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WGTour Season 8 playoffs

[s]wgt[/s]The WGTour Season #8 finals will take place this weekend, 24th-25th of July at 12:00 CET. The top 16 will battle to the death in Double Elimination format, where all games but the finals are to be played in best of three (the finals being best of five). Top 8 in this tournament will get seeded somehow to the next season, which comes with the new ladder rules. The draw will be online Friday.

1. Korea Sol.TheBest
2. Bulgaria 88)FinaL
3. Poland ToT)Spawn(
4. Greece sataNik[pG]
5. Korea Ever)Z(MyStyle
6. Canada HnR)Pride[tC]
7. Korea Cutescv
8. Korea ZeNith(TE)
9. Finland DSKy.nApoLeon
10. Finland DSky.aqrash
11. Ukraine RiF)Enemy
12. United States 88)controL
13. Korea Joybob
14. Korea WINOUT
15. Spain LG)SquaLL
16. Greece crack(TE)


I noticed something interesting in this ladder, that all players except four are members of their country's National Team. It's just like in soccer, hockey or any other sport, that in the leagues, all the best players are stars from their National Team. I don't know about you, but I found it is pretty cool. And the clan with most players are tied with (TE) and DSKy.

The nation with the most players is South Korea, with 5 players. That's actually a lot less than it use to be. That's probably because most Koreans went over to NeoGame-i, but there are still some left, and I think they have a good shot. So, who else has got a chance to win this?

Well, one known name is Poland ToT)Spawn(, member of the Polish National Team, who were in the fight between Hexatron Dream Team and Templars of Twilight. In that game, he lost versus Korea Jinsu. He also played in the BW4Ever Invite Tournament, but didn't qualify from the group play.

Another name is Greece sataNik[pG], who made it to the playoffs in BW4Ever, but lost against ToT)Strafe(. If you take a look at the big NeoGame-i ladder, you can see that this Greek has two accounts; sataNik and sataNik[pG]. At the first account, he is placed at 148th with 191 wins and 152 losses, which puts him as one of the best non-koreans. The other account is placed 175th, with 109 wins and 77 points.
And now people tell me that he has a lot more accounts; all the high Greek accounts are sataNik's. So he's got 8 accounts over 1500 points. Really impressive.

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WGTour.com - More details about the season playoffs
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