Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Chinese dominate invitee list of ESWC Asia Masters


ESWC officials released the shortlist of international invitees for this May’s ESWC Asia Masters of Cheonan as Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li and Co. take one thirds of the list.

The ESWC Asia Masters will take place between 2-5 May in Cheonan, South Korea as part of 2009 Cheonan International e-Sports Culture Festival. Aside from two official ESWC tournaments Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft III, popular game titles in Korea like FIFA Online 2, Special Force and Starcraft will also feature in this event.

Three previous PGL title winners Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu, Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li and Xiang 'TH000' Huang alongside MGC 2008 champion Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng are reckoned as four of the best players worldwide, while European champions Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen, Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin, Yoan 'ToD' Merlo and more are also named in the list.

Sasha 'Bly' Svisuk, Vladislav 'Frozen' Baranov, Hao 'suhO' Su and Youchao 'Syc' Su are in line for a place in the event should any of the champions not able to participate. The four Korean champions will on the other hand be selected via a series of national qualifiers at the end of April.

International champions for Warcraft III tournament of ESWC Asia Masters of Cheonan
Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin
'indY'
Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán
Nikita 'Nicker' Pomadov
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li
Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng
Xiang 'TH000' Huang
Yoan 'ToD' Merlo
Александр 'VeryB1gman' Сёмин
Daniel 'XlorD' Spenst

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