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Counter-Strike: e-Stars Seoul attendees confirmed

By: Luis Mira - Published July 12, 2007 at 8:11 AM EDT - Writer Archive
The teams that will compete in the e-Starts Seoul 2007 have been announced.
The Counter-Strike competition will be a four-team tournament which will have in Made in Brazil and fnatic its latest names, despite the recent reports suggesting the participation of the current ESWC and WCG champion PGSPokerstrategy.cc.

MiBR and fnatic will join two Asian teams in the tournament, eSTRO and X7-Hacker. The Korean side failed to qualify for the ESWC second group stage, while the Chinese squad wasn't able to attend, having been replaced by wNv.cn.

In the Warcraft III event, 4Kings' talents Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen and Yoan "ToD" Merlo are the only European names competing. Although the winner of the ESWC tournament, Seong Deok "SoJu" Lee, will not attend the event, many of Asia's strongest players will compete, such as Jae Ho "Moon" Jang, Xiaofeng "Sky" Li or Jae Wook "Lucifer" Noh.

With a total prize purse of $71,000 USD, the tournament will take place from August 9-12th in Seoul, South Korea.

The official prize distribution and attendees are as follows:

Counter-Strike:

Brazil Made in Brazil
Sweden fnatic
South Korea eSTRO
China X7-Hacker

1. - $20,000 USD
2. - $10,000 USD
3. - $2,500 USD
4. - $2,500 USD

Warcraft III:

South Korea MYM]Moon
South Korea MYM]Lucifer
South Korea WE.ReMinD
Netherlands 4K^Grubby
France 4K^ToD
China WE.Sky
China WE.suhO
China wNv.TH_000

1. - $20,000 USD
2. - $10,000 USD
3. - $3,000 USD
4. - $2,000 USD
5. - $1,000 USD

Source: readmore.de

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