Auf Wiedersehen, Köln. May we meet again someday.Credit: World Cyber Games
It is yet another medal-less year for Malaysia’s WCG team. Team Malaysia campaign at WCG 2008 Grand Finals has came to an end yesterday after our last active player, M1-Heaven crashed out at Top 16 stage in NFS ProStreet. One day earlier, Malaysia’s Counter-Strike 1.6, [...]

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M1-Heaven celebrating his victory at WCG Malaysia 2008. I bet he did something similar at Cologne just now.
M1-Heaven became the first Team Malaysia’s player to qualify to Top 16 stage at WCG 2008 Grand Finals in Cologne, Germany. Our homeboy, his Russian counterpart - USSRxProStreet and also Serb’s representative - HrCak shared the same 9 [...]

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Team Malaysia to WCG 2008 Grand Finals.
The team for WCG 2008 Grand Finals departed to Cologne on Monday night, with yet another mission to win Malaysia’s first ever WCG medal. According to our short group stage analysis, this year’s mission will be our nation’s toughest ever but nevertheless, nothing is impossible. Ooohh, another thing…there is [...]

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Only 2 weeks to go before the global finale of World Cyber Games 2008 take place at the city of Cologne, Germany. To refresh your memory, below are the list of players and officials that are going to represent Malaysia at the glorious event, after going through the national finals last August.
C&C3: Amir “Vic Viper” [...]

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Welcome to the final day of WCG Asian Championship 2008. Today is the day where the best of Asia will be crowned here at Suntec Singapore. Team Malaysia campaign continues today in a number of games - DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero 3 (yup, believe it or not :lol:) and NFS ProStreet.
Meanwhile in the WCG Singapore [...]

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The stage already set and the game is on! Welcome to the first day of WCG Asian Championship 2008 here at Suntec Singapore. Everybody in Team Malaysia are healthy today, nobody is sick and stuff. So, it is green light for all of us here.
Let’s jump straight to the update then!
WCG Asian Championship [...]

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We just arrived at the Hall 402-403 of Suntec Singapore for the WCG Asian Championship 2008 super weekend. Things are going on quite well here apart from some PC problems in the tournament area yesterday. Currently, all Asian Championship participants are in the tournament area to practice for the big day tomorrow.
Although the tournament hasn’t [...]

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During WCG Singapore’s Paya Lebar Kovan Community Club League last weekend, Rapture Gaming held live draws for almost all WCG Singapore 2008 official games including those in the Open Category. The one category that interest many was the DoTA Open Category which has a very high cash prizes compared to others.
With that, one can expect [...]

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Rapture Gaming has released the live video of WCG Asian Championship 2008 group draw that was held earlier today. The draw involved 14 countries across five official games: DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero III, Need for Speed ProStreet and Virtua Fighter 5.
Below are the results of the draw for all games:
DoTA

Group A: Singapore, Hong Kong, China, [...]

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Back in April, the organizer of WCG Singapore, Rapture Gaming revealed that they are going to have a category at WCG Singapore this year where non-Singaporeans are allowed to join. They have finally released information regarding the special category few weeks ago.
There are two main categories at WCG Singapore 2008. The first one is called [...]

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AMD has recently announced that they are going held an online FIFA’08 tournament called AMD European Soccer Challenge 2008. Held in partnership with WCGZone.com, the tournament is giving out total prize package worth around RM 316,000 (US$ 100,000) in the form of PCs, ATi graphic cards and AMD processors.
The tournament is divided into 4 ladders. [...]

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Hubba hubba hubba.
One of our usual stalker, pedobear [r0r1]m00tsumi recently wrote on his brand new pro-gaming blog about the existence of a new foriegners policy in WCG Singapore Campus Gaming Festival. The policy looks rather normal, given the nature of educational institution where there would be some foreigners around. But then this caught our attentions [...]

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w00t, another day, another news about WCG Malaysia. This time around it is about the Asian WCG Qualifiers which will be held in conjunction of WCG Malaysia 2008 Kick-Off event.
Three official game have been listed by the organizer, which are:

DoTA All-Stars
FIFA’08
Need For Speed: ProStreet

In2 Marketing & Consulting Sdn. Bhd. also unveiled one more unexpected “challenge” [...]

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World Cyber Games just now has released the final version of official tournament rules for WCG 2008. Also included in the announcement was regulations for players which tackle issues such as auto-berth, nationalities and players substitutions. Both the regulations and rules will be used in all WCG preliminaries throughout the world.
The rules are now available [...]

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Chengdu, China - Home to the WCG 2009 Grand Final.Image credit: Skaaal
After spending the past two years (and this year as well) in North America and Europe, the WCG Grand Finals will be back in Asia next year. The last time WCG Grand Finals in Asia was held in 2005, where Singapore played the host [...]

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