TH000 Wins Douyu Thunder Fire Cup
The Chinese player Huang "TH000" Xiang has defeated Jang "Moon" Jae Ho from South Korea in the grand finals of a $15,000 WarCraft III online event Douyu Thunder Fire Cup.
The tournament took place on January 23-30, featuring sixteen players from China, South Korea, Russia and Ukraine. First, they competed in four double-elimination brackets with best-of-three matches. Then top two players from each group advanced to the single-elimination playoffs bracket, where the regular series were best-of-five and the grand final was best-of-seven.
Both TH000 and Moon advanced to the playoffs from the first place in their groups – TH000 defeated HawK (2:0) and Lucifer (2:0) in Group A, while Moon outplayed Colorful (2:0) and WFZ (2:1) in Group B. In the playoffs TH000 was stronger than WFZ (3:0) and Foggy (3:1), while Moon managed to finish both series against 120 and Infi with the 3-0 score. The final series concluded with the 4-2 score of favor of TH000, who for this victory received around $7,500 in prize money. In the match for the third place Infi defeated Foggy (3:1).
Playoffs Bracket:
Tournament Results:
Place | $ USD | Player |
1st | $7,500 | TH000 |
2nd | $4,500 | Moon |
3rd | $1,500 | Infi |
4th | $1,200 | Foggy |
5th-8th | $300 | HurricaneBo, WFZ, 120, LawLiet |
9th-12th | - | Lucifer, Fly100%, Life, FoCuS |
13th-16th | - | HawK, Colorful, 14sui, Lyn |