The Warcraft 3 2008 invitational ladder has now ended. The top six ranked players from each invitational ladder will be invited to join the top 2 players per region from last year's tournament in the regional final. There will be a total of 3 regional finals for each invitational ladder in 3 different location.

Top 2 players from last year:

Asia:

• MYM]Moon
• SK.ReminD
  

Americas:

• nilknarf
• srs.KiWiKaKi

Europe:

• GG.ToD
  
• Creolophus
  
  

The first regional final that will be played is the Asian finals. The regional finals will be played from 16-17 august in Seoul, South Korea. Unfortunately due to the bad internet connection in China, chinese players were not able to compete. Moon and Remind will be by the top six ladder players.

Participants in the Asian finals:

• MYM]Moon
• SK.ReminD
• mTw-Check
  
• SK.Lyn
  
• mTw-Who
• MYM]Susiria
  
• Fnatic.Focus
  
• MYM]Soccer
  
  

The regional final to follow the Asian finals is the Americas finals. The regional finals for the Americas is to be played from 6-7 september in Boston, Massachusetts.

Participants in the Americas finals:

• nilknarf
• srs.KiWiKaKi
• srs.Sonkie
• nGize.Yane
• Dark.Ale
• KoD.apm
• nGize.Shriek
• H2O.Holyhuman
  
  

The European finals will be played on the same day as the Asian finals. The regional finals will be played from 6-7 september in Madrid, Spain. During the last days the european ladder was heating up with the top players from Europe battling for a spot in the top 6. The ladders are now closed and now the 6 top European players will join the 2 players from last years.

Participants in the European finals are:

• GG.ToD
  
• Creolophus
• nGize.Knoff
• Wicked.Lucifron
• nGize.LiiLD.C
• aTTaX.Sase
• MYM]Grubby
• Happy
  
  

The global final will be on 10-11 october at the 2008 BlizzCon in Anaheim, California where only the top 2 players from the Americas and top 3 from Europe and Asia will compete.

Source: battle.net