Author: War3station, Illidan Egg Knife (伊利丹·蛋刀)
Translator: GLH


BREC (One Belt One Road international E-Sports competition feat Xinhua E-Sports Grand Finals) was published in the morning of Nov 18th, at Jiaozhou Citizen Cultural Center.


BREC is the first tournament that held for OBOR(One Belt One Road) in China, this tournament invited the players and squads from the country along OBOR, this is meaningful for communicating with different culture in the world.


This tournament will be held from 2018 Dec 21st to 23rd at Jiaozhou Fangyuan Sports Center, including Fortnite, FIFAOL4 and Warcraft III.


Invited players
Europe: Foggy, Orcworker
Korea: Lyn, Moon
China: Colorful, WFZ, Zhouxixi, Xiaokk

Format
-Single Elimination and BO3, 
-Grand Final: BO5

Schedule

 Dec 21st
14:20 WAR3 Quarter final, first BO3
16:00 WAR3 Quarter final, second BO3
17:40 WAR3 Quarter final, third BO3

Dec 22nd
11:00 WAR3 Quarter final, fourth BO3
12:40 WAR3 Semi Final, BO3
14:20 WAR3 Semi Final, BO3

Dec 23rd
13:40 WAR3 Grand Final, BO5
(Match for Third will be played at secondary stage)
20:20 Awards Ceremony

Prizes
Champion: 30000RMB
Runner-up: 20000RMB
Third place: 10000RMB


Official will adhere to principles of objectivity and fairness, and provide the tournament with high quality and E-Sports spirit. By the time, the stream platform like Douyu, Bilibili, Huya, etc, will stream the games at the same time.


Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/rhTcsUFmQElnV_69R9g3dA?fbclid=IwAR3IKcAAWXXrUiZRG4wdA-iYlMoMMBe0Qn48uW50YJAwOmvRu7A26zqLu8E



Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

Finally, we have a list for the top 8 in WGL'2018 Winter, in this article, we will show you two tables of the Top 8.

Nationality

1. There are fewest Chinese players in this time, 3 is much fewer than the average, 4.85. We had the most Chinese players in 2017 Summer, there were 7 Chinese players.

2. Compare to Chinese players, Korean players are having a big improvement, this may be the best chance for them to get the championship in WGL.

3. The number of European players are so stable, because of Foggy, in 2015 Grand Final, WGL didn't invite European player yet, this mean Foggy is be in the Top 8 every time!

Races

1. This is the second time that there are no UD in the Top 8, the first time is 2017 Winter. In fact, 120 carrys Undead in this tournament, but 120 wasn't qualified in this time, so the number of UD become 0 again.

2. NE is so strong in patch 1.30, in fact, NE is the most in Top 8 always, the average is 3.14. However, NE didn't be in Grand Final, so let' wait for the following games!

3. HUM is having bad days, in fact, Infi shouldn't included to complete HUM player now, it's hard for player to be in Top 8 in this patch if you use HUM only.

Actually, it's hard to make a completely balance game, thank you Blizzard to update the game in time!



Source:


Short interview after the games in WGL.
Please turn on the subtitles




Source:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av37003344/?p=5
Short interview after the games in WGL.
Please turn on the subtitles.




Source:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av37003344/?p=4
Short interview after the games in WGL.
Please turn on the subtitles.




Source:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av37003344/?p=3

Short interview after the games in WGL.
Please turn on the subtitles

**I made a mistake in this video, the first 10 seconds are the black screen, you may start from 0:10.




Source:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av37003344/?p=2