WCG 2009 Preview: Group A

As a partof our pre-coverage for World Cyber Games 2009, we bring you a closelook on the groups and its teams – First up is Group A.

Group A consist of four teams; Millenium, AEON.gamesense, 4glory and Parallax. The lineups for the respective teams are:

Millenium	AEON.gamesense
Steeve "Ozstriker" Flavigni	Alvin "Matrix" Tan
Christophe "sixeR" Xia	Toh "squall" Ghim
Mahé "Yoshi" Sinbad Martin	Daryl "insanity" Chua
Kupeli "MAJ3R" Engin	Lim Jing "vendetta" Jie
Guillaume "Geno" Ntep	Mark "sharp" Low

4glory	Parallax
Filip "philip" Jovanovic	Byron "simcore" McLean
Mileta "mileta" Urosevic	Bruce "infidel" Lodge
Dejan "HeaveN" Vekicki	Feroz "evolution" Brouwer
Stefan "HiGh" Golubovic	Nicholas "n1ck" Shaw
Milan "bata" Batinica	Nathan "rapture1e" Holden

Thegroup sees one team of four, that is levels above the rest. Despite apoor show lately, the French representative Millenium is the teamexpected to reach the knockout stages. The team comes to Chengdu with apoor from Silver Arena, crashing in the quarter-final.

Regardlessof a poor show lately, the team should not face any problems securingthe top spot in Group A. Paired with Serbian team 4glory,AEON.gamesense from Singapore and Parallax from New Zealand, Milleniumlooks at a fairly simple way to the knockout stages.

The secondplace, which secures advancement to the knockout stages, will probablybe a battle between AEON.gamesense and Parallax. The Singaporeans wontheir spot by defeating TitaNs in the qualifier, but has since beenundergoing changes. The team snared Alvin "Matrix" Tan from TitaNs, akey factor for the team to get their game going. The experienced callercould be the element to decide whether AEON.gamesense will reach theknockout stages or not.

Parallax which consist of two of fivemembers from tws.mc, the 2008 representative from New Zealand, is theteam that will question AEON.gamesense for the second place in thegroup. The duo Bruce "infidel" Lodge and Byron "simcore" McLean looksto improve the fifth place tws.mc, in their group, that they managed in2008, with three new players on the squad.

4glory from Serbiagoes to Chengdu with a loss to PlayMore in the Serbian DreamHack Winterqualifier, a match 4glory seemed like they really wanted to win, aresult of tying one and losing remaining matches in the group stage,just to face PlayMore.

HLTV.org's final placing prediction:

1. Millenium
2. AEON.gamesense
3. Parallax
4. 4glory

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XLBet offers you the odds on Group A

Theworld largest e-sport bookmaker is once again ready to serve you withthe odds for World Cyber Games. Group A bets are available right now.

Themost interesting bet, in the match to determine the second place, youcan be on AEON.gamesense to win versus Parallax in a 0-4 handicap, withodds 1.52 on AEON.gamesense to win, while you can score odds 2.30 onParallax.

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