WCG Pakistan finally announced!
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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!
LAGAN: DotA and CounterStrike 1.6 Tournament at LUMS
Posted by on February 28th, 2008
Rafey Majeed, a good friend of mine and a top level WarCraft 3 player from Islamabad has just informed me that Lahore University of Management Science (LUMS) is organizing a gaming tournament for DotA and CounterStrike 1.6! Woohoo! LUMS Annual Gaming Arcane Nationals, or LAGAN, will be held on the LUMS Campus.
MeetYourMakers Defeat WolkeR to lift Prime Defending 9 Cup!
Posted by on February 28th, 2008
MYM.DotA > WolkeR-Gaming - Download Replay.
This event was sponsored by SENNHEISER. Sorry for the typo earlier in the title. Fixed now 
Virtus.pro are Prime-less and might ultimately disband!
Posted by on February 27th, 2008
It is a sad thing to say, but the much acclaimed pro gaming clan hailing from Russia has forfeit the Prime Championship. This news comes after they lost to MeetYourMakers.DotA in the winners bracket and were thrown into the loser brackets. The management of the team has decided to forfeit, due to some serious personal problems of a few players.
Virtus was then scheduled to play the loser bracket finals with WolkeR, a Ukrainian DotA clan. But now that WolkeR has been informed of their forfeit they get a default win and are back into the winner brackets, in the grand finals, where they will meet MYM tonight at 18:00 CET, which is 23:00 Pakistan Standard Time.
Here is a link to the info on the final match, and here is a detailed tournament coverage.
Replay: Virtus vs iTs)Our(TiMe - Download Here.
MYM PriDe 9 tournament has been hosted by MeetYourMaker’s parent company.
Awesome DoTA videos!
Posted by on February 19th, 2008
Excellent hits and combos. One of these DoTA videos have been made by MYM]Slasher, one of the best DoTA players in the world. This video is an example of “skill” in DoTA, kills, escapes, innovation, all are included. So, do check them out:
DotA Allstars 6.50b Released!
Posted by on February 9th, 2008
First of all, I am really sorry for not having been able to update much on Defense of the Ancients… So here’s one. If you don’t know what DotA is, read this document [PDF - right click save as], at GetDotA. Another great resource on what and how to play DotA is the DotA-Allstars FAQ section.
Following is a collection of file mirror links provided by enGamers.
