Today ESL released the groups and format of their European Continental Final tournament that will determine the seven teams who will battle the best from Asia and America in the Extreme Masters Global Finals. Teams after the jump.
The top three teams from each six team group will earn berths to the finals right away while the 4th ranked squads will battle each other in a relegation match with everything on the line.
Group A
Nihilum Plasma
Paperkat
Inflame
Sonny
Millenium
Ocelote
Kae
Tharkum
Mouseports
Alec
philDryzen
Sanchez
iNNERFiRE
Desis
Phenomenon
c00ld
aAa
Anelit
Hiss
Phoenix
SKY
Texi
Sharci
Shimmy
Group B
x6tence.AMD
Siler
Souler
Falcon
Tera-Gaming
Yunisha
Instance
Flashay
SK Gaming
Xom
Orly
Another
Mousesports Cake
Reliza
Lykke
Redhot
Team ROCCAT
Henkel
History
Zibbit
lockdown
lauryn
hogaZ
Chrille
This list of classes looks to be quite outdated as it’s safe to assume there will at least be one Death Knight at the tournament considering Kill E A recently dropped out of the EM Finals recently because that class is so overpowered!
The compositions are a relic of the qualifying round at the end of last year and start of this year, so expect things to be a lot different in Germany. X6tence has practiced extensively with Hunter, Paladin, Death Knight and other teams like SK are known to have played with the new class, so don’t think the tournament will play like a relic from the past. In fact, Jay “2GD” Harding of ESL TV stated on today’s ArenaCast that the class list is “what the team’s want others to think they’re running” and not what we’ll actually see at the event.
As for who to expect on top, it’s always a safe bet to go with experience, so Nihilum Plasma, x6tence.AMD, and SK Gaming seem like locks to advance. Even so, this will be the first LAN tournament ever for Wrath of the Lich King, so anything can and probably will happen in such a volatile metagame.
Expect more updates on ArenaCast.net as information becomes available leading up to the Extreme Masters final!
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