A victory by 4Kings on the other hand could send shock waves through the scene as most expect the team from England to have trouble at this event. A little under two weeks ago 4K's star player and team leader Joona “natu” Leppänen was forced to leave due to personal issues. His departure left the team in chaos. Forced to bring in a new player they tapped local Shanghai product Zhang Chao “LaiXiLaiXi” Xi.

The team's ability to adapt to this new change has been seriously brought into question because of their lack of playing time in the practice room. WEG scheduling also dealt 4K a tough blow with a double-header Sunday. Four Kings will start with Catch-Gamer and finish with the Chinese wNv.

wNv had trouble with SK.swe in their opening map, Nuke, dropping the first half 5-10 and ended up losing 11-16. They rallied, though, behind the suprising play of Ke Fei “Jungle” Yang. Awarded Player of the Night on Friday, he'll look to repeat his 0.868 FPR (Frags Per Round).

Even with all the publicity on Yang, Zhen Wei “44'alex” Bian put up a very good performance placing second among top scorers with a 90.2 DAR (Damage Average per Round). Both Bian and Yang's performances came after the controversial second half of the first map.

During that map, SK.swe ran into ping trouble on Vilden's computer and reported it to the admins. After a pause in the game, both sides got into a huge debate over whether to restart the entire match or just the half. wNv claimed that their computers too where having trouble. Once the situation was resolved following some serious drama the Chinese went on to dominate. So complete was their dominance of the top team in the world that they won 3.5 rounds to ever round lost giving them a 32-9 score in the second two maps.

Wnv will look to take one step closer to locking down a spot in the semifinals with another win. All but an unlikely series of events would stop the Chinese wNv from advancing. 4Kings only hopes to survive what should be a tough double-header against two of the top 15 teams in the world.

Notes

Even with losing one of the maps, four of wNv players were in the top seven for the nights stats including Yang (2), Bian (3), Jiang “Mikk” Pu (5) and Run Bo “Sakula” Wu (7)...Historically 4K's best player is Jonas “Goodfella” Virtanen with a 0.735 FPR...4K's last match against a Chinese team was Abitstrike during WEG season 2 where they defeated them 13-5 on Dust2.

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