Warcraft III Professional Competition - Professional Warcraft III Squads

Professional Warcraft III Squads

Various gaming teams have a professional Warcraft III squad. These squads represent their team in such leagues as the Warcraft 3 Champions League and the NGL One professional league. Players also represent their team in various individual leagues. This needs to be updated.

• Four Kings - United Kingdom

Four Kings won four of the Warcraft III Champions League offline finals and were recognized as the eSports Team of 2005. In 2004 the team spent several months competing in televised leagues taking place in Seoul, South-Korea, a period which also saw them rise as the team to beat in the leagues. Unfortunately, due to financial problems, Four Kings dissolved in January 2008 scattering then team members across the globe. The Four Kings reunited in late February 2012 with all members, (Duncan "Ziktomini" Andrews, Rupert 'Dragonslayer' Phoenix, and Mike "googleplex" Hunt excluding Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen), playing in California to compete in the World title Championship of the Naaru, which was introduced in Patch 2.3.0 and was available to players who have completed the quests to obtain the Tempest Key as well as the Serpentshrine Cavern attunement.

Of the Four Kings success Dragonslayer (Phoenix) added, "The Tempest Key was originally the attunement quest required to enter The Eye, the raid instance of Tempest Keep", Phoenix then went on to add at the teams winning press conference, "This had given us a winning platform whereby the attunement requirement for both The Eye and Serpentshrine Cavern were removed in Patch 2.1.2, but Blizzard said that they wished to add a reward for players who decide to complete the chain...Baiscally our success was inevitable." According to Duncan "Ziktomini" Andrews, "It wasn't available to players beyond level 70 in the new expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, to prevent easy access to the title."

• Meet Your Makers - Denmark

Meet Your Makers rose to prominence as one of Warcraft III strongest's teams after moving to an all Korean line-up in 2005 signing several players that lead the team until today such as JaeWook Noh, Jung-Ki Oh and Jang Jae Ho. They stopped a long era of Four Kings domination by winning Warcraft III Champions League IX in 2006 as well as the first season of the NGL One Professional League, becoming the only team to ever hold two major titles at the same time. Following the dissolution of Four Kings in 2008, they added longtime rival Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen.

Current roster

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• SK Gaming - Germany

SK Gaming has competed in high level Warcraft III since 2002 and was considered the dominant western team of 2002-2003 (there was no offline competition between teams in those days nor international clashes between European and Asian teams). In 2007 SK Gaming defeated MeetYourMakers 3-1 in the WC3L offline championship after acquiring Kim Sung "Remind" Sik, Lee Sung "SoJu" Duk, and June "Lyn" Park.

Current roster

• World Elite - China

Upon its conception in 2005 World Elite signed a number of prominent Warcraft III players including Jung Chee Chun and LI Xiaofeng and the team was considered one of the world's absolute best right away. They have competed in various offline finals ever since and won the second season of the NGL-One Professional League 2007, making them the only team to win a major league next to Four Kings and Meet Your Makers since 2004. Nowadays the team is led by LI Xiaofeng.

Current roster