World of Warcraft: SK.Asia WoW qualifies for Global Finals of Intel Extreme Masters

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By Alexander T. 'TheSlaSH' Müller-Rodic

Feb 7, 2010 08:34

After the US team and both EU teams secured their spot at this years Intel Extreme Masters Global Finals taking place at CeBIT early in March, the recently added Korean triplet achieved exactly the same, making it 4 SK teams out of 12 in total at the Hannover tournament.

Only three slots were left to qualify for the Global Finals and all of them went to Korean teams entering the Asian Championship event for World of WarCraft. Button Bashers played a perfect tournament, beating all of their opponents, among those SK Gaming in the semis and Mousesports in the grand final.

After a good groupstage, losing to Mousesports only, SK Gaming had to play Button Bashers in the semi finals and took a clear loss. The other semi was played between Death Bloom and Mousesports with the Koreans taking a convincing 4-1 and therefore facing Button Bashers.
This left one spot for the global finals played out between SK Gaming and Death Bloom this morning and without giving away a single map, SK booked their ticket for Hannover with a 4-0.

This result increases the number of SK-tagged teams in the WoW tournament to 4 in total. The massive WoW presence of SK is completed by the CS team that qualified by winning the Chengdu event in 2009 already and SK.Rapha who won the Dubai challenge.

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PrimeTime 2 years ago

+2 thumbs

Going to be very exciting to watch, and cover the Global Finals :)

Mrmojo 2 years ago

+2 thumbs

go BB!

Cid 2 years ago

+2 thumbs

I think no matter how good they play, the combo they play just dont stand a chance against good RMPs :(
but good luck anyway!

SK|TheSlaSH 2 years ago

+1 thumbs

which is probably the major issue you could have with competitive WoW...

SK|reis 2 years ago

+1 thumbs

I think its hard to say how they will do later on or at the Globals in Hannover the point is that it was a really bad timing for all the teams to play on the newest patch which was released on the first tournament day so noone could really prepare anything or test the new patch.

I have no clue about this game and I hope that our team can find a solution ;D

SK|TheSlaSH 2 years ago

+2 thumbs

no, patches making combos more important than skill is the problem. not mentioned directly, but you can read it ;) so much about schnitzel!

Saori 2 years ago

+1 thumbs

Not really, everyone knows what they'll come up against at tournaments as soon as the teams qualify, there is more than enough time to prepare for playing against x comp, not having a setup to play against it is a poor excuse.

I agree that you should be able to win regardless of comp, but thats WoW and the metagame, you should be prepared.

SK|TheSlaSH 2 years ago

+3 thumbs

you don't get the essence here.
Let's say we have two teams, A and B. Everytime they play each other, A wins over B. Both teams play different combos. Then you have a patch changing the balance of the game (I am not saying in a bad way, just a patch). And after the patch A loses to B all the time they play each other.
The patch is the driving factor here, not skill nor preparation. The balance shifts due to a patch in WoW and it happens a lot if you ask me. We have seen it with more than one team.

But I agree, it is one factor of the game itself and you have to live with it. Still it is not what I would want to see ;)