The end of an era is upon us, and it’s safe to say the writing has been on the wall for over a year. 4Kings, one of UK’s foremost superteams, has disbanded its Warcraft III division, leaving Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen and Daniel “LiiLD.C” Claesson clanless.
The official reason given for disbanding was “a lack of players and other things.” The squad has been steadily losing star players since Nov. 2006, when Dae “FoV” Hui Cho left the team.
FoV’s departure to Beijing E-ports Team signaled an inability for 4K to compete on the free market for its own players. According to Warcraft III superfan/expert and former GGL contributor Jos “Zerter” Buyvoets, this was the true beginning of the end for 4K’s WC3 squad.
Despite FoV’s absence, 4K still had a bevy of stars on its roster until Olav “Creolophus” Undheim decided to retire after winning WCG 2007. Undheim’s decision was right for him, but wrong for the team.
“Creo going inactive probably ‘did it’ as it put a lot of pressure on Yoan ‘ToD’ Merlo and Grubby who failed to qualify for the WC3L finals without him,” said Zerter. Continued…
Beijing eSports Team earned the status of a Warcraft 3 Champions League finalist after today’s victory over We are Go. This season in the WC3L will be dominated Asian players.
Today’s game was an all-Korean affair. With star players like Dae Hui “FoV” Cho, Chun “Sweet” Jung Hee, Hyung Ju “Check” Lee or Jang “WhO” Du Sub, BeT were the favorites. With Park Chul “Shy” Woo being their only star player, We are Go are a team of “the best Korean unknowns.” Continued…
For the first time in history, the Four Kings WC3 team failed to qualify for the Warcraft 3 Champions Leauge LAN finals. The two teams have guaranteed themselves a spot inthe finals in Cologne in November are Meet Your Makers and World Elite.
This news is shocking, given the history of the Four Kings team in the WC3L. Up to this point point, 4K have won four titles, qualified for every LAN final and always ended first or second. The only on exception was one of the 2004 seasons, when the team was in Korea and did not attend the finals.
Now, not only do Four Kings not qualify, but they also have to play an additional game to avoid relegation and having to re-qualify to the league! Continued…
One week away from the International €100,000 Electronic Sports Tournament in China we found out nine out of twelve participants of the event for Warcraft 3 and StarCraft respectively.
The competitions will have six players from Asia (three invited Koreans and three qualified Chinese) and six players invited from all over the world. The invitees from Europe were announced some time ago and the list of Koreans was made public today.
The Korean trio for WC3 will be Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo, Lee “SoJu” Seong Deok and Chui “FoV” Dae Cho, all of them very accomplished players with over a dozen prestigious titles between them. Continued…
The world’s highest-earning Warcraft 3 player (in both salary and prize money) Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo has added $10,000 to his account beating Chun “Sweet” Jung Hee in the final. The gentleman in the nice hat will be going to New York City to defend his GGL DigitalLife title.
Spirit Moon won the group of death with June “Lyn” Park, Sung Sik “ReMinD” Kim and XiaoFeng “Sky” Li, but surprisingly lost to Kim “SaSe” Hammar in the first game of the upper bracket. “The fifth race,” as he was dubbed for so often being in a class of his own in Warcraft 3, beat four opponents in the lower bracket on his way to the grand final. Those were Chui “FoV” Dae Cho, Noh “Lucifer” JaeWook, Wei Liang “Fly100%” Lu and June “Lyn” Park.
Sweet only needed a map win to take the trophy, but Moon won two times on Twisted Meadows. The Korean has racked up well over $100,000 in prizes this year and should he continue this way, he might come close to $200,000 towards the end of 2007. Continued…
Nearly the entire iCoke Warcraft 3 tournament in Chengdu, China, was played out today. Chun “Sweet” Jung Hee has won the upper bracket and awaits his opponent in the grand final. It will be one of the trio of Jang “Spirit Moon” Jae Ho, June “Lyn” Park, or Wei Liang “Fly100″ Lu. The victor takes $10,000 and wins a trip to New York City to play in the DigitalLife Pro/Am tournament later this month.
The competition gathered sixteen of the very best players from Asia. They were divided into four groups of four. Players like the double WCG champion XiaoFeng “Sky” Li, the ESWC champion Lee “SoJu” Seong Deok and the BattleNet Season IV champion Sung Sik “ReMinD” Kim were already out at that stage. Continued…
After the retirement of Olav “Creolophus” Undheim from competitive Warcraft 3, Four Kings, one of the best WC3 teams in the world, had a very gap-toothed smile for some time. The answer to that is a Night Elf player from Sweden, Daniel “LiLD.C” Claesson.
For a very long time, the results of Four Kings in tournaments like the Warcraft 3 Champions League rested on the shoulders of players like Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen and Yoan “ToD” Merlo, especially after the departure of the Korean Undead player Cho “FoV” Dae Hui last year.
Creolophus grew to be an answer to that problem, especially in the last four months. The Norwegian player began getting impressive results in international tournaments and formed a very strong partnership with Grubby for the WC3L 2vs2 games. Continued…
The International E-Sports Festival 2007 has only got two matches to be played. In Warcraft 3, Yuwen “Infi” Wang will face June “Lyn” Park. But the main course will be the match between Kim “Bisu” Taek Yong and Ma “sAviOr” Jae Yoon in the StarCraft final. Continued…
WEG e-Stars 2007 is not the only major event held in South Korea this weekend. The other one is the International Esports Festival 2007 with top notch StarCraft and Warcraft 3 tournaments. Both are now in their quarterfinals. We already know Sky will not be winning the WC3 competition and we can hope that it will be Bisu and sAviOr playing in the final of the one for SC. Continued…
