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 2008: Winners and Demos
Posted by on October 15th, 2008
Clans and gamers that have won the WCG Pakistan 2008 qualifiers are as follows:
CS 1.6 Winners: -i- [Incredibles] (Karachi) Runnerups: 5Fraggers (Karachi) WARCRAFT 3 TFT: DOTA Winners: Titans (Karachi) Runnerups: TR (Islamabad) WARCRAFT 3 TFT Winners: Bilal Rasheed (Islamabad) FIFA 2008 Winner: Syed Waleed Nazar (Karachi) Runnerups: Fahad Khan (Karachi) Call of Duty 4 (COD4) Winner: Metal (Islamabad) Runnerups: Under World (Rawalpindi) Command and Conquer 3 Winner: Salahuddin Ahmed (Karachi)
This list was complied with the help of the organizers of the event.
Neomatrix Gaming Cafe hosted the national finals and they have posted an entire gallery of photos from the event. They also uploaded the Counter Strike demos and WarCraft 3 replays from the matches played in the tournament.
The cafe administration paid a special tribute to the volunteering referees and organizers.
WC3L Season XIV Update
Posted by on October 2nd, 2008
Warcraft’s most prestigious league, the WC3L, is heading towards the end of its current season. With a total of 11 playdays*, playday 10 is set to commence today with WE squaring off against SK.
When the season started, anyone could tell that by the end MYM, mTw, SK, fnatic and WE would be leading the pack. Infact, the competition between these 5 teams is so tight that only 3 points currently separate 1st place (MYM) from the 5th (mTw).
Click here to see what the rankings table looks like at the moment [taken from ESL]
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!
Masters of Paris: Quake 3 Invitational [ESWC]
Posted by on May 7th, 2008
Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) is paying homage to one of the great games that has been played on the competitive arena by sending an invitation to nearly 30 odd pro-Quake 3 gamers from around the world to participate in against each other and earn a berth in the upcoming ESWC tournament in Paris, France. The grand final will be attended by 3 of these 16 invited players who have not qualified through National Qualifiers. SK-Gaming has more,
The event will have sixteen international invitees and the top four French players from ESWC France. The three best players that have not qualified through national qualifiers will win berths to the ESWC Grand Final in San Jose.
The list includes the world’s top Quake 4 players that the fans haven’t had the time to forget, several unknowns and a few interesting “comeback names.” The major names missing are Johan “Toxic” Quick, Anton “Cooller” Singov and Paul “czm” Nelson.
Some of the names in the list have already retired or gone into hibernation or been playing Quake 4. It would be interesting to see some of the former best players of Quake 3 play this game once again in the ESWC Masters Of Paris. A small but passionate community of Quake 3 player still exists in Pakistan today. However, gone are the days when this game ruled the roost.
[Via SK-Gaming]
