SK-Gaming Asia in, Kill E A Out at ESL Finals
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February 17th, 2009
In an unexpected move, runner ups at the Continental Finals Asia WoW, Kill E A, have opted to sit for the upcoming finals in Hannover for ESL Global finals. Filling their spot? SK-Gaming Asia, formerly Council of Mages.
On the ESL tournament page Sang-Yeol ‘miracle’ Lee of Kill E A had this to say on the topic:
“Upon consultation with my teammates, we have regretfully decided that we will have to withdraw our participation from the tournament.
Due to recent balance changes resulting from the 3.0.9 patch, we believe that it is no longer possible for the Mage and Rogue character classes to remain competitive in a high-level PvP setting.In addition, our testing has shown that it is now impossible for other classes to compete effectively with the Death Knight. As the Mage and Rogue remain integral to our teams’ strategy, and because we do not have a member prepared for competitive play with the Death Knight class, we have decided to withdraw our participation from all competitions for the time being until these imbalance issues are rectified.
Please accept our sincerest apologies.”
Min-Sik ‘reis’ Ko of Sk-Gaming added:
“We are really happy about this opportunity. This event is going to be awesome because SK got all three WoW teams there and the Korean guys are really excited about going to Germany. They are well prepared right now so I think we will see some really exciting matches in Hannover!
My prediction is 1st – 3rd place – all SK! ;)”
I find it a little hard to believe a team like Kill E A would just bow out of a tournament finals. I think that Rogue / Mage are still viable — look at CompLexity. What do you guys think?
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Something smells fishy!
+1, gj sk, getting 2 disqualified teams out on tourney :/
And for about mage rogue he exaggerated a bit, but there’s a definently a part of truth. The game won’t be balanced until dk/hunter/feraldruid/paladin gets nerfed
QQ more imo. GOGO SK!
The rogue/mage nurfs hurt really badly in 2s, but I would think that in 3s it wouldn’t be that big of a deal because of the extra cc the third player would bring would make the rouge/mage dps acceptable. I’m surprised.
I think it’s a shame DGFG doesn’t get to go to this tournament. With all of the team switching going on already I don’t see why they didn’t get the spot.