Next week WCG enters center stage as players from around the World will meet in San Francisco. This event isn’t just special because of the nature of country versus country play but also because this is the first time the WCG will take place outside of Korea. USA will host the event and with the rest of the World looking to break Korea’s back-to-back medal count title, winning every WCG so far. Step one will come tomorrow as WCG announces Groups.

In a break from the normal, WCG will announce its groups for all games September 29th, Tuesday 2pm-5pm PST. WCG has always done group selection on the first day of the five day event; this year is October 6th-10th. As of now the CS groups will consist of three teams of 16 groups’ total. WCG has informed GotFrag that there are 50 teams from different countries currently signed up but this number should change as visa issues begin to take effect.

The importance’s of group selections is pretty obvious but even more so this year. Previous year’s groups had USA (3D), Canada (EG) and Czech (nEph) all in the same group. All three teams were seen as possible top 10 hopefuls. This year with only the top team from each group of three moving on to singe elimination group selection will be that much more important. Also all WCG games are randomly drawn to create an even playing field which means any three teams could possibly matched together.

Known list of teams attending WCG

	USA	Team 3D		Canada	Evil Geniuses
	New Zealand	parallax		France	GoodGame
	Sweden	SK		Poland	Pentagram.CNN
	Argentina	FA (Fing Aim)		Germany	aTTaX!
	Australia	Twenty Three		United Kingdom	4K
	Denmark	The Titans		Brazil	mibr
	Mexico	Revival		Iran	Sinners Silent Saviors
	Peru	Artyk		Malaysia	FMJ Invictus
	Colombia	Team tGz		Guatemala	Team revolutions
	Venezuela	XPLORA		Singapore	[GBR]Grudg3
	Chile	CCDP Arena		Panama	BTX
	China	Hunter S		Hong Kong	Terminator
	India	ACID		Indonesia	Elf
	Israel	NET		Japan	Four Dimension
	Korea	MaveN		Mongolia	BMX clan
	Philippines	PT&T-iNx		Thailand	Nearly God
	UAE	WmW		Austria	Cum.at
	Bulgaria	Club35		Czech Rep.	Necroraisers
	Finland	Astralis		Georgia	Non-stop
	Hungary	bluefish.XDK		Italy	Play.it
	Kazakhstan	mF		Latvia	eclipse
	Netherlands	eXcellence		Romania	TeG
	Russia	M19		Serbia & Montenegro	Hunters
	Slovakia	@		Spain	x6stence
	Switzerland	JustPlay		Turkey	teamquash*AMD
	Ukraine	GSC.GameWorld		Uzbekistan	Prodigy
	South Africa	Damage Contral