One of the wonderful persons that inhabit the Internet has posted the VODs from WEG e-Stars 2007 StarCraft final. The gentlemen in it were the Protoss player Hu “JangBi” Yung Moo and the Zerg player Lee “Jaedong” Jae Dong.
One of them picked up $20,000 for his victory. If you do not remember which player it was, either go to our previous post with the results or go inside this item to watch the VODs. The clips have got English commentary by none other than Nick “Tasteless” Plott, accompanied by Jeff “smeagol” Dickinson.
Tasteless + StarCraft = time well spent. Continued…
The Championship Gaming Series has added a Seoul-based franchise in Asia. The announcement was made at the International E-Sports Symposium.
The new, unnamed franchise is the first officially announced team in the Asian region. Its Counter-Strike Source team is none other than the good old eSTRO lineup. The same eSTRO that finished last in the WEG e-Stars Counter-Strike 1.6 event and first at the CS:Source CGS qualifier last weekend. Continued…
If it wasn’t for Yoan “ToD” Merlo, last week would have been so uneventful that there would be nothing to talk about at all. Luckily, the Four Kings Warcraft 3 player delivered enough drama for an entire column.
Here is what happened: the Frenchman was flown to the WEG e-Stars event in Korea and had the chance to win $20,000 for first place. But ToD never sat down to play in the competition. The problem was that the organizers promised the player that the map choice system he did not like would be changed and that there would be air conditioning for the players. They did not keep the promise. 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…
WEG e-Stars 2007 is not the only major event held in South Korea this weekend. The other one is the International Esports Festival 2007 with top notch StarCraft and Warcraft 3 tournaments. Both are now in their quarterfinals. We already know Sky will not be winning the WC3 competition and we can hope that it will be Bisu and sAviOr playing in the final of the one for SC. 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…
One of the best Counter-Strike teams in the world, the Made in Brazil team, has undergone dramatic mood swings in recent hours. Roster changes have been made as Lincoln “fnx” Lau, one of MiBR’s players, did not board the plane to the WEG e-Stars event in Seoul, Korea. One player has managed to deliver enough drama to fill at least a week of CS coverage. Continued…
