Author: Keke (可可酱)
Translator: GLH


On 2018 Nov 3rd, Blizzard published about Warcraft III Reforged. After 20 days, on Nov 23rd, we had a great news and a whole new plan for War3 in 2019!

On Nov 23rd, We had a conference at InterContinental Suzhou, and the conference published their eSports plan in 2019.

(2019 Blizzard eSports conference)

When NetEase eSports Director, IRIS, he were showing the outline, he said War3 is the origin of China eSports, and he said NetEase will focus on War3 in 2019.

After that, War3 department Director, Jake went on to the stage and started to talk about the plan.

He used "Ready to work", a quote by Peon for his opening.


There were three crucial words for us
"City Tour tournament" "Points system" "Professional clubs"

(   City Tour   |   Points system   |   Professional squads   )


**City tour tournament**
In 2019, WGL will leave Shanghai, and go to Xi'an, Chengdu, Beijing, and Wuhan.
We will have single competition and clubs competition in each city.
In single competition, distribution slots for each division: 6 Chinese, 4 Korean, 3 European and 3 Americans.
So, there will be totally 16 players in the offline tournament.


**Points system**
For Chinese players, they can get points from these two part: points on the ladder, points from other tournaments. The top ranked players will be qualified to the offline tournament.
For others, to be determined.


**Professional clubs**
In 2017, WGL included the clubs tournaments. NetEase is going to make this system to be more complete, and maximize the protection of professional players, and push forward the club signing system.
For more details, please wait for the news from War3station.


*Prizes*
Yes, In 2019, we will have 5,000,000 RMB for War3.

These prizes include clubs competitions, single competitions, the college star league, and second division league selection with online.



**Recruit new player**
We have a whole plan for the War3 college players, you can get the study fee for 4 years as a prizes. Does any college student want to know about it? Especially (OuShen)欧神, a fans always comment under our post.

"Let War3 be great again", this is not a dream anymore, it's real! With the Reforged edition, and the whole plan for War3, thank you for always be with War3.

You, are the hero of War3.



War3station_Keke is invited to the 2019 Blizzard eSports conference.

The following parts are her self-narrative.

 I am Keke, this is my honor to be invited to this conference, as a representative of War3 media and a tournaments organizer, and they gave me baseball clothing with the races' icon, I was in tears. These are the official products and also the clothes for the players in the WGL offline tournament. The fans who will be in the location have a chance to get these too.

UD version are being sale very fast

In the conference, I sat beside SYC and Magic Yang, and Zhou ning were setting near of me too, I saw a lot of friends here, like a staff of WCA offline, a player in WCG qualifier, but I forgot this ID. Magic Yang said he will come back and join us for the tournaments. The reporters from NGA were asking some much question, most of the question are about War3.

In the break time, I heard RNG(an eSport squad) kept asking a staff about the details of War3 tournaments, most of the squads I know were here, RNG, IG, WE, RW, most of them were here for War3.

In the question time, Magic Yang stood up and said: Hi, I am Magic Yang.
And the claps sound immediately for this man, to our senior commentator.

I was in tears again. Since 2010, this game was falling down, but we were still sticking with it, and now, we will be back in 2019!



Source:
https://www.cnwar3.com/frontActicleDetails/992

In internet words, 6 means strong, skillful, powerful.
If I say your micro is so 6, means your micro is so skillful.

TH000 vs Romantic on Ladder.
Please turn on the subtitles.




Source:
https://v.douyu.com/show/GnzXvb8L2bVM462l

Author: War3station
Translator: GLH



There is a man
He is dominating War3 with Night Elf

(Please give me two minutes)

He is......


(Controlling my expectations)


Yes you're right, he is Sini!!!


(Do you feel stunned?)
(Do you feel  surprised?)



Ok.. I am just kidding
I mean this man


The players will be in Shanghai
They are here for the videos and photos
And we will share for you as soon as possible

(Goodbye)

Source:




TH000 vs Romantic on Ladder.
Please turn on the subtitles.




Source:
https://v.douyu.com/show/GnzXvb8L2bVM462l

Author: War3station
Translator: GLH



Since 2016 January, we had 8 tours of WGL(including GCG and the Super GCS), how many stories do you remember? We will use 10 crucial words to review these stories.



Championship

8 tours of WGL, 8 championships, and all of them are the Chinese players, 120 got three of them, TH000 and Fly got two, and Infi got one.


The big four of China are really IMBA, this is my field, this is my home!


Destiny

In the famous Chinese novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a great and strong genaral, Guan Yu [1], he poured a cup of wine before he went to the front line to have a PK with a genaral from the opponent site, Hua Xiong. After Guan Yu killed and cut down Hua Xiong's head, then came back to the military camp, the wine was still warm and steaming.

And we have a similar story in WGL, 120 got a cup of instant noodles before he went to the game vs Rudan, after he won the game and came back, the noodles was still warm.


In fact, 120 wasn't showing off, he just wanted to have some foods to heat up himself, and kept himself in a good state, however the night was Christmas Eve, all the restaurants were full of customers, so he chose the instant noodles.

**Remark [1]: Guan Yu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan_Yu


Draw

It's hard to have a draw in War3. On War3 history, the draws between TeD vs WFZ and Infi vs Moon are the classical games, on WGL history, we have only one draw, and this game was created by Moon and Yumiko.

First round of Round 8 to 4, first game

On EI, both of them had a level 6 hero, but they didn't dare to fight directly, and played with base run only. At last, Moon chose to AG and won the game.


Quit

As a human, the most important thing is to be happy.

The second strong player in Europe, Foggy, he had been in the top three several times, and gave a deep impression to the audiences, and Happy as well, but he didn't made it on the stage.

After he won in the qualifier, Happy had disagreement with the organizing committee because of various factors, so he chose to quit the tournament. After that, we had a several dramas about he and offline tournaments, he even got the money to the offline tournament from his fans, but he didn't come at last.


Banned

We have no only the funny moment in WGL, but also the unhappy case. The most serious case may belong to the Romantic case, Romantic was banned by WGL official for one year because he had a passive play in the games.

Player ID    |   Irregularities   |   Punishment
Romantic   | Passive Play   |   Banned until 2019 May 31st and cancel his prizes


Commentator

At the beginning, we had Zhou Ning(周宁), Xixi, Yaya(牙牙), fordream. After that, we had BBC and Xiao Cang(小苍). Recently, the commentators are always be TeD, Qiaolin(桥林), Snowkiss(雪妍), Xun, Yaya(牙牙), and all of them are UD players, seems UD players became the main force of commentators.


however, the most interesting moment belongs to 120 and Infi, they were so embarrassing on the stage.



Boxing

As a sport, War3 are always having some enthusiastic moments. In most situations, the western are more enthusiastic than Eastern, our Ukraine boy, Foggy, he were having a interesting moment after he won the game.

In 2016 Spring, Foggy came to the offline tournament for the first time, and he would have a boxing show after he won the game, this action made the audiences and fans called him as "The king of Boxing".


After you became famous, there would be some people started to imitate you. Our senior player, Check imitated Foggy in the 2017 Winter. However, Check was worse than Foggy in boxing, after that, he lost the game to Foggy and didn't get the ticket to the Grand Finals.



2v2

Comparing with 1v1, 2v2 games are not popular as 1v1, however 2v2 games are still interesting. On WGL history,  we have three championships of 2v2, TeD got twice, he got it with Check and Hainiu separately, another one was belonged to Fly and Zhouxixi.


However, 2v2 games has been canceled since 2017.


Cup

Same as the players, the Cups were improving themselves too, take a look for their evolution.








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