Rumors: WCG Asian Championship 2009 Dates, Official Games & Venues? UPDATED
May 7, 2009 by Chapree
WCG Asian Championship 2009: Coming soon.
A tip arrived in our mail box earlier today and my my, what a tip it is. Originated from Korea, the tip listed down dates and official games list for this year’s World Cyber Games Asian Championship (WCGAC). Without further due, here they are:
Date: 3rd to 5th July 2009
Venue: Singapore
Official Games:
- DoTA
- FIFA’09
- Guitar Hero: World Tour
We also found two more sources that managed to strengthen our initial tip: a tip received by our forumer Tbun.KeNcHI from his Philippines counter-part stated the same information above, plus the actual venue: Suntec City. Well, Suntec has been the traditional WCGAC’s home since its inception, this pretty much a natural choice.
The second source would be an announcement at a Sri Lankan gaming forum, which also confirmed the dates and official games list, minus GHWT. This also mean Sri Lanka will be the latest country to be added to WCGAC roster.
The “rumored” date happen to be on the same date as The Games Expo 2009, co-organized by WCGAC organizer - Rapture Gaming. We would like to assume that WCGAC will be held in conjunction of the expo but then, we gonna wait for official announcement from Rapture instead.
With this news, another question arrises for us Malaysians: Will there be a qualifier for WCGAC as per last year? Well, no words yet from our National Organizer…it is perfectly normal for them to be pretty quiet at this time of the year. Suddenly you know, BAM! There they are with an awesome news. We hope they’ll do that again this year. 
UPDATE (4:28pm): More tips coming in. The source who want to remain ANON, mentioned that the above information are pretty much confirmed, unless last minute changes happened. 2nd information is less crucial though: WCGAC’09 supposed to be in Vietnam…but yup, here we go again - due to budget constrain, it went to Singapore instead.
UPDATE (12th May): WCG New Zealand has also confirmed the WCGAC’09 dates at their website. Thanks to TestTeam_KOREA for his tips.
UPDATE (3rd June): WCGAC’09 official website is now online and totally confirmed all the tips that we got above.
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Chapree
May 7th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Qualifiers! Yeah at Malaysia till Singapore? Hmm xD
May 7th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
sniperz, just wait for In2 to announce the details. hope that in2 don’t gulung tikar. lol
May 12th, 2009 at 10:29 am
hello! Chapree !
Asian Championship NZ Source.
http://www.xlan.co.nz/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=14
i hope meet u in Singapore !! lol
I Go to singapore. (National Champ) lol;
good luck chapree!
May 12th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Hello there, my friend from Korea! Thanks for the tips.
I also hope that I would finally able to meet you there.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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