Gamers Unite for Video Game Olympics

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.

Should be a great tournament

[dnixon112]

Despite some early rumors of accomodation problems, this should be a great tournament. Here's some pics of the opening ceremony.
Gallery 1 [gotfrag.com] Gallery 2 [gotfrag.com]

Re:Wow

[Dot.Com.CEO]

Well, for those who don't know, "cyber" comes from the greek verb "kyvernein" that is also the root for the word "government". It means, oddly enough "to govern".

"Cyber" has been used in its present (non)sense since some obviously idiotic academic or journalist thought it sounded cool. Other such idiotic words were "Matrix" as a superset of the internet and I, for one, am glad they are dead. Leave them there.

correction: Re:visa rejected for european player

[perler]

to correct myself, as reported here [www.giga.de] (it's in german, use the fish):

not the visa itself was rejected but a special entry permission which was neccessary to arrive to the WCG in time. they refered him to the normal visa application process which takes around 1,5 weeks - but which has no use when the WCG starts today..

PAT

Re:Machines specs ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you look at the photo gallery? All of the machines are already set up using the exact same parts, even same keyboard and monitor.