Warcraft III
The German player Tobias “Reign” Muth triumphed (http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/28057-Random_Reign_beats_Remind_to_win_Zotac) in the weekly edition of the ZOTAC-Cup by defeating South Korean Night Elf player Sung Sik “ReMinD” Kim (http://www.shadowleague.com/en/news/1095/trophy-legends-grandfinal-anounced). In other news, the tournament series “Shadowleague – Trophy of Legends” continues and the Chinese Human player Xuwen “Infi” Wang and the South Korean Orc player Eom “FoCuS” HyoSub both qualified for the Grand Final. Finally, in an interview with Fragster.de, the former pro gamer and 2003 World Cyber Games winner Zdravko “Insomnia” Georgiev talks about his eSports career and his thoughts on the future of eSports (http://www.fragster.de/artikel/11439/wc3-talking-with-zdravko-insomnia-georgiev-insomnia-my-parents-together-were-making-half-of-my-monthly-salary_wc3/comments/).

World of Warcraft
Last weekend the European Championship of the Intel Extreme Masters Season IV ((http://www.esl-world.net/masters/news/111562/)) concluded in Cologne, Germany. Not only were the eight qualified teams competing for the “European Champion” title, there was also $15,000 in prize money and five spots at the Global Finals up for grabs. In a nail-biting final, the German team SK Sansibar (playing Death Knight, Paladin and Warrior) claimed victory by defeating the Rogue, Mage, Priest line-up fielded by Team Dignitas. SK-Gaming EU, Spanish team x6tence and iNNERFIRE were runners-up in 3rd, 4th and 5th places respectively. All VODs of the tournament are available now at ESL TV. You can also check out the live blog by Yiska at Hydramist.net (http://hydramist.net/blog/iem-european-championship-finals-day-one-a-love-story/).

StarCraft
The final qualifying round for TeamLiquid’s StarLeague 2 concluded on Monday, with 16 players progressing to the last stage of the tournament. Check out the latest results and read the player interviews right here (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=110217). Also, GosuGamers sat down with Swedish Terran player Stefan “MorroW” Andersson to talk about his performance during this tournament (http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/news/11195-interview-with-morrow-talking-tsl-kolll-beyond); be sure to have a look. In addition, the winners of the ZOTAC-Cup edition #36 and #37 have now been named (http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/news/11193-who-did-get-a-grip-of-latest-zotac-cups): Protoss player Oleksii “mouz.White-Ra” Krupnyk from Ukraine and Zerg player Olf “mTW.Closer” Schmidt from Germany.

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Believe me, this is not the same team working on those things as the people posting here. The issue has been communicated and the developpment team is working on a fix, that we will hopefully be able to have deployed soon.

We do see the major problems and react on them, so please do not assume we do not, if we also do other things as well.