Beijing eSports Team earned the status of a Warcraft 3 Champions League finalist after today’s victory over We are Go. This season in the WC3L will be dominated Asian players.
Today’s game was an all-Korean affair. With star players like Dae Hui “FoV” Cho, Chun “Sweet” Jung Hee, Hyung Ju “Check” Lee or Jang “WhO” Du Sub, BeT were the favorites. With Park Chul “Shy” Woo being their only star player, We are Go are a team of “the best Korean unknowns.” Continued…
SK Gaming’s Warcraft 3 team is the third team to qualify for the Warcraft 3 Champions League finals after today’s victory over Mousesports. They will be joining World Elite and Meet Your Makers at the finals in Cologne on November 17-18.
SK opened the game with a 2on2 win, when the ReMinD - SoJu duo beat SaSe and Fly100% with a 2-0 score. Lyn then defeated Yumiko without dropping a map.
Mouz had a glimmer of hope when HoT was tied with Fly100% and SoJu started out losing the first map to SaSe. The ESWC champion took two straight maps and made the overall score 3-0 in favor of SK.
The fourth participant of the WC3L LAN will be known tomorrow after the Beijing Esports Team plays We are Go for the last spot in the finals.
For the first time in history, the Four Kings WC3 team failed to qualify for the Warcraft 3 Champions Leauge LAN finals. The two teams have guaranteed themselves a spot inthe finals in Cologne in November are Meet Your Makers and World Elite.
This news is shocking, given the history of the Four Kings team in the WC3L. Up to this point point, 4K have won four titles, qualified for every LAN final and always ended first or second. The only on exception was one of the 2004 seasons, when the team was in Korea and did not attend the finals.
Now, not only do Four Kings not qualify, but they also have to play an additional game to avoid relegation and having to re-qualify to the league! Continued…
