I guess Auricom and 3D.ny|Method will not met each other this year.
The visa problem among Team Malaysia haa finally hit the roof. News came to me just now that WCG 2007 Grand Final Counter Strike Chief Referee-to be, Douglas “Auricom” Chin, has been denied his visa for a SECOND time. The first rejection happened a [...]

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Another member of the Malaysian contingent to Seattle, USA had just suffered the “rejected Visa application” syndrom.

If alcoholic means addiction to alcohol, than gamerholic would sound sick!
Graham “StaiN” Chin had just informed me that his team member; Gerard “rico” Anand had got his US visa application rejected due to overused reasons.
The CS lineup currently stands [...]

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In just 7 days after the registration site were opened, all 128 FIFA 2007 spots and 32 Warcraft 3 spots for WGT 2007 Malaysia have been snatched by eager competitors around the country. The slots are pretty hot, my fellow gamers. If you hesitates, next thing you know the slots are gone.
For two other games, [...]

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Championship Gaming Series today officially announced the dates of their Pan-Asian Final in Kuala Lumpur. Although Multiplay already unveiled the dates for CGS Pan-Asian Final in KL before this, the new press release contained a number of new information.
The Kuala Lumpur event will see more than just Kuala Lumpur Qualifier. and Pan-Asian Final. Sydney and [...]

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One of our frequent forumer, nles happened to spot CGS Malaysia poster at a cybercafe in his hometown. He also mentioned that other promo items such as buntings and fliers are also available in cybercafes around the country to promote the event.

There’s nothing new on the posters though except that now we finally can confirmed [...]

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OMG, LYN at TGS! Piktors by firedauz
Tokyo Game Show is one of the largest video game expo in the world. If you are a gamer and you never dreamt of visiting TGS, shame on you.
Two very very very very lucky Lowyat.NET trolls forumer, firedauz and shady shared their experience at TGS 2007 in our forums. [...]

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Captured by arj
Blake of GameAxis Malaysia alerted me on my MSN that Gamer’s Hideout will start packing out their Halo 3 to customers around 9pm. Ok, so it’s not really a Midnite Madness. Arj added that the first batch of the stock was already sold out with more coming in tomorrow. While I myself was [...]

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Auricom with 3D.NY|method at WCG 2006 Grand Finals, Monza, Italy.
Many does not know that there is a WCG Grand Finals Chief Referee among us. A familiar face in our Counter Strike scene, Douglas “Auricom” Chin have been a referee at WCG Malaysia between 2001 - 2005. He then went on to international scene as Counter [...]

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Yesterday, Chapree wrote about a disappointment when Forza (WCG Need for Speed: Carbon Champion) was denied his visa by the US Embassy.
Today the WCG contingent to Seattle suffered another blow as 2 more Malaysian representatives were denied of their visa as well.

Paul Yan Meng Choon; Local Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne Hero.
Paul Yan; the WarCraft 3: [...]

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Denied a US visa by US Embassy in KL.
A sad news arrived in the midst of Team Malaysia preparations to WCG Grand Finals in Seattle. Our NFS Carbon champion, Sophian “FoRza” Shahirul have been denied a visa by the US Embassy. Since there’s not enough time to reapply the visa, FoRza have been forced to [...]

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As though it’s not obvious enough, the first Championship Gaming Series live qualifier in Malaysia attracts almost every competitive gamer in the country. It happens naturally since it involves a whole bunch of moolah. Many believe this event will eventually materialise pro-gaming since the first international game tournament took place 7 years ago.
The unconfirmed USD [...]

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If you don’t know JackaL, you are probably a newbie.

He is Azmir Hamzah; one of the most feared competitive Counter-Strike player in Malaysia. Ask anyone around and people will still tell you of the crazy stunts that he did which is deemed impossible. Being a very important member in FMJ, he had led the team [...]

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Gamer’s Hideout at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara, PJ have been the forerunner of Xbox 360 community in Malaysia since they opened their outlet a year ago. They also have been very agressive in promoting original games, not only among local 360 owners but to the whole console scene. In such a short time, their effort have [...]

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2005 Sky ProLeague Grand Final. It’s normal to see such a large number of audience at a major Starcraft event in South Korea. Original Image: FighterForum.com
Everybody knows that Starcraft is a national sport in South Korea. Millions of other games around the world want to be like their pro-gamers: to be rich, adorned by fans [...]

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This might be a one month old news but since FIFA’08 is not yet out, I guess it’s better late than never.
FIFA together with EA and Sony Playstation announced that the forth edition of FIFA Interactive World Cup will commenced soon with the release of FIFA’08, the latest incarnation of the popular footie game series. [...]

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