17,000 players, 150,000 games, down to 28 top players!
The official Disney Lorcana site just put up a 1 year Challenge update post, putting the past year into perspective.
The World Championship Invitees
The key part of the article which everyone has been looking forward to, will be the final list of players who have received invitations to the World Championship. Here are your contenders!
North American Events
Edmond Chiu North American Champion & Dallas Fort Worth Champion
Scott Markeson 2nd North American Championship
Zan Syed 3rd North American Championship & Las Vegas Champion
Patrick Côté 4th North American Championship
Morgan Shamblin 5th North American Championship
Zach Bivens 6th North American Championship
Shawn Leung 7th North American Championship
Pierre-Marc Duguay 8th North American Championship
Kurt Spiess Top 16 North American Championship (Pass Down)
Humza Khan Top 16 North American Championship (Pass Down)
Joshua Paultre Atlanta Champion
Brian Courtade Chicago Champion
Diego Saz Toronto Champion
Luke Goodwin Seattle Champion
European Events
Domingo Martinez Rodenas European Champion
Michele Assirelli 2nd European Championship
Luca Lazzara 3rd European Championship
Lukas Kaupa 4th European Championship
Duy Hiêu Huynh 5th European Championship
Raphaël Brule 6th European Championship
Douglas Auchelie 7th European Championship
Andreu Vidal 8th European Championship
Frank Karsten Lille Champion
Théotime Buchot Bochum Champion
Elie Vepierre Bologna Champion
Federico Marinangeli Birmingham Champion
Oceanic Events
Dinh Khang Pham Melbourne Champion
Ben Simmons Melbourne Top 4 (Pass Down)
This is an interesting list, especially due to the some controversies that happened live on stream during the Melbourne Challenge event that happened last week.
Currently the event is still under investigation but it concerns the top 8 match that took place between Jesse Lentini and Clement Fusade which you can check out from Twitch. Eric from TheGamer has posted up an article that covers the incident which you should definitely check out if you want to learn more about the incident.
With this list of invitees, it would appear that Clement Fusade, the original 2nd place winner of the Melbourne Championship has had his invitation rescinded.
What’s next?
What the list of players confirmed, 2 big questions on every Illumineers’ minds are defintely:
- What is the World Championship event?
- When will the next series of Challenge events resume?
Based on the article, it looks like the Disney Lorcana team needs more time to work out the details. The first year of Disney Lorcana’s organized play has been a roaring success so far and the Lorcana team undoubtedly has a very huge task ahead as we completely all the Challenge events and Disney Lorcana expands to China and Japan. Hopefully all the details are sorted out and we get more details soon.
In the meantime though, we have a fireside chat for Archazia’s Island to look forward to in a couple of days, of which I’m sure many questions of “When World Championship” will be a part of the chat.
