With the recent G7 ranking update, we are facing the following in Korea. In WarCraft III we are looking at the top 5 from the ranking, enriched by position 7, 8 and 9. In other words only Infi (6) and HoT (10) are missing here. Or 355 points are being distributed here which means 142 points for the winner of Cheonan. We did not see that many events with a similar amount of points in 2008. In fact only the second edition of Nicegame featuread more. We have been waiting for this tournament a long time and groupstage is already played. Both Grubby and Sky are out already. Moon, Lyn, Happy and Who dominated their groups. I am quite sure Moon will keep his #1 spot in the ranking, but what happens behind remains unpredictable.

For CS we are looking at pretty much the same szenario despite the fact we have two high-scale tournaments within two weeks now. The top 4 of the ranking are at both events. While Korea is a great tournament, Moscow will feature even more points in the ranking and the next two weeks will determine which team(s) will play the leading roles in 2009. So far mTw and fnatic are clearly to be mentioned, but the likes of SK, Alternate, Mousesports and Mibr are desperately looking at the top of the table themselves.

I personally am more than happy the last 6 weeks are gone and we are ready to celebrate the best of esport once again...