to take the overall best of 7 series with a 4-2 score.

Consolation Bracket [ edit ]

February 26, 2012

Quarterfinals HayprO 2 ThorZaIN 0 merz W Mvp 0 SaSe W DdoRo 0 Sheth W SjoW 0 Semifinals HayprO 2 merz 0 SaSe W Sheth 0 Finals HayprO 2 SaSe 1

This bracket was used to determine the 17 and 18th placed finishers. In the event one of the top 16 does not attend MLG Columbus the next highest finisher will be seeded directly in to pool play. [5][6]

Racial Distribution [ edit ]

Protoss Terran Zerg Ro32 13 10 9 Ro24 9 8 7 Ro16 7 4 5 Ro12 5 3 4 Ro8 4 2 2 Ro6 3 1 2 Ro4 2 1 1 Ro3 1 1 1 Finals 1 1 Winner 1

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