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World Cyber Games Underway 124

Posted by CmdrTaco from the beats-the-hell-out-of-football dept.
b3kZ writes "The World Cyber Games opening ceremonies took place yesterday. Check out the WCG page for match results (tournaments for 8 different games), bios of the players, and interviews. Lots of coverage including live feeds, GTV, HLTV etc..." M : There's also a BBC story about this and another gaming competition.
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World Cyber Games Underway

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  • Cyber games? (Score:1, Funny)

    by TimeTrip ( 254631 )
    All around the world you hear
    "UNF UNF UNF UNF"

  • How ironic... (Score:4, Funny)

    by crotherm ( 160925 ) on Wednesday December 05, 2001 @05:33PM (#2662139) Journal

    that this article gets posted right after the gaming addiction article....

    .

  • addiction (Score:1, Redundant)

    by nEoN nOoDlE ( 27594 )
    how can any normal person compete with those damn gaming addicts [slashdot.org]?

  • Hmm.. (Score:1, Redundant)

    by nebby ( 11637 )
    In light of the previous article, is this somewhat like the Cannibus Cup in The Netherlands?
  • Are they going to have a gaming addiction center set up to treat all the participants?
  • Now, those games addicts whose fingers can fly faster than their CPU clock speed can get some fame from this cyber games olympics.

    Who can games addicts can't be a "hero" too?

  • When I first read the story about gaming addiction, I thought "Hey, that's my roommate." Then I read the story about the competition. He said earlier that he could be getting paid for his "skills" Dang I feel sorry for that kid. He could've been like a crack head getting paid to smoke the most crack...

  • sign me up (Score:2, Funny)

    by pangu ( 322010 )
    According to their webpage, the game "Crazy Soccer" has two entrants, with a third place prize of $2000. I've never played Crazy Soccer, but I bet I could come in third and pay for the trip to Seoul...

  • I'm a $2000 winner! (Score:4, Funny)

    by nsample ( 261457 ) <nsample.stanford@edu> on Wednesday December 05, 2001 @05:43PM (#2662192) Homepage
    This from the WCG site:


    Crazy Soccer © Adam Soft

    Total Players : 2

    Participating Countries : 2

    Purse : Gold US$ 5,000

    Silver US$ 3,000

    Bronze US$ 2,000


    I've never even HEARD of "Crazy Soccer" before, but if I could figure out just how to enter it'd be worth $2000! =)

  • Wow, I am just impressed that a team can make 40k playing CS.

    Go USA. I hope y'all are using the SEAL skins.

  • What amazes me. . . (Score:3, Interesting)

    by foo fighter ( 151863 ) on Wednesday December 05, 2001 @05:48PM (#2662235) Homepage
    . . .isn't that there is a World Cyber Games.

    It's the purses that go to the winners. $20,000 for FIFA 2001, $40,000 for Quake III and Counterstrike!!!

    And did you take a look at the sponsors [worldcybergames.org]? This is no America/Canada/UK "world cup". You've got companies from Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America, Australia/Oceania outnumbering the Americans/Canadians/British. I'd imagine that the competitors are also hailing from these nations.

    I'm amazed that this thing is so huge and so world wide.

    I do think it ironic that the goal of the games is "promoting harmony of humankind" when most of the games are won by destroying or conquering the rest of humankind.

  • Repeat after me... (Score:3, Funny)

    by night_flyer ( 453866 ) on Wednesday December 05, 2001 @05:52PM (#2662259) Homepage
    I do not have a gaming adic... oooooh... Return To Castle Wolfienstein...

  • Live feeds l/p (Score:4, Informative)

    by Ando[evilmedic] ( 199537 ) on Wednesday December 05, 2001 @06:01PM (#2662300) Homepage
    If you wanna watch the live feeds of the games, you have to sign in. I've made a general slashdot account.

    l: slashdot_ca
    p: slashdot

    The feeds won't be running for about another three hours, because it's sleeptime in Soeul.
  • I was wandering around the site when I found the qualifying finalists [worldcybergames.org] list. Digging up the Half-Life USA team, I can't find a single person born before 1980. I guess we old-timers ( "gen-X" ) don't have a chance.
    • I'm a mean guy...really. I can't help it. I've been looking through the Counter-Strike team profiles and laughing really hard.

      The thing is, in the normal Olympics you get every country's most physically fit representative. In this case, you get every country's most horribly geeky representatives!

      PS: for a view of a team that fits under the "frighteningly pale" category, check out the French team.

      PPS: Okay, I looked at the team from [*cough*], and the term "Ironic Mirror" just stopped my laughing.
      :^p

    • Actually NOONE stood a chance for the HL/CS team since it was handpicked by one of the team members (he's also one of the US coordinators for the WCG). There's a thread [shackes.com] about it on ShackES, as well as some other places, but basically alot of people feel that "Madfragga" picked himself and a bunch of his friends to represent the US as opposed to using any sort of qualification rounds. It screamed of bias and was not well recieved in the competative CS scene...as is mentioned in the article there was another, better article, but it got deleted in a server switch.
      • That really blows. Were there even US team tryouts/competitions? If so, it should be a requirement that you keep your original team roster from the very beginning.\


        If this is a repeating event, and gets more attention, I'm sure there will be a US-qualifying tourney in the future.

  • Free Money (Score:1, Redundant)

    by omega9 ( 138280 )
    Check the player totals for each event:

    There are currently only two players in Crazy Scooter, yet there are three purses. Enter now and you walk with at least $2,000!

  • Addicted? Me? (Score:1, Redundant)

    by rkent ( 73434 )
    Ha! This article is the best possible followup to the gaming addiction article posted just minutes earlier. Awesome.
  • As an old Dungeons & Dragons fan, I find CyberCon [rpghost.com] more interesting - a virtual RPG game convention, played on "virtual desktops", such as the python written openrpg [openrpg.com].

    Nice...

    I have tried the openrpg program, and it works really well. My old gaming group is scattered across Europe, but now we are getting back together online. Still dont know if we can re-capture the old feel, but it's worth a shot.
    • Omg, the best time of any geek's life is before girls, drugs, and raves (in my exp) but way back when we all snuck a can or two of beer from our dad's stash a week and got 10 bucks worth of pot and roleplayed for a weekend 48 hours. OMG, I would so give up my left nut to go back there.
  • If Tekken 3 or Master of Orion (1) had been among the events, I would have been several thousand dollars richer, for sure ;)
    Ogre rocks! (not that wuss "real ogre", though, it always annoys me that the outstanding ogre's "prize" for winning the arcade mode is turning into the slow and worthless real ogre)
  • Hey, that link has got the players BIOS! If I download and install one, can it make my reflexes faster?

  • Oh the cleverness (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Mr. Sketch ( 111112 )
    of these peoples 'Special Strategies'. Half of them are either 'not lose' or 'win'. Wow, thanks for the insight buddy, but what do you expect when most of them are barely out of high school. Most of the bios I looked at are born after 1980, but still something slightly more witty would be more entertaining like maybe for starcraft: 'Eat Zergling', Q3: 'Let them Ride the Rail', etc.

    I must admit I'm more interested in the StarCraft tourney, but I can understand why the americans are losing so much, they all play terran, ugh, but they're probably too young to realize that Zerg rule.

    (This wasn't intended as flamebait, but it seemed to come out like that, oh well, I have karma to spare).
  • There's a good chance I'm wrong, but is the competition hosted by Koreans? 'Cause I'm a Korean myself (born in Austin) and I know that it takes a Korean to make that many English typos in a website.
  • My first thoughts were: "You gotta wonder exactly how WORLDwide it is. "

    But 400+ countries? not bad.

  • They have a very complicated website composed of 7000 nested HTML constructs devoted entirely to informing us about every last detail of the event. They forgot to add one thing though, the actual details. The scores are wrong, missing, late, etc. The GTV coverage consists of 1 server for 50 people which is full, crashes, and is showing a practice game. There is no UTV coverage. I do not know the state of the HLTV coverage, but I can guess. The live streaming had Korean Curling, I let you draw your own conclusions about the live streaming. The BIOS are threadbare and boring (cept for K9-Makaveli's of course).
    Why does everyone, except slashdot (shameless attempt @ favorable mod), forget the content?
  • I looked thru the so called elite gamers for Q3 and UT, NONE of the top 10 are on the list, Half the top 10 Clans from the NGI, and UTI are not even aware the contest is going on...What a joke, the team from UT that won the World Invitational was unaware there was even a contest...
    • I don't know what country you're commenting about as far as the Unreal Tournament tourney is concerned. If you're talking about USA gamers, then the list is fairly accurate as far as "elite gamers" is concerned.

      The Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament competitions are a pure 1 vs. 1 format. Clans (gaming teams) have nothing to do with this since this isn't a teamplay competition.

      The Quake 3 field looks pretty strong with Zero4 who won over $50,000 US dollars in the past year just from playing games. He won CPL's Babbages event and Id Software's annual Quakecon tournaments.

      Someone mentioned the CPL in another post. They are actually holding a major gaming event of their own this coming weekend, the CPL world championship. It's a Counterstrike event with about $100,000 in total prize money.

      Gamers or anyone else with freakish curiosity can check the CPL event by going here [thecpl.com].

      sk
    • Zero4_us

      Makaveli_us

      Lexer_ru

      [xeno]Boodah_ca

      Yeah, you must know a lot about gaming because these guys all suck at Q3A! =P

      Admittedly, there are a lot of great players not playing, but that's because only 3 form each country made it... there is a very high concentration of "top 10" talent in the US and a few other Euro countries... thus the field is not as strong as if it were an "open" event... however, to say that there aren't ANY top 10 people playing is simply erronious.

  • Can't be a true online gaming compitition without this classic!
  • The other league mentioned in the BBC article is The CyberAthlete League [caleague.com].

    And this is not just gratiuitous karma-whoring...
    • Actually, that's the CyberAthlete Amateur League, the open affiliate to the CyberAthlete Professional League at www.thecpl.com. Whilst the CPL involves gaming on LANs for large quantities of prize money accessible to only the most well-known teams who often have corporate sponsorship of some kind the CAL involves online competition between clans for standings and recognition that just about anyone can get involved in. I'd liken it to a CPL farm system, of sorts.
  • Does anyone remember that show on the Sci Fi channel that involved some tournament(some game I never heard of that had a dedicated cabinet, etc) involving racing spaceships with blockade runners etc?

    The only thing i remmeber about that show was that it had THE nerdiest contestants I have ever seen.
    • Actually, yes, I remember watching that. The game was called Red Planet, and was run by the folks at the now defunct(?) Virtual World gaming centers. I remember this because they also happened to be the operators of the very cool FASA authorized BattleTech simulators. They aired BattleTech matches on this program as well, although I can't remember what the name of it was. Still somewhat entertaining television...better than anything else I'd be watching on Sunday morning. I do remember there being teams from Japan and a few other Asian countries as well as Canada and the US. How far world gaming has come since then, it appears.
  • Anyone see a single girl in the tournament? I suppose it'll only be a matter of time before they feel discriminated against and demand equal representation... which usually means giving them their own division away from the men.


  • Wh3r3 4r3 th3 h0t Ch11XX0r g4m3rZ!?

  • > bios of the players

    Is it flash-updatable?

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