Chun “Sweet” Jung Hee has retired from Warcraft III, ending his career as one of the strongest Undeads to compete in the realm of Warcraft. He played since the days of MaDFroG on the SK Warcraft III team, wrapping up his career in BeT with the FoV and Winners.
Now, Jung Hee will enter the Korean military, fulfilling duties required for Korean citizens. At the age of 22, Sweet ends his time in the Warcraft III with a great number of accomplishments under his belt.
The current status of BeT is unknown, with some speculation that powerhouse FoV may also be retiring, and Winners following his teammate Check to mTw (currently mTw has only four players on its roster, indicating more roster additions are incoming).
More info as it comes.
Gamesports.de has released first person VODs of top Warcraft III Players contending at the NGL-One finals. These are not just someone watching and doing commentary, it’s the actual move by move point of view from the players.
Currently, only the first SK vs. mTw and MYM vs. mouz matches of the first round have been posted.
First person VODs are an amazing tool for any player trying to learn how to play. Unlike previous releases, these feature both the winning and losing players’ points of view. If you’re smart, you could play them both at once and see the game play out both ways.
All VODs up so far can be found here at gamesports.net.
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 Warcraft player turnover continues with another chain of team changes and players finding new homes.
Following HoT’s departure from SK Gaming, Undead player XlorD also left the team. It’s quite an interesting move, since XlorD was the player that secured SK’s victory over MYM in WC3L. Rumors say he’ll be joining a Germany-based team and won’t be out of action for too long. With two players leaving SK, others may follow suit (Insomnia mentioned the Extreme Masters may be the last event he’ll be playing in).
In other news, 4Kings’ Warcraft III team faces another departure. After losing ToD to Mousesports, their other Human warrior, Ben “DeMusliM” Baker, has dropped off the roster. Initially recruited to represent Four Kings in the United Kingdom, Baker later played matches for the mainstream team alongside Grubby and ToD. An official statement from the 4Kings webpage reads:
“Today, 4Kings sadly has to announce that the organisation and the player were not able to agree on continueing the working relation, and therefore DeMusliM is released from his duties within 4Kings. “
4Kings hasn’t been putting up results like it used to. Let’s hope a revamped roster and some new recruits will continue the dynasty.
The Warcraft 3 Champions League XII Finals are upon us, and four teams will converge on Cologne tomorrow, Nov. 17, to battle it out. SK Gaming, World Elite, Beijing E-sports Team and MeetYourMakers all have their eye on the gold.
Who will win? We asked three Warcraft III experts for their opinions. Jos “Zerter” Buyvoets, Jason “Lee” Lee and Carlos “Boo” Armendariz weighed in.
Zerter, sometime GGL contributer :
SK > WE > MYM > BET sounds about right, though all the matches can go either way. It might be the other way around as well.
It’s hard to make predictions, really, because the reality is that three of the teams, aside from MYM, are untested in this kind of competition. And MYM is kind of untested as well, since they haven’t played against these teams, so there is no background to base any predictions on.
SK should definitely be the strongest tho, on paper at least. Lyn, Soju, Remind, Hot — that’s some scary sh*t. Continued…
SeeD of Imbalanced Video has just posted Imbalanced Episode 27, showcasing the online playoffs of the Warcraft 3 Champions League. A four way battle gets heated between Clan Go, BeT, SK and MouseSports, and only two can survive the fight and advance to the LAN finals.
