The results of the Dutch WCG pre-qualifiers are known! For Warcraft III, in the finals are srs.RotterDaM and MYM.Grubby. All the finalists will compete on the September 27 in Amsterdam, where each game's winners will get to advance to the World Cyber Games Grand Finals which will be in Cologne, Germany this year, in the month of November.

Due to popular demands, the Dutch WCG also held a qualifier for Starcraft Broodwar. To our surprise, a lot of Starcraft participants showed up. Indeed, the Starcraft Broodwar is getting more popular because of the news that Starcaft II will be released soon.

19 participants showed up for Warcraft III. 1 more player was needed to make a good pool, so the organisers invited me to participate too. I was unprepared, untrained and didn't bring my own equipments, but I readily agreed. Firstly, I was glad I could help, secondly I knew it would be fun! With 5 players in each group, 4 groups were formed. Top 2 from each group get to advance to the quarter finals. There 8 players will play Best of 3, single ellimination.

It was no doubt a fun event for me! Besides taking pictures and gathering information for coverage, I also got to play some games against the Dutch gamers! The Dutch standard is pretty good. Naturally, I didn't get to come out of the group stage. I won the first opponent in my group and lost to the other 3. The toughest opponent in my group was Sushilicious - he improved so much in just a few months and is currently the 3rd best Warcraft III player in The Netherlands.

I also collected some replays from Grubby and Sushilicious. Check out MYM Replays Center to download the replays. 11 replays given by Grubby and SushiLicious.

Here are the much anticipated pictures of the Dutch Warcraft III scene:

Grubby with a Dutch WCG admin.

The event was held at the TGS (The Game Syndicate) internet gaming cafe in the city of Rotterdam. This is the bar in the cafe.

A lot of the gaming cafes in The Netherlands have the concept of half bar, half gaming cafe.

Vodka anyone? Martini?

The gamers settling in after signing in at the admin's table.

Infantrist - a new and upcoming player. Did I already say he resembles Matt Damon?

srs.Rotterdam - the second best player in The Netherlands. Usually at Dutch qualifiers, there's only one spot for Warcraft III. So to get to some events, Rotterdam had to compete with Grubby. So Rotterdam's speciality is Orc mirror.

Rotterdam in a serious game.

Tsuioku - an active Dutch gamer, whom we often see at the Dutch events.

Rotterdam and IDoNotAgree.

DeSnoDesnoDaarD - At first I couldn't pronounce his name properly and always call him "The Snow Duck Snow Duck". His nickname in Dutch means "The Cunning Villain".

Beside him is srs.Zerter. He is the team-leader of Serious-Gaming, also the team-leader of Team Netherlands in European Nations Cup.

srs.Zerter Up-close.

This cuuute little boy is only 12 years old! He participated in Warcraft III and is the youngest participant. His name is Justin and his nickname is "TerribleJustin".

This is TerribleJustin's first LAN tournament!

MYM.Grubby started on his group stage.

Rotterdam observing Grubby. They are both good friends in real life.

The Starcraft players.

Warcraft III group stage games in progress.

Grubby and IDoNotAgree.

Me and Sushilicious' girlfriend - we are both in yellow! This is the second time we met. She was also at ESWC Dutch qualifiers to support her boyfriend. To see the pictures from ESWC Dutch qualifiers, click HERE.

Warcraft III players gathering for a briefing.

Smiling charmingly at the admins.

If you think Grubby is tall, then look at this. All of them are just as tall, if not taller. In general, Dutch have pretty tall genes.

IDoNotAgree: "You are only taller because of your cap".

The Warcraft III quarter finals table.

In Dutch - "Warcraft Kwartfinales".

Sushilicious playing happily because his girlfriend is always right behind him! :)

IDoNotAgree in a serious game.

Rotterdam had no problems advancing to the finals.

Sasuke - one of the pioneers of TwR clan.

Sasuke playing against DesnoDesnoDaarD.

It was a very fun event. All the Dutch Warcraft III gamers are out-going and friendly with each other. I believe everyone had fun! We will look forward to the next event for sure.

Remember to catch the replays at the MYM Replays Center! Also you may check for the latest replay downloads at the bottom of the main page.