European Finals Commence!

Today is the first day of the European Regional Finals at the Congress Center in Hamburg, where the best European World of Warcraft Arena teams and the best European Warcraft III players will fight for the chance to compete in the Global Finals at BlizzCon. If you are not lucky enough to be in Hamburg to witness this exciting event live, you can tune in on the official site of GIGA 2, either in low-quality and for free or in to catch all the excitement of this tournament. See all Warcraft III results on our brackets page and check out the gallery for the latest pictures directly from the venue. You can find information on the players and teams as well as the schedule of the event on our European Regionals page!

low-quality and for free
http://www.giga.de/2/live/free/

high-quality with subscription
http://www.giga.de/2/tournaments/event.php?id=6

brackets page
http://blizzard.co.uk/battlenet/tournaments/season5/brackets.shtml

gallery
http://blizzard.co.uk/battlenet/tournaments/season5/gallery.html

European Regionals page
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/arena/season01/index.html

Q u o t e:
Where will the WC3 replays be updated?

You can find all replays of the Battle.net matches on http://blizzard.co.uk/battlenet/tournaments/season5/brackets.shtml :)

** Update 12:30pm **
At 1.30pm CEST the first games will be broadcasted. You can follow the action by watching the streams mentioned in this post.

The following games are currently planned for broadcast.

approx. 1.30 pm CEST round 1
Log vs Knockout

approx. 2:30 pm CEST Upper Bracket round 2, game 2
Winner of the game Millenium vs. Warders of the Melee against the winner of the game Art øf War vs. Nashwan.

approx. 6:00 pm CEST Lower bracket round 3
TBA

You can find the brackets under
http://armory.wow-europe.com/#arena-tournament-brackets.xml

We will publish the results of all games in this thread as soon as the games are over:

Upper Bracket, Round 1:
Feel the pain vs Deathwing
Log vs Knockout
Millenium vs Warders of the Melee
Art øf War vs Nashwan

*This post will be updated during the tournament.

The first game just finished and Warders of the Melee (SK-Gaming) just won 3-2 vs Millenium in a very close match and thus advance to the second round of the winner bracket. Millenium will go to the lower bracket.

The teams of Art øf War and Nashwan have just started their match in the first round of the upper bracket.

Q u o t e:
The teams of Art øf War and Nashwan have just started their match in the first round of the upper bracket.

The game just ended and Nashwan won 3-1 and thus will stay in the upper bracket.

There are new pictures of the event and the arena matches available at the Blizzard site.

http://blizzard.co.uk/battlenet/tournaments/season5/wow/gallery.html
http://blizzard.co.uk/battlenet/tournaments/season5/brackets-wow.shtml