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SK Gaming preselected to ESWC Masters in South Korea
The list of teams preselected to participate at the ESWC Masters in Cheonan, South Korea has been revealed. SK Gaming and 15 other teams, including four top Korean teams, will fight for the title.
By Elke 'Binteh' Mahy
Mar 25, 2009 17:35
The list of teams preselected to participate at the ESWC Masters in Cheonan, South Korea has been revealed. SK Gaming and 15 other teams, including four top Korean teams, will fight for the title.The two games chosen for the ESWC Masters which will be held in Cheonan, South Korea, will be Warcraft III and Counter-Strike 1.6. The four day event, starting from the 2nd of May will be held in a Gymnasium at the Cheonan Sports Complex.
SK Gaming will be facing current ESWC 2008 Grand Final champions former MYM and ESWC Masters Paris champions, and World Cyber Games 2008 winners, mTw . The four Korean teams chosen to participate at the event will be debated over two official ESWC Tournaments where the winners will be made known at the end of April 2009.
In no particular order, the following teams have been preselected to participate. Gravitas Gaming US remains on the waiting list in case someone fails to attend.
SK Gaming (Sweden)
fnatic (Sweden)
Evil Geniuses (U.S.A)
Mousesports (Germany)
Former MYM (Poland)
mTw (Denmark)
Speeder (Japan)
Immunity (Australia)
wNv Teamwork CN (China)
x3o (U.S.A)
TitaNs (Singapore)
Ultimax (Taiwan)
Read about the Chinese dominating the invitee list of ESWC Asia Masters to see the list of the preselected Warcraft III participants which will be held at the same time.
SK Gaming will be facing current ESWC 2008 Grand Final champions former MYM and ESWC Masters Paris champions, and World Cyber Games 2008 winners, mTw . The four Korean teams chosen to participate at the event will be debated over two official ESWC Tournaments where the winners will be made known at the end of April 2009.
In no particular order, the following teams have been preselected to participate. Gravitas Gaming US remains on the waiting list in case someone fails to attend.
SK Gaming (Sweden)
fnatic (Sweden)
Evil Geniuses (U.S.A)
Mousesports (Germany)
Former MYM (Poland)
mTw (Denmark)
Speeder (Japan)
Immunity (Australia)
wNv Teamwork CN (China)
x3o (U.S.A)
TitaNs (Singapore)
Ultimax (Taiwan)
Read about the Chinese dominating the invitee list of ESWC Asia Masters to see the list of the preselected Warcraft III participants which will be held at the same time.
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Crack Clan
Gravitas Gaming
k23
Tyloo
I hope Crack Clan / Gravitas can play!
Crack, Gravitas, K23, Alternate, ATS.Mirror (AT LEAST) missing their spot. :(
WeMadeFOX will get their spot through the qualifier, even if they should be in that invite list imo..
Looks like its gonna be a great event anyways!
As for teams such as Crack Clan and Alternate not making the list and teams such as Immunity, Titants, Speeder and Ultimax getting invites, I'd say it's just a tough break. It is an ESWC Masters event in Korea, which is supposed to appeal to the Asian market. The Koreans, as mentioned in ESWC's recent press release, are funding the entire event, and probably want to include countries that are regularly listed for events such as the WCG Pan-Asia games. Those four teams are the best teams in their respective countries, and 'deserve' to be invited because of that. The same goes for the Warcraft 3 selections.
Although there are several European teams better than those four teams, I don't really have a problem with it. If you wanted to get down to it, does anyone believe Crack Clan or Alternate deserve to be there than the other European teams?
GL SK!
Crack Clan
Gravitas Gaming
k23
Tyloo
gl mouz ! :)
it will probably be fnatic/sk/mtw/former mym that will win it anyways
And SK better win this!!
GRAVITAS AND CRACK CLAN FTW !