WCG 2009 Sri Lankan National Finals

This time around the WCG (World Cyber Games) will be held in Chengdu, China. They have officially announced the games that they will feature this year. They are as follows, 

PC Games:

1. Counter Strike 1.6
2. Starcraft
3. Warcraft III :TFT
4. FIFA ‘09
5. Carom3D
6. Red Stone
7. TrackMania Nations Forever 

Xbox 360:

1. Guitar Hero
2. Virtual Fighter 5 

Mobile Games:

1. Asphalt 4
2. Wise Star 2 

Promotional Game: Dungeon & Fighter 

            Grand Finals will be happening from November 11^th – 15^th. Countries who want to participate this year will have to hold the national finals with in the months of March till October. 

            Sri Lanka will also be looking forward to sending a Counter Strike 1.6 team and so Lanka E-Sports (LKES) will be the organizer of the Sri Lanka National Finals (Date: TBA)

            In the national finals these games will be played.

1. Counter Strike 1.6
2. DOTA (Defence of the Ancients) - 5v5*
3. COD 4 (Call of Duty 4) - 5v5*
4. FIFA ‘09 - Individual*

* - Not official yet 

            So all Sri Lankan gamers, this is your chance to be crowned as the nation’s best player/team. So practice hard and make sure you are there for the WCG 2009 Sri Lankan National Finals.

            Play Hard, Go Pro.

Go Vote for your favourite games for it be on the National Finals. You have the power to change.

Competitive COD 4 Gaming in Sri Lanka

Call of Duty 4 (COD 4) is relatively new to the multiplayer gaming scenario since it was only released in late 2007. Even though this game has taken over as one of the most played games in other countries and having many gaming tournaments Sri Lanka is still in the early stages of playing the game competitively. Sri Lankan gaming scene is still in the primitive stage but slowly but surely coming to the international standards. There are many up coming tournaments and one day Sri Lankan gamers will be ready to take on the best of players of other countries as well.

            The first online COD 4 server in Sri Lanka was up and running thanks to LCGZ.lk. And it is still the only COD 4 server running 24/7 in Sri Lanka. Thanks to this server many talented COD 4 players emerged.

            Sri Lankan gamers were exposed to some online gaming competitions for Counter Strike 1.6 but they had little chance of showing off their COD 4 talents because there weren’t any COD 4 tournaments being held. Few of the Sri Lankan clans had COD 4 teams namely Infinity Gamers (IG), Death Company (DC), nOOb Alliance (NA) but they didn’t have a tournament to play online. However Death Company COD 4 played some matches with an overseas COD 4 clan. Because of the lack of tournaments the leader of IG, Razeen aka DirkBlack thought of hosting a tournament with his own internet connection. It’s barely enough to hold 10 players on the server and that is all what is needed. So November of 2008 saw the first online COD 4 tournament in Sri Lanka with the mod PAM 4. This tournament was called “Call of Duty 4 Friendly Tournament”. Death Company Team Reds, calling themselves DC|Reds won this tournament. Runners up were the hosts, IG. The winning DC|Reds lineup was as follows

• Shafrox - Leader
• Madhatter
• Exwife
• Pirate
• Psycho

  Second season of “Call of Duty 4 Friendly Tournament” is currently on going on DirkBlack’s server. I had a little chat with Dirk and when asked who is the favourite to win the tournament he said that DC|Reds are the favourites to win (being modest). He went on to say that the new mod used for COD 4 matches couldn’t be used for this tournament because it required more bandwidth to hold 10 players.

He also gave a surprising bit of news. He will be leaving IG soon. But that is for a better cause. He will be joining the first Lanka COD 4 team managed by Thilina Pinto aka Cipher and the team name is “Team perks”. The team was announced on Gamer.lk today. The team is as follows. The team tag will be "Perks"

• Shafrox
• DirkBlack
• Pirate
• Madhatter
• Exwife
• Psycho 

Best of luck, “Team Perks”, win many international matches. If there is COD 4 for next WCG this team might represent Sri Lanka. So all you readers keep your eyes on Sri Lanka and Team Perks.

            Ciao.

GCCL (Gamer.lk Clans Counter Strike League) Season II

Sri Lankan competitive Counter Strike playing has come a long way in just about a year or so. It’s just like yesterday that I remember playing in Gamer.lk gaming weekend with just 7 players on a server hosted through Hamachi. When the 8^th player comes the whole server lags. J That was the start. I’ve being playing online since those primitive days. Now there are 2 Sri Lankan 32 player public servers hosted one by Gamer.lk and one by LCGZ (Lanka Cyber Game Zone). Both of these sites were at first individual sites doing a common cause (Promoting gaming within Sri Lanka) now they have merged and working together. Also LCGZ have their own 1000FPS match server so that matches can be held without much latency.

            Many Counter Strike Clans have emerged after these two servers were hosted and this tournament will be a very good opportunity to show their talents to the whole Sri Lankan gaming community.

            The first GCCL season was a great success. And this season will be a whole lot better.This is a knockout tournement so better get ready to deliver your best from th first match itself. HLTV will be made available so that the whole gaming community will be able to view the matches live. 

            The tournament will be starting on the first week of February 2009. Come register your clan now. 

Note: Registrations will be closed on the 31^st January 2009.