A List of Warcraft Leagues
A major portion of the replays that are uploaded on well known warcraft sites (WCReplays, Replays.net etc) are produced by top level league games such as the WC3L or NGL. There is no doubt that these two leagues are the top most in every aspect… be it prize money, skill level, organisation or the fact that both have offline finals every season. However, there is a lot more activity in the warcraft scene and many of us are not aware of it.
Here is a list along with a small description of other not so well known European and American leagues. I’ll try my best to order them in decreasing skill order as accurately as possible.
1. WPL - ‘Warcraft Premier League’
WPL is a branch of ‘The Gaming League’ (TGL) with well known teams such as PGS, wicked, srs and fnatic that take part in it. I would rate it above NGL-two even.
2. WCIP - ‘Wc3 International Premiership’
The WCIP is organised by ‘Electronic Sports League’ (which also organises WC3L) and is highly rated among all the semi-pro leagues.
3. WGS - ‘World Gaming Series’
The WGS is responsible for organising two warcraft leagues, namely ‘The Frozen League’ (TFL) and ‘World Gaming League’ (WGL). TFL works on the WC3L format (five independent games) whereas the WGL is NGL format (winner to stay). These two leagues are almost as good as WCIP, if not better.
4. WHL - ‘Warcraft Heroes League’
WHL is only into its third season and has improved massively since when it started. Many top american teams and some decent european teams participate in this league.
WCL has been around for a while now. The organisers faced some problems recently and there were some chances of it being closed down, but thankfully it’s still running, currently having qualifiers for their next season.
Other respectable leagues that fall at the bottom of this list include:
7. W3AL - ‘Warcraft III Americas League’
8. ICL/ICE - ‘Infernal Cry League’
I’ve been following these leagues a lot more than i used to. While the skill level is definitely not what one might be used to seeing in golden crowned replays from replays.net, this level of gaming also helps us improve. The reason being that these players make mistakes that pros only rarely would, from which we could learn.
Replays from these leagues can be found on their websites.
Grubby, also known as the King of Orcs hails from the Netherlands and plays for team Meet Your Makers. 
ToD on the other hand is a French Human player representing team mousesports. Both of them are considered top world class players and have a bunch of notable accomplishments.
