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World Cyber Games Underway

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beats-the-hell-out-of-football dept.

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.

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  1. How ironic... by crotherm · · Score: 4, Funny


    that this article gets posted right after the gaming addiction article....

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  2. Addiction, then competition. by Thng · · Score: 2, Funny

    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...

  3. sign me up by pangu · · Score: 2, Funny

    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...

  4. I'm a $2000 winner! by nsample · · Score: 4, Funny
    This from the WCG site:


    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! =)

  5. What amazes me. . . by foo+fighter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    . . .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.

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    1. Re:What amazes me. . . by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny
      Maybe MSFT could sponsor a 5,000,000 line debug...

      "They're making their way through the first 50,000 lines, it's neck and neck! Oh, Johannson's screen turns blue, he's out of it!"

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    2. Re:What amazes me. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm waiting for the "Punch The Monkey and win" tournament. I'm good at that one.

  6. Repeat after me... by night_flyer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I do not have a gaming adic... oooooh... Return To Castle Wolfienstein...

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  7. Live feeds l/p by Ando[evilmedic] · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you wanna watch the live feeds of the games, you have to sign in. I've made a general slashdot account.

    l: slashdot_ca
    p: slashdot

    The feeds won't be running for about another three hours, because it's sleeptime in Soeul.

  8. Kids! Like in the normal Olympics... by albamuth · · Score: 2

    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.

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  9. Laughing...at my own expense. by albamuth · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm a mean guy...really. I can't help it. I've been looking through the Counter-Strike team profiles and laughing really hard.

    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

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  10. CyberCon for RPG by Kraft · · Score: 2

    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.

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  11. Oh the cleverness by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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).

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  12. not much hype...34 UT players ???? by Archfeld · · Score: 2

    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...

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    1. Re:not much hype...34 UT players ???? by Archfeld · · Score: 2

      well the NGI 1 v 1 champ and the UTI singles victor are not on the list but may be under another nick for that matter.

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    2. Re:not much hype...34 UT players ???? by veddermatic · · Score: 2

      Zero4_us

      Makaveli_us

      Lexer_ru

      [xeno]Boodah_ca

      Yeah, you must know a lot about gaming because these guys all suck at Q3A! =P

      Admittedly, there are a lot of great players not playing, but that's because only 3 form each country made it... there is a very high concentration of "top 10" talent in the US and a few other Euro countries... thus the field is not as strong as if it were an "open" event... however, to say that there aren't ANY top 10 people playing is simply erronious.

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  13. The other league by mshomphe · · Score: 2

    The other league mentioned in the BBC article is The CyberAthlete League.

    And this is not just gratiuitous karma-whoring...

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  14. sci fi chanel show by British · · Score: 2

    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.