The World Cyber Games is competing in Korea as we speak, and I thought I'd stop by and post some updates. In 3D news, 3D lost their first match to the Hungarian team FoP 11-13 on de_prodigy, and just defeated the Korean team 1v1 18-6 on de_cbble. Defending WCG CS champions LnD (Legends never Die) tied the Koreans 12-12 on de_prodigy and will be facing 3D shortly. It's important to note that in WCG there are no overtimes, and that things are decided via pool play. 3D and LnD are in perhaps the toughest pool, with notable teams being 3D, LnD, and Sweden's representative A-Laget. For those of you unfamiliar with pool play, a group of teams all face each other and the top two teams advance to double elimination brackets. For a pool play listing, click here. For in-depth results, click here, but be sure to have babelfish ready, as they aren't in english.
In other WCG news, defending Quake 3 Champion and, incidentally, American ZeRo4 was knocked out of the Quake 3 tournament in the pool play before even making it out. Controversially enough, russian Q3 player cooller is claiming that he threw his match vs radic so radic would have a better record than ZeRo4 and thus, not allow ZeRo4 to move on. Although this is not counter-strike news, I felt it was an interesting enough eSports newsbit to show how unsportsmanlike some players can be, especially since the defending champion was knocked out so early.
In unrelated news, I myself am about to go compete in Georgia's One Act play competition for my school's region, where only 1 in 6 of the schools will move on to state competition. We won sub-region last saturday, so I'm looking forward to today's competition; for those who don't know, I'm a theatre major and thespian (meaning actor), and that's what has been eating away my time lately. I've had nothing but shows and rehearsals the past 2 months straight. Wish me luck today!
In other WCG news, defending Quake 3 Champion and, incidentally, American ZeRo4 was knocked out of the Quake 3 tournament in the pool play before even making it out. Controversially enough, russian Q3 player cooller is claiming that he threw his match vs radic so radic would have a better record than ZeRo4 and thus, not allow ZeRo4 to move on. Although this is not counter-strike news, I felt it was an interesting enough eSports newsbit to show how unsportsmanlike some players can be, especially since the defending champion was knocked out so early.
In unrelated news, I myself am about to go compete in Georgia's One Act play competition for my school's region, where only 1 in 6 of the schools will move on to state competition. We won sub-region last saturday, so I'm looking forward to today's competition; for those who don't know, I'm a theatre major and thespian (meaning actor), and that's what has been eating away my time lately. I've had nothing but shows and rehearsals the past 2 months straight. Wish me luck today!
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