The second Warcraft III season of the Professional Gaming League (PGL) will take place from January 20 to January 27 in Beijing, China. Ten world famous invitees and six Chinese that qualified the hard way will gather to fight for a total prize purse of €13,000.

The tournament system of the first season was very entertaining and exciting for the audience, but it was a huge challenge to players' physical strength as they had to go through many intensive games each day. This year, the system was adjusted to put less strain on the participants.

Tournament System:

1. Twelve players will be randomly drawn into four groups while four Chinese invitees: Sky, xiaOt, TH000 and Fly100% will go to different groups as top seeds.

2. The group stage will use best of three format and double elimination system.

3. The winner of upper bracket in group stage advances to the actual quarter-finals while the loser of upper bracket and winner of lower bracket go to the revival playoff.

4. Revival playoff decides which four players out of eight will advance to the actual quarter-finals.

5. Both revival playoff and the actual quarter-finals will be double elimination.

6. All matches will use the best of three format.

The second Warcraft III season of the Professional Gaming League (PGL) will take place from January 20 to January 27 in Beijing, China. Ten world famous invitees and six Chinese that qualified the hard way will gather to fight for a total prize purse of €13,000.

The tournament system of the first season was very entertaining and exciting for the audience, but it was a huge challenge to players' physical strength as they had to go through many intensive games each day. This year, the system was adjusted to put less strain on the participants.

Schedule:

Monday, January 21
06:00 - 07:00 Group A first match
07:10 - 08:10 Group A second match
08:20 - 09:20 Group A Upper Bracket
09:30 - 10:30 Group A Lower Bracket
10:40 - 11:40 Group D first match
11:50 - 12:50 Group D second match
13:00 - 14:00 Group D Upper Bracket
14:10 - 15:10 Group D Lower Bracket

Tuesday, January 22
06:00 - 07:00 Group B first match
07:10 - 08:10 Group B second match
08:20 - 09:20 Group B Upper Bracket
09:30 - 10:30 Group B Lower Bracket
10:40 - 11:40 Group C first match
11:50 - 12:50 Group C second match
13:00 - 14:00 Group C Upper Bracket
14:10 - 15:10 Group C Lower Bracket

Wednesday, January 23
09:00 - 13:30 Revival Playoff Upper Bracket Quarter-Finals
13:40 - 15:50 Revival Playoff Upper Bracket Semi-Finals

Thursday, January 24
08:00 - 09:00 Show matches
11:30 - 13:30 Revival Playoff Lower bracket Round 1
13:40 - 15:50 Revival Playoff Lower bracket Round 2

Friday, January 25
08:00 - 09:00 Show matches
09:10 - 13:30 Upper Bracket Quarter-Finals
13:40 - 15:50 Upper Bracket Semi-Finals

Saturday, January 26
10:00 - 11:00 Show matches
11:10 - 13:20 Lower bracket Round 1
13:30 - 15:50 Lower bracket Round 2

Sunday, January 27
06:00 - 07:00 Show matches
07:00 - 09:00 Upper Bracket Final
09:10 - 11:10 Lower bracket Final
11:20 - 13:20 Consolation Final
13:30 - 15:30 Grand Final