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European Championship Finals Recap
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European Championship Finals
Hello fellow World of Warcraft esports fans! My name is Dderserei and I'm the main contributer to the
World of Warcraft Liquipedia site
. I will be bringing you recaps of World of Warcraft Arena tournaments, with plenty of statistics and a summary of the action. Today I will be examining the European Championship Finals. For an explanation of the Road to BlizzCon and to watch previous tournaments, go to
Blizzard's Esports Site
. The bracket for this tournament can be found
here
, complete with team compositions, map selections and other useful information.
The Tournament
The European Championship Finals were held at Gamescom in Cologne this year. Teams qualified for this tournament by earning points in the Arena Cups and community tournaments. The 12 teams with the most points were eligible to compete. The seeding was based on the placing of each team on the qualification points leaderboard. The top seed faced the 12th seed first, the second faced the 11th, and so on. The top four teams qualified to compete at the Arena World Championship at BlizzCon. The teams who qualified were Grmbl (12th seed), Emo (8th seed), ABC (6th seed) and Method Triforce (2nd seed).
Trials and Triumps
Seeding Isn't Everything
Rockets Esports went into the European Championship Finals as the top seed after winning Arena Cups 2 and 5. Their first opponents, Grmbl, placed second in the
Rallying Cry
tournament and were only eligible to attend this tournament after another team was unable to. Rockets Esports were the clear favourites going into the series, but in all matches that they played their main composition (RMP*) they were unable to defeat the lowest seeded team, losing the series 2-3 to Grmbl's Holy Priest, Windwalker Monk and Frost Death Knight. Interestingly, in the matches that Rockets Esports won against Grmbl, their composition was Stealth Cleave** rather than the RMP that had earned them victory so many times throughout the Arena Cups. Rockets Esports failed to reach the playoffs after being eliminated from the tournament by Emo.
*Rogue, Mage, Priest.
**Feral Druid, Rogue, Healer.
Reigning Champions Fall
Northern Gaming Blue won two of their three matches during the group stage, defeating Blind Faith and knocking Making a Movie out of the tournament. They were defeated by Emo's double melee compositions however, a weakness that would show itself again in the playoffs. They faced Method Triforce, three of whom composed the team of Toxic Youth who they met in the Grand Final of the European Regional Championship last year. Northern Gaming Blue played Discipline Priest, Subtlety Rogue and Frost Mage for all five matches while Method Triforce alternated between TSG*** and Restoration Druid, Windwalker Monk and Unholy Death Knight. The matches were short, with an average match time of 2 minutes and 47 seconds. Unlike last year, Method Triforce came out on top, winning the series 2-3 and eliminating a team that many assumed would make it to BlizzCon.
***TSG stands for Teh Super Gosus, the name of the team that popularised the composition. The composition itself is Warrior, Death Knight, Healer; traditionally a Holy Paladin.
Enjoying Legion?
Enjoy Legion proved themselves to be a strong team during the Arena Cups, claiming Cup #1 with a win rate of 78.3% and finishing as the third seed for the European Championship Finals. The team defeated Free Therapy twice to reach the playoffs where they faced Emo, the eighth seed in the tournament. Emo's TSG proved too strong for Enjoy Legion's Thunder Cleave****, and they were knocked out of the tournament 3-1.
****Restoration Druid, Arms Warrior, Elemental Shaman.
Pepe Found Victory!
With their plush Pepes in tow, Grmbl were the first team to qualify for the Arena World Championship. This 12th seed team defeated Rockets Esports' and Making a Movie's RMP teams with their Holy Priest, Windwalker Monk and Death Knight. They were not as successful in the playoffs but they did take the eventual winners of the tournament to a fifth series, defeating Method Triforce's TSG twice with a Holy Paladin, Windwalker Monk and Unholy Death Knight.
Jimjim
Holy Paladin Build
Talents
(Jimjim played Rule of Law in Match 2 and Match 4)
Honor Talents
Voltariux
Windwalker Monk Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Volkovitch
Unholy Death Knight Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Easy as 1,2,3
ABC were one match away from qualifying for the Arena World Championship last year. This year they reached the Semi Finals straight from the Group Stage, defeating Managers and Enjoy Legion to secure their place. In the playoffs, they defeated Emo's TSG with their Assassination and Arcane RMP, placing them in the Grand Final against Method Triforce.
Alec
Arcane Mage Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Asgarath
Discipline Priest Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Niksi
Assassination Rogue Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Grand Final – ABC vs Method Triforce
Despite their success against most other double melee compositions in the tournament, ABC struggled against Method Triforce. ABC met Method Triforce's TSG with their own TSG as well as their RMP and a Restoration Shaman, Arms Warrior and Havoc Demon Hunter composition. After losing to the Demon Hunter composition twice in a row, Method Triforce played a different composition in the seventh and final match: Restoration Shaman, Arms Warrior and Retribution Paladin. They were victorious, winning the European Championship Finals and securing their place as the top seed from Europe going into the Arena World Championship at BlizzCon. Fabss now has three Regional Championship wins and three Arena World Championship wins, and Boetar and Swapxy both have two of each.
Method Triforce
Boetar
Restoration Druid Build
Talents
Honor Talents
(Boetar played Vim and Vigor in Match 3 and Match 4, and Disentanglement in Match 3 and Match 5)
Restoration Shaman Build
Talents
(Boetar played Deluge and Bottomless Depths in Match 7)
Honor Talents
Swapxy
Unholy Death Knight Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Retribution Paladin Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Blizo
Arms Warrior Build
Talents
(Blizo played Sweeping Strikes in Match 4 and Match 5, and Double Time and Shockwave in Game 5)
Honor Talents
(Blizo played Death Sentence, Spell Reflection and War Banner in Match 2, and Death Sentence, Master and Commander and Pain Train in Match 5)
ABC
Asgarath
Restoration Druid Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Cara
Havoc Demon Hunter Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Arms Warrior Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Niksi
Arms Warrior Build
Talents
(Niksi played Sweeping Strikes and Shockwave in Match 5, and Storm Bolt in Match 7)
Honor Talents
(Niksi played Rage Machine in Match 5)
Unholy Death Knight Build
Talents
Honor Talents
Statistics
Group A vs Group B vs Playoffs - Dampening
The group with the least amount of dampening in both the amount of dampening matches and the average dampening per dampening match was Group A, with 20.6% of matches reaching dampening and the average dampening per dampening match at 11.6%. Group B had the highest percentage of matches reaching dampening at 39.3% but the highest average dampening per dampening match was in the playoffs at 22.5%. This data is skewed by the series between Enjoy Legion and Emo, which reached dampening in all four matches with an average dampening percentage of 38.25. Excluding this series, the average dampening per dampening match in the playoffs was 10%.
Group A vs Group B vs Playoffs – RMP vs TSG
RMP** was selected 30 times in Group A with a win rate of 50%, 3 times in Group B with a win rate of 33.3% and 9 times in the playoffs with a win rate of 55.6%. In this tournament, RMP had an overall win rate of 50%.
TSG* was selected 7 times in Group A with a win rate of 71.4%, 12 times in Group B with a win rate of 50% and 29 times in the playoffs with a win rate of 55.2%. TSG had an overall win rate of 56.3%.
It is worth noting that the statistics may be influenced by the fact that the team that won the tournament, Method Triforce, played TSG in 71.4% of their matches. They had a win rate of 65% with TSG and an overall win rate of 60.7%.
Composition Shake-Ups
Rockets Esports mostly played Stealth Cleave, a composition they played in only 5 of their 45 broadcasted matches in Arena Cups 1-5. They played RMP in 39 of their Arena Cup matches, a composition they only brought out three times in this tournament.
Managers wreaked havoc by bringing out a double Demon Hunter composition against Method Triforce. The composition was successful the first time, defeating Method Triforce in just 31 seconds. Method Triforce's TSG managed to defeat this composition in two other matches, however.
Popular Picks
Arcane Mage had a surge in popularity for this tournament. It was the preferred Mage specialisation 38.1% of the time. For comparison, Arcane was seen only once during the broadcasted matches in Arena Cups 1-5. Frost remained the most popular choice for the European Regional Championship, being the preferred Mage specialisation 59.5% of the time.
The most popular healer from the tournament was Restoration Druid, which was selected 75 times. This was followed by Discipline Priest at 59 times, 50 of those in the Group Stage. Restoration Shaman was selected 31 times, Holy Priest was selected 11 times and Holy Paladin was selected eight times. There were no Mistweaver Monks in this tournament.
Next stop, BlizzCon!
The next time these teams will compete is at the Arena World Championship at BlizzCon in November. The results will be kept up to date
here
. Congratulations to all the teams and best of luck for BlizzCon!
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