Gamers Unite for Video Game Olympics 155
The Hobo writes "About 700 of the world's best gamers began battling it out Wednesday, as the fourth annual World Cyber Games got underway in San Francisco. The five-day annual event is a culmination of national competitions held around the world and pits the best players against each other in a variety of widely popular games like Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Halo, Starcraft and FIFA Soccer.
The winner opened with... (Score:1, Funny)
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Keep the sport clean! (Score:5, Funny)
BaltikaTroika
Finally (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Keep the sport clean! (Score:3, Funny)
Geddit? No? Honestly, wasted! Wasted I tell thee!
Professional Starcraft Player (Score:4, Funny)
Five years ago, the Quebec-born Patry became the Starcraft world champion and was offered a job as a professional game player in South Korea, initially making about $100,000 a year.
His annual salary is now estimated at about $500,000 and, as the star of a Korean Starcraft TV program, he needs bodyguards to protect him from his fans.
Thanks, that made me feel really bad about my job.
I wanna see... (Score:1, Funny)
The Star Wars premiere was great, but i bet he could really rip into these guys.
Turkish!? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
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Daley Thompson! (Score:0, Funny)
Steve.
any other parallels with olympics? (Score:3, Funny)
are we going to have boycotts? the muslim world boycotting all civilization iii competitions because cities can build cathedrals instead of mosques?
are we going to have cities competing to host? i think seoul will host the next 25 olympics then, considering their massively superior bandwidth infrastructure as compared to the rest of the world
are we going to have sports no one watches? minesweeper for example?
are we going to have judging scandals? are we going to have overwhelmingly nationalistic audiences? etc.
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Re:Professional Starcraft Player (Score:3, Funny)
OMG ZERG RUSH!!!!!
Re:Dear Cybertect (Score:2, Funny)
Yours spuriously,
Sue Eweblind
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