ESWC Masters of Athens, no CS 1.6

13-9-2008 00:51

Electronic Sports World Cup has announced ESWC Masters of Athens, the opener for the new season.

ESWC Masters was introduced when ESWC announced the new location of their 2008 Grand Finals. ESWC will continue with the ESWC Masters event, the first of the new season will be taking place in Athens, Greece. ESWC Masters of Athens will take place 17-18th of October at the Athens Digital Week. ESWC has picked two games to be played at ESWC Masters of Athens, as a shocker to many; Counter-Strike 1.6 is not one of them. Games to be played at ESWC Masters of Athens, is Warcraft III and Quake III. Cash prizes of a total 30.000$ and berths to the 2009 Grand Final is at stake.

Warcraft III

1 - 7.500$ + Direct qualification to ESWC Grand Final 2009
2 - 4.500$
3 - 2.000$
4 - 1.000$

Quake III

1 - 7.500$ + Direct qualification to ESWC Grand Final 2009
2 - 4.500$
3 - 2.000$
4 - 1.000$

Keep in mind that ESL Global Challenge in Montreal will take place the exact same dates.

ESWC should be having several ESWC Masters events this season, hopefully with Counter-Strike 1.6 at a few of them. Stay tuned for more news regarding coming ESWC Masters events.

Read the official announcement here.

HAHA

2008-09-13 00:54

LOL NO CS 1.6 ? -.- LOL

2008-09-13 00:57

1 reply

The reason there is no cs1.6 is because it would colide with the extreme masters tournament in USA (or was it canada?) at the same time. So be glad there is no 1.6.

2008-09-16 12:03

ROFL idiots

2008-09-13 00:58

hahaHAHAhaa omg

2008-09-13 01:09

as long as they don't replace 1.6 with source i dont care

2008-09-13 01:12

2 replies

yap

2008-09-13 09:04

lol?omg, source?is that a game?rofl

2008-09-13 16:21

really,LOoOoOol

2008-09-13 01:15

ESWC Masters in Athens=Fail

2008-09-13 01:17

4 replies

Don't worry, I'm quite sure there will be more Masters events this year with CS 1.6.

2008-09-13 01:23

3 replies

offtopic: can u add KZ flag?

2008-09-13 01:32

It is added already.

2008-09-13 01:34

thanks)

2008-09-13 07:43

who pays, he orders music

2008-09-13 01:31

Good choice... no 1.6, this event will be a crap :)

2008-09-13 04:21

SUCKS jajajaja

2008-09-13 07:35

That's a fail.

2008-09-13 07:46

omg how could eswc escape such an old and traditional game that made something like history in esport

2008-09-13 08:15

fucking shit event !

2008-09-13 08:58

I think eswc had an idea to not attract people to watch eswc Greece :P

2008-09-13 09:37

Who want to warch something like Q3 and Warcraft. omg

2008-09-13 10:35

Warcraft is kinda cool for an event, but Q3 :s

2008-09-13 15:01

2008-09-15 16:59

Hahaha people's reactions are awesome xDDD Well, yeah, weird choice by ESWC but we already have plenty of other events. Btw, wasn't ESWC San José supposed to be the last Q3 event of all times ?

2008-09-13 10:49

There is enough CS 1.6 tournaments in near future so I think they have afraid of tournament with many mid-skilled teams. There are cups all over the world now so best teams are going to Asia or somewhere else:) I think so... November and December is good time for next Masters:)

2008-09-13 11:10

omfg sadface Guy's :/

2008-09-13 11:22

bad tournament cs 1.6 is for esports like soccer for sport :D

2008-09-13 11:27

Uhm, I might be wrong, but aren't there a few other events on those dates anyways? Having included CS 1.6 would probably have been a disaster anyways.. Nice foresight by ESWC.

2008-09-13 11:47