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.

Sri Lankan WCG Qualifiers

I’m bringing this piece of news with great pleasure!

            For the first time in the history of the gaming in Sri Lanka, there is going to be a WCG qualifying tournament to be held at BMICH. I never thought that I would hear this lovely piece of news while I’m still playing competitive gaming.

            This tournament is held by a recently established company called ‘Lanka eSports’, and this company consists of Sri Lankan gamers.

Their vision is to spearhead a new frontier for eSports and Cyber Athletes in Sri Lanka by becoming the leading representative organization for Sri Lankan Cyber Athletes in International Events, enhancing the quality of Sri Lankan gaming for both competitive and recreational purposes and by providing organized game development within Sri Lanka.

 

Games to be played at this event:

 Counter Strike 5v5 – Counter Strike is one of the multi-playing games that touched the gamers all around the world. This is one of the “ancient” games that is still been playing by many gamers. This game tests the player’s skills as well as the team co-ordination. At the moment many Sri Lankan players are playing this game online on recently created Sri Lankan counter strike servers.

 

Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne 1v1 – A real time strategy game that is very popular among the gamers. This popularity increased when a mod called DotA (Defense of the Ancients) came into the gaming scenario. Currently DotA is also played at WCG.

 

Halo 3 – A Microsoft game that was released on the Xbox, and has a huge fan base all around the world. 

 

Tournament Schedule:

 Preliminaries: 27^th and 28^th of September 2008 at BMICH Colombo.

Finals            : 5^th October 2008 at BMICH Colombo.

 For more information about WCG and Sri Lankan Qualifiers visit the following sites.

 

www.esports.lk – The official site for the WCG 2008 Sri Lanka

www.wcg.com  - The official site of the World Cyber Games

 Here is also a link to an article posted on Express News – Sri Lanka.

http://www.expressnews.lk/english/biz/Businessnews/results.asp?key_c=1026

 Thanks to the above link I got to know about the event.

 

            This is a huge step in Lankan Gaming Scene and I hope that this event will be a great success and hope that the next years’ qualifies will feature more of the games played in WCG (Like DotA which is very popular in the Asian countries.)

Finally I’d like to wish all the best for the participants of this Qualifying tournament. Still the registrations are open and you can go and register yourself and the team by going to the link below.

 http://wcg.esports.lk/include/register.php

 

Hope to see you at Sri Lanka WCG qualifiers.

Thanks for reading this very lengthy post.