World Cyber Games 2009

The 2009 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 09 or World Cyber Games 09) took place from November 11 to November 15, 2009, in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It had over 600 participates from 70 countries taking part.[1] The prize money is estimated at around $500,000.

Official Games

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Warcraft III, StarCraft, Counter Strike, FIFA 09, Carom3D, Red Stone and TrackMania Nations Forever on PC Guitar Hero: World Tour and Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360 Asphalt4 and Wise Star 2 on Mobile

Competition Draw

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The Competition Draws took place on October 19, October 20 and October 21. All competition draws took place on one of these three days.

  • Oct. 19: Asphalt 4 > Wise Star 2 > Counter-Strike
  • Oct. 20: Guitar Hero > Virtua Fighter 5 > FIFA 09
  • Oct. 21: Carom 3D - > Trackmania Nations Forever - > StarCraft - > Warcraft III

Results

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Official

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Event      
WarCraft III : The Frozen Throne   Wang Xuwen (Infi)   Lu Weiliang (Fly100%)   Park June (Lyn)
Counter-Strike 1.6 AGAiN
 
Jakub Gurczynski
(kuben)
fnatic
 
Patrik Sättermon
(cArn)
Mortal Teamwork
 
Alexander Holdt
(ave)
Lukasz Wnek
(LUq)
Patrik Lindberg
(f0rest)
Christoffer Sunde
(Sunde)
Wiktor Wojtas
(Taz)
Rasmus Ståhl
(Gux)
Danny Sørensen
(zonic)
Mariusz Cybulski
(Loord)
Harley Örwall
(dsn)
Oliver Ari Minet
(minet)
Filip Kubski
(neo)
Christopher Alesund
(GeT_RiGhT)
Martin Heldt
(trace)
TrackMania Nations Forever   Jesper Karjalainen (KarjeN)   Kalle Mortlund Videkull (FrostBeule)   Fredrik Bergmann (Bergie)
StarCraft: Brood War   Jae-Dong Lee (Jaedong)   Byung-Gu Song (Stork)   Taek-Yong Kim (Bisu)
FIFA 09   Joshua Begehr (SK_Kr0ne)   Daniel Schellhase (SK_hero)   Piotr Zajkowski (Pio)
Red Stone ComeonBaby
 
Ki-Pyo Kang HAPPY_SWEETS
 
Hiroto Watanabe Cool_Runnings
 
Jon Lunceford
Seung-Ryul Kim Shouta Ueda Matt Marcou
Sung-Min Song Kuniaki Kitagawa Sean Snack
Tae-Seok Kim Tomohiro Takami Colin Fogle
Carom3D   Hee-Chul Kim (MARCJACOBS)   Jean Monico (jeantek)   Andreas Krieger (Protonski)
Virtua Fighter 5   Keita Ai (FOOD)   Eui-Wook Shin (ShinZ_Km)   Dae-Hwan Kim (Rikojjang)
Guitar Hero World Tour   Fabio Jardim (caiomenudo13)   Michael Najman (MoB_Shift)   Robert Michaels (vVv smokyprogg)
Wise Star 2   Enrico Aurora (a.Enrico)   Christophe Limet (Blackbelt)   Trevor Housten (TorcH)
Asphalt4 : Elite Racing   Liu You-chen (TER_BURBERRYqq)   Jared Beins (slyfoxlover)   Won-Joon Lee (KimBuJa)

Promotion

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Event      
Dungeon and Fighter   Jong-Min Jeong (UraniumHwangjaeM)   Shun Ishikawa (CLAY)   Je-Myung Lee (Marenobba)

Sponsors

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Samsung Electronics (Worldwide Partner)

Official theme song

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The official theme song of the World Cyber Games is called "Beyond the Game" and the title is also the name of the World Cyber Games Motto.

Videos

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The World Cyber Games published the different events on their YouTube account and their site.

References

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  1. ^ "WCG 2009 Overview". World Cyber Games. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
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