Team EG secured one of the top seeds at BlizzCon with their 1st place finish at the WOW US Regional Qualifier in San Diego. This weekend they return to California to compete for the title of Season One World champions. John "Nuvas" Liao plays an Elemental Shaman for the team.

First of all, let me thank you for joining me today to talk about your team and it's upcoming tournament.

No problem, shoot away!

It's been nearly two months since the US Regional Qualifier, and we're now knee deep in Season 2. What has your team done with this time, and do you feel prepared for BlizzCon?

I feel alright about Blizzcon. I want a little more practice time just to feel safer, but perhaps that's just the anxiety. Regarding what we've done this time, some people may have noticed, Tiz and I have tuned our specs. Tiz is now running a Felhunter instead of a Felguard and I have picked up Lightning Overload. Overall, we basically have switched to a more aggressive play style.

More aggressive! Has that play style been generally more successful or have specific match-ups prompted the changes?

The aggressive play style was needed to succeed against the Warrior/Paladin/Priest/Ele Shaman/Mage combo, a team ran by both SK and Nashwan. This change of play style helped us greatly against this composition, however, on occasion that aggressive play style turns into reckless and we can lose quickly.

Tiz's use of the Felguard pet was often criticized around the time of the US Regional qualifier. What has changed about the game that's made the Felhunter more appealing for your team since then?

Right now, the game's general output of damage is scaling faster than mitigation. With that said, the Felhunter's spell lock ability became much more appealing as it can lock down caster burst damage. But I wouldn't give up on Big J yet, he may still make an appearance!

I suppose we'll see. What will be some of the big challenges you see your team facing at BlizzCon, either in terms of brackets, individual teams or general situations?

MYM is definitely my largest concern as they run a very unfamiliar setup and are loaded with the best gear attainable in game. We have a strategy for MYM though, but I can't discuss that now. At any rate however, we have to take it one step at a time and dedicate most our time into passing our first challenge, Nashwan.

Speaking of the European teams, this tournament will be one of the first major clashes between top ranked US and European arena teams. Have you had any chances to see their game play to judge if there are differences? How would you compare both sides?

I saw some footage from the the European regionals but I can't really draw any conclusions from it without making some rather large assumptions. So regarding your question, I think only the outcome of BlizzCon can answer that!