Similar to Asian qualifier, three European players will obtain qualification for BlizzCon 2008 run from October 10 to 11 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, and an impressive prize money of $8,000.

Four ex-Four Kings players, Olav 'Creolophus' Undheim, Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen, Daniel 'LiiLD.C' Claesson and Yoan 'ToD' Merlo congregated for the first time since the dissolution of Four Kings in late January this year. All of them but LiiLD.C qualified for BlizzCon last year, but none of them repeated their success this time.

Three of the quartet lost in the first round and had to fight their way through lower bracket for a place in top three. After knocking out of each other in the lower bracket, ToD was the only old Four Kings player left in the competition and met LucifroN7 in the lower bracket final. With a comfortable 2-0 defeat of ToD, the 17-year-old Spaniard leapfrogged into the consolation final and qualified for his first major international event in his two-year gaming career.

Another 17-year-old, the Russia Undead player Happy, who has faded out of sight after leaving Mousesports two months ago, held the centre stage as he got hold of the first place as well as a prize cheque for $5,000 with only one map drop in the whole event. The second placed SaSe also won a prize cheque for $2,000.

The last two participants in this year’s BlizzCon will be unveiled once the North American qualifier finished later today.

Six qualifiers for BlizzCon 2008 so far

Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee (KR)
June 'Lyn' Park (KR)
Sung Sik 'ReMinD' Kim (KR)
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin (RU)
Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán (ESP)
Kim 'SaSe' Hammar (SE)