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Female gamer Hafu wins MLG Orlando with Orz
The MLG Orlando World of Warcraft event was won by the underdogged team Orz with their member Hafu becoming the first woman to win an esports major in a competition with men.
By Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz
Jul 13, 2008 21:40
The MLG Orlando World of Warcraft event was won by the underdogged team Orz with their member Hafu becoming the first woman to win an esports major in a competition with men.The Orz team was a major underdog of the MLG Orlando event and got the second worst seed of the event. Along the way, they beat every top team they encountered, including SK Gaming, MoB (an organisation that let go of them after MLG San Diego), Team EG and Frag Dominant Duelists in the final.
Their tournament will go down in history as the first PC gaming major be won by a woman (unless you count WCG Pan American with four players as one). Orz did really badly at the previous event in San Diego so their performance in Orlando was a big surprise. Moreover, Orz did not have that much practice before the event.
"I choked up a lot in San Diego," said the elated Hafu after the final. "We came in the mindset that we were going to lose. We thought this is going to be our last MLG ever."
The results far surpassed anyone's expectations. Orz picked up a cheque for $12,000 and three PCs after beating Frag Dominant Duelists in the final. The tournament had a revenge background for Orz who were booted out of MoB after San Diego and defeated Godfather's team in Orlando. The post-match interview did not go without shoutouts to him.
The team are currently without a sponsor and will probably be receiving dozens of phone calls about that.
1) $12,000 - Orz
2) $6,000 - Frag Dominant Duelists
3) $3,000 - Evil Geniuses
4) $1,500 - GotGame West
SK Gaming's interview with Hafu (March 24, 2008)
Their tournament will go down in history as the first PC gaming major be won by a woman (unless you count WCG Pan American with four players as one). Orz did really badly at the previous event in San Diego so their performance in Orlando was a big surprise. Moreover, Orz did not have that much practice before the event.
"I choked up a lot in San Diego," said the elated Hafu after the final. "We came in the mindset that we were going to lose. We thought this is going to be our last MLG ever."
The results far surpassed anyone's expectations. Orz picked up a cheque for $12,000 and three PCs after beating Frag Dominant Duelists in the final. The tournament had a revenge background for Orz who were booted out of MoB after San Diego and defeated Godfather's team in Orlando. The post-match interview did not go without shoutouts to him.
The team are currently without a sponsor and will probably be receiving dozens of phone calls about that.
1) $12,000 - Orz
2) $6,000 - Frag Dominant Duelists
3) $3,000 - Evil Geniuses
4) $1,500 - GotGame West
SK Gaming's interview with Hafu (March 24, 2008)
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I wonder who will be the first female to win a major 1:1 mixed event of guys/girls, not counting Vanessa's win at the WCG Pan-Am since it was 4 or so people.
I hope to see some gosu girls in Starcraft 2.
and for davetheone comment i second his motion, wish people would actually sponser eu people to go to the USA and vica versa.
Like a lan hold at germany/Sweden/denmark/belgium/england would all be pretty great
There was two things, that made them go so far. They didn't change their lineup - they did stick to warr, warlock and druid mainly - basically they played what they play daily and know the class at its best. Second thing that helped then was Glick(who is overall one of the best warlocks in the US scene) and Hafu. Can't say that Hafu is the best of the best druids over the big lake, but she did improve A LOT after the San Diego event. Her positioning was much better, as she wasn't closely following her teammates, but kept the distance all the time not to catch fears and shit.
Would like to see Orz playing once more :) No idea if there will be WoW in Toronto or Dallas, no info on MLG site yet, only about the pro circuit - consoles and shit.
Though the level of play on LANs is imo lower than the level on the tournament realms.
Many of the believed to be top-teams made a lot of mistakes which cost them the win.
Furthermore some teams not playing serious at all, like the Pandemic team with 3 mages.... I mean make place for teams that actually WANT to play serious -.-
When are there events coming Europe btw... So far we've seen a couple tournaments with 1-2 european teams but thats it. Gief EU tour and the competition will become harder for the teams "at the top".
Huge congratulations for Hafu and her team ORZ, hopefully we'll see you alot more in the future :)
Also, time to tell Serennia to get his head out of his ass or find someone else for sk-gaming that will actually allow Neilyo to play a rogue and not run retarded lineups!
QFT!
Well deserved.
wtb tha vince"serennia" to read this comment.