GGL Wire

The Warcraft 3 Champions League XII Finals are upon us, and four teams will converge on Cologne tomorrow, Nov. 17, to battle it out. SK Gaming, World Elite, Beijing E-sports Team and MeetYourMakers all have their eye on the gold.

Who will win? We asked three Warcraft III experts for their opinions. Jos “Zerter” Buyvoets, Jason “Lee” Lee and Carlos “Boo” Armendariz weighed in.

Zerter, sometime GGL contributer :

SK > WE > MYM > BET sounds about right, though all the matches can go either way. It might be the other way around as well.

It’s hard to make predictions, really, because the reality is that three of the teams, aside from MYM, are untested in this kind of competition. And MYM is kind of untested as well, since they haven’t played against these teams, so there is no background to base any predictions on.

SK should definitely be the strongest tho, on paper at least. Lyn, Soju, Remind, Hot — that’s some scary sh*t.

GGL Warcraft III admin Lee, when asked who will win:

I’m going to say SK wins.

SK.Lyn, Remind, and Soju were key players in last season’s WC3L finals. Lyn and Remind are Moon killers. Soju and Remind are solid Night Elves. SK, MYM, WE, BeT: The last two are a hard call — it’s close from 2-4th place, really depends on who plays who. BeT’s just got two really powerful Undeads. WE has two powerful humans and one decent Undead.

GGL’s Boo:

This is the hardest season to predict, out of all of them. But to be quite honest, MYM stands out from the four teams because of their consistency throughout the league. Ending first isnt an easy thing to do, hehe.

On Moon killers: Everyone is beatable. Moon is rank 9th in player statistics in WC3L, which means he struggled throughout the whole season. Many close 2-1’s; obviously no such thing as an unbeatable player, this isnt StarCraft. (Editor’s note: SaviOr recently dropped a match to Mind in R8 of the GOM MSL.)

Boo’s final prediction: SK second (these Koreans they have now lead WE to win last season), WE third, but BET can make some upsets happen as well. BET/WE third.