WoW TCG Champion announced in Paris

by Mike Schramm Oct 20th 2008 at 6:00PM

The WoW TCG World Championships wrapped up this weekend, and an American player named Jim Fleckenstein emerged the winner. The World Champs took place in Paris, and there was a fun twist -- apparently last year, a French player won on American soil, and next year, the tournament is going to take place in Austin, Texas, so there's a rivalry building.

The WoW TCG site has lots more, including play-by-plays of all the matches if you're interested in how the top players play the game (Jim won with a Shaman -- SHAMAN POWER!), and they've even got video of all the folks throwing down to win the crazy prizes. Looks like lots of fun in Paris for players of the TCG.

The 2009 season kicks off with the end of these world champs -- the next event will be a Darkmoon Faire event in Anaheim, CA on November 9th (right before the Wrath release), and of course the Drums of War expansion is due out soon, with those loot cards we've been drooling over.

Tags: american, anaheim, ccg, darkmoon-faire, france, jim-fleckenstein, paris, paris-france, shaman, tcg, tournament, upper-deck, world-championships, wow, wow-tcg

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, WoW Social Conventions, Contests, WoW TCG

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Eru Oct 20th 2008 6:56PM

Nerd master !

Max Oct 20th 2008 7:19PM

even nerds who play WoW are allowed to make fun of the super nerds that play the wow CARD GAME....

Spoonmaster Oct 20th 2008 8:16PM

SHAMAN POWER

Andrew Oct 20th 2008 11:41PM

Still waiting to be laid......

Pathian Oct 21st 2008 12:04AM

that $30,000 should go a long way to getting that done :P

Andrew Oct 21st 2008 12:48AM

It still won't help when you tell her I play WoW TCG. For ages 12 and under......

Ob Oct 21st 2008 7:13AM

You know, that poor guy is at home happy that he won the contest and got a mention on WI, and then he has to come here and read about how he hasn't had sex by a bunch of people who spend (by the same standard of assumption) most of their time playing a game considered nerdy by others and probably haven't been laid.

How ironic...

blackjack21 Oct 21st 2008 9:01AM

/agree with Ob.

Orin Oct 21st 2008 9:32AM

Even worse is that this guy went to Paris for a nice trip, won $30k, easily paid for the trip and probably now has even more trips planned. All the while a bunch of WoW players, many of which probably have never even left the country in their lives are bashing him.

Grats to the guy who won. Sure wish I could win $30k for flying to Paris to play a card game. I bet he had an awesome time doing it too!