Mjollnir
September 10th, 2003, 11:09 PM
The following message is for those with a genuine interest in competitive gaming:
Do you ever wonder what it would be like if your favorite computer game became an actual event at the Olympics where the top gamers from each country would actually compete against one another for those gold, silver, and bronze medals? If you throw in a hefty amount of cash and prizes for those medal winners, that's almost what you find in the World Cyber Games (http://www.worldcybergames.org/) that is currently held every year with over 55 countries participating.
Here is a brief summary that I found in a related press release:
"The World Cyber Games 2003 Grand Final, scheduled to be held in the Seoul Olympic Park from Oct. 12 through Oct. 18, will showcase world-class competition between top gamers from around the world in seven official games including: Age of Mythology, FIFA Soccer 2003, Halo, Half-Life: Counter-Strike, StarCraft: Brood War, Unreal Tournament 2003, and WarCraft III. A week-long festival of entertainment, exhibitions, music, and cultural exchange surrounds the competition, truly bringing the WCG Grand Final."
The USA finals that determines who will represent Team USA in Seoul later this year recently took place in Irvine, CA from 8/19 to 8/21. While I haven't found a listing of the gamers that will officially make up Team USA (plz post a link if you find it), you can read more about the USA Finals in a report posted by Blizzard Entertainment yesterday that will tell who will represent Team USA in StarCraft: Brood War and WarCraft III (duh, games they developed) at http://www.battle.net/war3/files/wcg2003.shtml. Also, you can see a complete list of all the actual qualifiers that competed at the event including where they are from at http://us.worldcybergames.org/winners.html.
Anyways, the U.K. Finals were held this past weekend so I now know that I've got a friend who will be representing the U.K. in Half-Life: Counter-Strike and WarCraft III in the world finals. Even though he's a real smack-talker, I kinda hope he wins something or at least gets himself a damn medal. Heh.
On a more interesting note for Americans, the World Cyber Games announced last week on September 4th that this international competition will take place in San Francisco, CA in 2004 which you can read more about at this long-ass link: http://www.worldcybergames.com/press/views.asp?group_cd=01002&cont_seq=819&catalog_seq=10 (where I got the above quote from too).
Do you ever wonder what it would be like if your favorite computer game became an actual event at the Olympics where the top gamers from each country would actually compete against one another for those gold, silver, and bronze medals? If you throw in a hefty amount of cash and prizes for those medal winners, that's almost what you find in the World Cyber Games (http://www.worldcybergames.org/) that is currently held every year with over 55 countries participating.
Here is a brief summary that I found in a related press release:
"The World Cyber Games 2003 Grand Final, scheduled to be held in the Seoul Olympic Park from Oct. 12 through Oct. 18, will showcase world-class competition between top gamers from around the world in seven official games including: Age of Mythology, FIFA Soccer 2003, Halo, Half-Life: Counter-Strike, StarCraft: Brood War, Unreal Tournament 2003, and WarCraft III. A week-long festival of entertainment, exhibitions, music, and cultural exchange surrounds the competition, truly bringing the WCG Grand Final."
The USA finals that determines who will represent Team USA in Seoul later this year recently took place in Irvine, CA from 8/19 to 8/21. While I haven't found a listing of the gamers that will officially make up Team USA (plz post a link if you find it), you can read more about the USA Finals in a report posted by Blizzard Entertainment yesterday that will tell who will represent Team USA in StarCraft: Brood War and WarCraft III (duh, games they developed) at http://www.battle.net/war3/files/wcg2003.shtml. Also, you can see a complete list of all the actual qualifiers that competed at the event including where they are from at http://us.worldcybergames.org/winners.html.
Anyways, the U.K. Finals were held this past weekend so I now know that I've got a friend who will be representing the U.K. in Half-Life: Counter-Strike and WarCraft III in the world finals. Even though he's a real smack-talker, I kinda hope he wins something or at least gets himself a damn medal. Heh.
On a more interesting note for Americans, the World Cyber Games announced last week on September 4th that this international competition will take place in San Francisco, CA in 2004 which you can read more about at this long-ass link: http://www.worldcybergames.com/press/views.asp?group_cd=01002&cont_seq=819&catalog_seq=10 (where I got the above quote from too).