World Cyber Games 2005 Finals

Just reached home from the WCG Finals. Quite wasted. Anyway:

  • USA won CS: Source and Halo 2
  • China won WC3
  • Korea won Starcraft: BW (surprise!)
  • Japan won DOA: Ultimate (does that guy even own an Xbox!?)
  • Some other countries I don’t care about won some other games I don’t care about

USA also won the overall championship for having the most wins.

Singapore managed to get second for DOA: Ultimate… Wilson Chia received louder applauses from the audience than the champion.

China also came close to third placing for Starcraft. It was quite an intense three-round match that was too close to call right till the last map. The Australian player using Protoss got pushed back to his main base by an early game Zerg rush and survived on a single Photon Cannon that finished building just in time. Then he slowly regained the upperhand and eventually won.

The CS:Source Finals between USA and Kazakhstan was also quite close. USA needed 2 rounds to win the game while Kazakhstan needed 8 to force the game into overtime. Then Kazakhstan managed to win 5 rounds during which USA won only one. But alas, USA proved to be the better team.

Overall, WCG 2005 was quite an enjoyable event. Although there is still much more room for expansion in terms of scale, but that’s up to Italy, the next WCG host.

I will post today’s pictures later.

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2 Responses to World Cyber Games 2005 Finals

  1. Freya says:

    somehow japanese gamer more dedicated to console game rather than LAN game … proved that they only manage to won on DOAU, well that’s my personal opinion, correct me if wrong

    OOT abit …
    my image about japanese people is they dedicated almost their life to something [dream maybe] but they do it with all effort . heart
    and that’s make everything in there looks great
    i learn this from some of my japanese FFXI player friend like that, while many non japanese player, play for fun, play when mood [play – taking break – play – taking break (including me)]… while japanese player always play each day even only for a hour, but they never skip to reach what they want to achieve (no weird there is a people with lv75 on all jobs available on ffxi) and we can see the result, japanese player character have great gear set etc etc.
    i think they way they thinking is the one that make japan great country

    anyway imho Korea do have lots great team / player
    they have player as crazy as japanese player do
    afterall korea is no.1 MMORPG country in the world [again my opinion]

  2. Aaron says:

    With the Koreans that won the final round of Starcraft BW was not at all a surprise to me, if u have been following Korea gaming culture, they have a very strong following for Blizzard games there, and even in the battle.net servers u can still see alot of koreans roaming around, I also had my fair share of experience with them back then when I was still crazy about my D2X obsession.

    And yes I would agree with Freya, in terms of MMORPG gaming Korea is one of those countries who are very into it. If u do play LineageII or A3 u would know there are alot of koreans in it.

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