Day one of the NGL-One Warcraft III finals is done, finishing the upper bracket.
The winner goes on to take place in the finals, while today’s losers will play out the lower bracket, where another loss means elimination.
Results are as follows (spoilers!): Continued…
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…
This weekend we have two twin tournaments in South Korea - the International E-Sports Festival 2007 (formerly called the China Korea Cyber Games) in Gangneung and the World E-Sports Games e-Stars 2007 event in Seoul. Both had StarCraft, Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike 1.6 competitions with a combined total of $194,000 in prize money. Continued…
SK Gaming’s Sung Sik “ReMinD” Kim has won $20,000 in the WEG e-Stars 2007 Warcraft 3 tournament by defeating Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo in the grand final. It is the seventh tournament this year won by a Night Elf player and the third where two NE players are in the final. Continued…
The World E-Sports Games e-Stars event in Seoul, Korea, is down to the semi finals for Warcraft 3 with three Korean players and one Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen to play in them on Saturday (Friday if you live in America).
After the incident with Yoan “ToD” Merlo refusing to play in conditions he found unplayable, the tournament progressed as planned. No game in the quarterfinals ended with an upset, all of them ending 2-0 for the favorites:
Grubby beat the Chinese Night Elf player Hao “suhO” Su, Sung Sik “ReMinD” Kim defeated the American Franklin “Nilknarf” Pearsall, Noh “Lucifer” JaeWook received a default win against ToD and Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo won against Xiang “TH000″ Huang from China. Continued…
Before the World E-Sports Games e-Stars 2007 tournament really started, the world famous Warcraft 3 player Yoan “ToD” Merlo took all the spotlight by getting himself disqualified from the event.
Eight top Warcraft 3 players have been invited to attend e-Stars. Among them was the WEG Masters 2006 champion and World Cyber Games runner up ToD. While negotiating his invitation with the WEG staff before the event, ToD asked that the map picking rules were changed and that air conditioning be available for players.
At the event, ToD found that what he had been promised was not there. He therefore asked for some time to make up his mind about whether he would play or not. The player intended to call his team mate Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen to discuss the issue, but the WEG staff have given him one minute to make his decision. The end result was the Frenchman’s disqualification. Continued…
By the looks of it, Korea will be sending two Night Elf players to the World Cyber Games. The semi finals of the Korean qualifier will see two NE vs. Orc match-ups. Cries about the NE race being too strong in Warcraft 3 will resound for months to go.
Lee “SoJu” Seong Deok (NE) will face June “Lyn” Park (Orc) for a spot in the WCG finals. In the other semi final, Jang “WhO” Du Sub (Orc) is waiting for the winner of the quarterfinal between Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo and Hyung Ju “Check” Lee (both Night Elf). Continued…
Olav “Creolophus” Undheim winning Blizzcon 2007 was painful news for Warcraft 3 fans. It was not in the winner’s name that people found disappointment but in the fact that the new champion will never be seen playing like that again.
The Four Kings Night Elf player had made up his mind some time ago that he would stop playing Warcraft 3 professionally. At the time, he was considered good, but not up there with the very best.
Today, he may well be the best. Continued…
Blizzcon 2007: Video Coverage by GGL Wire
ToD last played ReMinD at the Blizzard World Wide Invitational. In that match ToD won and went on to win the tournament. ReMinD wants his revenge in the upper bracket semifinals.
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