The big news around the PvP water cooler this morning is from an interview posted over on SK Gaming over the weekend. David “Shawn” K, head admin for World of Warcraft at the ESL, revealed that they will be hosting online tournaments on an event realm provided by Blizzard. As he explains:

“WoW does not have any kind of custom game option that you usually know from eSport-games and players are spread among dozens of servers. The only way to make sure that only those teams play against each other that you want to is to get them on a special server – an even realm. Those are regular servers but only visible to special accounts. Those accounts have all eight classes at level 70 and every character has thousands of gold and bags packed with all possible PvP-items to chose from. When the players are done with setting up both teams queue up at the same time, join the same arena and there is no risk of interfering.” -David “Shawn” K

It’s good to see a league like ESL supporting WoW and it’s also good to see Blizzard accommodating with online servers. Over here in the US, we’ve been promised this before with the Gameriot tournament (whatever happened to that anyways?), but hopefully ESL delivers and opens the door for more online competitive play.

Full article here.

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