Upper Deck's first WoW TCG World Championships are over, and the $100,000 winner is Guillame Matignon, who crushed his opponents (including the US Champ Brad Watson) with-- what else-- a Blood Elf Paladin. Unfortunately, it looks like UD's Ben Drago was far too busy to blog, but UD's official site has lots of great information and recaps.

• This really was a World Champs-- players hailed from countries all over the globe.
• Here's a great walkthrough of the artists' table, including a few good insights from the artists about where the card art comes from.
• Unfortunately, Upper Deck didn't let us into that dinner with the developers that they held, but here's the two guys who got to go.
• And finally, the players: they put together not only profiles of the top 8 players, but after it was all said and done, an interview with the $100,000 winner. The French player ran undefeated for 12 rounds to win it all, and how'd he do it. "Aggressive Horde, always." For the Horde!

All of Upper Deck's coverage is available on their website. Odds are that you didn't win the tournament, but worry not-- WoW Insider has your chance to win another WoW TCG prize later this week. Congrats to all the winners in San Diego, and cheers to Upper Deck for putting on what sounds like a terrific TCG event.

Tags: artists, ben-drago, brad-watson, dinner-with-the-developers, for-the-horde, guillarme-matignon, upper-deck, world-championships, wow-tcg

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