Schenkhuizen and Noh faced off to determine the champion at the start of this televised Warcraft Three event. The WC3 committee ranked and selected twenty four of the world's best Warcraft Three players to participate in W3, with the option to include more later.

The tournament has a King of the Hill flavor as the WC3 committee selects two players ranked 16-24 to play for round one, the winner of round one will then play a selected player from 6-15 for round two, the winner of round two plays a selected player from 1-5 in round three, and the winner of round three will take on the current champion all in a month's span. Each match is a best of five and is played on the following maps: TerenasStand, GnollWood, TwistedMeadow, TurtleRock, and Echo Isles.

Below is the list of twenty four WC3 players:

Rank	Player
1	Manuel "4K^Grubby" Schenkhuizen
1	Jae Wook "MYM]Lucifer" Noh
3	Dae Hee "wNv-FoV" Cho
4	Xiaofeng "WE.IGE.Sky" Li
5	Yoan "4K^ToD" Merlo
6	Andrey "SK.Deadman" Sobolev
7	Jae Ho "MYM]Moon" Jang
7	Dong Moon "e.STRO GoStop" Kim
9	Jung Hee "SK.Sweet" Chun
10	Seong Deok "WE.IGE.SoJu" Lee
11	Zdravko "SK.Insomnia" Georgiev
12	Dennis "[3D]-Shortround" Chan
13	Hao "WE.IGE.suhO" Su
14	Hyung Ju "wNv-Check" Lee
15	Sung Sik "WE.IGE.ReMinD" Kim
16	Seo Woo "Cherry-ReiGn" Kang
17	Ivica "4K^Zeus19" Markovic
18	Kim "mouz.SaSe" Hammar
19	Se Ryong "Go)ShowBu" Park
20	Kevin "fnatic.RotterDaM" van der Kooi
20	June "WE.IGE.Lyn" Park
22	Tae In "Rainbow" Kim
22	Tae Min "SK.Zacard" Hwang
24	Jung Ko "MYM]Susiria" Oh

Schenkhuizen took down Noh 3-1 in the opening match of W3 losing only on Gnollwood. Grubby is now the event's current champion and will face the eventual winner of round three to see if he keeps his title.