Warcraft III great XiaoFeng “Sky” Li has completed his leg of the Olympic torch relay. The torch is on its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
In addition to Sky, JaeHo “Moon” Jang (another WC3 juggernaut) and StarCraft luminary Junchun “PJ” Sha will also carry the torch at some point during the relay.
Here are some pictures of Sky’s relay:
Superstar professional gamers Jae Ho “Moon” Jang and Li “Sky” Xiaofeng, of Warcraft III fame, will carry the Olympic torch as part of its procession on the road to the 2008 Olympic Games’ opening ceremony
The news is yet another sign that gaming has arrived in China, with the full support of the Chinese government.
Moon and Sky won’t be the only professional gamers in the torch relay. StarCraft apostle Junchun “Pj” Sha, 2nd place finisher at the 2007 World Cyber Games, and Lei “Leilei” Shen, also a known SC player, will join the march.
There’s no word yet as to when these e-sports luminaries will appear in the torch relay.
This year’s torch relay began, as always, in Olympia, Greece, and has already wound its way through London, San Francisco and even Islamabad, Pakistan, to date. Many more cities are planned on the tour before its culmination in Beijing.
2008’s Olympic Games will also feature the GGL’s Digital Games worldwide tournament as an Official Welcome Event. GGL, in partnership with China Internet Gaming (CIG) and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), will organize and co-produce a competitive gaming tournament for gamers of all skill levels.
More information about the Digital Games is available at dg.ggl.com. Register now to be first in line to receive more information about the tournament.
Source: SK Gaming via Gamespot.China
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…
SK Gaming are the new champions of the Warcraft 3 Champions League after defeating Meet Your Makers in last weekend’s LAN finals in Cologne. SK have waited ten long seasons for this victory.
It is surprising that despite having had superstars like Fredrik “MaDFroG” Johansson or Yoan “ToD” Merlo on the roster, SK hadn’t won a WC3L LAN finals before. The team won the second season of the competition, but it took place online entirely.
History was against SK, along with the fact that the twelfth season of the WC3L was arguably the toughest so far. But it was also one of the strongest lineups SK has ever seen and clearly the strongest one this season. 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…
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…
The sensational winner of the World Cyber Games Warcraft 3 tournament, Olav “Creolophus” Undheim, talks to Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz right after his epic victory over Xiaofeng “Sky” Li. Enjoy the interview.
In an amazing turn of events, the unfancied Olav “Creolophus” Undheim stopped XiaoFeng “Sky” Li on his quest to win three World Cyber Games gold medals in a row. Just when Sky had beaten his most dangerous opponents and was one map away from gaining eternal fame, Creo took it all from him as the world watched on in amazement.
From the very beginning, few seriously considered that the Norwegian underdog a serious threat to Sky. Creolophus had retired from competitive Warcraft 3 after winning at Blizzcon and only had a week’s preparation for the event in Seattle. It showed, as he was lost two games in the group stage and was lucky to have made it to the playoffs. Lady Luck was with him all the way, sending Yoan “ToD” Merlo and Lee “SoJu” Seong Deok home before Creolophus could meet them. Continued…
The World Cyber Games grand finals event is underway in Seattle. With group play still going on, everyone is watiing for the playoffs. But before you have a savory meal in a fancy restaurant, you want to have a proper appetizer.
The WCG group phase in Warcraft 3 does exceptionally well to whet our appetites for the playoffs phase. Half of the elimination bracket is already filled with the names of the players. It goes (the names in square brackets are Wire’s predictions):
XyLigan vs. [player from E2]
ToD vs. [player from F2]
XlorD vs. [player from G2]
SoJu vs. [xiaOt or Grubby][SaSe] vs. HoT
[Fly100%] vs. Spirit Moon
[Creolophus] vs. HasuHasi
[xiaOt or Grubby] vs. Sky
Two very strong players from China will miss the World Cyber Games grand finals in Seattle with their visa applications denied by the U.S. consulate. Warcraft 3 player Yanchao “Lyc” Lu and StarCraft player Sun Yi “F91″ Feng are the unlucky ones. The absence of Lyc can changes the WC3 WCG tournament dramatically. 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…
