It was a green day for WC3 yesterday as Zotac saw its first all orc final in quite some time. Hyo Sub 'FoCuS' Eom was the main beneficiary as he managed to defeat Du Seop 'WhO' Chang by three maps to one in the final.

The players started out on TM where Focus made the unusual decision of taking a farseer first. Tier one was uneventful, with neither the FS nor Who's BM picking up much experience. Things got more interesting when the pair hit tier two. Both took a shadow hunter 2nd but while Who went for the standard walker/raider combo (he never got to 46 food for a kodo), Focus opted to skip the spirit lodge and took a slight resource advantage. From that point onwards it was almost constant fighting. A brief lull in the battle meant that Who thought he could creep his merc camp. But Focus showed up to show him how wrong he had been, and turned a simple creepjack into a 1-0 lead.

Secret Valley was more traditional and more hasty. Both players went for the typical orc mirror strategy and again the game came down to a creepjack. With no real difference in hero levels, both players seemed to take it in turns to put their heroes in bad positions at the right hand shop. But while Focus managed to kill Who's SH, Who was busy taking down half of his opponent's army and the game was over in ten minutes.

Map three, Melting Valley, was even more straight forward. Focus out-crept his opponent and got a tome of experience for his SH, boosting it to level two within 30 seconds of leaving the altar. There was only one real fight in the whole game, which took place at Who's base. With better heroes, better items and a slightly bigger army, there was only one plausible outcome: 2-1 to Focus.

Close spawn on Turtle Rock in game four was more of a spectacle. The game started off very strangely with Focus losing his blademaster in ridiculous circumstances; trying to take down a voodoo lounge. Who took the time to creep up to level two but it was Focus who hit level three fastest by creeping one of the southern red camps. At 9:30 it was Who's turn to lose his BM stupidly and it effectively cost him the match. He revived it at the tavern but was creepjacked again. With a smaller army, already weakened by a big turtle camp victory for Focus was assured. Who hung around for a couple of minutes but the game was clearly over and he conceded defeat shortly after losing his SH.