WCG donates 360 monitors to schools

1-10-2010 02:46

The World Cyber Games organisation has revealed that it will donate $122,000 worth of computer equipment to public schools in the state of California.

The move will see a total of 360 Samsung SyncMaster computer monitors being given to the Los Angeles County Education Foundation, with hopes of enchancing classroom and after-school programs.

"Games and technology are a great way to engage at-risk kids," said Madeline Hall, director of the Los Angeles County Education Foundation. "Having access to the best tools in our classrooms and after school programs will help disadvantaged students experience the opportunities available for them in the broader world, and give them something to strive for in their education."

WCG strives to improve education

The 2010 edition of the WCG, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, will feature 450 players from 58 different countries, with $167,000 being handed out in the various competitions.

wow :) good step.

2010-10-01 02:47

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It could be better if monitors will be given to schools of country with most winnings in the tournament

2010-10-01 13:46

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We don't need them. (jk LoL =P=P)

2010-10-01 15:09

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ahahaha lol xD

2010-10-01 15:27

true jaja, we need them! in some of our schools we don't even have computers and in some we have computers so old that still use windows 95...

2010-10-01 18:45

I'd rather see them pay the prizemoney which was promised before hand tbh. But awesome never the less!

2010-10-01 02:52

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+1000000

2010-10-01 08:34

I agree, who needs 120Hz in school...

2010-10-01 08:55

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play camperstrike.co.uk/play.php in school or job is nice :)

2010-10-01 09:12

Haha, exactly my thoughts, doing school work definately needs 120hz refresh rate...............

2010-10-01 13:24

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2010-11-01 00:34

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Stop answering old posts man

2010-11-01 00:47

Assume you are talking about the prize cut. Mind you, they never promised more than what the prize is now.

2010-10-01 09:18

the prize cut was due to this donation.

2010-10-01 11:52

WCG every year pays their prize money, they never got deley on that matter

2010-10-01 17:05

wow. Nice one!

2010-10-01 02:49

WTF N1

2010-10-01 02:50

cool idea :)

2010-10-01 02:52

2233rz to skool, wtf?????

2010-10-01 02:53

USA has enough money to deal with their shit. I know the action is good but... come on people we all know there so many countries that REALLY need something like this. But yeah, maybe its merchandising.

2010-10-01 02:53

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dont speak of things that you know nothing of it makes you look like an ass. this could possibly prove to be a good step. id rather have a kid gaming than a kid gang banging

2010-10-01 02:56

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I knew the first guy to reply me would be an american defending his country. Well, USA has enough money to boost education without SAMSUNG pointless help. How kids will learn more with a 120hz monitor? Fuck sakes. Capitalism is so controversial

2010-10-01 03:06

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I don't know if you dipshit Brazilians heard about it or anything, but there's this little thing called the global recession that has left the US up to Obamas testicles in debt, mateyG.

2010-10-01 03:10

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Dipshit brazilians? FUCK you. The north-american people pay a hell of taxes so the government can pay the fucking senior members of rich corporations when their business are in "crysis". You fucking prick thinks we live in an isolated world? Funny thing is that Brazil was one of the less affected by this stupid recession, something that I can't say about Australia. So yeah, if you wanna be the smart one here, I could simple say "Haha DIPSHIT AUSSIE, we don't need to know about the recession since it didn't really affected us."

2010-10-01 03:33

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Chill out, dude. Dont ruin this good news with a rude comments. It's their own choice to donate it to an american schools and they definitely had a reason to do that. :)

2010-10-01 08:22

What I know, is that Americans are stupid. Mexicans are stupid, Canadians, Brazilians, Danes and pretty much everybody.

2010-10-01 08:57

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But swedish are great! :b

2010-10-01 09:49

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not

2010-10-01 18:47

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don't start a flame war, if you don't have sense of humor please don't bother me, go away.

2010-10-01 20:04

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Your joke was uber lame and that's why I replied to you like that. You can leave now, thanks.

2010-10-01 21:09

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omfg, go hate somewhere else please, stop being rude, nobody talked with you

2010-10-01 21:11

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This is a public website. I'm free to reply to everyone here.

2010-10-01 21:13

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ok be happy

2010-10-01 21:36

you call me a dipshit? peace to you, i hope karma takes care of you, I never said anything bad of you, I forgive , but karma is cruel :p watch out

2010-10-01 09:21

The goal is not to help kids with education, its to help with the after school environment and in school environment and keeping the kids off the street and keep them interested in computers and such...

2010-10-01 03:29

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like 360 monitors is gonna improve the USA situation in anyway. you know this doesnt help for shit. USA government should invest less in fuckin missiles and go ahead and invest in something usefull like education...... fuckin sick capitalist basterds

2010-10-01 03:52

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your ignorance is making you look like an idiot right now

2010-10-01 04:27

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Yes BUT WHY GIVE THEM 120 HZ MONITORS? FOR WHATT? THEYRE GONNA MAKE CS 2.1? AND PLAY TEST IT AFTERWARDS?

2010-10-01 16:47

hope you realize the usa government spends a lot more on education than most nations.

2010-10-01 18:21

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Americans spend more on maintaining their lawns than India Govt. collects in Federal tax revenues.

2010-10-01 19:16

california is fucked they need it.

2010-10-01 03:03

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what about Silicon Valley? I know I can't generalize but come on... USA gov doesn't need it -_-

2010-10-01 03:07

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There is alot of really poor people in the US, just like in brazil. The us is only ranked well on the GDP-PPP list because the have 80% of the 500 largest companies on the planet and therefore most billionares.

2010-10-01 03:19

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That's true. Primary and secondary sectors are losing labors so unemployment is fucking high, so the socio-economic inequality. US can inject billions to pay senior positions of the rich corporations when they are in crysis, but they can't help education. Capitalism sucks that's all I can say. Do you have a lot of poverty in EU aswell? Btw by saying that I'm not defending Socialism.

2010-10-01 03:18

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There is poor poeple everywhere, after danish standards we also have our amount of poor people here, but they would still be rich in other countries. I think that the eastern european countries such as, romania, ukraine etc. have alot more poor people than what the standard in europe is, but it is not something i know alot about.

2010-10-01 03:31

capitalism sucks, but it sucks much less than other economics system which was proven a lot of times.

2010-10-01 09:49

2010-10-01 18:53

Read the news sometime... were completely in debt..

2010-10-01 05:06

2010-10-01 11:18

i'd find it funny if those monitors would have been sent to africa.. since they dont have that many pc's there :D anyways, great move from WCG, im happy that even esport care for education (since it damages it too :D )

2010-10-01 02:55

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thats not funny, thats disgraceful.

2010-10-01 02:55

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what? am i being racist or something? nop. i just think it would be kinda funny with all these charities and care-unions doing stuff to help africa (food, bicycles, medicaments n stuff) :))

2010-10-01 09:20

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Dude, very big portion of them don´t even have clean water.

2010-10-01 18:14

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C'mon, i know that. That was the point of my main post.. :|

2010-10-01 22:56

and how are they supposed to use the monitors if they haven't got any pc's?

2010-10-01 03:38

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Well, they could donate the whole PC's too :p

2010-10-01 08:24

that was the point.

2010-10-01 09:18

Good choice. Dunno how kids are able to learn without 120hz. Just glad they're paying what they promised to the gamers

2010-10-01 02:55

Cool although this is probably the reason why the prizemoney got lowered which indicates that they must have known about this charity-plan long before every team went to this tournament. Extremely bad organised but at least its going to a good cause

2010-10-01 02:56

donate 1 for me pleasE!

2010-10-01 02:56

I don't get it. Why to cut prizepool? To donate a wealthy state. Makes perfect sense.

2010-10-01 02:58

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Shut up idiot, this is for a good cause, and the prizemoney is not that bad....

2010-10-01 03:08

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Idiot? Don't call him an idiot for speaking the truth. Good cause my ass. Elaborate me a text saying how 120hz monitors are going to improve kids' prentice? Discussing this kind of subject on HLTV.org isn't a good idea anyways since 80% of the community are fucking ret... nevermind

2010-10-01 03:13

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Well it doesnt matter if it is 120 hz or 60 hz, the case is they donatted them, the kids who didnt have a monitor for a computer now opt to have one. The retarded one is you, you should apreciate more what you have, i would laugh at you if one day you need the help of others and you dont receive it. Also you aint playing the tournament, so prizepot doesnt affect you.

2010-10-01 06:40

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How come can you call me an idiot while being such a retard? "Well it doesnt matter if it is 120 hz or 60 hz, the case is they donatted them, the kids who didnt have a monitor for a computer now opt to have one." I'm just speechless. What will they do with monitors ONLY? Nothing. Just the OLD ones will get replaced. Get it?

2010-10-01 14:06

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And how do you know they had computers already, maybe their gonna be sent to places where they didnt have computers...

2010-10-01 17:28

the kids who didnt have a monitor for a computer lol wut?

2010-10-01 15:51

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Maybe someone else donated the pcs, and WCG donates the monitors, dont you think..? Or maybe they had enough pcs but were lacking monitors.

2010-10-01 17:28

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That sounds retarded to me. And very unlikely.

2010-10-01 17:30

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Well i dont care about how it sounds to you, do i..? If it sounds retarded maybe youre retarded...

2010-10-01 17:46

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2010-10-01 17:57

you just pwnd yourself. period

2010-10-01 18:50

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Give me a reason sir...?

2010-10-01 18:52

i can see that they promised money already but there pro players to a persons education i'd rather see it go to a kid then some pro thats gonna make money playing a game.

2010-10-01 02:58

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without that pro there would be no WCG

2010-10-01 15:02

Donations? its the "50% cut os prize money". thank the players for the monitors. :]

2010-10-01 03:00

Nice I guess, hopefully my school gets a few :D

2010-10-01 03:01

ahha and someone said gaming was dying

2010-10-01 03:02

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What is this I don't even

2010-10-01 03:06

Hahahaha, USA receiving donations... Here in Argentina the schools don't have computers, and IF they have the 90% are Pentium II @ Windows 98SE. USA has nukes, NASA, UFOs an captive aliens at Area 51 :S This is not fair

2010-10-01 03:07

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Indeed. USA receiving donations sounds like a joke to me.

2010-10-01 03:09

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haha ur such a dumb fuck ahahaha

2010-10-01 17:22

What good's a monitor if you don't have computers?

2010-10-01 03:11

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2010-10-01 04:58

Well maybe that is why they cut down on the prize money... no ? Either way, $122,000 is a lot.

2010-10-01 03:09

hmm... they could have asked the players if they wanted to donate part of their prize money before taking it from them, but this still was a nice gesture

2010-10-01 03:18

Um, do you kids really think it costs samsung $35,000 to produce an extra 360 monitors off the production line. Try about $10 a piece.

2010-10-01 03:23

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At least I can't call you a complete retard.

2010-10-01 03:36

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The feeling isn't mutual.

2010-10-01 03:44

Yeah ok... because USA needs it more than any other country. It's a nice anyways.

2010-10-01 03:29

I don't see why schools needs 120hz monitors... Why did they have to cut off on the prize money for something like that.

2010-10-01 03:43

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so they create classes for progamers :>

2010-10-01 03:54

Im not gonna start a flame war, but you would be surprised to see what some of our schools look like. Even in the USA.

2010-10-01 03:44

samsung 2233rz? :||

2010-10-01 03:47

thats cool guys

2010-10-01 03:52

And the state government should force schoolboys to come to the final and adore those top8 who havn't counted up some money)))

2010-10-01 04:31

really nice!

2010-10-01 06:09

Very Good!

2010-10-01 06:17

Biology videos can be way more interesting @ 120hz

2010-10-01 06:36

nice

2010-10-01 08:49

that's why the prizes were cutted? lol america is such a poor country.. lol

2010-10-01 09:30

That's what we called BUSINESS. Why would they give it to Brazil or other south countries. If you put it there, people are not going to buy it because it's too expansive. But in America, they can have payback. "Oh this monitor is nice, want the same at home." That's all

2010-10-01 09:53

then they can be sent to schoos. The users often have restricted opportunities to change the herz settings, and they're often set to default.. This is useless for schools. They should rather sell the monitors and give the money away to charity.

2010-10-01 11:21

REALLY GOOD STEP!

2010-10-01 11:27

school deserved old screen not new ones :/ using that screen for Micro word? will be useless

2010-10-01 11:54

that is really generous from wcg crew :D gj

2010-10-01 12:19

I really don't know whether to term this good or bad. I am all for donating monitors but giving away gaming grade monitors worth so much to schools which don't really need that level of hardware is something I am not able to digest... I would rather buy a larger number of lower spec monitors and help as many schools as possible (with the same amount of money) rather than give away 120 Hz gaming monitors just to showcase sponsors' prowess.

2010-10-01 12:40

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+1 all fake but still imba donation :(

2010-10-15 17:51

Donate 4 me

2010-10-01 12:47

stupid They'd better pay what they promised instead of trying to look generous California is not really the place in the world that needs it the most, they'd rather sell the screens and give the money to an association dealing with third tier countries' problems..

2010-10-01 13:29

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2010-10-01 14:14

if they can donate this all monitors without problem. they can also buy a new camera to nix0n!

2010-10-01 14:17

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2010-10-01 16:01

OMG! 1 for me...

2010-10-01 14:32

nice

2010-10-01 15:30

"Games and technology are a great way to engage at-risk kids," - If I remember correctly USA wanted to ban violet games because they have ability to lead youngs to a bad way, like to school shooting or something similar.

2010-10-01 15:43

I don't get it?! They drop the prices to the event, and then they give all the money/hardware away. In my mind that like shoting yourself in the foot. :S

2010-10-01 15:45

they should put the money towards LAN centers for school kids!

2010-10-01 16:00

Great

2010-10-01 16:46

to my school please to , :D:D

2010-10-01 17:05

LOL........

2010-10-01 17:17

monitor name please? samsung 2233rz ?

2010-10-01 18:18

Next time you can cut the prize money to donate some Alienwares. What a joke.

2010-10-01 18:55

no harm to americans but sounds weird for me to read that USA is recieving donations though I know they're in crysis and it will definetly help sb but feels like its no that much of a benefit for them.

2010-10-01 19:06