There can be only one, shaman that is.

The North American World of Warcraft 3v3 Final is this weekend at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston, Mass. I'm sure they will will rename it the Hard Rockbiter Cafe in honor of the number one team rolling in with the only shaman in the finals (and there are none in the European finals). Team "Dude I got it on FRAPS" is the team dancing with a different drummer aka shaman for those of you scoring at home. Including that shaman the class breakdown for the North American final is as follows:
Druid: 5
Mage: 2
Priest: 3
Rogue: 3
Shaman: 1
Warlock: 6
Warrior: 4

By contrast the European final has the following breakdown:
Druid: 6
Mage: 3
Priest: 5
Rogue: 3
Warlock: 2
Warrior: 5

Do you see what I see, or more importantly what we don't see? Right, no hunter, and no paladin. Interesting to say the least. I guess we can put to rest that hunters and paladins are overpowered at least in this situation. Apparently the Europeans enjoy shadow damage from a priest rather than shadow damage from a warlock or maybe they need more healing.

My guess is that all of this will get flipped on its head when the new talent trees roll out and don't even get me started on what happens when death knights fall out of every happy meal. Read up on the rest of the tournament info at World of Warcraft PvP Tournament.

How much do you think Blizzard is really going to change to help the poor excluded classes from this list in the next expansion? We've all heard that they will never try to balance every class to be able to beat every other class one on one, but I'd imagine a lot of people standing at Blizzard whiteboards are looking at this long and hard. If they want to make it a true eSport, then players need to be able to choose more classes. Do these numbers surprise you, and should they be of concern? Stop by for a rare PvP discussion with me in our forums.