The WC3L Offline Finals are drawing closer, and today we can see the full lineup of the four teams that are participating. SK-Gaming is the only team that at least include a couple of non Asians.
World Elite is all about China, MeetYourMakers about Korea and Beijing eSport Team as well. SK-Gaming on the other hand have three South Koreans of which they most likely will use as much as they can. This mean there is only one spot left for either XlorD, Insomnia, Miou or HoT which they also are sending.
While SK Gaming will be present with all seven players that are allowed to play WC3L, MYM will only attend with their four best ones. World Elite will fly to Cologne with six players and the Beijing E-sports Team is going to attend with five. The player list of each team is impressive and there aren't too many of the world's best missing.
Here follows the full lineups of all teams:
| WC3L XII Final participants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SK | WE | MYM | BeT | |||||||||||||||||||||
  HoT |   InFi |   FoCuS |  Sweet | |||||||||||||||||||||
 Insomnia | Like | Lucifer | FoV | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lyn | Sky | Moon | Jini | |||||||||||||||||||||
 miou | suhO | Susiria | Who | |||||||||||||||||||||
| SoJu | TeD | WinNers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ReMinD | ReiGn | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| XlorD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Let's have a closer look on who is missing and who will be there. SK Gaming will have, as already mentioned, all their players on spot. The reason for this most problably is, that they only have to fly in three Koreans, the rest of the players are European. This causes less costs and therefore it might have been possible to attend with all of them. The other three teams all have players from Asia, so it was quite logical to not attend with everyone, but with the best and most important.
MYM 'only' will come with Moon, Susiria, FoCuS and Lucifer. All four players have played most of the matches, the other players in MYM's lineup such as Yellow from China, EVE or Storm, did not show good results and also did not play more than one or two matches this season.
BeT leaves Check and ShowBu at home. The reson for this isn't too obvious, Check was the second best ranked player of BeT in the WC3L player statistics, while ShowBu did not show too good results, but there have been worse players. Maybe they did not feel comfortable or the team saw them being behind the rest shape-wise.
World Elite on the other hand left two players at home aswell, but the reasons seem to be obvious: Qeki only played 2on2 matches and got a quite bad record there, Keda wasn't used a single time in WC3L.
Statistics
As you can see there are Koreans or Asians in general dominating this season. Overall 13 Korean players and five Chinese will be in Cologne, on the other hand there are only four non-Asian players. Two from Germany, one from Ukraine and one from Bulgaria. SK Gaming is the only team that got players from Europe in their lineup.
Race-wise it might suprise a little to have more Undeads than any other race. There will be seven Undead players, six Nightelves, five Orcs and four Human players. MYM and BeT don't have a Human player in their lineup for the finals, most likely because they are lacking a world class Human player, not because the race itself is too weak.
Links
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