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Starcraft: An introduction to WGTCL; Matches of week 6

By: Serge Shirkhodjaev - Published January 03, 2008 at 12:50 AM EST - Writer Archive
Today we look into the past and the present times of one of the most famous and top-notch (because of the level of teams participating) leagues in non-Korean world - WGTour ClanLeague

In modern world, such competitive and massive-online-played game as StarCraft has its points of authority. Many people, including the author of this article, believe that online team leagues are such points for an old game like StarCraft. In this article (as well as in series of upcoming articles of the same theme) I will talk about one of the most famous, respected and colourful BW leagues of our time - WGTCL.

This league is currently experiencing its 17th incarnation. WGTCL consists of divisions, the total number of which is 15: one Higher division, Divisions 2a & 2b, Divisions 3a to 3d and Divisions 4a to 4h. To advance from the lower division to a higher one, a team should finish the season in the top2 of its current division. The last 4 teams in all divisions (except 4a-4h) relegate to a lower division. WGTCL is managed by volunteers, has its own unique maps and a set of rules.

WGTCL Admin team:

Poland LRM)LastNight
United States DKnight
Czech Republic w3c]ErrOr
Finland iNsaNe-

The upcoming series of articles will analyze the matches of each week in three divisions - the Higher (first), 2a & 2b.

The Higher Division

The 10 teams playing in WGTCL Div1 were always considered to be the finest non-Korean. Some of the teams are "visiting" the division from time to time, mostly browsing around the second Divisions. Some of the teams stay in the Higher Division and fight for the title of the best non-koreans.

WGTCL Division 1 Season 17 teams:

France MicroGamerZ
Spain Los Reyes Del Mambo
Portugal Excello
Russia Danger Destruction Death 
United States LighT
Russia LyrA StarS
Hungary Face 2 Face
Russia All For Zerg / pAq
Germany Aeterna Societas Honoris
Sweden BroodWar-

Matches of week 6:

United States LighT vs Germany Aeterna Societas Honoris
France MicroGamerZ vs Spain Los Reyes Del Mambo
Portugal Excello vs Hungary Face 2 Face
Russia Danger Destruction Death vs  Russia All For Zerg / pAq
Russia LyrA StarS vs Sweden BroodWar-

The results of week 6:

Each week in WGTCL has a pre-assigned starting map. This week's starting map was Un'Goro Crater.

United States Team LighT 4:1 Germany Aeterna Societas Honoris

The Americans of LighT managed to grab an almost easy win against the frequent visitor of Div1, an oldschool team from Germany named ASH. A featured player of this CW was the old player from USA Sadist[LighT], also known as 2p.Sadist.

France MicroGamerZ 1:4 Spain Los Reyes Del Mambo

Two leaders of current season clashed here with three times WGTCL champion, a team from Spain called LRM coming on top! This match featured the chilean derby of NbA vs pALLo. The latter was accused of hacking not so long ago and in this match he did everything to reabilitate himself once more. The Spanish team's long time player Roberto "eXeCuTor" Miranda showed his skill once again, winning over an also famous Canadian TT1. Overall, this match promised to be interesting - and it WAS interesting.

NuNo, the head manager of LRM gave us a statement:

"We had known that it would be a hard match, but we had prepared very well for it, the players practiced the map on which they need to play. They also were all very concentrated. In addition, we studied their last cw's draws"

Portugal Team Excello 5:0  Hungary Face 2 Face

A complete smash performed by the heavily sponsored team of Excello. This match featured a lot of stars in the xLo's roster - IdrA, A-Yu-Mi and LeiLei. I wonder, does anyone know that there is a girl in Russian cybersport named LyrA.Ayumi? She is a photographer and a newsmaker, but she for sure is not playing for xLo. This Korean player A-Yu-Mi is the newest addition to their roster - this guy won over an experienced kAra with a clean score. The progamer wannabe IdrA also took two wins fast and clear.

Russia Team aFz/pAq 1:4 Russia 3DClan

This Russian derby proved the fact that training > skill. This had proof both in 1v1 and in the 2v2 draw. 3D.Sudden is winning almost all his games lately, he is on a killing spree! Its funny, how 3Dclan could take this with a good score even without their top-notch players in the faces of Notforu, TemujiN and StormToSS. Three out of four Russia's finest 2v2 players met in the 2v2 draw with mOsQ missing his teammate - atOmic. aFz/pAq team's pair proved to be stronger and score a goal of presstige in this CW.

Russia LyrA Gaming 0:0 Sweden Team BroodWar-

This game is postponed due to BW's internal roster problems.

The current team position of Division 1 looks like this:

Scoreboard1H2HOTF
Lyra Gaming
Team BW-
Start Time: Sun Jan 6 at 9:00 PM EST
Los Reyes del Mambo4--4
MicroGamerZ1--1
Excello5--5
Face to Face----
Danger Destruction Death4--4
All For ZerG & pAq Team1--1
50 Calibre Gaming4--4
aeterna societas honoris1--1

Source: WGTour.com

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