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.
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.
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.
World Cyber Games Announces Event’s List!
Posted by on March 15th, 2008
The much awaited response from the World Cyber Game’s organization about their poll about the most preferred games for 2008 events has finally come through. WCG 2008 will have the following games:
For the PC:
- StarCraft: BroodWar in 1v1
- WarCraft III: Frozen Throne in 1v1
- Counter-Strike 1.6 in 5v5
- FIFA Soccer 2008 in 1v1
- Need For Speed: Pro Street in 1v1
- Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath in 1v1
- Red Stone in 4v4
- Carom3D in 1v1
- Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties in 1v1
For the Xbox 360:
- Halo 3 in 4v4
- Guitar Hero 3 in 1v1
- Project Gotham Racing 4 in 1v1
- Virtua Fighter 5 in 1v1
For the Mobile:
- Asphalt in 1v1
As usual, qualifiers and preliminaries will be held in cities around the world, and after national finals, teams will come forward for the Grand Finals, that are being held in Berlin (Correction: Cologne, Thanks Chapree) this year.
[Via SK Gaming]
