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Pandemic has added another title to their World of Warcraft 3v3 Arena trophy cabinet by winning ESL’s WoW 3v3 tournament at DreamHack. MoB’s TurtleForce and TurtlePower took second and third place, respectively.

The American team has got an impeccable record in the game. They have won every single event for 3v3 that they entered. But in Sweden, the lineup of Nathan “Kintt” Quinn, Greg “Ecilam” Risselada and Mason “Nitrana” Groendal came closer to defeat than ever - they lost the upper bracket semi final but came back to win the grand final in two sets. Continued…

The MoB TurtleForce team beat their from MoB TurtlePower in the upper bracket final of ESL’s WoW 3v3 Arena tournament at DreamHack. They are now waiting for whoever comes out of the lower bracket to fight them for $45,000 for first place.

The match attracted a full mini-stadium of people in Hall C of DreamHack and a packed stand near the ESL area. Apparently, World of Warcraft is not as bad a spectator game it is claimed. Perhaps more than in any other country, the title has got mainstream appeal. It is enough to say that the jaw of the waiter in a restaurant in the center of Jonkoping dropped to the very floor when he found out that he was serving food to Blizzard employees that made the game. Continued…

Unexpectedly, but according to the initial plan, World of Warcraft is having its final tournament in 2007 at DreamHack. The top eight teams from the World Series of Video Games rankings were invited to Sweden by Blizzard and Intel to close the season in a $75,000 tournament ran by ESL.

The competition is Blizzard’s initiative. A lot of times, this company has proven that the people in it care about the community. After the cancellation of the WSVG, the creators of WoW have decided that the players deserve to have the season finished. In a way, this event is the continuation of the WSVG, although the ESL people dislike this way of seeing things. A perpetuation or not, the winners here at DreamHack will be the last World of Warcraft champions in 2007. Continued…

The big news in competitive World of Warcraft lately has been the “purchase” of the American Insurrection team by the major European team Fnatic.

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