Starcraft esports is still holding strong. There are still plenty of tournaments held on a regular basis, and the competition on those tournaments created all kinds of rivalries. Everyone knows that when it comes to Starcraft, Korean players tend to dominate the scene, and they have been doing that for years. The west (EU) now wants to challenge the status quo.
This weekend, on January 9th 2022, we will get to see if that is still true, as team WTL faces a team of four players that is not a part of the WTL, aka. the World. The prize pool for the event is ¥80,000, where the winner gets to split ¥50,000, and the losers get to split ¥30,000.
WTL vs The World – Who are the players?
Since this is a show match, we will be able to see how the players match up at the start of 2022, ahead of the upcoming Intel Extreme Masters tournament in Katowice. If you are not sure what that is, do not worry, we will probably cover it in the future, as it is one of the biggest gaming events for all kinds of games, Starcraft included.
WTL Team roster:
- Maru – Korean Terran player
- Rogue – Korean Zerg player
- TIME – Chinese Terran player
- Trap – Korean Protoss player
World Team roster:
- HeRoMaRinE – German Terran player
- Reynor – Italian Zerg player
- Serral – Finnish Zerg player
- ShoWTimE – German Protoss player
Old rivalries
It would be very interesting if we could talk about each matchup individually, but that would honestly take too much time. But instead, we can summarize what we can expect from this event. While one would expect the team WTL to dominate team World, as we went through the previous matchups, even if players from team WTL tended to win more often, there are times when team World players managed to win.
With that said, you can expect anything to happen at this event, and since we all love to be entertained by high-quality esports, we can only hope for an upset.
Where to watch?
As per usual, there are a couple of different streams that you can tune into in order to catch the games live. The
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