After having beaten Grubby in Round 3 of the Winners Bracket on Day 2, ReMinD had to stand up to Lucifer in the Grand Final. Lucifer won the first map, "Twisted Meadows," but ReMinD was able to come back on "Terenas Stand" and "Echo Isles," switching from Orc to Nightelf against Lucifer’s Undead. The finals truly brought together the greatest players worldwide and we want to congratulate all the players that participated on their great achievement and especially ReMinD for his exciting games and great skill.

Chris Sigaty and Frank Pearce presented the winner of the Tournament, ReMinD, with a check for $10,000 USD and the Season 4: Global Champion Trophy - A Warcraft III Sword. Lucifer, who came in second, was presented with a check for $3,000 USD.

Share the excitement and win a poster signed by the players that participated in the finals as well as the Warcraft III Producer Chris Sigaty and co-founder and Senior Vice President of Blizzard Frank Pearce! Check out the pictures of the Season 4 Global Finals here as well as the results and replays of all games!

Congratulations to the Champion of this exciting Season!

To celebrate the Battle.net Season 4 Global Finals, we are hosting a Warcraft III Image Contest! Send us your best Warcraft III picture, and you could win a Battle.net Season 4 poster signed by the Global Finalists and Chris Sigaty!

What kind of image should you send? We're looking for:

• Memorable screenshots from Warcraft III
• Photographs of you dressed up as a character from Warcraft III
• Original fanart featuring creatures, characters, scenes, or themes from Warcraft III

The first day of the Season 4 Global Finals is over and the players presented us with exciting matches. The Groups Rounds are complete and Lucifer, SaSe, ReiGn, Grubby, Showbu-, ToD, Sweet and ReMinD will enter the playoffs and continue the battle for the championship. Check out the the final rankings as well as the results of the matches.

Find out what players will meet in todays first playoff round of the winners bracket in our schedule.

The Warcraft III Season 4 Global Finals will begin in Cologne tomorrow. Come and see the best Warcraft III players compete for the Championship. You will also find both Warcraft III and World of Warcraft developers, as well as members of the US and European Community Team, at this exciting event.

Come and meet

• Frank Pearce, Senior Vice President of Product development, co-founder of Blizzard, executive producer for all Blizzard games
• Chris Sigaty, Lead Developer WC3/WoW
• Paul Della Bitta, Senior Community Manager
• Joong Kim - eSports manager
• Stephen Chang, the assistant eSports manager
• Changwoon Jung, RTS community manager in Korea
• Sarah Tucker from Business development
• Julia Gastaldi, Director of Communications and Community, Europe

And also

• Tuskfyre, Community Team Lead, Europe
• Vaneck, German Community Manager
• Aeus, English Community Representative
• Wrocas, German Online Community Representative

in the MediaPark in Cologne!

For any fans of World of Warcraft, the Global Finals come with a special treat. You can play the new expansion The Burning Crusade on more than 20 high-end computers, participate in the leveling contests, and have a chat with the Community Team.

You will find more information on the upcoming matches on our schedule and all results as well as pictures from the event updated here daily, so check back or just come by to share the excitement!

Korea

• MYM]Lucifer
• SK.BET.Sweet
• Cherry.ReiGn
• wNv.FoV
• WE.IGE.ReMinD
• NoA.Showbu

• mouz|SaSe
• SK.Insomnia
• 4K^Grubby
• 4K^ToD
• SK.firede
• verGe.GLaiVe

• verGe.longwalk
• hoorai.KiWiKaKi
• verGe.SonKiE
• verGe.ShrieK

We are pleased to announce that the Warcraft III Season 4 Global Finals will be held in Germany at Cologne's Media Park between January 25-27, 2007, during the Intel® Friday Night. Sixteen of the world's best Warcraft III players earned their places at the Global Finals with top performances at earlier regional finals in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

The Warcraft III Season 4 Global Finals is sponsored by Intel, and organized by Turtle Entertainment, operator of Europe's major eSports league, the Electronic Sports League (ESL). GIGA, the European broadcasting station for games, eSports and lifestyle, will provide live coverage.

Player brackets and information on the coverage times will be posted on Battle.net soon. Also check out ESL's and GIGA's websites for more information.

Due to hoorai.Qazzi being unable to attend the Global Finals, an on-line qualifier between the four players who did not advance in the Americas' regional 8 man bracket was held to determine the fourth place seeding.

The players who participated in this event are:

1. Epoch_Lumbist
2. StrifeCo
3. LordOfThePings
4. Virus32

The winner is Epoch_Lumbist! (aka Vrg.SS.Shriek)

The new US Seeding in ranking order is:

1. Zn.LongWalk
2. KiWiKaki
3. Vrg.SS.SonKiE
4. Epoch_Lumbist

We've packaged the replays for you here.

1. hoorai.Qazzi
2. Zn.LongWalk
3. KiWiKaki
4. vrg.SS.Sonkie

• Group A: mouz|SaSe [4:0] and VerGe.GLaiVe [2:2]
• Group B: 4K^ToD [4:0] and SK|Insomnia [2:2]
• Group C: 4K^Grubby [4:0] and WE.DieSeL[2:2]
• Group D: SK.Fire_de[3:1] and 4K^Zeus[19] [3:1]

1. mouz|SaSe
2. SK|Insomnia
3. 4K^Grubby
4. 4K^ToD
5. SK.Fire_de
6. VerGe.GLaiVe

• Group A: Cherry-ReiGn[4:0] and SK.BET.Sweet[3:1]
• Group B: MYM]Lucifer[4:0] and wNv.FoV[3:1]
• Group C: MYM]Susiria[4:0] and WE.IGE.Lyn[3:1]
• Group D: WE:IGE.ReMinD[4:0] and NoA.Showbu[3:1]

1. MYM]Lucifer
2. SK.BET.Sweet
3. Cherry.ReiGn
4. wNv.FoV
5. WE.IGE.ReMinD
6. NoA.Showbu

Race Name mouz.GeIL.SaSe Aremys 3B828T79R51S2E4 Satiini deuceofclubs 4K.Grubby JuSt.DIDI8 Playground- n(O_o)bs SK.Insomnia DH-Bears-Amove anthem_to_imba 4K.Zeus[19] Bulgarian Just.bladeTo MYM]Sasuke Geil.Gia-ACT SK.Firede tt_tt DevoN

Race Name Sweet.WeRRa Go)Space MYM]Susuria. WE.IGE.Check. WE.IGE.ReMinD Cherry-ReiGn FourKings We.Ige.Lyn MYM]EVE. JessicaAlba MYM]Lucifer FarSeer[Pooh] WinNers[SAINt] HOldOn MoJo. No1.[RM]Soccer icetea Go)Ohjie RayCharles lof.hydrq ShowbU

Race Name epoch_lumbist Virus32 Zn.LongWalkn StrifeCo vrg.SS.SonKiE hoorai.Qazzi LordOfThePings KiWiKaki BoX.fOr.sV hoorai.nilk tot-boo WoBBLy OurLady-CrAfT HowYouRemindMe aG.Axslav v1]ArchieBald-

Congratulations to all the qualifying players!