Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


NeXT Winter was ended on 21st January, finally Lyn, Lawliet, Lucifer won the championship with resulting 9-0 in this whole tournament!

What are the interesting things about the statistics between the players in this tournament? Let's take a look.

Players: Soin was having bad days; there are four players resulted 100% win rate.

There is no doubt that Lyn, Lawliet and Lucifer are the best players in this tournament. They won three games respectively, and without a single loss. Their performance is like dazzling light and made everyone else faint.

In addition, the win rate of 120 is also 100%, but he only played once. Soin is more tragic, he lost all the games, and he also became the "worst player" on the hill, his performance was much different from the games when he played in qualifier.

The most surprising thing is Moon's, 2 wins and 4 losses makes him "fell down" from the altar[1]. Before the game, everyone worried that Check and Colorful made him lost the tournament, however, Moon didn’t play well, and he even is the player with lowest winning percentage in his team.

Remark[1] by GLH: Which means he was playing so good before this tournament, just like a God, however he didn't play well in this time, so he "fell" from the altar, means he became "Human" again.


Races: Night Elves weren't unbeatable anymore; Undead is standing on the hill.

Night Elf, a race has ruled Warcraft III for more than 100 days, has finally failed to continue to dominating the games in this time. The Bo1 format and targeted research by other races have made Night Elf to fall. However, no matter how bad, Night Elf is still better than Orc and Human. Especially Human, only Chaemiko advanced to the offline, this race almost got destroyed.

The best race in this tournament is Undead undoubtedly, 120 and Lucifer added 4 wins, this perfect performance is showing the will of the Undead. In W-League, 120 and Lucifer won the Super League and the First Division champion respectively. Meanwhile, Happy has continued to rule in Europe. Seeing the strong game play of these Undead players, Blizzard may weaken UD again and again.


Nationality: The winning percentage is close, but Korean won the title again.

The performance of the Chinese players is not bad, there are no players who "dragged the team's hind legs"[2], and that is also the top player, 120. The overall win rate (54%) is slightly higher than the Korean players.

Remark[2] by GLH: Means you are hurting your team to lose.

However, the champion was still won by three Korean players. In these two times NeXT, the prizes of 20,000 CNY was divided by six Korean players. Seems we are still far from the day of Chinese players.


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Original Author: War3station

Translator: GLH

(These content are taken from an article by War3station)

15sui (or 14sui) [1]

Race: Human&Night Elf

Year of birth: 2003

NetEase ID: 生者 (Survivor)

Brief introduction: A player that can be in WGL month race always, he defeated Orcworker when he was a volunteer worker in WGL offline tournament, since he changed to Night Elf, he was be in the Final of TKOM, and he just advanced to the playoff of Thunder Fire Cup.

Remark [1] by GLH: "Sui" is stand for 岁, which means "years old", seems he is going to change it every year.

Iceorc

Race: Orc

Year of birth: 1999

NetEase ID: 世界第一舔狗 (The No.1 dog in the world)

Brief introduction: A player that can be in WGL month race always, his best level on NetEase  Ladder was level 17 [2], and he always be in Top 70 in the ranking of NetEase Ladder ranks.

Remark [2] by GLH: When you just start playing on NetEase Ladder, your level will be level 50, when you get higher, your level will be smaller on Ladder.

Decadent God

Race: Orc

Year of birth: 2001

NetEase ID: 全幼儿园最可爱 (The most lovely student in kindergarten)

Brief introduction: An orc user, he is having more practice in the rookies, he was one of the Top 100 players on NetEase Ladder ranks, he is being at top 240 currently.

Carron

Race: Undead

Year of birth: 1997

NetEase ID: 我是陈凯伦 (I am Chen Kailun)

Brief introduction: He was in the list of WGL month race, his best level on NetEase was level 21, he is being on TeD streaming always.

Pink

Race: Undead

Year of birth: 2003

NetEase ID: 关晓彤头号fans (Guan XiaoTong No.1 fans) [[3]

Brief introduction: One of the youngest players, he was one of the Top 150 players on NetEase Ladder ranks, and he advanced to the Ro16 of XiaoY Cup and TKOM  a few times, and he defeated by Hawk with 1-2, it's a close result.

Remark [3] by GLH: Guan XiaoTong is an actor in China.

9deathless

Race: Undead

Year of birth: 1997

NetEase ID: 9deathless

Brief introduction: he is famous in Warcraft Forum on Baidu and TeD streaming room, he is also known as 9D, he defeated TeD previously.

Wreckingball

Race: Orc

Year of birth: 1995

Netease ID: Wreckingball

Brief introduction: A player that can be in WGL month race always,  he was one of the Top 30 players on NetEase Ladder ranks.

Ocean

Race: Human

Year of birth: 1998

Netease ID: Ocean0410

Brief introduction: A Human players with stable micro, he defeated some good amateur players always in TKOM and XiaoY Cup.

Invain

Race: Night Elf

Year of birth: 1998

Netease ID: 白白空白白 (empty empty empty)

Brief introduction: A growing Night Elf rookie, he is one of the Top 100 players on NetEase Ladder ranks.



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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


2018 is a great year for Warcraft III players and fans. In this year, our dream came true, light up the dark in the past few years. At the same time, the prizes of 2018 are slightly higher than 2017 too, let's read some statistical data of 2018.

We added up the tournaments with a total prize of more than 10,000 CNY, there are 24 tournaments, 6 of them are offline, and the others played with online.

We have to say thank you to all of the sponsors in 2018, we will continue working hard in 2019!

The most important factor of attracting the players is prizes, in 2018, 120 got most prizes, he is ranking at the first place with 33,615 USD, meanwhile he is followed by Lyn and Moon.

You may find out that the prizes are slight lower since 11th, most of them have less than 30,000 CNY a year, and these are not enough to let them play Warcraft III with full-time.

Luckily, we are going to have Reforged Edition, and the prizes will be increased so much in this year, we believe their life will be better in this year.

In the first table, you may see that Lyn was dominating in the first half of 2018, we may say he dominating the late period of patch 1.28.

Since we had patch 1.30, Moon became the new "King" in 2018 and got so many Champion.

However, 120 got the title in the tournaments with higher prizes, the prizes of Master's Coliseum let him leading in the Ranking of Prizes.

When we added up all the tournaments, including the minor tournaments, the result will be so different.

In 2018, Happy played in many European Tournaments, resulting 55 Champions, 3 Runner-ups, 4 Third Places, his win rate in Grand Finals was 94.8%, let's look at the results of Foggy, Sonik, FoCuS, Lucifer, they got so many Runner-ups, you may see how terrible Happy is. However, Happy got only 4,280 USD, and ranking 14th on the Ranking of Prizes.

However, this doesn't matter too much, as a human, the most important thing in life is to be Happy.

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