WCG Pakistan finally announced!
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While the national qualifiers for World Cyber Games 2008 have already been completed in most countries over the world, they just started here in Pakistan. After much confusion over the past few weeks regarding this year’s WCG, Wateen Telecom finally announced last week that it will be organising the qualifiers in Pakistan. Winners will get a chance to represent Pakistan at the WCG grand finals to be held in Cologne, Germany later this year.
Regional qualifiers were conducted at certain gaming cafes in 8 cities over the last week. The six titles that the organisers included are:
- Counter-Strike 1.6
- Warcraft III
- Command & Conquer 3
- FIFA ‘08
- Dota (Pakistan only)
- CoD 4 (Pakistan only)
According to Wateen the national finals will be held in Lahore on the 6-7th of October, where the winners of the regional qualifiers will compete against each other.
More information regarding dates and venues can be found at games.wateen.com/wcg. If you want to find out more about the WCG grand final itself, visit www.worldcybergames.com.
This year’s edition of WCG Pakistan has received heavy criticism because it was poorly publicised and is being held way too late. Other than that, the dates for the national final in Lahore were recently changed and the venue still hasn’t been decided! These are things that should be taken care of before the event is announced so that participants can plan ahead. Some people are even speculating that the winners might not be able to attend the grand final because there won’t be enough time for visas to be issued. For now we can just hope that everything goes as planned and not too many gamers are disappointed.
That’s cool. India’s WCG is about the same time as well. Maybe we should have a showmatch !
Comment Posted at: September 29th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
COD4 has really grown in the area I live in, and I believe our players are really passionate about this game and about Dota too. Good luck Pakistan!
Comment Posted at: September 29th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Why no FIFA 08?!?
Comment Posted at: September 29th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
@Kage: Showmatches on LAN would be awesome if they can be arranged somehow :D. There was one last year… but it was only for CS. I would love to watch some warcraft games, even though im aware india has a few better players hehe.
@b33f208: Fifa is up there… read again!
Comment Posted at: September 30th, 2008 at 3:07 am
It’s not for Pakistan is it?
Comment Posted at: September 30th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Pakistan will participate in the six games listed above. ‘Pakistan only’ means that winners of those games won’t advance to the grand finals in Germany. So Fifa IS part of it and pakistan has a slot at the grand final.
Comment Posted at: September 30th, 2008 at 7:06 am
I hop from 8 cities of pakistan quetta would be 1 of them .
Comment Posted at: September 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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