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WCG Prelims almost finished; Groups Announced!

» Anthony "sD.AnTstYle" Amiri

18th September 2008 - 11987 hits, 140 coms

The WCG National Qualifiers are close to ending, and so far we have 32 qualified players going to Cologne to fight it out for the gold medal. With Stork, last year's winner, qualified for this year's tournament, will he once again win the title, or will he fall to another?

WCG Qualified Players

Zerg and Protoss are dominating this year. Not only are there no Korean terran players, but there are only half as many Terrans as Zerg or Protoss, making it very unlikely that a Terran will win this year. Even besides that, the Terran roster simply does not match up this year, even though they do have some good players.

As such, this year's WCG winner will most likely be a Zerg or Protoss - as far as the Korean team goes, we have JaeDong and Luxury for Zerg, and Stork for Protoss. Being last year's winner, Stork is likely to do very well this year also, though JaeDong's continually good performance is likely to show as well. Luxury has certainly been doing better recently, and as such there is, as usual, no weakness in this year's Korean lineup.

Once again, the Germans have brought Mondragon to the battlefield, along with HoRRoR and Jogy. Having come third last year after beating sAviOr, Mondragon is certainly worth keeping an eye on this year. China brings some surprises; last year's finalist, Pj, is not participating. However, monster toss Lx is there for them, as well as ChinaTTTT and LoveTT.

The templar swarm

Four of the Templars of Twilight have qualified for WCG this year; all of them Zergs, though ClouD is likely to change that in the Italian WCG preliminaries, which have yet to be completed. With Mondragon coming third last year, they are well worth keeping an eye on.

The official WCG mappack is as follows:

It is approximately 32 days until the start of WCG in Cologne, Germany, and with the players that have qualified so far - with some qualifiers, such as the Italian and American preliminaries still to be completed, we are in for a seriously nail-biting competition.

With GosuGamers crew coverage live from the event, you can be sure that we will have you updated all through the tournament!

3 months ago

iG.Cr1stY

Nice ^_^

3 months ago

AureS

usa wcg what happen?

3 months ago

PsychoBaBas (GosuCrew)

Wooo!

I am soooo excited about CaStrO!

Mondragon... he better mop the floor with those progamers since he is playing in homeground ;)

The Terrans havent got a hope in hell... Not sure just how good ChinaTTTT is though.

I guess we are going to get sick of ZvZ, PvP and PvZ ... in a month ;)

3 months ago

fiRe)HappyZerg

but wcg usa is not finished yes --

3 months ago

fiRe)HappyZerg

Jaedong and DIMAGA for the win :D

3 months ago

FeArLess.

Mondi train for this xD
Gl all

3 months ago

LML (GosuCrew)

rofl, even columbia has SC spot, but not spain, sweden, canada lol!:D
and even panama.. costa rica and uzbekistan o,o
why they manage to get sponsors, but the others fail?! ..

also, USA is late, haha, that's like croatia last year >_<

edit: I guess they will just put open slots for USA, called "USA#1" "USA#2", etc.
How many slots it USA going to fill?

3 months ago

osser

I'm drinkin so i will wait till 3 :D

3 months ago

CyruS

gogo draco !! :D

3 months ago

#10

xGs.iloveJeny

go small !!!! ^^

3 months ago

#11

never_toss

gogogo gk_toss v JaeDong!

3 months ago

#12

Geptus

poor Chivu.gt left out again, he qualified from Guatemala, he is Terran

3 months ago

#13

champignones

this years we wont see very much tvz T_T. i want to see jaedong in action this year to see if he can win the wcg.

3 months ago

#14

Guandal

GOGO GK_TOSS

3 months ago

#15

fiRe)HappyZerg

why doesn't it start?

3 months ago

#16

fireeh

mondragon didn't beat savior, pj already did in the quarterfinals. mondragon beat ukraine's white_ra in the semifinals to earn bronze

3 months ago

#17

osser

no effin drawings!!!

3 months ago

#18

fiRe)HappyZerg

#16
mondi>savior@group ;ooooo

damn
no start
wtf? ;[

3 months ago

#19

KIZ

#7 usa got only _one_

and yea that sucks. poland got only one too .... so sad

3 months ago

#20

BillBo

Group drawing order (events):

- AS4 -> C3D -> GH3 -> AOE -> VF5 -> C&C -> HALO -> PGR -> NFS -> FIFA -> SC -> W3 -> CS

so you can wait all night long for sc

3 months ago

#21

fireeh

mondi didn't beat savior in group, he got owned somwhat. and if he did, we'd have heard it.

also, the text clearly states mondi beat savior to earn 3rd place, which is ... wrong.

3 months ago

#22

Hussy

#21 Mondi did beat Savior in the group stage. Please don't correct people if you have no clue and didn't watch WCG 2007.

ZvZ on Paranoid Androide btw, close game.

3 months ago

#23

fiRe)HappyZerg

#21 ^^
http://www.wcg.com/6th/tournament/ 2007/tm_match_full_d.asp?sort=G070309101&match group=H

3 months ago

#24

fireeh

oh, i had the colors confused sorry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k- YNUqiMxk

, nevertheless, the text says mondi came third after beating savior, which leads to the idea that he beat savior in the semifinals. intuitively, this is what most people would think. yes, no?

3 months ago

#25

Qpad.Emerald

GMT+9 = 4 AM CET, not 3.

3 months ago

#26

ArivO

I have a feeling that a Zerg player is gonna win this year...
(Jaedong) lol

3 months ago

#27

zangdong

it doesn't matter! jaedong will rape everyone!

3 months ago

#28

Coretto

Group G: Ievgen Oparyshev
isn't it Strelok? I thought Ukraine had only one spot...
does anyne know, whether he goes?

3 months ago

#29

Get.drunk

where is draco -.-

3 months ago

#30

ToKa

#29 He is 2nd from Protoss group. ; )
Draco FTWCG !

3 months ago

#31

DF)ToH1o(

Gogogo Castro :)

3 months ago

#32

Benght

#3 Most entertaining match-ups imo :)

#29 Lay off the sauce for a while DRUNK!

Would be hilarious if like Dino wins the American qualifiers xD

3 months ago

#33

ETBrooD

Are you guys sure that this is the real WCG map pack? I remember Blue Storm, Andromeda, Othello and Troy for WCG.
Does anyone have 100% definite information about that?

3 months ago

#34

dtN.H8Force

Lamer FTW!

3 months ago

#35

Madner

Mondi plz do your best :o

3 months ago

#36

kolo

DRACO for sure :D

3 months ago

#37

c073x

hahahha try beating jaedong or stork lol HAHAH

3 months ago

#38

OverYou

Groups E and H are hardest

3 months ago

#39

UnreaLity

i agree with #7, i hope next years wcg sc will be better, and these mistakes will be fixed...

3 months ago

#40

Gamtja

@ #33 Yes WCG Mappack is changed, you can find in on every site,

BW.de TL.net etc..

3 months ago

#41

LRM)Lamer

wtf sick maps :D

3 months ago

#42

painball

lol nice group for draco with lx and stork! ^_^

3 months ago

#43

gosuhaube

Allin Lamer

3 months ago

#44

gosuhaube

2nd Ukrain, Eugin Oparyshev aka Strelok, was he directly qualified or did he pay by himself???

3 months ago

#45

InKline

Draco/Stork/Lx

omg? :)

3 months ago

#46

Flamehaze

Aye Group H is group of Death with Stork/Draco/Lx.It really can go anyway with those 3(altho is hard to belive that Stork could get dropped in group stage)so it will proly be Stork and Draco or Lx.Altho PvP is hard to predict and with some cheese/some luck both Lx/Draco can beat Stork(especially couse it`s bo1 and evry1 know that anything can happen in bo1 series).So for summary:
Hope:
1.Draco(so he can "dodge" Jaedong in 1/8) :D
2.Lx
Realistic:
1.Stork
2.Draco/Lx(i`d say 50-50 for this spot,70-30 for Draco if he takes wcg seriously and train hard for it(altho i really doubt that :( )

3 months ago

#47

arb

castro please lose.

46 if you think its 70-30 for draco youre retarded im sorry. stop being a fanboy realistically its like 60-40 for legend > draco

3 months ago

#48

banga_ph

Yeah it seems the official WCG map pack has Othello, Troy and Andromeda in it... ^^;

3 months ago

#49

LML (GosuCrew)

Gamtja Wrote:
@ #33 Yes WCG Mappack is changed, you can find in on every site,

BW.de TL.net etc..

and there was a thread here few days ago o,o

3 months ago

#50

Venex[30D.O.M]

hehe :) nice maps :D

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The WCG National Qualifiers are close to ending, and so far we have 32 qualified players going to Cologne to fight it out for the gold medal. With Stork, last year's winner, qualified for this year's tournament, will he once again win the title, or will he fall to another?

The templar swarm