In the future when we look back at WCG 2007 most of us will remember the two words controversy and upsets. These two simple words sum up the Starcraft tournament rather nicely as well.

Among the many Starcraft fans, the upsets of day one were only a beginning of what we were to observe in the latter part of the tournament. Fan favorites were being eliminated and relative unknowns were advancing. Even the two Americans, who were playing on their own turf failed to advance past the group stages.

With day one in the books it would now be time for day two. Unlike in the first day, all of the Koreans and a majority of the more famous non-Koreans were set to compete. While all three of them did advance to single elimination play, not all of them of Korean team ended undefeated. Jae Yoon "sAviOr[gm]" Ma and Byung Goo "Stork[gm]" Song managed to both lose once during the group stages preventing them from finishing in first place in their groups.

Following sAviOr’s first loss against Mondragon, local news crews bombarded the German for a television interview realizing that a professional gamer losing was a big deal.

During the tiebreaker in Group F, Byung Goo "Stork[gm]" Song, one of the Korean representatives was caught using an illegal bug during his game against the Russian Vakhtang "iP.Ex" Zakiev. Whether he knew this bug was illegal or not, he was caught by an observer who swiftly notified the referees. For what seemed like eternity, the referees came to the decision for them to replay the match, but not without the international media getting their fair share of coverage.

Even after the first two days of play the upsets were not even near over. In one of the most surprising results of the entire year, one of the heavy favorites Jae Yoon "sAviOr[gm]" Ma was defeated not by a Korean, but by a foreigner. The Chinese representative Jun Chun "WE.Pj" Sha even managed to take the giant down in his best match up. This match alone was enough to put the observer’s on-hand in shock and erupt and forum threads.

By this point, the non-Koreans had a glimpse of hope. Could 2007 be the year that South Korea, for the first time in World Cyber Games history fail to receive a gold medal? We would find out in the semi-finals.

In the first match of the semi-finals the Korean quickly defeated the German Christoph "ToT)Mondragon(" Semke with aggressive play and near flawless micro.

The second match of the semi-finals would be between the Chinese representative Jun Chun "WE.Pj" Sha and the last hope for Europe Aleks "MYM.White-Ra" Krupnick from Ukraine. In three very intense matches Pj was able to overcome White-Ra in Protoss versus Protoss.

For the third time in history a Korean would face a non-Korean in the finals match. Statistically, the Koreans have yet to lose a series in the finals. This year would be no different. Stork was able to keep the streak going be defeating Pj with a 2-0 score.

For the seventh time in a row South Korea has won the gold medal in Starcraft. This is an achievement that no country has even come close to matching in one certain game.

Will the dominance of South Korea continue into 2008 or will Germany mark the place where a gold medal is taken away? We will just have to wait and find out in Cologne.