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Professional Warcraft III Competition
The expansion to the computer game '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'', known as '' The Frozen Throne'', had an active professional competition scene, particularly in China, Germany, and South Korea. The game was featured at eSports festivals including the World Cyber Games, the Electronic Sports World Cup, the World e-Sports Games, the World Series of Video Games and the International E-Sports Festival. Outside of the professional circuit, the game had many active competitive circuits, with users at Battle.net ranging between 70,000 and 100,000 at any given moment. In China, in which ''Warcraft III'' was extremely popular due to it being easily available through piracy, fans and users often used an alternative client due to the country's poor internet connections to the outside world. Around 3,000,000 copies of the game were sold in the country. 500,000 Chinese competed in the Chinese qualifiers for the 2006 World Cyber Games. The amount of prize money through the years has been s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reign Of Chaos
''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' is a high fantasy real-time strategy computer video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment released in July 2002. It is the second sequel to '' Warcraft: Orcs & Humans'', after '' Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'', the third game set in the ''Warcraft'' fictional universe, and the first to be rendered in three dimensions. An expansion pack, ''The Frozen Throne'', was released in July 2003. ''Warcraft III'' is set several years after the events of ''Warcraft II'', and tells the story of the Burning Legion's attempt to conquer the fictional world of Azeroth with the help of an army of the Undead, led by fallen paladin Arthas Menethil. It chronicles the combined efforts of the Human Alliance, Orcish Horde, and Night Elves to stop them before they can corrupt the World Tree. In the game, as in many real-time strategy (RTS) games, players collect ''resources'', train individual units and heroes, and build bases in order to achieve vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik Lindberg
Patrik Lindberg (born June 10, 1988), known by the pseudonym f0rest, is a Swedish esports player who is considered to be one of the best ''Counter-Strike'' players in the world. Having played competitively since 2005, Lindberg has been widely regarded within the esports scene as the greatest player in ''Counter-Strike'' history. Lindberg is best known for his four years of tenure on the Fnatic roster, which he helped bring to prominence as the dominant team of 2009, during which year the team broke the record for the highest-earning team in ''Counter-Strike'' history. Near the end of 2010, Lindberg left Fnatic and joined SK Gaming, which he remained with until July 2012. Soon after, he transitioned over to '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' and joined the team Ninjas in Pyjamas. In 2020, Lindberg left NiP to join Dignitas. Professional career Lindberg began his professional gaming career in early 2005, when he made his international debut at the global finals in South Korea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mousesports
Mouz (stylized as MOUZ), formerly mousesports, is a professional esports organisation based in Germany. It fields teams in several games but is particularly known for its '' CS:GO'' team. MOUZ was one of the founding members of the G7 Teams. MOUZ's ''League of Legends'' team currently competes in the ESL Pro Series, having formerly competed in the European Challenger Series. History mousesports was formed in 2002 in Berlin, Germany, as a ''Counter-Strike'' team. The team began to compete in small tournaments, which gradually lead to their progression in larger ones, as well. By 2006, when G7 Teams was created, mousesports was one of the greatest gaming organisations in Europe, consisting of ''Counter-Strike'', ''Warcraft III'', ''Quake 4'', Battlefield 1942 and ''Unreal Tournament'' divisions. On 13 May 2007, mousesports announced that it had acquired Nihilum, the officially recognised premiere worldwide ''World of Warcraft'' organisation, with Nihilum recognised as a subsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lu Weiliang
Lu Weiliang (), who also goes by the pseudonym Fly100%, is a Chinese professional esports player of the real-time strategy game '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne''. He previously been a member of Team Hacker, EHOME and Mousesports. He is considered one of the best Orc players. He had one of the longest playing careers of professional players of ''Warcraft III''. Career Fly100% started his professional e-sports career in team Hacker and started gaining recognition in international competitive gaming after joining the mousesports. In starWar, he beat Park "Lyn" June, In "Rainbow" Kim Tae and Chun "Sweet" Jung-Hee, and became the MVP in this tournament. In NGL-one, he beat Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, Yoan "ToD" Merlo and Olav "Creolophus" Undheim and helped the Mousesports get the 2nd. Mousesports also got the runner-up of Warcraft III Champions League Season XVI (WC3L). He joined Chinese team EHOME in 2009. From 2008 to 2009, he won multiple tournaments, like the Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intel Extreme Masters
The Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) is a series of international esports tournaments held in countries around the world. These Electronic Sports League (ESL) sanctioned events, sponsored by Intel, currently host events in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' and ''StarCraft II''. Other game titles were hosted in the past. The body that owns the league is Turtle Entertainment. The League has operated 16 seasons . The season finals, with the largest prize pool, takes place in Katowice, Poland. Mid-season events are held in numerous cities around the globe, including Chicago, Shanghai and Sydney. History The Intel Extreme Masters are a product of the ESL. In 2006, when the Intel sponsored European tournament saw room for expansion outside of Europe, especially in North American markets, Intel provided funds for a worldwide tournament, billing it as the Intel Extreme Masters. In 2007, when established, the IEM established a format of many smaller qualifying events, leading up to a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park June (professional Gamer)
Park "Lyn" June () is a professional ''Starcraft II'' Races of StarCraft#Terrans, Terran player and former ''Warcraft III'' Orc player from South Korea. Lyn was a successful ''Warcraft III'' player before transitioning to ''Starcraft II''. He is the only player to have won almost all of the premier tournaments, including the World Cyber Games, Electronic Sports World Cup, BlizzCon and Intel Extreme Masters. The only two premier tournaments which he has never won are the World e-Sports Games and International E-Sports Festival, instead placing second in the World e-Sports Games in 2008 and 2010, and in the International E-Sports Festival in 2007. The total prize money Lyn has won playing Warcraft 3 is behind only Jang "moon" Jae-ho. Game style Lyn is the first player to use the Blade Master as the core hero and to purchase cheap items that increase the stats of the Blade Master. E-sport biography Warcraft III Lyn started his career in the Chinese team Team WE, World Elite. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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