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…
With the Warcraft 3 Champions League less than two weeks away, SK Gaming has presented an interview with manager Ko “Reis” Min-Sik as the first harbinger of the hype that awaits fans of RTS games.
Reis was the manager of World Elite, the winner of the previous WC3L season. Together with Korean players June “Lyn” Park, Kim ‘ReMinD’ Sung Sik and Lee “SoJu” Sung Duk, Reis left WE some time after the WC3L victory. The quartet is reunited at SK Gaming and with the team’s older players they are the number one favorite for the title.
The interview covers Reis’s rise as a manager, SK Gaming, the differences between SK and WE and between Asian and European Warcraft 3 players. Find it over here.
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…
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…
