World Cyber Games
The World Cyber Games (WCG ) is a former E- sport event, held every year. Launched they were with the support of the Korean Samsung Group in 2000 under the name of WCG Challenge. Between 2001 and 2013 the event was the World Cyber Games and found annually in October or November at changing venues instead.
The program included a year six to nine PC games which are suitable as an e- sports title. Perennial favorites were the two games series FIFA and StarCraft that were at every edition of the World Cyber Games on the program. Other popular e-sports titles were, among others, Counter Strike and Warcraft III. The total prize money is usually a five-digit dollar amount was paid per discipline. However, competitions were held on the XBox or XBox360 console as well as on the mobile phone between 2003 and 2011.
The number of participants per country was limited and the size of each selection also depended on the sponsors of individual organizations from WCG. The number of national players of a nation varied between about one and 25 people. Germany was usually about 20 players regularly one of the most representative nations and is second in time medals table. Last 72 nations were involved in the preliminary rounds of the World Cyber Games.
Since 2005, existed with the WCG 2005 Samsung Euro Championship ( SEC), a European version of the WCG. It took place at CeBIT in Hannover. 2006 to further joined the WCG Asian Championship and the WCG Pan-American Championship.
For an overview of all results of the World Cyber Games, World Cyber Games → see / Result
Chronology
Disciplines
* in brackets: Promotions disciplines in addition to official competitive sports
Hall of Fame
In the Hall of Fame of the World Cyber Games, players or teams are included, who have won two or more gold medals. In addition, the members of the Hall of Fame given the status as WCG Legend.
Members of the Hall of Fame:
- United States Team 3D ( winner of WCG 2004 WCG 2005 and Counter- Strike )
- Germany Dennis " styla " Schell Hare ( winner of WCG 2003 and WCG 2005 FIFA)
- Germany Daniel " hero" Schell Hare ( winner of WCG 2006 WCG 2007 FIFA)
- Germany Christian " GitzZz " Hoeck (winner of WCG 2001 WCG 2002 Unreal Tournament )
- United States Matthew " Zyos " Leto (winner of WCG 2003 and WCG 2004 halo)
- People's Republic of China Li "Sky" Xiaofeng (winner of WCG 2005 WCG 2006 Warcraft III)
- Netherlands Manuel " Grubby " Schenkhuizen (winner of WCG 2004 WCG 2008 Warcraft III)
- Netherlands Wouter " Handewasser " van Someren (winner of WCG 2007 WCG 2008 Project Gotham Racing 4 )
- Poland Again / PGS Gaming ( winner of WCG 2006 WCG 2009 Counter- Strike )