The World Cyber Games organisation today released the list of participants to have qualified for the finals thus far.

Fifty five contenders will compete at the grand finals with the top two participants advancing from the group stage.

Group H is by far the most surprising, featuring four top orc competitors and Daniel 'ixi' Spenst, who has been seeded against orcs constantly these past few weeks.

The finals are scheduled to take place between November 5th-9th, 2008 in Cologne, Germany.

Group A

Elton "Odin" Valdez Nieto (Peru)
yap tong "ct^serry" Lian (Malaysia)
TBA (Ecuador)
Kim 'SaSe' Hammar (Sweden)
Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen (Netherlands)
Tim 'HLA' Gebel (Germany)
Xuwen 'InFi' Wang (China)

Group B

Romanas 'Lose' Rimkus (Lithuania)
Samuli 'elfittaja' Sihvonen (Finland)
Padraig "Poddy" OHara (Republic of Ireland)
Yoan 'ToD' Merlo (France)
Milos 'Mickey' Mitrovic
Bychkov 'Ghost' Aleksey (Ukraine)
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin(Russia)

Group C

Mihail 'XyLigan' Ryabkov (Russia)
Henrik 'HenL' Lohne (Norway)
Eduard Bedrosov (Armenia)
TBA (USA)
Peter 'DNA' Agardi (Hungary)
Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng (China)

Group D

(Croatia)
(Turkey)
Chun Jih 'Kim' Chen (Taiwan)
TBA (Italy)
Jishnu Brahmaputra (Pakistan)
TBA (Venezuela)
Heinrich 'S.o.K.o.L' Rennert (Germany)

Group E

TBA (Nigeria)
Kejing 'Like' Li (China)
Martin 'Bonecracker' Hušák (Czech Republic)
TBA (Denmark)
Andrew 'mOOn-GLaDe1' Pender (Australia)
Ildar Ibragimov (Uzbekistan)
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang (South Korea)

Group F

(Slovenia)
'Celex' (Bulgaria)
Yaraslau 'NightWOlf' Kavetski (Belarus)
Diego Echeagaray (Mexico)
(Switzerland)
Hamish Luke 'Kowi' Parker (New Zealand)
Boris 'Quaix' Lekontsev (Russia)

Group G

TBA (India)
Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang (South Korea)
Vladimir Sappo (Azerbaijan)
Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn (Ukraine)
Jonathan 'Driftwood' Ede (United Kingdom)
(Argentina)

Group H

Jonathan 'KiWiKaKi' Garneau (Canada)
Dariusz 'MeS' Kramp (Poland)
Milorad 'sweet' Gavrilovic (Serbia)
Daniel 'ixi' Spenst (Germany)
Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán (Spain)
Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi (Netherlands)
Hyo Sub 'FoCuS' Eom (South Korea)