by: Jos "Zerter" Buyvoets

In this article you will find data and analysis about the many tournaments that took place in the Warcraft III – The Frozen Throne scene during the year 2007. It can be used to get a complete picture of a year in competitive Warcraft III as it includes a breakdown of how much individual countries contribute to the overall scene as well as a overview of winnings by players.

This 2007 was quite an eventful year for Warcraft III fans and even more so for professional players. We tallied the tournament winnings and the combined total went over a $1,000,000 USD in prize money being distributed this year (as opposed to a estimated $600,000 USD last year).

This article includes Aggregates Per Month – which is basically a monthly breakdown of all competitions (LAN and online) along with the total winnings in that particular month from January to December of 2007. This can be found in the first and second page.

On page 3 are the prize money breakdowns by country and by race. We separated prize money by country with tournaments and individuals: "tournaments" are totaled by events hosted on a particular country, while "individuals" are totaled based on the winnings of players and their country of residence. We also tallied winnings based on player's races to show which race is more dominant in competition.

Page 4 is a master list of individual player winnings which features 120 names, starting with Jang "Moon" Jae Ho on the top rank, who more than doubled his 2005 record breaking winnings. At the bottom of the page, we have prize money won by clans who competed in team leagues.

On the last page is an overview of the top 8 players who won the most prize money for the year 2007, starting with who they are, what they've achieved and what we can expect from them come 2008.

Special Note: Information in this article can be used as a guide but does not tell the whole story. Players such as Electronic Sports World Cup champion Seong Deok "SoJu" Lee might find themselves ranked lower than their specific results should warrant.

Higher prize money is not a absolute indication of the quality of a tournament, with many competitions in China for example not having groundbreaking amounts of money to win but still fielding very strong fields of players.

Due to the considerable amount of information and numbers compiled in this article, along with the erratic nature of foreign currency rates, there might be some discrepancies in aggregates and total sums. However, these discrepancies will be very minimal that it would not affect any of the results or rankings considerably.

A list of the competitions that took place in 2007 divided by month. It is not complete (missing a number of smaller as well as online competitions) and all prize money has been converted to USD at some point in 2007. If you believe a significant competition to be missing, please leave a message with the tournament information and a reliable source verifying the information.

The information includes name of the competition, prize money, country of happening and three tournament highlights for every month.

inCup – 878$ (online) WWW 1 & Team – 16,200$ (South Korea) Battle.net Season IV – 16,000$ (Germany) WC3L Season X – 26,000$ (Germany) Replays.net Allstars – 1,250$ (online) CEG Xi'an – 5,260$ (China) ESL Premier League VI – 2,165$ (Germany)

inCup – 1,610$ (online) WWW 1 – 20,000$ (South Korea) Iron Lady – 1,300$ (China)

GameX – 61,162$ (Russia) Extreme Masters – 51,000$ (Germany) WWW 2 – 8,200$ (South Korea) SEC – 7,000$ (Germany) Netgamez – 530$ (Netherlands)

WWW 2 – 13,000$ (South Korea) NGL One – 22,000$ (Germany) The Gathering – 2,000$ (Norway) RPC Münster – 2,020$ (Germany) Neo Star League – 4,660$ (China) inCup – 1,171$ (online)

WWW 3 – 21,200$ (South Korea) WSVG Wuhan – 9,500$ (China) BWI III – 15,000$ (South Korea) ASUS Masters – 4,077$ (Russia) inCup – 1,171$ (online) Spixelania – 2,700$ (Sweden) Battle.net S5 Asia – 2,250$ (Korea)

Dreamhack – 5,130$ (Sweden) inCup – 732$ (online) WC3L – 40,350$ (Germany) Battle.net S5 North-America – 2,250$ (USA) Battle.net S5 Europe – 2,250$ (Germany) German EPS – 33,305$ (Germany) China IEF qualifier – 9,180$ (China) WCG Pan-American – 900$ (Mexico) ESWC Brazil – 1500$ (Brazil) ESL Premier League VII – 2,165$ (Germany)