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World Series of Videogames Announced
bdickason writes "Games Media Properties released the initial press release for the World Series of Video Games, a 6-stop worldwide event that features PC and Xbox gamers competing for a million dollars in prizes. Sponsors include Intel and Xbox 360." From the article: "The unlikely Midwestern city of Louisville, KY will play host to the first WSVG event at its Kentucky International Convention and Exposition Center from June 15to 18. What makes this event interesting is not the huge size and extra side acts, but the integration with Swedish super-LAN, Dreamhack, whose dates and time will coincide. The release states that 'American and European teams will have the ability to compete against each other from these two events,' indicating that international travel might not be required and that online play might determine the winner. Let's hope their server is somewhere in the Atlantic!"
...is videogame baseball!
Get it? World Series? Baseball?
Ah screw it, I'm heading back to work.
"It's a tarp!" -- Dyslexic Admiral Ackbar
"What makes this event interesting is not the huge size and extra side acts, but the integration with Swedish super-LAN, Dreamhack, whose dates and time will coincide. The release states that "American and European teams will have the ability to compete against each other from these two events," indicating that international travel might not be required and that online play might determine the winner. Let's hope their server is somewhere in the Atlantic!"
This brings the concept of home field advantage to a whole new level.
Someday...
I wonder if in the future, having a GAMING olympics, that school students could have an extra curricular acvitity in training for the gaming olympics.
If your neighbours roof is flying past your window, you know it's cyclone season.
If you get the whistle, it opens the warp.
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I remember some of the stories my grandfather told me about "baseball". Once upon a time, people actually used to pay good money to watch nine players on two teams hit a ball around for about three hours. It was so popular they called it "the national passtime". In fact, I think the term "World Series" came from baseball's championship. If anyone else knows anything about this ancient and forgotten game, please post some links...
So, it's called "World Series" but it doesn't work like THE World Series. Instead it's based on the two least interesting major sports leagues ever invented...
Will it be as good as the SMB3 shootout in The Wizard (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/)?
How can the world series of video games be held on the two least popular game platforms in the world? This sounds a lot more like the World Series of Microsoft-sponsored Video Games to me.
;)
Any world series of anything that doesn't include Smash Bros needs to seriously re-evaluate its standards
I was waiting for someone to note this..
It's like the Summer Olympics announcing that all swimming sports will be excluded in 2008 and beyond..
I want prices for entry, games to be played, and an entry form. Its so funny, I was one of the best in Warcraft3, but the last competition filled up before I can join in. Not exactly fair at all. If they wanted real talent to do these games, they'd open up unlimited join slots.
God spoke to me.
... then why not video games?
> the World Series of Video Games
At some point 10 years or so from now:
"But today (echo: ooo-day, ooo-day, ooo-day)
I consider myself (eye-self, eye-self, eye-self)
The fattest man (attest man, attest man, attest man)
On the face of the earth (cheers drown out echos!)"
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Louisville, Kentucky has been the home to the Million Man Lan for several years running, and the facilities at their convention center are huge. It seems like an odd place, but having been to both the MML and to events in the midst of San Francisco, it's a lot easier to handle parking, lodging, and space issues in rural areas like KY, so it's not a bad choice. Just hope nobody gets wanderlust and wants to go exploring, because there's not a whole lot to see outside of the convention center.
Moo
If they're really wanting to brand themselves as a World Series of Video Games--rather indicating all of them--shouldn't they be including more than a subsection of available video games? "PC + Xbox" is likely not even a plurality, let alone a majority. (Even less, as I'm fairly certain they're not including Java/Flash games in their number, either.)
Meanwhile, how can you even HAVE a good competition throughout the whole world? Every region has very different game preferences and staples. Somehow I can't see them encorporating a gigantic swath and then weighing things accordingly, so I figure it will be N.A.-centric as well.
Ah well... Gotta start somewhere, I suppose.
They're not letting Asian teams compete?
Are they afraid of losing?
Or is this like another "World Series", where the only parts of the world that matter are Europe and America?
And why should I even pay attention to this joke of an event, especially when compared to that other, big, world-famous one. Y'know... that... World... Cybering... Games? Or something? That's racist!
Odd, I always thought the Midwest was a bit closer to Iowa, Kansas & Missouri.
Not way the hell east, over in Kentucky.