Hai guise, welcome to yet another WCG Malaysia 2008 recap. As we get closer into the finals, more and more players were eliminated in Day 2. While things are more streamlined as there were less players involved yesterday, the tournament is still plagued by confusing and uneven brackets.
The fastest game to finished yesterday was NFS [...]

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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 [...]

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In a short announcement by Ronald Vong, one of WCG Malaysia 2008 tournament officials, all the 128 and 32 participation slots for FIFA’08 and Starcraft respectively have already filled up to the brim. This means to all gamers that already received their confirmation letter, you can breath a relief now.
For those who HASN’T [...]

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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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WCG Malaysia officials just sent out a news around half an hour ago that the online registration for WCG Malaysia 2008 will be opened tonight at 12:00am. Together with the announcement were the list of official games together with participation slots limit for each game. They are:

Counter-Strike 1.6: 32 slots
Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath: [...]

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Starting from this Saturday onwards - 21st July, 5 colleges and 4 cybercafes around Klang Valley will host a series of qualifiers for WCG Malaysia 2008. There are two official games involved in this series of qualifiers - FIFA’08 and Counter-Strike 1.6.
The dates are as below:

28th June: KLMUC (Cosmopoint) Jln Sultan Ismail, KL
29th June: EXC [...]

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The action continued on Day 2 of WCG Malaysia 2008 Kick-Off where the WCG Asian Championship 2008 qualifiers for three of its official game - NFS ProStreet, FIFA’08 and DoTA took place.
For FIFA and NFS, Day 2 saw the final four players from each game, competing against each other before they can proceed and challenge [...]

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The WCG Malaysia 2008 campaign is yet to be officially launched (that will be today, by the Minister of Youth & Sports Malaysia, YB Dato’ Ismail Sabri Yaacob) but the Kick-Off event has started yesterday right in front of Low Yat Plaza entrance, KL.
Apart from the usual fun promo activities, the event also incorporated the [...]

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Only 4 days left before WCG Malaysia 2008 Kick-Off starts at Low Yat Plaza, KL but recent changes in the WCG Asian Championship 2008 Qualifiers registration system - which will be held at the same event, are being criticized by many of their long time participants.
At first, it was on first come first serve basis [...]

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To those who keep track, till today there is still no official word on the exact date and venue of WCG Malaysia 2008. Yeah, I know its usual August/September is still far away but some gamers already asking questions about it especially those coming from outstation.
Behold, it’s there on the cover of PC Gamer Malaysia’s [...]

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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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The bombshell has been dropped. WCG Asian Championship finally unveiled the much awaited official games list for 2008, scheduled to be held at Suntec Singapore this coming August. Four out of the five games were derived from the global official games of WCG 2008 with the inclusion of Singapore’s (possibly the whole Southeast Asia region) [...]

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Behold, WCG Malaysia is back! To start things off, In2 Marketing and Consulting Sdn Bhd is going to launch the annual gaming fest at WCG Malaysia 2008 Kick-Off on 30th - 31st May 2008 at Plaza Low Yat, KL.
According to the In2 WCG.my Team, the event will be officiated by Minister of Youth & Sports, [...]

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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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