PPLive Race Wars 2008: players and more revealed.

After the humongous success that PPL Live Race Wars 2007 was, It is now time to continue the show with 16 of the top players in the world, 4 of each race.

Following the theme of last year's tournament, we are brought again a series of stages with race teams battling it out, a long and a bit complicated system, a nice prize money rewarding not only team but also the individual effort, all very faithful to both of its predecesors. Talking about them, will it be the Night Elf team to make it two in a row, will the Orc team regain their crown, or will Human or Undead prove they can also do it? It sure as hell promises to be one of the most enjoyable events coming up this month.

The event will last 8 full days from March 22nd until March 29th. It will be sponsored as usual by PPL Live and hosted by Garena (formerly known as GGC), while being co-organized by both PPL Live and Gamebank. For the joy of many people whose PPL Live does not function as it should, or just don't have it, games will be streamed as well by GGTV.

The prize money comes to a whooping total of $4560, where the winning team will take $1600, the runner ups $800 and the winner of each game gets a $30 bonus. Yes, that means there will be a total of 72 games in this tournament.

THE STRUCTURE
The first stage of the tournament, or the civil stage as it has been named, will be an internal struggle between the teams to determine who will serve as the team captain, done on a BO1 format and the winner will be the "Race Hero".

March 22nd: Human and Orc Mirror.
March 23rd: Night elf and Undead Mirror.

The second Stage holds the main dish of this tournament: The Race War. Here, each match will have Five BO2 matches, where each player will face another of the enemy race, and the fifth match will be the Hero versus Hero encounter.

In order the matches will be:

24th: Elf vs Undead
25th: Human vs Orc
26th: Elf vs Human
27th: Orc vs Undead
28th: Human vs Undead
29th: Elf vs Orc

Each win will give two points, a draw gives you one, and well, to be expected is that losing gives you nothing.

The Map pool is:
Echo Isles
Gnoll Wood
Lost Temple
Secret Valley
Terenas Stand
Turtle Rock
Twisted Meadows

THE TEAMS
Today, Both the Human and Orc team have been revealed, Appearing as somehow of a surprise is Mouz.ToD, who has to attend Gamers Assembly in order to qualify for the ESWC France Qualifiers, so he will not be showing up for this tournament.

Orc Team: