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World Cyber Games 2003 Results
jester42 writes "The quasi-olympics in eSports just took place this last weekend in Seoul, Korea. 600 players from 55 nations competed in 8 different games to find both best players and best nations. The results of each game, and a medal tally can be found at the WCG website. Germany got the title of best nation, ahead of Chinese Taipei and Korea. The World Cyber Games are held every year, and national qualifications are followed by a final. Next year's final will be hosted by San Francisco, and will be the first time the WCG finals take place outside Asia."
Why isn't this an olympic sport yet?
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I wonder if the tournament downloads, specifically Unreal Tournament 2003 recorded matches are available for download. It'd be interesting to watch.
Does anyone know where to get these files?
There is no doubt that korea is still the best gaming nation. Foreign nations were able to take 2nd (Germany) and 3rd (Canada) because of korea's bad organization. First off, they denied the two-time defending champion (Lim Yo Hwan, Slayers_`Boxer`) an automatic bid, which they had given him previously. They then ran the qualifers as best-of-1 with no losers bracket. Because of this and inherent randomness/map imbalance, many of the favorites from korea were eliminated early and only one of the qualifing players was ranked in the top 10 in Korea. This allowed Germany to pick up some points in Starcraft that they wouldn't have won otherwise.
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The FIFA Soccer Finals: two German twin brothers who agreed beforehand to split the prize.
As England's Gary Lineker said: Football is a game with 22 men and in the end, the Germans always win.
What do you mean? It was a team competition. The Swedish Team beat US in the Finals.
the games aren't constant.
it's like turning the rules of soccer(or american football) on it's head every few years. with the olympic cycle of 4 years, the games would completely change between every olympic games held. now you could become 'olympic level' in any of the games mentioned now in just few years practice, which is not possible in (most) other olympic sports.
now, just about the only (electronic)games that would have had the longevity needed for even thinking of being added would be nethack(with special categories such as illiterate monk?) and.. well, something, tetris perhaps. the games that have been played for 10+ years aren't exactly popular.
perhaps in 50 years we will have games that have a life of more than 20+ years, enough to strike it through as a real long term sports.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
hmm didnt know they still called it that. next thing you know someone will start talking about formousa :-p. get over the political correctness; its Taiwan
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Kind of hard to find anything on this game (at least in english). Here's a short review in english.
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Looks like the following are official sites (Taiwanese and Korean respectively)
http://www.spgame.com.tw/
http://spgame.com/
Seems to be some kind of multiplayer RPG that's got an anime feel to it . .
FIFA Soccer - Uh hello, in the US Madden on PS2 outsells like every crappy soccer game ever made for any system COMBINED. This is a clear example of anti-US bias.
Do do realize however, that soccer (Futbol, football etc...) is the single most popular sport in the world in terms of fans, televised audiences and participants. Guess what? NFL is not even second here. That honor would go to Formula One racing. NFL football, like Nascar racing is a uniquely American phenomenon that most of the rest of the world simply does not follow.
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Wah, wah, I don't play the games because I think they suck or they're not popular here, so they must be anti-me!
It's also discrimanatory against the majority of Ethopians because they don't have the luxury of computers! Let's make Bush bomb Korea! Both of them!
Hey, can my team from Uganda play in your "World Series"?
I just read the last paragraph, you think they HATE the USA? What a self-inflated feeling of worth. They probably didn't even care that no loud-talking, fat-ass, whiny Americans like you attended the event.
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