Warcraft III’s NGL-One Finals are underway, showcasing four top tier teams colliding and trading spells at the offline finals to prove their power.
The NGL format is unique, using a king of the hill format instead of WC3L’s individual match tally. Each team selects a player to play a match, with the loser being eliminated. The loser is replaced by a teammate to play, with the process repeated until a team loses four players.
What does this mean? Managers/team leaders have to be very selective of who plays when. Before matches even begin, captains have to strategize. Should they send a player for an all kill? Do they match players for each match, picking off the other team’s powerhouses with surgical selections? Multiple factors enter the process, putting more pressure on everyone.
NGL-One’s finals run today, Feb. 22 through tomorrow, Feb. 23.
Contending Teams
Meet Your Makers
An outstanding lineup of players that seems to take more second place finishes than first. Moon is the epic Night Elf hero, with more victories in each year than some pro players could make in a lifetime. His strategies revolutionize the game, but with his reported hiatus, will he be in shape to play in NGL? Lucifer rose up in 2006, but has yet to be in the same shape since. Susiria plays on par with Lucifer, meaning MYM might have to struggle to take the win. Continued…
The gaming press from all over the world has voted for Players and Revelations of 2007 in Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3 and Quake 4. For the first time in the award’s history, two players will share an award.
The Player of the Year in Counter-Strike is Filip “NEO” Kubski from Meet Your Makers. He won two out of three of the most prestigious tournaments in 2007 with PGS Gaming and performed very well for the large part of the year. He received 37 points, 10 more than Patrick “cArn” Sattermon (27 points) and the 2006 Player of the Year Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg (17).
Mickael “mSx” Cassisi is the Revelation of 2007 in Counter-Strike. The award is traditionally given to the players that made the biggest breakthrough in one year, and mSx was the player that took emuLate to a gold medal in the World Cyber Games. The Frenchman got 29 points. Just four points behind him was mTw’s Christoffer Sunde, who was the ESWC and WCG runner up with his danish team, known in 2007 as NoA. Continued…
Every year, GGL invites several prominent e-Sports coverage sites to vote for the e-Sports Players of the Year. The categories cover three e-Sports games with long traditions and histories: Quake (in this case, Quake 4), Warcraft III and Counter-Strike 1.6.
Each voter (or site) selects three players from every category and assigns them a rank from 1-3. Rank 1 receives 5 points, Rank 2 receives 3 points, and Rank 3 receives 1 point. At the end of the voting process, the points are tallied and the winners are announced. You can see the 2006 winners at GGL.com in a legacy format.
Without further ado, let’s name the 2007 nominees: Continued…
The Player Awards for the Warcraft 3 Champions League season XII have been announced during the WC3L finals in Cologne last weekend. SK Gaming’s June “Lyn” Park was named Most Valuable Player, HyoSub “FoCuS” Eom (Meet Your Makers) won the Most Improved Player title and Jang “WhO” Du Sub (Beijing eSports Team) got the Rookie of the Season award. Continued…
June “Lyn” Park has won his second Warcraft 3 major within a month by beating Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo 4-0 in the grand final of the Make Games Colorful tournament in China. Does the Orc race have a new Emperor?
The MGC started with a unique round robin stage, followed with a double elimination playoff bracket. In spite of the presence of Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen, Yoan “ToD” Merlo and Kim “SaSe” Hammar, it had four Korean and four Chinese players. Continued…
June “Lyn” Park lived up to the role of the favorite in the Extreme Masters LA tournament and defeated JaeWook “Lucifer” Noh in the final. By doing so, he became the first Orc player to win a major international title this year.
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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…
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 Korean World Cyber Games qualifier is over. Three formidable StarCraft players will be looking to emulate last year’s feat of IloveOOv, JulyZerg and Midas taking all three medals.
The strongest country in the world in the realm of RTS games will field one of the scariest lineup of players in history if you look at StarCraft and Warcraft 3 combined. Continued…
Today, the third Warcraft 3 player from Korea has won himself a ticket to the World Cyber Games finals in Seattle. His name is Lee “SoJu” Seong Deok, and it will be his third WCG appearance in a row.
The Electronic Sports World Cup winner SoJu lost in the qualifier’s semi final to June “Lyn” Park, but defeated Jang “WhO” Du Sub for third place with a 2-0 map score. He will be joining the Orc player Lyn and the Night Elf player Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo to form perhaps the strongest Korean WCG team for WC3 since 2004. Continued…
