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. It was held for the first time from October 28 to 29th in 2005. Some features of BlizzCon included the release of new World of Warcraft content, a songwriting contest judged by Jonathan Davis of Korn, and Blizzard developer Q&A sessions. Attendees received two cards, each with a special code. One code allowed the attendee to sign up for The Burning Crusade beta test^[1]. The other allowed players to obtain Murky the pet murloc in-game at Ironforge's Forlorn Cavern or Ogrimmar's Valley of Honor.

[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:

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:

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), however, while Insomnia was on his way to the airport, his taxi was involved in a car crash. He was sent to the hospital. "Etch" replaced him.
Fredrik Johansson aka MadFrog (Sweden, Undead)
Dennis Chan aka Shortround (USA, Night Elf) (finished 4th)
Matthew Anderson aka Wizard (USA, Night Elf)