Round 3 has started, what about Round 1 and 2? For me WCL 7 has been more than I expected.
IN: IRC winning PL; Chris, Spring and yam on CsK Team; TyRanT comebacks on Arabia; Enjoyable recorded games on MegaRandom map.
OUT: Panpa members using double account and Andrew_LK behaviour, giving RVK B a penalty point.
Read on and find out the highlights of the first rounds of WCL 7
IRC winning PL: Who are these guys? As their Team name said, they are players from IRC (mIRC) and showed us that good players don't play only at Voobly. Who didn't say "wow" about the score? I can bet that anybody thought that PL will loose 1-4 against this guys. Im looking forward your new games IRC, and I really hope that PL could bring up their real level.
If we start to talk about "must watch games", you can't, and again, can't miss TyRanT games in Arabia. Seriously, these games are brilliant. Is this the "Class" what kkab was talking about? because I really doubt that new school TG players could do what TyRanT did on the first 2 rounds. And im talking about Arabia, because in other map TyRanT own you all, except on that Arena game against wW, where my czech guys outplayed the "old men". Some of you asked, Is arabia their weakest map? I think no, they are not weak, but the level gap is reduced because arabia is the most played map on AoC, but We have to wait until next rounds to draw our own conclusions.
The next read is extensive, so I will do a little summary with the most important facts on this 2 rounds.
- Panpa Diqualified for breaking rule #4 - Link
- RVK B got a Penalty Point because of Andrew behaviour. - Link
- DJY players aren't Windy, Bt4, or IORI as some of you said. They are players from the Chinese Zone, but nothing related to the old experts mentioned.
- aLc got AW against VNS B becuse of Scheduling problems. Guys, please be careful with this. Get informed about your opponent GMT time, you can't offer a X GMT time that is 5-6 AM for your opponent... - Link
- New posting game format! Some teams as TyRanT, UsK/PoJ A, BuzZ/DyT A, Arg B/VNS B and IRC/RoR B didn't upload their games as rules said, please, check it to avoid PP! - Link
Must watch matches!
- RVK A (vs) Immortals - Link
- wW A (vs) TyRanT - Link
- poZ B (vs) VN - Link
- PL (vs) CSC - Link
The "Oh God, cant wait to watch that recs" matches for R3
- CsK (vs) TyRanT
- StorM (vs) PoJ A
- poZ A (vs) Arg A
- UsK A (vs) IRC
What do the experts think about WCL 7, first rounds and/or their performance?
Ares
"The games overall are good, but people are still taking it kind of easily/lightly. The ip checks are great though!I'm pretty sure many teams are saving their best/golden/hidden strategies for the next stage, so that's when things will get even more interesting ^^."
JX_Love
"I firmly believe this is the biggest event in AoC. Look, China have 5000+ aoc players, WCL has come and I think many chinnese teams would be participating. But in fact, only one team was participating, CSC. And this is because the "hour gap". Whatever, we just want to express a thing: China supports WCL 7."
RoR_Erhan:
"WCL is the most important tourney for aoc. It makes aoc players active again. Even oldest players. About MegaRandom,is fun to play, but is very unfair sometimes. We, RoR, are not a high level clan, but we will do our best to get as far as we can. About high tier teams TyRanT, RVK and CSC are the strongest, but sometimes TyRanT dont show their best perfomance, unlike RVK and CSC."
[RVK]TheViper
"Haven't watched too many recs, only of the better clans, but it will get really fun. Shame Panpa cheated, ruins alot of the fun, but it's nice to see it detected, proves it can be found. The tournament itself is great. I think admins are doing a great job aswell, so it seems that this WCL will be nice."
RoR_Elemi
"WCL 7 means to me recs of my faw players: kkab , grunt and halen =) and showtime. This is the best chance for showing skills for good players."
[RVK]JorDan_23
"Its really a great tournament. I am really happy and of course I really appreciate the big effort all those admins and councils put into this event . Without those volunteers this wouln't be possible of course. I really like the rules and I think the admins did a great job in there. As you can see WCL7 has brought back old players who trying to prover themselves again. AOC is much activer and I personally have much more motivation to train again. It's always fun to watch the records of each matchup because you never know who wins! Really exciting!"
PL_Dziamziak
"About PL performance, Im very proud. We took 1 point which is much more than I thought we will. I hope we can win one more game, and get drunk later. If we win more than 1, I think all PLs and polish aocer will be drunk for a week at least! I dont care about prizes, but we are here for be WCL 7 Champions."
(hong kong) _Kyo
"I'm amazed about how CsK is popular now, its post has even more views than TyRanT posts. This is because Yam, he rox so much. About our performance, it is not well developed yet. We will play better on next rounds."
_Ra_
"This WCL in particular I find very exciting, many great teams participating. Who will win? There comes to mind 6+ clans that can come out on top and thats the great part! The most interesting part for me is seeing "new expert" (ex: RVK) vs "Older Expert" (ex: Tyrant) rivalry. ? Besides my team, I will be cheering for the less popular, 'lower rated' teams who have great team work. aLc, VN, PL, wW are some of the ones that come to mind. You guys, are doing a great job by the way."
Thanks to all players who shared their thoughts with the community