BlizzCon

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BlizzCon was a convention held by Blizzard Entertainment at the Anaheim Convention Center to celebrate their major franchises Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. Approximately 8,000 people attended the event,^[1] which was held on October 28 and 29, 2005. Some features of BlizzCon included the release of new World of Warcraft content, previews of content for the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion, and Blizzard developer Q&A sessions. Several contests were held including a songwriting contest judged by Jonathan Davis of Korn. Level 60 Elite Tauren Chieftain, a thrash metal band whose members consist of Blizzard employees;^[2] comedian Christian Finnegan; and punk rock band The Offspring performed at the closing concert.^[3] Among other gifts, attendees received a card with two special codes: One code allowed the attendee to sign up for the The Burning Crusade closed beta test.^[4] The other allowed players to obtain Murky the pet murloc in-game.

1 BlizzCon Invitational
2 Goodie Bag
3 References
4 External links

[edit] BlizzCon Invitational

Eight players of Warcraft III and StarCraft were invited to compete and seeded into a double-elimination, best of three match tournament.

StarCraft: Brood War seedings:^[5]

Lee Yun Yeol aka NaDa (Korea, Terran) (finished 3rd)
Park Jung Suk aka Reach (Korea, Protoss) (finished 2nd)
Hong Jin Hoe aka Yellow (Korea, Zerg) (finished 1st)
Kang Min aka Nal_rA (Korea, Protoss) (finished 4th)
Christoph Semke aka Mondragon (Germany, Zerg)
Brian Fransioli aka Assem (USA, Terran)
Nick Perentesis aka Testie (Canada, random)
Peter Neate aka Legionnaire (Australia, Protoss)

Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne seedings:^[6]

Manuel Schenkhuizen aka Grubby (Netherlands, Orc) (finished 1st)
Tae Min Hwang aka Zacard (Korea, Orc) (finished 2nd)
Yoan Merlo aka ToD (France, Human) (finished 3rd)
Sebastian Pesic aka Fury (Sweden, Undead)
Zdravko Georgiev aka Insomnia (Bulgaria, Human)*
Fredrik Johansson aka MadFrog (Sweden, Undead)
Dennis Chan aka Shortround (USA, Night Elf) (finished 4th)
Matthew Anderson aka Wizard (USA, Night Elf)

While traveling to the airport, Georgiev's taxi was hit by a drunk driver. Due to his injuries, he was hospitalized.^[7] Matt Carrier, aka "Etched", replaced him. Carrier represented the USA and played the Human race. ^[8]

[edit] Goodie Bag

Each attendee received a "goodie bag" with several gifts inside including:

a deck of Blizzard-themed playing cards,
a couple of T-shirts,
a black Diablo-, brown Warcraft-, or blue StarCraft-themed gel bracelet,
a special gift card, which provided the user a special World of Warcraft in-game pet and access to The Burning Crusade beta test.^[9]