WCG 2009 comes to a close
November 15, 2009 saw the close of the World Cyber Games annual event, with some major upsets in the WarCraft III scene (mostly for me).
WCG 2009 was hosted in Chengdu, China and saw gamers from all over the world come together and battle it out for the number one spot in their respected games.
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Let’s start off with Counter Strike. I am not a big fan of this game and generally do not follow it that much, but I must add that it can be very exciting to watch (when not executing the “you camp here for 20mins strategy”).
Here are the teams that made it through to the top 16:
Millenium, Turmoil, TeG_RO, fnatic, [mTw], Team_EG, Tyloo, DuskBin, wNv.CN, [k32], tp.uSports, parallax, H2K_Gaming, Again, HellRaisers, PowerGaming.
Ok, before we carry on please note that my knowledge of CS and the respected teams playing CS is not that great. From what I can see in the group stages with my limited knowledge, the only upset was mousesports not qualifying.
In the top 16 bracket it seems fnatic went to an easy final wining all their games 2 – 0. In the 3rd game of the top 16 we saw two heavy weights taking on each other [mTw] up against TEAM_EG with [mTw] coming out the victor 2 – 1.
In the lower half of the top 16 bracket we saw team Again from Poland fighting their way through the bracket to make the finals, winning all their games 2 – 1.
Next up we had n HUGE clash with team fnatic taking on [wTw] in a semi-final game, with fnatic taking it 2 – 0.
So in the finals we had fnatic from Sweden taking on Again from Poland. I don’t think anyone saw this coming and must have been one of the biggest upsets in WCG this year, with Again beating fnatic 2 – 0 in the finals. Congratulations team Again.
Again taking WCG Counter Strike finals
Next up WarCraft III.
The qualifying players from the group stages should come as no surprise, all the big names qualified.
Onto the top 16, where all my hopes and dreams came crashing down. If someone had to ask me who I see as the best WarCraft III player, my answer would be none other than the Orc player Grubby. This should come to no surprise then that I would have put money on Grubby taking WCG again this year.
My predictions saw a Grubby against Moon final. Wow, was I off. The first round of the top 16 didn’t really see any upsets. Round 2 though was a completely different story. And is where everything made a wrong turn in my predictions. Grubby got taken down 1 – 2 by SK.Lyn in a Orc mirror match up. I was hoping for some payback from Grubby’s side, as Lyn beat Grubby in the finals at BlizzCon earlier this year.
Another upset was between WeMadeFOX.Moon playing Night Elf who went up against Infi playing Human. WeMadeFOX.Moon lost 1 – 2 to Infi.
Fly100 went through to the finals with ease without losing one game. The finals saw an all chinese match up against Fly100 playing Orc and Infi playing Human. Infi came out the victor with a 2 – 1 against Fly100. I must say I never would have imagined Human taking a WCG victory. Congrats Infi.
Infi taking WCG WarCraft III finals
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