Following the tournament
World Cyber Games 2009 is a matter of days away as GosuGamers sits down with this year's WarCraft tournament. Fair to say, this is the tournament of the year in terms of WarCraft, considering the amount of players, let alone the prestige. A total of 280,000 USD is at stake for all disciplines, leaving us with 23,000 USD for WarCraft specifically.
In the usual manner, we find groups mixed with professionals and talents, and with the maximum amount of players from one nation, we will not see many heavy names from South Korea and China. Known names such as TH000, ReMinD, Space and Soccer all missed their chance to participate in this years edition of what some people call the eSports variant of the Olympic Games.
Having a World Cyber Games TV stream has become something of a standard in order to follow the games. Assuming Waaagh!TV won't be available, the streaming service will be your chance to tune in and cheer for whoever you find most appealing. It's safe to say we can only hope for no lag or delay issues, let alone the service being down at any point.
WCG TV Schedule
WCG TV Stream
23,000 USD at stake
The WCG Finals will possess the lowest prize money in 9 years this year. Compared to last years total prize purse ($470,000), this year will hold almost half of it - 280,000 USD. The difference for the WarCraft crowds are however not overwhelming, as the first place drops from last year's $19,000 to $14,000.
1st. 14,000 USD
2nd. 6,000 USD
3rd. 3,000 USD
Sky, Grubby and Moon
The World Cyber Games history tells us that we are lucky, though. Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li is an undisputed force that built an empire of fans and followers after his former achievements in the tournament. Last year's finals in Cologne, Germany, held two other names, however. The monster matchup between Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen and Jang 'Moon' JaeHo can be a fact unless the Chinese Human master decides he want another year of cyber games glory.
Other names to be mentioned are of course all the Chinese and South Korean participants. Wei Liang 'Fly100%' Lu is currently ranked second in the GosuGamers rankings and is surely setting sight for the gold medal, while third ranked Xuwen 'InFi' Wang also should be a reckoned contender. But who knows, maybe it's Lyn, WhO, ToD or HappY's time to shine this time. Have a look at the groups below.
Group A  Fly100%  Ciara  HasuHasi  VeryB1gman  sTa.Bly4eg | Group B  EG.Happy  Odin  XtC.Revenant  Huang_Feng | Group C  Grubby  TeRRoR  Ctserry  feRfe  SK.WhO | Group D Infi  LongWalk  Bulgaria 1st  CONTEMPLATOR NapS |
Group E WE-SKY  Raspot  yAws sTa.kNet.Majestic HungJen | Group F  ToD  APM.xlu.Reaper-  Venezuela 1st  CHUKS | Group G SK.Lyn  Maniac-  Padash  Asgardinho | Group H WeMadeFOX.Moon  Stud  Xelsing n_S.o.K.o.L TankLiew |
GosuGamers will provide GosuBet's, articles and whatnot throughout the whole tournament. Let the games begin!
