Animax Youth Fest!
Hi there peeps! Come visit the ESWC booth at the Animax Youth Fest this weekend from Friday – Sunday. Lots of goodies to be given away… See you there!
So.. were you there? Catch these pictures taken at the event. Apart from our New Beetle cars, ESWC 2008 Malaysia simply just displayed videos of the event and featured Malaysian based in Japan who happened to return home for a break – Aizudean. View photos
Heard what’s happening at San Jose, USA? Check out www.nvision2008.com and find out more! As we near the departure date for the 7x gamers, to date we have sadly not secured sponsors for the Counter Strike team. However, Team Kingsurf DotA, Luige for Trackmania Nations Forever and eNet | Paulyan for Warcraft III TFT are all on track and ready to go. Check back to this blog often while we’re away as I’ll be updating it with commentaries.
(C) 2008 Jasmine Low . Go International Group Sdn Bhd.
By Nles
COUNTER-STRIKE
Team Hybrid managed to get their sweet revenge after losing to Team LZ in the ESWC Qualifiers held at Subang Parade early June 2008. The match went to a draw after an intense battle and Hybrid managed to score 4-2 against Team LZ during overtime.
WARCRAFT 3
In the Warcraft 3 tournament, despite the fact that eNet | Paulyan has recently switched focus on DotA, he is still undoubtedly the Champion by showing his off his winning streak in defeating M1-NOX in a Best of 3 match.
TRACKMANIA NATIONS FOREVER
The first Trackmania tournament held in Malaysia gathered top players from the racing game scene. Luige snatch the champion title with a perfect score of 120 points against 3 other finalist in the group.
DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS
The new map version change just weeks before the National Final didn’t affect the reigning champion KingSurf at all. They speedily defeated team Cybertime and will be representing Malaysia to the first ever International LAN DotA Tournament in the world, at San Jose, USA for the ESWC Grand Finals. Wish them luck! For more info on Kingsurf, visit www.kingsurf.net.
Paris – June 30th, 2008. On Friday the 4th of July, the second edition of the Gaming-Show will begin in the Palais-Omnisports of Paris-Bercy in Paris. Open to all the video games enthusiasts, the Gaming-Show will host during three days two of the most prestigious e-sports tournaments. The ESWC French Finals, which will gather the 220 best French gamers who qualified through a set of offline qualifiers the past 9 months and the ESWC Masters that will invite in Paris the 350 best progamers worldwide for a breath-taking competition in Bercy’s arena. The winners of both these tournaments will fly to San Jose, California, for the Electronic Sports World Cup finals on the 25th, 26th and 27th of August.
Exceptional coverage for an exceptional event as the whole activities and matches played on Bercy’s main stage will be broadcasted live on internet thanks to an exclusive peer-2-peer video-streaming technology developed by Dyyno, a Californian start-up. Live commentaries, Ambiance microphones, all the ingredients are there to create the best streaming experience for the internet viewers.
- Live the stream of the main stage: www.eswc.com/livestream
- Timetable of the main stage: http://www.mondialdugaming.com/2008/programme/planning-general
To follow the games of your favorite team or player on Quake 3, Counter-Strike 1.6, Dota or Warcraft 3, several broadcast relays will be roll out on HLTV, GTV and WaaaghTV all across the planet. The complete results and live reporting of the games will be available on two websites created especially for the event.
- ESWC French finals live results: http://www.eswc.com/nationalfinals/france/2008/
- ESWC Masters live results: http://www.eswc.com/masters/paris2008/
In addition, the journalists of jeuxvideo.tv will be on site to feel the special atmosphere of the Gaming-Show and give it back to you through their amazing video coverage. A complete TV crew will shot videos inside the Arena, make interviews with the progamers and upload it on jeuxvideo.tv every hour.
- Jeuxvideo.tv hourly updated VODs: www.jeuxvideo.tv
More than 80 community websites dedicated to the e-sports scene will be on site to provide the most technical coverage of the tournaments:
About the Gaming Show.
The Paris Gaming Show is one of the largest European Festival dedicated to the Video Games and Electronic Sports competitions. Created by Games-Services, the organizers of the famous Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC), the Paris Gaming Show will take place in Paris the 4th, 5th and 6th of July 2008 in the “Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy”. This unique gaming show will allow visitors to participate in various daily open tournaments and become the new Video Games Idol. The Paris Gaming Show will also host the Electronic Sports World Cup French finals and the “ESWC Masters” tournament which will gather 400 of the best pro-gamers in the world. Besides, the finals of the ipowergames 2008 Trophy, the competition designed by Packard Bell, will take place during the Paris Gaming Show.
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Text by Victor Tang
Packed cyber-cafes with young teenagers filled in it. A typical Friday night away from the clubbing scenes during the weekends and you will find many intensely focused on the monitors of the computers. Look closer and you’ll notice some will express disappointment, while some others on the opposite end wear wide smirks on their faces. This is a typical scene on a weekend-night, and also the phenomenon known, as Pro-Gaming.
The packed environment full of spectators and players alike, full of emotions and competent tactical play, shouting and fast-hand speed clicking, just epitomes what the euphoria about gaming is all about. Playing games has never been this serious, and the stakes never that high. The reason is, professional gaming has taken the world by storm.
The amount of interest in this industry has been growing steadily for the past 2 decades, coinciding with the boom of personal computers. Gamers armed with their keyboard and mouse now make a living by doing what they do best and passionate about, which is playing games and with major sponsors like Intel, Samsung, NVIDIA and grand tournaments like the Electronic Sports World Cup and World Cyber Games, the pioneering of a bright star begins.
Things begin with the desire to play the game. Just like how people started playing the Nintendo and PlayStation, is just the same as how people start with playing games on the PC. The elements of competition, tactical plays, nerve control and desire to excel have made gaming such a popular craze among the youngster today. Usually, it starts with casual gaming among friends. Then this escalates to a point of being the best among your peers. Alliances are formed, and star-players are born. Hence, the competitiveness trait, which encourages major tournaments to be started in support of this growing spectator sport, which is now fondly known as e-Sports.
