All you Warcraft tournament handicappers, take note ā Blizzardās Intelās running a contest to guess the winner of three of its tournaments at the upcoming BlizzCon, and laying two Asus G50vt laptops as grand prizes.
Now, I donāt have the first clue how youād predict these winners. But if you do, or if you get lucky, you get two of aforesaid laptops ā 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 320GB drive, 15.6-inch screen, 4 gigs of RAM and an NVIDIA 9800M GS graphics card.
Right now, the site has the fields set for just two tournaments ā Warcraft III and Warcraft Arena. When they get the field set for Starcraft theyāll do another survey. Hereās the contestants, first for the Warcraft III championship.
⢠Phil Crawford, aka Long Walk. Night Elf, United States, Winner, 2009 North American WarCraft Regional Final
⢠Deokman Yoon, aka PhoeNix_Soccer, Night Elf, Korea, Winner, 2007-08 AWL Season1; 2008 AMD Challenge Black
⢠Chulwoo Park, aka Shy, Night Elf, Korea, Winner, Leadtek WarCraft III; KODE5 Korea, WGT 2007 Tournament
⢠Pedro Moreno DurÔn, aka LucifroN, ORC, Spain, Second Place, 2008 BlizzCon Global Final; Winner, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final
⢠Nikita Pomadov, aka Nicker, Night Elf, Russia, Third Place, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final
⢠Nikolaus Cassidy, aka Sonkie, Human, United States, Winner, 2008 North American WarCraft Regional Final
⢠June Park, aka Lyn, Orc, Korea, Winner, 2008 BlizzCon Global Final; 2009 Korean WarCraft Regional Final
⢠Manuel Schenkhuizen, aka Grubby, Orc, Netherlands, Winner, WCG 2008; Second Place, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final
And here is the field for the WarCraft Arena championship.
⢠Woah (Second Place, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Carlos āOceloteā Rodriguez Santiago, Spain, Warrior , Patrick āInflameā Costales, Germany, Warlock , Hugo āKaeā Gonzalez, Spain, Druid
⢠DKP (Winner, 2009 Taiwan WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Ming āKitaā Lee, Taiwan, Priest , Po-Jui āRayā Lee, Taiwan, Death Knight , Yu-liang āKHā Huseh, Taiwan, Rogue
⢠SK Gaming (Winner, 2009 North American WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Joseph āEnforcerā Morrone, Canada, Rogue , Mark āPookzā Rendon, United States, Mage , Ryan āRealzā Masterson, United States, Priest
⢠x6tence (Winner, 2008 and 2009 European WarCraft Regional Finals) Members: Nestor āSoulerā Garcia Trabazo, Spain, Paladin , Javier āSilerā Dobon, Spain, Hunter, Victor Manuel āFalconā Sanchez Lopez, Spain, Death Knight
⢠Shipit (Winner, 2009 Korean WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Soonjae āCoilmasterā Cha, Korea, Death Knight , Jaemin āTsukiyomiā Lee, Korea, Hunter , Janghwan āKamiuā Bae, Korea, Paladin
ā¢TSG (Second Place, 2009 North American WarCraft Regional Final) Members: David āValrathā Kovacs, Canada, Death Knight , Bennett āVeexā Lynch, United States, Warrior , Fabian āZileaā Siffredi, United States, Paladin
⢠Button Bashers (Winner, 2008 Korean WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Naehyun āOrangemarmaladeā Kang, Korea, Mage , Seoungouk āNumberoneā Oh, Korea, Priest , Woojin āHannivalā Kim, Korea, Rogue
⢠All Pass (Second Place, 2009 Taiwan WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Yen-Fu āBAā Chen, Taiwan, Priest , Ming-Wei āSevenā Ho, Taiwan, Mage , Te-Chen āTankā Liu, Taiwan, Rogue