following maps will be used in grand final in cheng du.
Round 1: Twisted Meadows
Round 2: Terenas Stand
Round 3: Echo Isle
Round 4: Ancient Isles
Round 5: Turtle Rock
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compare to last year, gnoll wood and secret valley changed to echo isle and ancient isles.
secret valley should be included, as most tournaments used them now, quite surprised it's being removed.
as for echo isle being back to the list, i feel it shouldn't be removed to begin with. it's considered 'must-have' maps along with twisted meadows and turtle rock.
terenas stand should be removed, because it's too advantage to human and also night elf. (yes, i play humam >.<) furthermore, it's not commonly used in tournaments now, melting valley is a good replacement. almost every match has melting valley after draft/reverse-draft.
as for ancient isles, it's getting more common. so nothing much to say. except, it's not on Bnet's map!
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overall, human has quite a good map choice.
terenas stand considers as human map, while echo isle is not bad for human.
if reverse draft, (from human player's view):
vs orc:
orc player removes- terenas stand
human player removes- twisted meadow/turtle rock
vs undead:
undead- terenas stand
human- turtle rock
vs night elf:
night elf- unpredictable (depends on player)
human- twisted meadow
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full players list is not confirmed yet, but here is the
participating list.
from china: fly, sky and infi. nothing much to argue about these 3. personally, sky, infi, th000, fly and ted are the top 5 players in china now.
fly,小飞飞, his form this year is crazy, won many tournaments, will he propose to his gf if he win wcg lol? (he won 1st in china's final qualifier).
sky, 人皇, my favourite player, hope he can make it his 3rd WCG title.
infi, 塔魔, very patient, one of the top 3 human in the world. switches race to gain map advantage
th000, 混血人族 - 蛋神,i enjoy watching his match most, although he switches to other races to gain map advantage like infi, they're best friends anyway. i really hope to see him in the final T_T
ted,
中国鬼王 世界鬼王, he's supposed to be undead's biggest chance to win the title, with all korean legendary undead players retired, he's undead's hope. sadly space's condition doesn't allow him to travel.
from korea: moon, lyn and who.
moon, the 5th race, arguably the best and most successful player ever. sadly he still has not claimed a single wcg title, with a silver last year.
lyn, asia's best orc, my favourite orc player. a wcg title will be a good prove to the world that he's in the same tier with moon, sky and grubby.
who, the above 2 are korea's best 2 players, and who is probably top 5.
other star players:
grubby, defending champion, looking to claim his 3rd title as well. but always lose to sky in wcg.
happy, a very good undead player, along with space and ted, the top 3 undead players now.
tod, retired but appear for wcg, watched some of his replays recently, he still has the cut.
some other notable players:
sokol, ciara, dowaq, yaws, sonkie.
notable players who didn't make it to the final:
ted, th000, sai, focus, remind, check, lucifron, demuslim
sky in tears after final's defeat against creo in 2007
