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SC.United and Pincho Wings last for Chengdu

By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Sep 17, 2009 18:44


ImageThe Global Challenge Chengdu participants list is now complete. The last two teams for Counter-Strike are China's SC.United and Uzbekistan's Pincho Wings.



The participants list for the Global Challenge Chengdu had seen all invites but two announced and qualifiers for Warcraft III claim their spots. Now the final two names are known and they are China's SC.United and Uzbekistan's Pincho. With all the names out there the pools have now been released too.

Counter-Strike

Pool 1: fnatic , Mousesports , SK Gaming , Evil Geniuses
Pool 2: WeMade FOX , Made in Brazil , TyLoo , wNv Teamwork CN
Pool 3: k23 , TitaNs , SC.United, Pincho Wings

Warcraft III

Pool 1: Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang, Hyo Sub 'FoCuS' Eom, June 'Lyn' Park, Sung Sik 'ReminD' Kim
Pool 2: Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen, , Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu, Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li
Pool 3: Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee, Xuwen 'InFi' Wang, Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng, Xiang 'TH000' Huang

According to ESL-World's site:

"The group drawing will be showed live on ESL TV today, Thursday 17th, starting 17:30. The show will be presented by Joe "Joe" Miller and Sebastian "Baschi" Weishaar, including insight in the shape of various teams."


SC.United were in the news most recently after picking up Chinese Counter-Strike legend Yang Ke Fei, better known as Jungle. Having won two WEG competitions with wNv.gm fans will be watching to see how the ex-star changes the fortunes of the team from his home province of Sichuan.

Pincho Wings on the other hand not much is known about internationally. The team was previously known as STORM before joining the Russian organization. Their biggest moment so far being a shocking upset win over Virtus.pro at the Arbalet Cup Masters.

ESL-World


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