While many are still recalling the sensational Grand Final last season where the best Korean league nowadays welcomed June "Lyn" Park as its new champion, the third season of Afreeca Warcraft III League is due to commence on the 12th of February.

Apart from the best four players last season who had already clinched a berth for the upcoming season, the other twelve spots were decided by a series of online qualifications. Two SK players out of three: Seong Deok "SoJu" Lee and Seo Woo "ReiGn" Kang secured their spots and joined the reigning champion June "Lyn" Park in the regular season.

On the contrary, the champion of first season Duck Man "SocceR" Youn, who has been displaying solid performance since his departure from the Chinese powerhouse wNv, fell through in the qualification. Jae Ho "Moon" Jang will also be absent due to his decision to take a break from online league in short term.

Compared to its previous seasons, AWL committee altered the match system in group stage to double elimination while the playoff remains the same which is single elimination. Every group will be finished in each playday. Afreeca will provide high resolution stream to Korean local via their own internet television for free, however not available for the rest of the world. Fortunately, it is said that the free of charge peer-to-peer software PPStream will air the tournament worldwidely. Follow this link so as to download the software.

Schedule
Upper bracket start: 11:00, Tue 26th
Upper bracket final: 11:00, Sat 22nd
Lower bracket start: 09:00, Sat 22nd
Consolation final: 09:00, Sat 22nd


Attending players
Won Seok 'Believe' Yoo
Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee
Oh Seong 'FiveStar' Kwon
Hyo Sub 'FoCuS' Eom
Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho
Jae Wook 'Lucifer' Noh
June 'Lyn' Park
Seo Woo 'ReiGn' Kang
Jong Seok 'ReprisaL' Lee
Chul Woo 'Shy' Park
Seong Deok 'SoJu' Lee
Sung Hyun 'Space' Park
Jae Woong 'Storm' Kim
Jung Ki 'Susiria' Oh
Jung Hee 'Sweet' Chun
Jin Woo 'WinNers' Kim