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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. 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! =)

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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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