SAN JOSE, California, August 29 Games-Services
SAN JOSE, California, August 29 /PRNewswire/ --
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Following three days of competition bringing together the 600 best
players on the planet, six world champion titles and $US 200,000 in prize
money were awarded in San Jose, California, which hosted the Electronic
Sports World Cup Final. Played in front of the public on the large stage of
the San Jose Convention Center, broadcast on giant screens and with
commentary by electronic sports specialists, the final matches included many
of the 40 nations represented. Poland and the United States won two
consecutive titles for the first time in the history of the ESWC: for the
second consecutive year PGS-Gaming of Poland won the title for the
Counter-Strike tournament and SK-Gaming of the United States held onto their
title in the Women's Counter-Strike tournament.
Along with other games, the Koreans and the Chinese bagged the first four
spots in the Warcraft 3 competition; the Quake 3 tournament was dominated by
Belarussian gamer Alexei Yanushevsky and in the Trackmania Nations tournament
Swedish gamer Kalle Videkull and Dutch gamer Freek Mollema secured the
highest places on the podium. During its first appearance in the competition
as an official sport, DOTA allowed the Singaporean team Zenith to leave
California basking in the glow of a world champion title.
List of Winners of the 2008 ESWC:
COUNTER-STRIKE
1 PGS GAMING (Poland)
2 ESTRO (South Korea)
3 FNATIC (Sweden)
QUAKE 3
1 CYPHER (Belarus)
2 K1LLSEN (Germany)
3 RAPHA (United States)
WARCRAFT 3
1 MTWAMD.WHO (South Korea)
2 WE.SKY (China)
3 TED (China)
TRACKMANIA
1 FROSTBEULE (Sweden)
2 XENOGEAR (Netherlands)
3 LIGN (France)
DOTA
1 ZENITH (Singapore)
2 KINGSURF (Malaysia)
3 MEETYOURMAKERS (Denmark)
COUNTER-STRIKE WOMEN
1 SK GAMING (United States)
2 EMULATE (France)
3 EHONOR (China)
ESWC's official website: http://www.eswc.com
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