WCG Malaysia 2008 Day 1 Recap

August 16, 2008 by Chapree

We have finally arrive at the WCG Malaysian Championship 2008, the country’s de facto championship of the year. As you know, six different official games ranging from strategy, racing and shooter games are played at Mid Valley Exhibition Center, KL starting yesterday up until this Sunday, 17th August. Up for grabs are cash prizes, sponsored products and of course, the ticket to represent Malaysia at WCG 2008 Grand Finals in Cologne, Germany.

The event was launched earlier this morning to much fanfare. The tournament went on straight after the launch. So far, I believe there is only one general issue for WCG Malaysia this year as far as competition goes which is the tournament’s bracket system. Somehow, the way they were layout is quite confusing especially for Counter-Strike 1.6. Some teams or players who already registered also was missing from the brackets but they managed to get reinstated into the tournament later on.

Couple of upset results happened today. Team Hybrid and [r0r1]Alpha - both last year’s champion in Counter-Strike 1.6 and C&C3 respectively fell down to the lower bracket. But the most shocking news was the defeat of the newly crowned WCG Asian Championship champion, [W|nDs]Si_Jali to [MyFES]SiLdes. Also eliminated from the tournament is also another newly crowned champion, [W|nDs}A13x who won CELgames'08 recently

Apart from those shocking news, there was a little drama happened during the final CS match of the day between Pu.Gimak and Natural Ones. Sometime during the match, N.O alerted to the marshals that PuG was using the flashbang bug. The match was halted and CS marshals reviewed the case. After an extensive review using the match's replay, PuG was found guilty and 1 round was deducted from their score. Still, PuG managed to defeat N.O at the end of the match.

WCG Malaysia 2008 also added Super Dancer Online Xtreme to its official games list but this one will not bring you to Cologne. Still, the game have significant number of fans who flocked the tournament area to watch top players competing against each other.

To sum everything up, the list of players and teams that still competing is available at the end of this post (after the jump). It is a very long list...

From my rough observation, WCG Malaysia looked smaller this time around but it is more organized than previous year. Maybe because the event went back to its 3 days schedule as opposed to 2 days last year. Also, most of the booth has downsized a little. In terms of crowds, since it's Friday, one can expect that the number of crowd was quite average.

That's all for Day 1. See you guys later!

My grateful and sincere appreciation to my fellow colleague at Shrine, Linkinstreet who helped me with our piktors today (and tomorrow as well). If they doesn't look good, blame him!

WCG Malaysia Official Website
WCG Malaysia 2008 @ Lowyat.NET Forums

C&C3: Kane's Wrath
TBA later

Counter-Strike 1.6

• Counter-Seed
• Ghost
• Bt.3
• Mixed
• Kilat Gaming
• Vilent
• MFG
• Genesis Empire
• SFX
• Bottle
• Wanted Junior
• Y.U.I
• Anonymous
• AoA
• HPC
• SP
• EA
• AoW
• Team Hybrid
• AKA
• XSM
• Pu.Gimak
• Natural Ones
• LZ
• V2.LZ2

FIFA'08

• [MyFES]Demonic vs. TommyTong
• Shady vs. [ToRnado]seed
• [MyFES]SiLDes vs. [ToRnado]V.Pathetic
• [ToRnaDo]Falcon vs. Benaldo
• Haleit vs. [MyFES]Bush
• K3nnylim vs. [W|nDs]Lo0n4tic
• [MyFES]Arroyos vs. Briot
• [W|nDs]Dazzle vs. [W|nDs]Vin

NFS ProStreet

• FoRza
• Liang
• M1-Heaven
• M1-SpeedDemon
• ExtreM1n4tor
• strifemare
• stealth
• Syefri Zulkefli

Starcraft

• M1.ChenWong
• rambo_pang4320
• iLoveSC
• AFM
• Fight
• MYM.Ash
• Kaoru
• jom0coda
• Will
• TinChoi
• Soul_X
• buel00
• ArticFir3
• Marine[FLF]
• JohnRambo
• BBtank
• SiEG
• Starcris
• XenoWarlord
• Photon
• Isaac
• AcE
• KalsaLamis

Warcraft 3

• TankLiew
• PaulYan
• Not Perfect
• 4lect
• Freestyling
• M1-NoX
• MVG.BlackHeartz
• Sin[pin.ZZ]
• GreenBean
• Gat-X105E
• Reyka
• Practice_Noob
• MYM.Moon <--- say what lulz?
• Trill
• Xrev[HungTen]
• HawkeeCannon
• DanteWong
• Viggofrost
• Edwin1993
• Aaron
• CT^Serry
• AppleJuice

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