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World Cyber Games Underway
b3kZ writes "The World Cyber Games opening ceremonies took place yesterday. Check out the WCG page for match results (tournaments for 8 different games), bios of the players, and interviews. Lots of coverage including live feeds, GTV, HLTV etc..." M : There's also a BBC story about this and another gaming competition.
All around the world you hear
"UNF UNF UNF UNF"
You crazy man? You piss off supahfly!
that this article gets posted right after the gaming addiction article....
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable" - JFK
how can any normal person compete with those damn gaming addicts?
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
In light of the previous article, is this somewhat like the Cannibus Cup in The Netherlands?
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Are they going to have a gaming addiction center set up to treat all the participants?
Who can games addicts can't be a "hero" too?
When I first read the story about gaming addiction, I thought "Hey, that's my roommate." Then I read the story about the competition. He said earlier that he could be getting paid for his "skills" Dang I feel sorry for that kid. He could've been like a crack head getting paid to smoke the most crack...
According to their webpage, the game "Crazy Soccer" has two entrants, with a third place prize of $2000. I've never played Crazy Soccer, but I bet I could come in third and pay for the trip to Seoul...
Crazy Soccer © Adam Soft
Total Players : 2
Participating Countries : 2
Purse : Gold US$ 5,000
Silver US$ 3,000
Bronze US$ 2,000
I've never even HEARD of "Crazy Soccer" before, but if I could figure out just how to enter it'd be worth $2000! =)
Wow, I am just impressed that a team can make 40k playing CS.
Go USA. I hope y'all are using the SEAL skins.
(/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
. . .isn't that there is a World Cyber Games.
It's the purses that go to the winners. $20,000 for FIFA 2001, $40,000 for Quake III and Counterstrike!!!
And did you take a look at the sponsors? This is no America/Canada/UK "world cup". You've got companies from Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Australia/Oceania outnumbering the Americans/Canadians/British. I'd imagine that the competitors are also hailing from these nations.
I'm amazed that this thing is so huge and so world wide.
I do think it ironic that the goal of the games is "promoting harmony of humankind" when most of the games are won by destroying or conquering the rest of humankind.
obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
I do not have a gaming adic... oooooh... Return To Castle Wolfienstein...
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
If you wanna watch the live feeds of the games, you have to sign in. I've made a general slashdot account.
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The feeds won't be running for about another three hours, because it's sleeptime in Soeul.
I'll remind you that this site bears a multinational culture, but your remarks appear to be in the context of the USA so I will repsond in that context as well.
I just read the conclusions of the TMISS report you linked. The report's conclusions are mainly centered around the cultural context of school, particularly the testing and subsequent placement of students into varying programs based on skill. As Germany and Japan (the two countries used as a basis for comparison of American youth) the authors point out that with the importance of proficiency exams determining an individual's future, those exams and schoolwork receive a high degree of social importance.
What is interesting is that it mentions gaming and/or the internet NOWHERE in its conclusions. I don't know what type of child psych-babble you are portending to represent, but it is clear from the source you provided gaming was never considered an influence, nor the internet.
You then go on to cite 'Children at this age...' (under 16 apparently) and draw a litany of conclusions about them. First, what data are you using to support your claim that 'The slashdot editors should be aware that a large part of their community consists of children at an age below 16'? Or that they have trouble disseminating information as a whole.
And as for this comment, 'When they are exposed to computer game propagandizing sites they'll have no chance against the psychological tricks used there and fall for computer gaming addiction at once.' - all I have to say is that it is meaningless conjecture until you provide substantiation for a statement such as that.
If you don't like gaming, then fine, what distresses me is your unabashed and shameless use of a 'save the children' cry to try and forward your agenda. I would rather my children understand the cultural decisions they need to make about entertainment and work than follow a scrupulous shill as yourself.
I was wandering around the site when I found the qualifying finalists list. Digging up the Half-Life USA team, I can't find a single person born before 1980. I guess we old-timers ( "gen-X" ) don't have a chance.
[pink beam of light]
Check the player totals for each event:
There are currently only two players in Crazy Scooter, yet there are three purses. Enter now and you walk with at least $2,000!
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
The thing is, in the normal Olympics you get every country's most physically fit representative. In this case, you get every country's most horribly geeky representatives!
PS: for a view of a team that fits under the "frighteningly pale" category, check out the French team.
PPS: Okay, I looked at the team from [*cough*], and the term "Ironic Mirror" just stopped my laughing.
:^p
[pink beam of light]
Ha! This article is the best possible followup to the gaming addiction article posted just minutes earlier. Awesome.
As an old Dungeons & Dragons fan, I find CyberCon more interesting - a virtual RPG game convention, played on "virtual desktops", such as the python written openrpg.
Nice...
I have tried the openrpg program, and it works really well. My old gaming group is scattered across Europe, but now we are getting back together online. Still dont know if we can re-capture the old feel, but it's worth a shot.
-Kraft
Live and let live
If Tekken 3 or Master of Orion (1) had been among the events, I would have been several thousand dollars richer, for sure ;)
Ogre rocks! (not that wuss "real ogre", though, it always annoys me that the outstanding ogre's "prize" for winning the arcade mode is turning into the slow and worthless real ogre)
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Hey, that link has got the players BIOS! If I download and install one, can it make my reflexes faster?
of these peoples 'Special Strategies'. Half of them are either 'not lose' or 'win'. Wow, thanks for the insight buddy, but what do you expect when most of them are barely out of high school. Most of the bios I looked at are born after 1980, but still something slightly more witty would be more entertaining like maybe for starcraft: 'Eat Zergling', Q3: 'Let them Ride the Rail', etc.
I must admit I'm more interested in the StarCraft tourney, but I can understand why the americans are losing so much, they all play terran, ugh, but they're probably too young to realize that Zerg rule.
(This wasn't intended as flamebait, but it seemed to come out like that, oh well, I have karma to spare).
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
Don't you think they should? You don't need players having heart attacks from taking too many ephedrine pills before a match.
There's a good chance I'm wrong, but is the competition hosted by Koreans? 'Cause I'm a Korean myself (born in Austin) and I know that it takes a Korean to make that many English typos in a website.
my book
But 400+ countries? not bad.
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Score 3? For what? Being wrong, at length? - smirkleton
They have a very complicated website composed of 7000 nested HTML constructs devoted entirely to informing us about every last detail of the event. They forgot to add one thing though, the actual details. The scores are wrong, missing, late, etc. The GTV coverage consists of 1 server for 50 people which is full, crashes, and is showing a practice game. There is no UTV coverage. I do not know the state of the HLTV coverage, but I can guess. The live streaming had Korean Curling, I let you draw your own conclusions about the live streaming. The BIOS are threadbare and boring (cept for K9-Makaveli's of course).
Why does everyone, except slashdot (shameless attempt @ favorable mod), forget the content?
I looked thru the so called elite gamers for Q3 and UT, NONE of the top 10 are on the list, Half the top 10 Clans from the NGI, and UTI are not even aware the contest is going on...What a joke, the team from UT that won the World Invitational was unaware there was even a contest...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Can't be a true online gaming compitition without this classic!
The other league mentioned in the BBC article is The CyberAthlete League.
And this is not just gratiuitous karma-whoring...
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
No more than 6 litres of coca-cola before a game.
This also brings to light the dark side to drugs and video gaming, even though your high will help you play faster, you'll eventually burn out and have to run to the can.
-Wrexsoul
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Does anyone remember that show on the Sci Fi channel that involved some tournament(some game I never heard of that had a dedicated cabinet, etc) involving racing spaceships with blockade runners etc?
The only thing i remmeber about that show was that it had THE nerdiest contestants I have ever seen.
The team leave for Korea on Thursday with Miss World Cyber Games Australia, Anna George, and Dimitri's mother as chaperone.
I almost feel sorry for her. :|
Anyone see a single girl in the tournament? I suppose it'll only be a matter of time before they feel discriminated against and demand equal representation... which usually means giving them their own division away from the men.
Wh3r3 4r3 th3 h0t Ch11XX0r g4m3rZ!?
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You shure could, considering none of the mayor SC players participate in the tournament....
This looks like The Dutch Quake championship i've seen, where they forgot to invite the highest ranking quake players of our country, including my friend who ranked 15th of the world by that time. Funny thing is I don't recognize any of the SC players Nicknames.
Make a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life
Most Americans I speak with on the phone can't speak proper English (or American for that matter). Did it cross your mind that it COULD be that foreigners live in a country?
> bios of the players
Is it flash-updatable?
Why can't they just collide a whole bunch of little hadrons?