South Korea to host WCG 2011

9-3-2011 23:43

The World Cyber Games commitee has announced that South Korea has been named as the host nation for the 2011 event.

The decision means that the prestigious event will return to its homeland, where it hosted its first four events, after hosting tournaments abroad for the past seven years.

The name of the city which will stage the competition has not yet been made public, but reports in Asia have suggested that Busan, the country's second biggest city, will do the honours.

The actual dates for the event have yet to be confirmed, but it should take place around September/October, before the ESWC finals, which will run sometime in the last two months of 2011.

Nine official games, including Counter-Strike, have so far been announced by the WCG commitee, who confirmed that more titles will soon be revealed.

Nice

2011-03-09 23:43

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Rumor has it 2011 WCG is the last edition of WCG due to the conflict of Kespa and Blizzard.

2011-03-10 03:24

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-BW +WoW has done.

2011-03-10 04:09

I'm not buying it. Kespa is a joke and has no power whatsoever over WCG. If they did WCG would've removed Blizzard games from its lineup to begin with.

2011-03-10 15:19

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tylerdurden is just a chinese wannabe internet troll anyway don't feed the trolls

2011-03-10 17:54

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Well, if he told me it could be the last because of financial backup being poor, I'd believe it, but because of kespa? Lol....

2011-03-10 21:07

obvious

2011-03-09 23:44

2011-03-09 23:45

Hm.

2011-03-09 23:45

nice.

2011-03-09 23:45

nice for south korea , late matches :S

2011-03-09 23:45

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without counting delays ...

2011-03-09 23:46

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true , that suck

2011-03-09 23:50

Matches at 3:00 A.M.! :(

2011-03-09 23:45

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ofcourse it's sad for us, with this timedifferences, but hosting wcg in asia is the right thing for them, they would get alot more visitors then for example in USA or in europe.

2011-03-10 09:42

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Yes, I guess you're right... >:/

2011-03-10 11:28

but still i wanna see some matches :( not hltv demos.. :/

2011-03-10 13:58

Very cool ! But oh .. the hours!

2011-03-09 23:46

WCG have to step-up if they want to match IEM this year..

2011-03-09 23:46

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WCG have never been the hardest tournament to win compared to fx ESWC.

2011-03-09 23:49

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It's about prize money, which IEM has a lot of. IEM has well more money involved than WCG and ESWC I think in CS 1.6. I think it's a harder competition in IEM.

2011-03-09 23:56

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yea, but they didnt pay anything for 4th season

2011-03-10 09:04

IEM hade massive delays

2011-03-10 00:22

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I mostly meant prize-money wise and how they lay down the tournament itself. Not talking about times.

2011-03-10 00:24

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ah, that is true, that means alot. But for the fans and the spectators it is the worst with this delays. And it also shows how good the organizers are. Apparently not many organizers are good enough to not make the viewers waiting.

2011-03-10 01:42

IEM sucks since they only show streams

2011-03-10 12:18

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if Joe is commentating it rocks </3

2011-03-10 13:59

That's simple business.

2011-03-10 15:22

I`m neuthral with this

2011-03-09 23:47

You guys are always whining. "But the hours..." bla bla, cut it ffs.

2011-03-09 23:49

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+1000

2011-03-10 07:06

oh damn, now i will have to wake up early to see some matches ):

2011-03-09 23:49

when was the last time that wcg was held in europe?

2011-03-09 23:52

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2008 in Cologne, Germany

2011-03-09 23:55

Just wondering, what time will the matches be in Korea? In the morning,afternoon, or evening? Not complaining just wondering. Also good news, more prestigious CS events :P

2011-03-09 23:56

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night/early morning i guess. It's 8 am in South Korea right now.

2011-03-10 00:04

SNSD or some other korean idol will probably be the special guests... i am jelly

2011-03-09 23:59

great news, hopefully the atmosphere will be something like it was in chengdu.

2011-03-10 00:00

Nice, hope there will be at least 32 teams in cs competition.

2011-03-10 00:07

ESWC in last two months of year ? nooooo

2011-03-10 00:19

HELL YEAH ?! :D

2011-03-10 00:29

then good luck :)

2011-03-10 00:30

3:00-6:00 AM =\

2011-03-10 00:33

da cash = asia. thought we(europeans) will miss 50% of the matches as usual

2011-03-10 00:47

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as usual ? i'm pretty sure 90% of decent events 'suite EU'.

2011-03-10 10:40

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I was talking about the events that are taking place in Asia.

2011-03-10 10:44

why in korea :( !

2011-03-10 00:57

This is a good news to me (a fan of "redCode" team). I think that bail, glow or solo maybe stop to play coz the bad results in the last championship. butt...i don't think so! :D we'll see redCode again, and i hope that they can have a great performance in this event. (poor english, I know :[ )

2011-03-10 01:02

Gogo asian teams ^-^

2011-03-10 01:09

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2011-03-10 07:56

Europe :( but nice for cs :)

2011-03-10 01:14

bye Portuguese qualifier

2011-03-10 01:15

be care of north korea :))

2011-03-10 01:22

BRING IN PHILIPPINE QUALIFIER.. WE HAVE A LOT to prove..especially to our co-asians..just like 2007 WHERE we were 9th on WCG CS

2011-03-10 01:27

north korea is a banned word in hltv.org or what? i dont get it

2011-03-10 01:32

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If you are trying to make fun, yes, that 'joke' will be deleted.

2011-03-10 23:43

n1ce

2011-03-10 05:42

very nice, gl

2011-03-10 06:37

cs in WCG FTW! :)

2011-03-10 07:03

omg ;/ eswc on november / december ? very sad ;/ i accustomed to be on summer July ;<

2011-03-10 07:34

to be honest, having tournaments in south korea/china is actually the best place. e-sport in thoose countrys is alot bigger then it is here in europe. the atmosphere you can see on the streams is just amazing.

2011-03-10 08:42

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Too bad we ain't gonna see any streams... Only those desynchronized videos on youtube.

2011-03-10 17:38

2011-03-10 08:59

smm south korea,not a fan tbh,but well i wish good luck

2011-03-10 09:06

i hope wcg here in the philippines will continue.. p29

2011-03-10 10:10

nice.

2011-03-10 11:01

2011-03-10 11:28

Ohh... Thats really bad. But i think if i can get up at 3AM to watch matches :D

2011-03-10 11:53

delpan > markeloff

2011-03-10 12:24

GOGO Na'Vi double kill :D

2011-03-10 12:46

at BUSAN ????????????????????

2011-03-10 13:08

Would be cool to travel there for vacation and just pop in a day or two and watch some good matchups. And maybe find some cute korean girl d|X_X|b

2011-03-10 13:34

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no such a thing as a cute korean girls

2011-03-10 15:47

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i suggest you losing virginity

2011-03-10 16:40

i can only come to the conclusion that you are gay. japanese, chinese, korean girls and so on are very beautiful. azn girls in general.

2011-03-10 22:25

WCG needs to step it up... gl.

2011-03-10 13:42

*NICE GL

2011-03-10 13:50

Wild Cyber Goons

2011-03-10 13:55

najs gl hf ~

2011-03-10 14:07

not good time zone for europe :\

2011-03-10 14:21

why you guys whine about time zone,ffs asian ppl are having the same problems for 90% of the tournaments,which are mostly hosted in europe. So it's fine to make it able for them to watch the matches in a proper time for once. Plus it's a great place (money wise) for the organization.

2011-03-10 14:34

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yeah well... Asians have no souls. OK?

2011-03-10 17:40

Nice :)

2011-03-10 15:17

unexpected :Q

2011-03-10 15:35

great,gl everyone ..

2011-03-10 16:02

i think WCG 2011 will be one of the best WCG ever

2011-03-10 16:43

fx win :D

2011-03-10 17:16

and all matchs will be @inferno JAJAJAJA

2011-03-10 18:20

i need the date to take some days off :D

2011-03-10 18:22

I want more pictures in the articles!

2011-03-10 18:23

2011-03-10 18:55

Korea!

2011-03-10 20:13

another great year

2011-03-10 20:29

Haha, I've actually been looking at tickets for South-Korea today. Maybe I should go and do the reportage for HLTV.org? I'd pay for everything myself, as long as I get a press pass or something. Admins, if you see this, feel free to contact me!

2011-03-10 20:43

i think it'll be nice and the best thing is there'll be tons of people joining as an audience, because we know what kind of fans they are, especially concerning warcraft/starcraft series ;)

2011-03-10 20:50