myMYM's resident columnist Frank "Mirhi" Fields wonders how successful will the Human duo of World Elite be in the future.

Two of the leading contenders for WC3L MVP just won first and second respectively at NSL finals: Xiaofeng "Sky" Li and Wang "InFi" Xuwen, both world class players for the Chinese organization World Elite.

It also appears the two have been creating strategies with each other. Each of them applied a unique new strategy versus Lyn that they had previously not used, involving executing a fast expansion with Mountain King, instead of the more conventional Archmage, afterwards teching to Tier 3 for griffons. A similar strategy is used by Humans on Lost Temple, but Sky and InFi both used strategies on maps such as Echo Isles and Secret Valley. This is just one of a few new techniques the couple used in the tournament.

It makes you wonder how good these 2 top players can go, and the strategies they can come up with. With 2 Human players at the top of their game, training together constantly, is there any way people can prepare for them?


When 2 players of the same race play together for an extended period of time, they will always learn from each other and share strategies. I am sure Reis of SK Gaming could testify to this in the case of ReMinD and Soju, and Nordahl of MYM in the case of Lucifer and Susiria - both of which form the 2v2 pairs on their respective teams.

However, I cannot remember a time when 2 teammates came out in a tournament and employed such a display of skill and tactical mastery as Sky and InFi did this past weekend dispatching Lucifer, Moon and Lyn.

Sky victorious at NSL2 last week

Part of me wonders if they did it to silence critics about the fact they were "1 trick ponies", using towers as their only means to win. In multiple games they won without using many towers (or none), which in the online WC3L season has been an integral part of their strategies, in particular InFi's strategies versus both Undead and Night Elf. Maybe we will see similar strategies used by ToD, another premier player that was in the playoffs.

One can only wonder what tricks they'll pull out of the bag in the offline finals. With this team it's entirely possible they could bring home the 2nd WC3L title in 3 seasons to World Elite - incredible as they lost ReMinD, Soju, Lyn and Reign just 1 season ago. World Elite's feat is still more impressive doing it all with homegrown Chinese talent; players like TeD, Like, Suho - all of which have been important to help out their 2 super stars.

At this point, I am glad World Elite beat Wicked; now I can see more of them. After watching NSL replays, I can't wait to see what strategies "The Twin Towers" will employ and how far they will go.