The nominees for the Seoul e-Stars Continental Cup have been announced. A total of three Warcraft III players and three Counter-Strike teams will be selected "50% from on-line poll result, 20% from achievements in 2007, 30% from the evaluation of the Continental Cup Committee." The online poll can be found at the e-Stars web page at www.estarsseoul.org. These players will meet from July 24 2008 to July 27 2008 to determine which is King ... the East or the West?

WarCraft 3: VOTE HERE
Counter-Strike 1.6: VOTE HERE

The Seoul e-Stars Continental Cup departs from the norms of most competitions in that it takes the form of a team competition (east versus west) where two match formats will be used: ThreeSome and Death Match. The "ThreeSome" format is similar to how the Warcraft league WC3L and the Korean Starcraft Proleague sort their team matches with each team or player playing one match versus a team or player on the other team. The team with the most match wins will be the victor. Death Match is similar to the NGL-ONE Warcraft system where a team or player will play until they lose.

It's an interesting concept and it's made even more interesting considering that all players in a team will receive the same amount of prize money. However, it is important to note that the specific prize breakdown and scoring structure have not been finalized yet.

On a side note Yoan "ToD" Merlo is not included in the voting due to the incident at the last e-Stars event where there was an argument over the tournament rules and he refused to participate.

Below are the nominees for the Seoul e-Stars Continental Cup:

	Team East	Team West
Counter-Strike 1.6	e-STRO Lunatic-hai.Razer wNv.cn Dragon Team XcN Galacticos Team XQR UMX	fnatic mYm (former PGS) mTw (former NoA) SK Gaming emuLate mousesports Team ALTERNATE Roccat
Warcraft III	Jae Ho "Moon" Jang Sung Sik "ReMinD" Kim Xiaofeng "Sky" Li Jae Wook "Lucifer" Noh LiWei "xiaOt" Sun June "Lyn" Park Sung Duk "SoJu" Lee Weiliang "Fly100%" Lu	Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn Kim "SaSe" Hammar Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider Mikhail "XyLigan" Ryabkov Dmitriy "Happy" Kostin Daniel "Xlord" Spenst Lars Gerrit "Protois" Reichelt

The full press release can be found on the next page.