World of Warcraft®

The 2012 World Championship World of Warcraft Arena North America Invitational will be taking place this week on August 24-26. The three-day event will be broadcast live from the Curse studio in San Francisco and will feature eight of North America’s best World of Warcraft arena teams. The winners will earn their share of a $30,000 prize pool and top two will represent North America at the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai, China later this year.

Here are your competitors!

• rock paper RET (paladin, priest, death knight)
• TOPGUN (hunter, rogue, paladin)
• 2012 Dreamteam (warlock, shaman, death knight)
• Bring It (warlock, shaman, mage)
• Team EG (shaman, warlock, priest)
• Spicy Chicken Cleave (druid, mage, druid/shaman)
• Skill-Capped Black (paladin, hunter, death knight)
• Special Tactics (warlock, rogue, druid/shaman)

The tournament will kick off with a best-of-three Round Robin phase in which all teams will play against each other. The top four teams from Round Robin will then move on to a best-of-five Single Elimination Finals Bracket, followed by a best-of-seven grand finals.

The action can be watched online for free in high quality video; broadcast schedule soon to come on www.curse.com and www.arenajunkies.com.