Warcraft III: XlorD, S.o.K.o.L and HLA qualify for WCG Grand final

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By Ran 'FoReVeR_ManUtd' Liu

Aug 24, 2008 15:47

Daniel “XlorD” Spenst of ALTERNATE, Heinrich “S.o.K.o.L” Rennert of n!faculty and Tim “HLA” Gebel of Raptor Gaming will defend honour of Germany at home in WCG008 Grand final.

After sloting the hosts their first ENC trophy yesterday, XlorD went on to secure himself a place in WCG2008 Grand final to be held on November 5 to 8 in Cologne, Germany. The young EPS champion was unstoppable in the WCG2008 Germany qualifier and lost only 1 set to the runner-up S.o.K.o.L in the whole competition.

S.o.K.o.L was the biggest dark horse in the qualifier. Knocked down to the lower bracket by Leon 'TastyLeon' Hoge of Raptor Gaming in the first round, the n!faculty player swept his way to the lower bracket final and became a Germany representative in the Grand final with 2-1 defeat of Marc 'yAwS' Förster of ALTERNATE.

Dennis 'HasuObs' Schneider of Mousesports and Daniel 'miou' Holthuis of SK Gaming will participate in ESWC Grand final in San Jose next Monday and thus had to sit out the qualifier.

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e-spider 3 years ago

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gogo S.o.K.o.L! gl orcbrother!

Mantraa 3 years ago

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imo, it's stupid that they even would put a qualifier when other major german players cannot attend. I think that they should be wary of this and not always put the qualifier in the biggest most awesomest place but rather give it some thought as to what would best serve the competition. WCG already has tons of publicity, hosting it at GC isn't gonna make it any better, I'm sure that Miou and Hasu could have changed up who is actually going...

hostilepulse 3 years ago

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its not about publicity , its about money.If they had arranged GC and WCG at two different dates in the month , most ppl (foreigns) would not attend both and they would have to choose just 1.So now combining two they can get more money I guess from tickets/advertising I guess

_evan 3 years ago

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Are you implying SK or Mousesports can't afford to send their players to competitions? It's got nothing to do with money or publicity, it's just a simple conflict (ESWC main event being later in the year than in the past). There are loads of examples to prove this - MYM going to KODE5 finals instead of the Polish ESWC qualifiers, being one.

masaa87 3 years ago

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I guess he is talking about visitors..
the wcg qualifier had a big stage for specators and a video stream etc.
without the games conventin they wouldnt have had as many.
btw. in CS1.6 was the same problem, but the team that goes to eswc made a deal with the wcg qualifier and takes part in both events...
anyway xlord performed very well (everyone should watch his game vs HLA on echo-isle, nice comeback)

Mantraa 3 years ago

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Yes I understand that what you're all saying and what not, but in the end there could have been measures taken to ensure that there was no confliction, that's the problem when E-Sports is so open with so many competitions like that. It should be all discussed and what not so the conflicts are so minor and minimal. Here we are talking about ESWC conflicting with major WCG atendees, two of the biggest competitions so it's just, it could have been worked around. Like two offline qualifiers or something.

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