ESWC 2007 - Millenium vs Nihilum

[World of Warcraft e-sport] Posted Sep 19, 2008 3 Comments

This match was organized by Blizzard as the first World of Warcraft e-sport representation in France. In order to make it successful Blizzard gave a lot of free entry tickets with contest over fansites like JeuxOnline or Millenium website. However, the match was quite disappointing because there was too much level difference between the two teams. Millenium's players are doing PvP on World of Warcraft since the release and have a large experience of Arena whereas Nihilum guys just started Arenas after they cleared the actual PvE content. It results of an inintersting 5-0. Also, the organisation was not what we would have expected to be. The matchs started about 30 minutes later the date they were announced. We could not see anything of the fight because of a spectator mode which is so bad and the people moving around the camera was like playing with it instead of taking the best spots to show the match. The commentator did not know the game enough to explain what was going on, it went...