WCG ELC announced
6-3-2008 20:07
Its CeBIT time, meaning lots of things happen. In this case, it’s great news for the CS enthusiast. World Cyber Games today announce a new league, a bit special from what we have seen before.
The new World Cyber Games international gaming competition will be known as Esport League of Champions (ELC). The league will feature a different structure than seen before. All matches will be played in LAN, and not online as seen with other leagues (e.g. Extreme Masters and NGL One). The league has same structure as Champions League (soccer). Each team will get a start bouns, bonus for points and won games. Meaning all teams are guaranteed prize money. The league has gathered amazingly 150.000€ to spread out.
Fist season of ELC will be invite teams. However in the future, each country will have a local qualification. The matches from ELC will as mentioned be played on LAN. All teams and players will be flown to a studio in Stockholm, where the production of the league will take place. The studio is special designed up ELC and ELC describes it as a hi-tech studio.
Source: WCG, fragbite
The new World Cyber Games international gaming competition will be known as Esport League of Champions (ELC). The league will feature a different structure than seen before. All matches will be played in LAN, and not online as seen with other leagues (e.g. Extreme Masters and NGL One). The league has same structure as Champions League (soccer). Each team will get a start bouns, bonus for points and won games. Meaning all teams are guaranteed prize money. The league has gathered amazingly 150.000€ to spread out.
Fist season of ELC will be invite teams. However in the future, each country will have a local qualification. The matches from ELC will as mentioned be played on LAN. All teams and players will be flown to a studio in Stockholm, where the production of the league will take place. The studio is special designed up ELC and ELC describes it as a hi-tech studio.
Invited teamsLost of great teams have been invited for the first invite season of WCG ELC. Defending ESWC champions from MYM, WCG champions from McPoker.emL, DreamHack Winter champions from Made in Brazil, NGL One Season 4 champions fnatic, and SK Gaming, mousesports, roccat, mTw will make sure this league will be worth watching.fnatic
Made in Brazil
McPoker.emL
MYM
mousesports
roccat
mTw
Prize moneyAll matches will be broadcasted with OctoShape stream in HD-quality. This means (for now) not HLTV. Sadly for out matter that WCG decided not to have HLTV for WCG ELC. Do you think ELC can live without HLTV?
Counterstrike:
Each win - 2.000€
Each match - 1.000€
1. Place - 25.000€
2. Place - 15.000€
3. Place - 10.000€
4. Place - 5.000€
Warcraft 3:
Each win - 400€
Each match - 200€
1. Place - 5.000€
2. Place - 3.000€
3. Place - 2.000€
4. Place - 1.000€
Total - 152.400€
Source: WCG, fragbite
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