World Cyber Games, one of the biggest events during a year for StarCraft, countless visitors and plenties of player gather to compete in their favourite game. Time for some updates.
Let us start with some information about
WCG Canada. The offline tournament takes place in La Ronde, Montreal from September the 1st to 3rd. The modus will be a double elimination tournament including winners and losers bracket for the top two of each of the following four groups:
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Canada will send two representatives to WCG Finals in
Monza, Italy. Dell computer systems provides WCG Canada with the latest gaming systems, 10 XPS computers are set up on stage for featured games and gold medal games for each tournament. In PC tournament area there are 40 custom built Dell Dimension systems. WCG Canada covers the costs for tickets for each player participating, visitors have to pay the regular prize. Information on the prizes and anything else can be found here: www.laronde.comAnother country with many high skilled players is
Poland, unfortunately for the Polish StarCraft addicts, there is only one ticket to WCG Finals in Monza, Italy. The Polish finals will take place on September the 9th, in Warsaw. One of the favourite players for the ticket, MYM.Blackman, got seeded due to his place in last year WCG Poland. Then the top two players of the three groups got a spot in WCG Finals as well, the players placed third in each group had to play eachother to determine the 8th player in a mini-tournament. ToT)Hullah( managed to beat both 
VenOm and 
MoonShine and will go to WCG Finals of Poland as well.
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Raven (group C)Many will ask, "Where is
MYM.SunCow?", "Didn't he participate?". He participated, but got removed from his group C by the admins. The time for WCG Online Preliminary was set to 14h CET, SunCow couldn't play at the time due to his plane from South Korea to Poland, therefore he asked the other players to come at 11h CET and ParanOid, Venom and Exmario showed up. SunCow managed to beat Exmario (2-0) and ParanOid (2-1), but had to leave afterwards to get his plane. SunCow pleased both VenOm and Raven to postpone their games, but VenOm didn't agree and gave W/O. VenOm now had the advantage of 1-0, ParanOid and Exmario had 0-1, which was kinda unfair, so everyone in the group took W/O against SunCow. The admins decided to cancel all results of SunCow and remove him from the group. Note, that the admin announced earlier very clearly that SunCow is out of group, if any of the players does not agree with postponement. VenOm said the reason for his W/O was SunCow who was flaming, though rumors say that he was just afraid of SunCow's skill, which is most probably superior. Draco had a group full of Zergs and managed to beat everyone with 2-0, a quite impressive result in spite of his stay in 
South Korea. A link to the Replay package has been added below, including Replays of Raven, Draco and Blackman to mention a few.And another WCG tournament was held recently.
WCG Malaysia took place just some days ago and for many's surprise it is not JohnRambo going to WCG Monza, Italy this year. M1-Cobo managed to beat him in the finals with 2-0 and due to only one ticket for StarCraft in Malaysia it is Cobo flying. If you are wondering what "M1" means, it is the short version of Mas-1, the biggest Malaysian e-sport community
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Replays of WCG Malaysia have been collected and uploaded to the WCG site, the link has been added below. Updates on other important WCG preliminaries such as
WCG Germany including Mondragon and Fisheye will follow in near future. Good luck to all participants in Italy.
Links
Private host - Replays of WCG Poland
WCG.com - Replays of WCG Malaysia
TeamLiquid.net - Source
