Gamers Unite for Video Game Olympics

The Hobo writes "About 700 of the world's best gamers began battling it out Wednesday, as the fourth annual World Cyber Games got underway in San Francisco. The five-day annual event is a culmination of national competitions held around the world and pits the best players against each other in a variety of widely popular games like Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Halo, Starcraft and FIFA Soccer.

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The winner opened with...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the line "What are you wearing, baby?"


mailto:3dinfo@maficstudios.com

Keep the sport clean!

[BaltikaTroika]

So would overclocking be considered "performance enhancement"? ;)

BaltikaTroika

Re:Keep the sport clean!

[dotwaffle]

To be honest, if you're sad enough to play computer games for a living (says here sitting at a Linux workstation at university trying to organise a meeting for the computer society) then you will probably never need "performance enhancement" :)

Geddit? No? Honestly, wasted! Wasted I tell thee!

Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

We can reach world unity and peace... through bloody virtual conflict!

Professional Starcraft Player

[asuzuki]

From the article:
Five years ago, the Quebec-born Patry became the Starcraft world champion and was offered a job as a professional game player in South Korea, initially making about $100,000 a year.

His annual salary is now estimated at about $500,000 and, as the star of a Korean Starcraft TV program, he needs bodyguards to protect him from his fans.

Thanks, that made me feel really bad about my job.

Re:Professional Starcraft Player

[Anonymous Coward]

he needs bodyguards to protect him from his fans.

OMG ZERG RUSH!!!!!

I wanna see...

[ayjay29]

I wanna see "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog" there...

The Star Wars premiere was great, but i bet he could really rip into these guys.

Turkish!?

[ImaLamer]

No... I believe it was because the CIA had learned of an earlier "Cat Stevens" CD purchase the player had made...

Re:Wow

[MobiusClark]

Not bad for a Canadian, eh?

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Daley Thompson!

[Anonymous Coward]

But surely no video game olympics could be complete without Daley Thompsons Decathlon?

Steve.

any other parallels with olympics?

[circletimessquare]

are we going to have drug testing? no caffeine?

are we going to have boycotts? the muslim world boycotting all civilization iii competitions because cities can build cathedrals instead of mosques?

are we going to have cities competing to host? i think seoul will host the next 25 olympics then, considering their massively superior bandwidth infrastructure as compared to the rest of the world

are we going to have sports no one watches? minesweeper for example? ;-P

are we going to have judging scandals? are we going to have overwhelmingly nationalistic audiences? etc.

Re:visa rejected for european player

[KombuchaGuy]

A lot of CS Players had a similar problem. They all ticked the 'sometimes' box for the "Are you a terrorist?" question on the Green Card.

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