All you Warcraft tournament handicappers, take note - Blizzard's Intel's running a contest to guess the winner of three of its tournaments at the upcoming BlizzCon, and laying two Asus G50vt laptops as grand prizes.
Now, I don't have the
first clue how you'd predict these winners. But if you do, or if you get lucky, you get two of aforesaid laptops - 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 320GB drive, 15.6-inch screen, 4 gigs of RAM and an NVIDIA 9800M GS graphics card.
Right now, the site has the fields set for just two tournaments - Warcraft III and Warcraft Arena. When they get the field set for Starcraft they'll do another survey. Here's the contestants, first for the Warcraft III championship.
鈥?Phil Crawford, aka Long Walk. Night Elf, United States, Winner, 2009 North American WarCraft Regional Final
鈥?Deokman Yoon, aka PhoeNix_Soccer, Night Elf, Korea, Winner, 2007-08 AWL Season1; 2008 AMD Challenge Black
鈥?Chulwoo Park, aka Shy, Night Elf, Korea, Winner, Leadtek WarCraft III; KODE5 Korea, WGT 2007 Tournament
鈥?Pedro Moreno Dur谩n, aka LucifroN, ORC, Spain, Second Place, 2008 BlizzCon Global Final; Winner, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final
鈥?Nikita Pomadov, aka Nicker, Night Elf, Russia, Third Place, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final
鈥?Nikolaus Cassidy, aka Sonkie, Human, United States, Winner, 2008 North American WarCraft Regional Final
鈥?June Park, aka Lyn, Orc, Korea, Winner, 2008 BlizzCon Global Final; 2009 Korean WarCraft Regional Final
鈥?Manuel Schenkhuizen, aka Grubby, Orc, Netherlands, Winner, WCG 2008; Second Place, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final
And here is the field for the WarCraft Arena championship.
鈥?Woah (Second Place, 2009 European WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Carlos "Ocelote" Rodriguez Santiago, Spain, Warrior , Patrick "Inflame" Costales, Germany, Warlock , Hugo "Kae" Gonzalez, Spain, Druid
鈥?DKP (Winner, 2009 Taiwan WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Ming "Kita" Lee, Taiwan, Priest , Po-Jui "Ray" Lee, Taiwan, Death Knight , Yu-liang "KH" Huseh, Taiwan, Rogue
鈥?SK Gaming (Winner, 2009 North American WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Joseph "Enforcer" Morrone, Canada, Rogue , Mark "Pookz" Rendon, United States, Mage , Ryan "Realz" Masterson, United States, Priest
鈥?x6tence (Winner,
2008 and 2009 European WarCraft Regional Finals) Members: Nestor "Souler" Garcia Trabazo, Spain, Paladin , Javier "Siler" Dobon, Spain, Hunter, Victor Manuel "Falcon" Sanchez Lopez, Spain, Death Knight
鈥?Shipit (Winner, 2009 Korean WarCraft Regional Final) Members: Soonjae "Coilmaster" Cha, Korea, Death Knight , Jaemin "Tsukiyomi" Lee, Korea, Hunter , Janghwan "Kamiu" Bae, Korea, Paladin
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