The group leaders of the Norton Antivirus GOMtv WarCraft III Invitational now progress to the best-of-five single elimination semi-finals to lay their claim to a share of the Blizzard-endorsed cash prize pool tonight at 10pm Korean time.

 

Human are the only race not represented as Grubby, Moon, TeD, and FoV gear up to hopefully provide tournament casters ToD and RotterdaM something to get excited about in the upcoming games.

 

 

 

The group stages saw an impressive showing by the Undead players, while some other tournament favourites failed to perform and deliver what the fans have come to take for granted from superstars such as SK's Orc powerhouse Lyn and World Elite's premier Human Sky. Sky was taken out 2-0 by WE teammate and Chinese compatriot TeD 2-0, coupled with a loss to Ukrainian Night Elf HoT meant Sky could no longer qualify for the semis.

 

Similarly fated Lyn, arguably one of the best Orc players of all time, was shut down in his group consisting of Grubby, InFi, and Moon without winning a single game.

 

 

Group A Group B
	Grubby   3-0 (6-2; +4) TeD   2-1 (5-2; +3) Moon   2-1 (5-3; +2) FoV   2-1 (4-3; +1) InFi   1-2 (4-5; -1) Sky   1-2 (3-4; -1) Lyn   0-3 (1-6; -5) HoT   1-2 (2-5; -3)

 

 

---+--- Detailed Group Stage Results ---+---

 

Group A Results
	Grubby 2 — 1 Moon InFi 2 — 1 Lyn Grubby 2 — 0 Lyn InFi 1 — 2 Moon Moon 2 — 0 Lyn Grubby 2 — 1 InFi See VODs on the GOMtv website

Group B Results
	HoT 0 — 2 FoV TeD 2 — 0 Sky Sky 1 — 2 HoT FoV 2 — 1 TeD TeD 2 — 0 HoT FoV 0 — 2 Sky See VODs on the GOMtv website

 

 

As expected a strong South Korean presence is apparent in the tournament with a potential all-Korean final series kept alive by the appearance of Moon and FoV in the round of four.

 

Semi-Final Match #1
	TeD   Zhuo Zeng   World Elite   vNE: 71-39; 65% vs. Moon   JaeHo Jang   WeMade FOX   vUD:  121-45; 73%  TS record:  22-15; 59% TS record:   83-40; 67%  SV record:  23-21; 52%  SV record:   41-26; 61%  EI record:  38-26; 58%  EI record:   78-54; 59%  AI record:  15-4; 79%  AI record:   7-6; 54%  TM record:  56-33; 63% TM record:   95-49; 66%     Current player form

Semi-Final Match #2
	Grubby   Manuel Schenkhuizen   Evil Genius   vUD: 134-39; 77% vs. FoV   DaeHui Cho   Mousesports   vORC:  54-80; 40%  EI record:  94-54; 64% EI record:   40-44; 48%  TM record:  101-56; 64%  TM record:   58-42; 58%  MV record:  15-15; 50%  MV record:   6-10; 38%  AI record:  12-7; 63%  AI record:   15-10; 57%  TS record:  37-27; 58% TS record: 24-19; 56%     Current player form

 

The games will be played tonight (for Korea) on the 4th of July at 10:00pm KST (4:00 PDT; 13:00 CET).

 

How to watch:

GOMtv WC Invitational Live

 

Sources

GOMtv.net

SK-Gaming Esports Index

 

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