12 of 24 players for this years first WCS Europe Challenger League are known with the second qualifier just ending tonight. I already shared some facts about yesterdays qualificants, so here is all you need to know about todays winners. As you can see in comparison, todays qualifier seemed to be easiert, but keep in mind that players like [socke], [dimaga], [mana], [ret], [titan], [sase], [snute] and [morrow] dropped out early.
WCS Europe Challenger League
[bly] – #60 in World Ranking
- First winner of WCS Europe Challenger League back in Season 1
- Part of both Challenger and Premier League in Season 1 and 2
- One of the most active tournament players (31 tournaments in 2013)
[babyknight] – #61 in World Ranking
- Solid part of both Challenger and Premier League in 2013
- Won Challenger League in Season 2 and finished 7th in Premier League Season 1
- Was undefeated in Homestory Cup VIII in November until Ro8 beating [symbol], [hasuobs] and [hero]
- Best danish player in World Ranking at the moment
[harstem] – #73 in World Ranking
- Second time qualified for WCS Europe Challenger League (#33 in Season 1)
- Got invited to Taiwan eSports League in November along with [sase] and finished third
- Part of Fnatics SC2 Academy
[zanster] – #116 in World Ranking
- First time qualified for WCS Europe
- Won Svenska E-sportcupen in Jonköping in October, beating [thorzain] and [sjow] without a map loss
- Third in Svenska E-sportcupen Grand Finals, defeating [morrow] in the deciding match by 3:0
[sortof] – #123 in World Ranking
- Second swedish player to qualify for Challenger League today
- Played every Challenger League in 2013 (#9 in Season 1, #25 in Season 2, #33 in Season 3)
- Refused to lose a single map in Qualifiers, even versus [socke] and [babyknight]
[miniraiser] – #363 in World Ranking
- Third swedish player out of 6 qualificants today
- Never played in WCS before
- Twice participant in Dreamhack Open Stockholm and Summer