It's really interesting how much my perspective on connections and people has changed since I began writing here. At first it was a complete struggle and the transition was quite overwhelming - I really had no idea what I was getting myself into, nor what I was doing. Fast forward to now, and I've developed an incredible amount of connections with multiple sponsors, players, and a lot of companies as well. It's gone to the point where my writing here has had a positive influence on my college applications - and I never knew it would amount to this when I began writing for pvpscene.com and Ming discovered me. At this point I feel comfortable with what I do here, even when it can be quite a struggle.…  More

Catch all the actions here:  http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/streams.xml
Tournament Bracket:  http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/tournaments.xml
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Regardless of what happens one hour from now, we should give a round of applause to our boys!  Serennia-sama and Neilyo-kun overcame a broken roster and took the American dream a lot further than anyone anticipated.  Unlike the five other American teams who were send to loser bracket in the ope…  More

Catch all the actions here:  http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/streams.xml
Tournament Bracket:  http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/tournaments.xml
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Diablo 3 is confirmed!  Check out the videos here!
LIVE From Serennia-sama in Paris:

Glorin couldn't attend due to passport issues, so SK paid for Xom to attend with SK EU and Inflame from WoW europe is playing with SK US (our team).  SK EU Zombies vs. Pandemic Black (Noktyn's team) will be on live…  More

Catch all the actions here:  http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/streams.xml
Tournament Bracket:  http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/tournaments.xml

God bless America.

After reviewing the full tournament roster, the US WWI line-up is much weaker than other regions.  Not a single American team won anything in this year's tournaments (TR1, MLG San Diego, CGS).  Europe send their 2nd and 3rd best TR1 teams in addition to powerhouses like Nihilum and mutilate hero XOM.  Korea send their top…  More

There is a lot of debate on whether the rating requirements on arena/honor items will increase/decrease arena participation.  Personally, S4 items are just so incredibly good that the ratings requirements are well-justified.  The honor pieces are of equal item level of T6.5, the arena pieces are of higher level than BT equivalents, heck the arena swords are of equal DPS of warglaives!  There will obviously be complaints because people took arena …  More

Unfortunately for me and for everyone else, the parties involved in the CGS drama backed out on what they were going to say this evening. Although it would have been some good content to see all sides of what actually happened, I can understand wanting to avoid drama over the issue as it will slowly fade away by itself regardless. In addition, it seems that Blizzard finally took rankings from their officially stated end-time, as can be seen by CGS's official statement here. and remedied the drama by themselves.…  More

I have actually been very involved in every one of these situations, which is why I find it ironic, that I'm like in the background in all the happenings then all of it just folds into play, just like you said it would.  - An Insider In WOW E-sports

Yes, I do think it is pretty ironic how so many people call WOM blogs "lies and fabrications", when I have an impeccable record of forecasting things that were about to happen.  Many people questioned the power of the sharingan, yet just abo…  More

In preparation for season 4 this upcoming Tuesday, I brought my Priest out of retirement a couple of days ago in an attempt to shake the dust off equipped with  my gimpy season 2 shadow gear. Knowing that there really wasn't anything left for me on Ner'zhul minus small things with my horde hunter when I have enough time, I decided to transfer to another server in search of new teammates (since pretty much everyone I used to play with doesn't play anymore) and a simple, yet significant for my overall enjoyment of WoW, change of pace. Naturally, I decided to hop over to Tichondrius. …  More

2.4.3 will be out right after WWI Paris, and it comes with two very significant changes.  The fact that mage frost armor and lock fel armor can no longer be dispelled will give these classes a huge buff against Serennia-sama's rogue/enhancement shaman/druid.  I would go as far as saying such a change marks the end of the Neilyo/Serennia/Glorin trio that it is more imperative than ever for them to win it all in Paris.  It should also make it significantly harder for RMP to beat warrior/lock/druid and rogue/lock/druid may be out of reach of RMP's for good.…  More

ESL announced Intel Extreme Master III today, and for these who still believe WC3 is a better game than WOW for e-sports, they dropped WC3 and replaced it with WOW!  Between Counterstrike and World of Warcraft, we are talking about $750,000's worth of prize money and I expect at least $400,000 of which to go into WOW!  Tournaments will be hosted worldwide, and yes Asia/China will finally get a piece of the action! 

Now throw in the tournaments we already know of:

ESL Intel Extreme …  More