KleeneX reached the semi-finals confirming their place in the amateur scene.

But now is the time for the big guns to appear, although MLG's players list is ridiculously good - it's an MLG after all - most of the players here qualified in their home country to have their travel expenses paid. A good portion of the EU scene is present this year with 2 Korean guests : (P)

Squirtle and (T)

ForGG. The former was supposed to win the IeSF but didn't even reached the finals losing a PvP against a foreigner but the latter won against Stephano and barely lost again the at-time-on-a-roll TaeJa in DH Valencia. Last year winner and homecrowd favorite (Z)

Stephano is present and ready to take back his crown. The first day will be quiet like a normal EU Open tournament (except it's an qualified + invites this time) but you can expect some upset as some groups contain relatively close players.

Don't forget that aside from the SC2 tournament, you can also watch CS:GO, CS:GO Girls, Shootmania, DotA2 (English and French) and LoL, Fifa 13, TrackMania:Nations, TrackMania:Canyons and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (French only)

Day 1 : Friday, Nov 02 8:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Day 2 : Saturday, Nov 03 8:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Finals : Saturday, Nov 03 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Electronic Sports World Cup 2012

Starcraft 2 : James “Kaelaris” Carrol | Maurice “mori” Lange

CS:GO : Joe “Joe” Miller | Matthias “Knochen” Remmert

DotA 2 : Toby “Tobi Wan Kenobi” Dawson

Shootmania : Tim “Donathan” Krause & Soe “Soe” Gschwind

Main Stage | FPS Stage | RTS & MOBA Stage

Beware Terrans lovers, the following player list will crush your poor heart !

Top Seed

Bly

High Seed

DeathAngel [image loading]

Challenger Seed

Labadaz

Medium Seed

- Zohan

- hoodlum

- Al-Husien [image loading]

- Husam

AlaStOr

and French Spot #1

take the seed of (Z)

XiGua

and

who couldn't attend due to visa issues (unconfirmed), (P)

TitaN

takes

sLivko

seed due to visa issues (confirmed) and the former French Spot #1

is now French Spot #2

Electronic Sports World Cup 2012

Group A :

MaNa and

DeathAngel.

Group B : (P)

Harstem and (P)

StarNaN are up and coming players who performed well at DH events. They meet here with (P)

TitaN a russian protoss who is very solid. I'm going with a bold prediction and say that Titan will fall. Even though he is the more established players he can have troubles in Group Stage. PvP being what it is, I see him lose to both Harstem and StarNaN

Group C : (P)

NightEnD and (Z)

Hanfy.

Group D : (P)

PandaTank is a lovable character in the community and not the bad player everyone expects him to be. He can win against most non-top EU players. (Z)

Hawk will be his main opponent but I think the US player will defend his country's name (at least for this stage) and advance with (Z)

DIMAGA.

Group E : (P)

Squirtle and (Z)

JonnyREcco.

Group F : Will (Z)

Stephano let (Z)

SortOf wins so that Tidus Mino can display his joy on TL ?

Group G : (Z)

Bly and

AlaStOr are both better than (Z)

MiNiMaTh.

Group H : (T)

ForGG just came back to France after being force to travel back to Korea in order to get a visa. On paper he is stronger than both (P)

Feast and

TargA ... except TargA seems to have ForGG's number and Feast has already shown he can take out korean terrans before. This and the fact that Feast don't possess PartinG's soul when doing immortal all-ins makes me think TargA will advance first with ForGG. But it could go differently.

+ Show Spoiler [Group Upset] +

Poll: Group with the potential to have the biggest upset ?

H (4)

40%

D (3)

30%

A (1)

10%

C (1)

10%

F (1)

10%

B (0)

0%

E (0)

0%

G (0)

0%

10 total votes

Your vote: Group with the potential to have the biggest upset ?

(Vote): A
(Vote): B
(Vote): C
(Vote): D
(Vote): E
(Vote): F
(Vote): G
(Vote): H

+ Show Spoiler [1st Top Seed Out] +

Poll: First Top Seed to be out ?

Stephano (9)

23%

TitaN (7)

18%

Squirtle (5)

13%

ForGG (5)

13%

DIMAGA (5)

13%

MaNa (4)

10%

NightEnD (3)

8%

Bly (1)

3%

39 total votes

Your vote: First Top Seed to be out ?

(Vote): Stephano
(Vote): Squirtle
(Vote): ForGG
(Vote): MaNa
(Vote): Bly
(Vote): DIMAGA
(Vote): TitaN
(Vote): NightEnD

Otolia

France5805 Posts

November 01 2012 22:39 GMT

Poll: Group with the potential to have the biggest upset ?

H (4)

40%

D (3)

30%

A (1)

10%

C (1)

10%

F (1)

10%

B (0)

0%

E (0)

0%

G (0)

0%

10 total votes

Your vote: Group with the potential to have the biggest upset ?

(Vote): A
(Vote): B
(Vote): C
(Vote): D
(Vote): E
(Vote): F
(Vote): G
(Vote): H

Poll: First Top Seed to be out ?

Stephano (9)

23%

TitaN (7)

18%

Squirtle (5)

13%

ForGG (5)

13%

DIMAGA (5)

13%

MaNa (4)

10%

NightEnD (3)

8%

Bly (1)

3%

39 total votes

Your vote: First Top Seed to be out ?

(Vote): Stephano
(Vote): Squirtle
(Vote): ForGG
(Vote): MaNa
(Vote): Bly
(Vote): DIMAGA
(Vote): TitaN
(Vote): NightEnD

Mondieu

Romania803 Posts

November 01 2012 22:46 GMT

oh fuck me, i only voted for nighted because I thought it's a positive vote

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Otolia

France5805 Posts

November 01 2012 23:01 GMT

People seems not to read the title of the poll ... It's so pathetic it's becoming funny again !

GreyKnight

United States4720 Posts

November 01 2012 23:05 GMT

Forgg got this

shid0x

Korea (South)5014 Posts

November 01 2012 23:07 GMT

A forGG vs Stephano final with a french crowd would be just perfect.

MisterTea

United Kingdom1047 Posts

November 01 2012 23:19 GMT

2 terrans, another tourny i wont be watching =//

Tidus Mino

United Kingdom1108 Posts

November 01 2012 23:28 GMT

The Answer to group F is yes

eanxiii

38 Posts

November 01 2012 23:46 GMT

Terranless tournament, hope mlg will deliver instead of thoes pvp zvz pvz tournament.

Noam

Israel2209 Posts

November 02 2012 08:38 GMT

#10

DeathAngel vs MaNa gonna start now on the main stage

Love these player introductions

French people know how to make a good show!

NeWeNiyaLord

Norway2474 Posts

November 02 2012 08:50 GMT

#11

2 terrans in whole tournament?

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

November 02 2012 08:52 GMT

#12

2. Terrans. Only one of which is good enough to make it out of group stage -_-

Considering the disparity in skill between top and bottom players in this tournament, the group placements actually have some potential for upsets. Mana and Nightend have to play their worst matchup PvZ twice. Stephano, Bly and Titan have lots of volatile mirror matchups. ForGG is in the only group with 2 players actually capable of taking down a known Korean. Squirtle got the luckiest group draw with 2 players who don't even have a liquipedia page.

Maski

Germany335 Posts

November 02 2012 08:55 GMT

#13

WonWonWon Mana. Taking a page out of SoulProtoss' book