The Warcraft 3 silly season continues with significant players changing teams. Yesterday, the news of Mykhaylo “HoT” Novopashin joining Gravitas Gaming was made official.
SK Gaming released their Ukrainian player one month before the expiration of his contract. One of the best players in Europe, HoT fell victim to SK’s acquisition of three Korean players earlier this year. With Night Elves such as Kim “ReMinD” Sung Sik and Lee “SoJu” Sung Duk, the team did not need a fourth one.
Gravitas Gaming was the most convincing of the teams looking to sign HoT. They have completed a very impressive lineup of Russian-speaking Warcraft 3 players, with star player Mikhail “XyLigan” Ryabkov and Oleg “TitaN” Kuptsov, Robert “Rob” Abdrakhmanov, Oleg “TitaN” Kuptsov, Boris “Quai” Lekontsev and Vladislav “Frozen” Baranov.
Rumor has it Mykhaylo “HoT” Novopashin will be leaving SK Gaming to join up with Gravitas Gaming in January.
The Ukrainian player will probably not pen a new deal with SK. The organization has three other world class Warcraft 3 players in June “Lyn” Park, Kim “ReMinD” Sung Sik and Lee “SoJu” Sung Duk. The fact that SoJu and ReMinD are Night Elf players would also make HoT a little less useful in the Warcraft 3 Champions League.
Teams like Mousesports and Four Kings are said to have expressed interest in HoT, but Wire has found out that the player wants to go to Gravitas Gaming. The team that has gathered some of the best Russian Warcraft 3 players, with plans for the team to live in one apartment. The Ukrainian would fit into that team very nicely.
HoT’s contract with SK Gaming expires with the end of December 2007.
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…
We have predicted how things would turn out for Counter-Strike 1.6 at the World Cyber Games. Now it is time for Warcraft 3, where things are much more interesting and much less predictable.
The tournament will have fifty-seven participants and at least eight players for whom the title is a realistic goal. Given that every player has got a preferred or disliked match-up against a given race, the way the playoff bracket shapes up will be crucial to the outcome of the World Cyber Games. Continued…
The list of top names qualified for the World Cyber Games has grown longer this weekend. The top favorites to have qualified for the finals are Fnatic (CS 1.6) and Kim “SaSe” Hammar (WC3) from Sweden and Mykhaylo “HoT” Novopashyn (WC3) from Ukraine. The big surprise of the weekend is that g3nerationX and not Made in Brazil will represent Brazil at the finals for Counter-Strike. Continued…
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