Warcraft III in esports

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The expansion to the computer game

Starcraft 2, League of Legends, and Dota 2
being released and becoming popular, Warcraft 3 gave up its position as one of the prime eSports titles.

Professional Warcraft III players

  • Sky —
    Li Xiaofeng
Li Xiaofeng won the 2005 and 2006 World Cyber Games representing China, regarded as Warcraft III's premier individual competition, his victories earned him a massive fanbase and turned him into an icon of China's professional gaming scene on a national and international level. He was recognized as the Warcraft III player of 2006 by competitive gaming media[3] and is a member of the World Cyber Games hall of fame.[4] He is known for revolutionizing the way the Human race is played in Warcraft III and has been considered the top player of the race alongside Frenchman Yoan Merlo since 2005. He has been considered China's number one player since the country's emergence as a major supporter of professional Warcraft III. He has been signed with Chinese based World Elite throughout his professional career.
  • ToD —
    Yoan Merlo
He is one of the most successful Warcraft III players ever, holding among other achievements first places at the
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational and Cyberathlete Professional League competitions. He is also a World Cyber Games
silver and bronze medalist. He was recognized as the Warcraft III player of 2007.
  • Infi —
    Wang Xuwen
Wang Xuwen started gaining recognition in international in team World Elite. In 2007, he won the International E-Sports Festival 2007 and became the first non-Korean champion in this tournament and also the first non-Korean champion in a tournament which was held in Korea. From 2007 to 2010, he got many Champions of premier tournaments. He won KODE5 in Moscow[5] and World e-Sports Games in 2008. He was also the champion of World Cyber Games 2009 representing China and the runner-up of the BlizzCon Season VIII. He was considered one of the best Human player in the world.[6][7] In team World Elite, he helped World Elite get the champion of Warcraft III Champions League Season XIV. Wang Xuwen has the nickname "Tower Race" or "the Six Race". It is because he always builds many towers to defense and offensive.
  • TH000 — Huang Xiang
Huang Xiang is a Chinese Human player. He is one of the best Human players after 2008 and also one of the best random players. He used Undead and Night Elf in premier individual or team competitions and also used Orc in some tournaments. He also created many tactics for Human, Undead and Night Elf. From 2008 to 2011, Chinese Warcraft III was dominated by 4 players, Lu "Fly100%" Weiliang, Li "Sky" Xiaofeng, Wang "infi" Xuwen and Huang "TH000" Xiang. They were considered the 4 kings in Chinese Warcraft III. He won ZOTAC Cup 16 times.[8] He was the back to back champion of ProGamer League and the champion of World e-Sports Games 2010 and Cyberathlete Professional League 2011. He also got bronze medals of the International E-Sports Festival two times. He is the last Warcraft 3 champion of World Cyber Games.[9]
  • Grubby —
    Manuel Schenkhuizen
Schenkhuizen won the 2004 and 2008 World Cyber Games representing The Netherlands and has been considered the western world's premier Warcraft III player ever since. He is known for his strength in international competition winning such tournaments as the 2005 Electronic Sports World Cup and the 2006 World Series of Video Games. He was signed with British based Four Kings, until the team's 2008 dissolution. Schenkhuizen has been a key player throughout his professional career. The Four Kings Warcraft III team was recognized as the 2005 eSport Team of the Year. Individually he has been recognized as Warcraft III player of 2005, 2006 and the eSports Player of 2006. Known as the "
Orc
Emperor" in televised leagues, he has been considered one of the world's best players.
  • Lyn —
    Park June
Park June is a Korean Orc player. He is the only player who won almost all of the premier tournaments which include
Battle.Net and Intel Extreme Masters. For Intel Extreme Master, he got the champion of Global Challenge in Los Angeles in 2007 and World Championship in 2008. The only two premier tournaments which he has never won are the World e-Sports Games
and International E-Sports Festival, but he has won the silver medal of the World e-Sports Games in 2008 and 2010, and the silver medal of the International E-Sports Festival in 2007. He helped the team World Elite win the Warcraft III Champions League Season XI. He was the first top player to use the Blade Master as the race's core hero and collect low price items to increase the skills of the Blade Master.
  • Fly100% —
    Lu Weiliang
Lu Weiliang is a Chinese Orc player. He is considered one of the best Orc players
Mousesports
.
  • Moon —
    Jang Jae-ho
Jang is known for his domination of televised competition in South Korea since Reign of Chaos, he won six televised leagues and the last five seasons of the ongoing
Night Elf
player, Moon has been a top contender in the professional circuit for many years. Known for his inventive playstyle and popularizing of many Night Elf strategies, Moon has been nicknamed "The Fifth Race".
  • Sweet —
    Chun Jung Hee
Chun has been recognized among the top Warcraft III players since the beginning of the professional competitive scene and has won two world championships as well as several professional events in South Korea. Sweet's lengthy career includes being recognized as the Warcraft III Player of 2004, winning the 3rd edition of the World e-Sports Games and the 2nd edition of the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational. Sweet was the first Korean to move to China to compete as a member of the China-based Beijing eSport Team [BeT].
  • MaDFroG —
    Fredrik Johansson
Johansson was a dominating Warcraft III player from 2003 till 2004 and is regarded as an icon of professional gaming. He was the runner-up of the 2003 Electronic Sports World Cup representing Sweden and following this tournament travelled to
Seoul, South Korea to compete in the country's televised leagues. He stayed there for eleven months in which he won the first Blizzard Worldwide Invitational and joined a Korean professional gaming team. Upon his return to Europe, he became the runner-up of the 2004 Electronic Sports World Cup and was recognized as the eSports Player of 2004. After briefly playing StarCraft II upon its release in July 2010,[11]
MaDFrog is no longer active as a professional gamer.

Warcraft III World Championships

There have been various Warcraft III world championships, see

Warcraft III World Championships
for an overview.

Korean Warcraft III Championships

Due to the intensely competitive nature of Korean televised competition, the top tier tournaments are often considered on the same level as world championships, see Korean Warcraft III Championships for an overview of prominent Korean competitions.

Professional Warcraft III squads

Various gaming teams have a professional Warcraft III squad. These squads represent their team in such leagues as the Warcraft 3 Champions League and the NGL One professional league. Players also represent their team in various individual leagues. This needs to be updated.

MeetYourMakers - Denmark

Main article: MeetYourMakers
Meet Your Makers rose to prominence as one of Warcraft III strongest's teams after moving to an all Korean line-up in 2005 signing several players that lead the team until today such as JaeWook Noh, Jung-Ki Oh and Jang Jae Ho. They stopped a long era of Four Kings domination by winning Warcraft III Champions League IX in 2006 as well as the first season of the NGL One Professional League, becoming the only team to ever hold two major titles at the same time. Following the dissolution of Four Kings in 2008, they added longtime rival Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen.

SK Gaming - Germany

Main article: SK Gaming
SK Gaming has competed in high-level Warcraft III since 2002 and was considered the dominant western team of 2002-2003 (there was no offline competition between teams in those days nor international clashes between European and Asian teams). In 2007 SK Gaming defeated MeetYourMakers 3-1 in the WC3L offline championship after acquiring Kim Sung "Remind" Sik, Lee Sung "SoJu" Duk, and June "Lyn" Park.

World Elite - China

Main article: Team WE
Upon its conception in 2005 World Elite signed a number of prominent Warcraft III players including Jung Chee Chun and LI Xiaofeng and the team was considered one of the world's absolute best right away. They have competed in various offline finals ever since and won the second season of the NGL-One Professional League 2007, making them the only team to win a major league next to Four Kings and Meet Your Makers since 2004. World Elite won two of the Warcraft III Champions League offline finals. In 2008, World Elite were recognized as the eSports Team of 2008[6] Nowadays the team is led by LI Xiaofeng.

See also

References

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  7. ^ a b "GosuGamers WC3 Awards 2009". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  8. ^ "ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  9. ^ "WCG2013". Archived from the original on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-12-09.
  10. ^ Jessen, Chris Kjær; Tarp, David (17 January 2007). "Danskere bag verdens største elektroniske sportsklub". Berlingske. Archived from the original on 2007-01-21.
  11. ^ "MaDFroG departs from SK Gaming". SK Gaming. January 2011. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
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