WCG 2008: Day 3 Results - Single Elimination Stage
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Posted by on November 9th, 2008
The Warcraft tournament on Day 3 of WCG saw some really amazing games. The intensity of the games played was even greater since it was a knock-out phase. It was pretty obvious who would advance from the round of top 16 to the quarter-finals, with the exception of Like vs ToD, where with the use of some risky tower pushes ToD was able to defeat Like and moved on to face Grubby in the quarter-finals.
Having used his surprise tactic against Like already, ToD admitted that the King of Orcs was going to be hard to take down in an interview with SK-Gaming. That is what exactly happened, and Grubby came on top after three close games. Another quarter-final match that generated much interest was Moon vs TeD. Moon recovered from being down 0-1 in map score, taking the series with a score of 2-1.
The semi-finals saw Moon winning over Happy and Grubby over HoT. This set the stage for the most anticipated and THE greatest WCG final ever: MYM]Moon vs MYM]Grubby. The final is going to be played today, at 13:00 CET and will be streamed live on ESL TV, and WCG’s official stream. Let’s hope the streams are able to handle the load of the amount of expected spectators, which could be a record high!
Moon and Grubby - Team mates and rivals at the same time. Image from ggl.com
WCG 2008: Day 2 Results
Posted by on November 8th, 2008
The second day of World Cyber Games 2008 marks the end of the group stage for all titles part of the event. Pakistan’s games for CS, FIFA and CnC3 have been completed and the results were not bad at all!
FIFA player ‘SmoothCriminal’ had a very impressive run in his group. With a total of four games that he had to play, he was up 2-0 initially. I personally thought he was going to qualify from his group since he was leading the points table at that time. He lost the next two games, however, due to which he was tied for second place. ‘Orchi’ from Bangladesh managed to win the tie-breaker between them and qualified from the group with SmoothCriminal finishing third. (EDIT: There was no tie-breaker between them. In fact second place was awarded directly to the winner of their head to head group match - Orchi).
Team ‘incredibles’ who are representing Pakistan for Counter-Strike went 1-4 in their group with their win being against Simplex. Their losses include a very close game against ’Assassin List’ from UAE.
For CnC 3, ‘Pantera’ was able to take two maps out of six, finishing 2-4 overall in his group.
WCG 2008: Pakistan off to a Good Start!
Posted by on November 7th, 2008
Day 1 at World Cyber Games 2008 has ended and with some encouraging results from the WarCraft 3 department, currently being represented solely by Bilal Rasheed. Bilal is an accomplished user of the Night Elf race.
Bilal’s, Group D, group had his international teammate Kim from the Chinese Taipei, the Croat P1nke and the German underdog S.o.K.o.L. He managed to win 4 out of 6 games leading to a three way tie between him, P1nke, and S.o.K.o.L. But after the tie-breakers, it was S.o.K.o.L who won the second qualifying spot form the group.
Friends from all over the world praised Bilal’s performance in the tournament. This is for the first time that someone this young has accomplished something like this.
GITEX Dubai Digital Game World Opens!
Posted by on October 20th, 2008
GITEX Shopping and Consumer Electronics Expo in Dubai has already begun since 18th October, which will feature GITEX Digital Gaming World with both Console and PC gaming tournaments.
Famous teams from around the world like SK Gaming, mTw Gaming, MYM Gaming, miBr, Team Digitnas, Fnatic, and Mousports will be clashing in a Counter Strike 1.6 tournament held in unison with Electronic Sports League (ESL). With 1st Place getting $25,000 and the 2nd aiming for $10,000 the total prize money for this tournament will be $50,000.
WCG Pakistan finally announced!
Posted by on September 29th, 2008
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.
ESWC 2008 Grand Finals
Posted by on August 23rd, 2008
The sixth version of the Electronic Sports World Cup is right around the corner, being held next week between 25-27th of August. This year’s grand finals will take place in San Jose, California and will include competitions for Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Women, Quake III, Trackmania Nations, DotA and Warcraft III. The event boasts an impressive total prize purse of $200,000, which is to be split amongst the top3 contestants for each game. A detailed prize money breakdown can be found here.
The list of participants and pools for each game have already been announced (except for Trackmania) and can be found by clicking the following links:
GROUP STAGE 1: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Women, Quake III, DotA, Warcraft III.
Live results and updates can be found on their website throughout the event. There will also be a live video stream for main stage matches which can be viewed here. Live games can also be viewed on clients such as Waaagh!tv, GarenaTV, HLTV and TMTV.
This ought to be a great event so make sure you follow it!
Telenor Djuice Sponsoring ESWC Pakistan
Posted by on May 29th, 2008
Time to gear up for another mega gaming event taking on Pakistan. Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) has finally made a come back in Pakistan after a their main sponsors changed this year. This year I am glad to announce it’s Djuice who are behind the National Qualifiers in Pakistan. The two games that Pakistan is playing in are Defence of the Ancients (DotA) and Counter Strike 1.6 (CS 1.6).
The qualification round will be held country wide from May 26th to June 10th. The national finals will be in Expo Center Karachi from June 13th to June 14th. And the Grand Final will be in San Jose (Silicon Valley), California from August 25th to August 27th.
- Preliminaries at participating Gaming Arenas : May 26- June 10th
- Participating cities Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Pindi,Faislabad, Hyderabad, Quetta
- Karachi Offline Pre-liminaries: June 6- June 8 (EXPO CENTER, Karachi)
- National Finals: June 13- 14th
- Grand Finale at California, USA
Registration opens on May 25th for all locations. Registration Fee Rs 1000 per team (Rs 200 per player).
Each registrant will get a djuice SIM or credit of Rs. 140 on their already existing djuice SIMS.For Registration, Rules and Regulations and participating gaming arenas go to Wired Up site.
To be able to participate it is mandatory to have a Djuice connection.
Teams from all over the world participate in this grand event, and the prize is more than prestigious. With a hefty purse for the winning teams, ESWC gives a lot of the winners the bragging rights about winning on the top level. ESWC has other categories that players compete in like WarCraft 3 1v1, FIFA 2008 etc. Click the image at the top left to gain more on where and how to register for the preliminaries!
A List of Gaming Servers in Pakistan
Posted by on March 19th, 2008
For obvious reasons, most Gaming Servers can only be hosted when they are hosting games that allow a number of people to participate. Then it makes sense. Hence most gaming servers in Pakistan are based around first person shooters that create a virtual arena for multiple gamers to play simultaneously.
king_huzi at WCCFTech forums shares with us a detailed list of gaming servers hosted by different ISPs, that he has complied, from all over Pakistan.
mouzSports and Fnatic win CS1.6 while Lyn and HoT win WC3
Posted by on March 10th, 2008
The hot technology extravaganza being held at Hanover, Germany has come to an end and with it a lot of tournaments have also come to an end that were going on at the premises of CeBIT 2008.
Samsung European Championship was being hosted by the organization behind World Cyber Games and Samsung, and Extreme Masters Season 2 Finals were being hosted by E-Sports League of Europe and Intel.
The gaming gala saw many gaming celebrities amongst many like Grubby, Lyn, HoT, ToD for WarCraft 3, and mouzSports, SK-Gaming, MYM-Gaming and Fnatic for Counter-Strike 1.6 tournaments.
With so much talent at show it was expected that there would be upsets and there might be new champions.
As it happened, SK.Lyn won Extreme Masters (EMc) WarCraft 3 beating mouz.ToD and GravitasGaming.HoT won the Samsung European Championship (SEC) WarCraft 3 by beating the likes of mouz.SaSe and mouz.ToD.
Hot however crashed out of the EM Tourney, while Yoan ‘ToD’ Merlo from France had a strong showing in both the competitions and managed to stand second in one and third in the other (How the hell does he do it?!).
SK.Lyn has considered a favorite for the EMC, amongst many others which included HoT, ToD and MYM]Grubby. Lyn met ToD in the final and defeated him with an aggressive playstyle.
On the Counter-Strike 1.6 side, mouzSports won over e-STRO 16-8 to clinch the 1st spot and prize money of $50,000 at the EMC. Fnatic won over MYM Gaming 16-4 in the final match of the Grand Final to win the SEC title.
All images and tournament score details can be found on the above given links.
Above images are by SK-Gaming.com
Counter-Strike 2 on the horizon!
Posted by on March 7th, 2008
Expect to hear an explosive news about Counter-Strike 2 any time now. As a number of gaming news sites claim that the producers of the game, Valve, will reveal plans for a new version of Counter-Strike that took the world by storm in 1999 just as a simple mod to Half Life.
SK Gaming has this,
Now Gametrailers.com announced their visit to Valve in Seattle to actually take a look at a Behind the Scenes of Left 4 Dead and will also reveal a new map for Team Fortress 2. Additionally to that, it’s said “Whats the latest on Counter-Strike 2? You maybe surprised what Gabe Newell has to say”.
While some games become so popular that they create whole cultures around them, they can also become a boon for the developers who cannot seem to break a new game like the old one. They cannot seem to capture the market occupied by their own product.
Only the recent version of Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Source has been able to make some headway into the competitive gaming scene, yet a lot of the community members remain loyal to the gameplay and intricacy of the original Counter-Strike mod.
What remains to be seen is how much this game is adopted when it comes out. People mostly play CS1.6 because of it’s low-end requirements. CS Source however takes a lot of resources to run.
Another question that comes to one is who will ultimately control what games become famous? It is obviously the gamer! There is no two ways about it. The better the product the better prospects of it going far.
Good luck Valve, deliver this time, please!
