Back in October, an event by the name of Starcraft Superstars invited sixteen of the best North Americans to compete for not just money, but a potential spot on the professional gaming team eSTRO. An opportunity reserved for only the best in the world.

The goal for all of the competitors in this tournament was to finish in the top five. The top five finishers were Greg “IdrA” Fields, Alex “Skew” Brola, David “Dino” Kent, Zhe “XiaOzI” Teng, and Jian Fei “Iefnaij” Wang.Those lucky five would move on to tryout against actual members of eSTRO, so their skill can be fairly judged.

During the tryouts, the skill difference between the South Koreans and North Americans was evident. Even though, the North Americans put up a good fight in several of their games, none of them were able to bring home an actual victory.

After careful review from eSTRO coaches and players they came to the conclusion that Greg “IdrA” Fields has the most potential out of the five. He is planning on moving to South Korea sometime in early 2008. This is an achievement that only four other North Americans have experienced: Miguel “Maynard” Bombach, Guillaume “Grrrr” Patry, Brian “Assem” Fransioli and Dan “Rekrul” Schreiber.

Once he arrives to South Korea he will be training hard in hopes of improving his play enough to be useful in team leagues and individual tournaments.

eSTRO's current Starcraft roster is as follows:

Rage[fOu]
SangHo[Shield]
Soha[saM]
soyeon[WHITE]
Tester[gm]
TossLife[fOu]
aMeBa[NsP]
ArtOfZerg
CCoMa
Cool[fOu]
ELIZA
KiZoO_Bong
Live[fOu]
maGma[S.G]
MinGu
ArtOfTerran
Bassen[fOu]
By.Funny
Ever)T(Che
jaurim[fOu]
NsP_Fancy
Sea.Rally
Suny[fOu]
UpMagiC

SOURCE: GGL