The soon 20-year-old wNv Teamwork player, Sai had his first visa application rejected a week ago. Though his team set another meeting with the Germany embassy shortly after, the outcome did not turn out in favour of him.

Sai shone at the WCG China Final as he came second, beating his team-mate Liwei “xiaOt” Sun, TED and infi and only lost to the eventual winner Like. However, he is not walking alone as rejected player for WCG Global Final. Both Russia representatives Boris “Quaix” Lekontsev and Yuri “Sting” Sheremetov were also left out for the same reason.

On the contrary, it is the second time in two weeks TED fill someone’s gap in a major event because of visa issue. Mykhaylo “HoT” Novopashyn of Gravitas Gaming was the victim last time and could only see TED throwing away the chance with three straight losses in World E-sports Masters.

The illustrious event will commence on November 5 in Cologne, Germany. The full schedule for Warcraft III tournament as well as groups are available in World Cyber Games 2008.

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 C

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

Group E

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

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