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 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
The time has come for another weekend video interview with an eSports persona. In this week’s 1on1, Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz talks to the Meet Your Makers CTO, Markus “Army” Stefanko.
Among the subjects mentioned in the conversation are the big millions behind MYM, Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo’s reported monthly of $9,000, money in the eSports industry and the Championship Gaming Series’ influence on Counter-Strike 1.6.
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…
For the first time in years, Jang “Spirit Moon” JeaHo has qualified for the World Cyber Games finals in Warcraft 3. The Meet Your Makers Night Elf player beat Jang “WhO” Du Sub for his berth in the finals. Moon’s previous appearance in the WCG was in 2004, when he lost to Hwang “Zacard” Tae Min in the playoffs.
The highest earning Warcraft 3 player this year only needed two maps to defeat WhO and beat him on Terenas Stand and Twisted Meadows. Yesterday, June “Lyn” Park qualified by beating Lee “SoJu” Seong Deok. SoJu and WhO will play a consolation final for third place.
The World Cyber Games finals takes place in Seattle, on October 3-7.
June “Lyn” Park, has qualified for the World Cyber Games finals in Warcraft 3 today. To win a ticket to the finals in Seattle, the SK Gaming player beat Chun “Sweet” Jung Hee in the quarterfinal and the Electronic Sports World Cup champion, Lee “SoJu” Seong Deok, today. Continued…
The legendary Kim “Bisu” Taek Yong and the World Cyber Games 2006 bronze medalist Jun “Midas” Sang Wook will not be going to the U.S. consulate in Korea any time soon. They were knocked out of the WCG qualifier for StarCraft today and will not be going to the finals in Seattle.
Tuesday was the second day of the WCG Korea top 16 stage. Two matches took place: Bisu lost to MBCGame HERO teammate Lee “Light” Jae Ho 1-2 after taking the lead in maps. Midas lost to Yoon “Free” Yong Tae, also 1-2. Continued…
