The European Regional will begin Thursday and it consists of six (sigh) teams running the powerhouse composition Rogue, Mage, Priest (RMP). The other two teams, WoaH and x6tence, will be running the popular online setup Cleave with WoaH using Warrior, Warlock, Druid and x6tence using Hunter, Death Knight, Druid.
Ocelote, the Warrior for WoaH, said in an interview with World Of Ming, "Besides x6, we're the unique team that doesn't use RMP at the moment, so it will be really hard to compete this tournament."
This however does not worry him. "Our confidence is high anyways, we know we will outplay everyone, and we will stomp every team with our pointless comp," said Ocelote.
We'll have to wait until this weekend to see if Ocelote and his team can fulfill their promise in Cologne. They'll be trying take one of the two spots from the six RMP's in order to advance to BlizzCon this August. Hopefully Ocelote and company can pull out a win because I don't want to see too many boring Rogue, Mage, Priests mirror matches at BlizzCon.
Hopefully you will not see any raging as seen below at this tournament. Thanks again Swarm for this priceless clip.
On the American side of things we have quite the event. The tournament features a plethora of different compositions with only two RMPs, SK Gaming and Complexity. SK, winners of MLG Columbus, and Complexity, fourth at MLG Columbus, have their work cut out for them against the amount of Cleave teams this weekend.
Pandemic is out to prove they are still a powerhouse even without a fourth member in Ohnoes and will be running the powerful Shadowcleave (Death Knight, Warlock, Druid). Pandemic-Kintt, also known as the Wing King, serves as the captain for Pandemic and can be seen below with wings in hand.
Pandemic player Jared Coulston, who is now a WoW e-sports commentator, said that he "hopes the team preforms in Cologne because a lot of people have counted them out already."
Team EG is going to have another chance to redeem themselves after a terrible, jaw-dropping performance in MLG Columbus.
Speaking with Isaac 'Azael' Cummings-Bently of Team EG before he left for the grueling 24-hours of travel time, he seemed pretty confident.
"We know the mistakes we made in Columbus and we've tried our best to fix them. I don't want a repeat of that event and I don't think anyone on my team does either." No one else wants to see a repeat of that tournament either Isaac. Don't fail us.
You also have some tournament newbies in teams like TSG, Holyplay, and Monkey Attack Squad. For more information on these teams check out the audio podcast below.
Make sure to check back next week for tournament results and hopefully not anything explaining why Team EG did so poorly, again.
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This weekend in Cologne, Germany, Blizzard Entertainment hosts its annual qualifiers tournament. The top eight teams from America and Europe will battle it out in World of Warcraft. Up for grabs is four free rides to BlizzCon, one of the biggest gaming conventions of the year. The top two teams from Europe and America will each received airfare and lodging for the event in late August. Make sure to check back next week for results and interviews.
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