Germany possibly has the biggest Brood War community outside of South Korea and China. With that said it would be a joke and a tragedy for the nation not to have interest in the World Cyber Games. The finals for Germany will take place next weekend, September 9th through September 11th.
Starting on a Friday the finals should be very interesting. There is no doubt in our minds that all the players will fight hard for one of three spots that would get them a trip to the grand finals in Singapore.
There will be 16 players that will participate in the national finals. All 16 players qualified in different ways to get to the finals. Some qualified online, some went through GIGA, others went through World Wide Championship of LAN-Gaming or WWCL for short, and the last man would make it through winning the ECG event.
The way that each man qualified for the finals was pretty simple. The preperation and the organization for the finals was put into good hands. Out the 16 players five gamers would qualify from the online event, three players would come from WWCL #8, three would come from WWCL #7, another three gamers would come from GIGA, and the last spot would be given to the winner of ECG.
The winner of ECG which happened to be Mondragon[pG] (picture) decided not to participate in this years WCG because he thought his school studies were more important. Due to that the online qualifiers got an extra qualification spot.
Player | Qualification |
Enigma | WWCL #7 |
ash.SwifT | WWCL #7 |
Selector | WWCL #7 |
Dashwriter | WWCL #8 |
Archi[pG] | WWCL #8 |
Uzi~ | WWCL #8 |
Methos[pG] | GIGA |
iv.Stormy | GIGA |
SSV.Fenris | GIGA |
SSV.Fisheye | Online |
SSV.Breakdown | Online |
iv.GoOdy | Online |
[Nsh]Zara | Online |
iv.Elmo | Online |
Infinity | Online |
ash.DoLife | Online |
Things may be changed as some rumors have said that have been flying around the German community. Methos[pG] (picture) has a broken hand and there was a rumor spreading that SSV.Schnibl0r offered him €150 Euros for his spot. Another rumor is that Selector may be removed and replaced by someone because he has been caught hacking before. As said, these are just rumors, nothing is for sure.
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