World Cyber Games Completes 10th Annual Grand Final in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ — The World Cyber Games (WCG) 2010 Grand Final came to a close at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California last night. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the World Cyber Games, the world’s largest computer and video game festival, celebrating the best in gaming.
The WCG 2010 Grand Final proved to be one of the organization’s most-watched events to date. 32,000 spectators watched the tournament at the Los Angeles Convention Center with tens of millions of viewers watching a live stream of the games via the Internet at live.wcg.com, Facebook.com/SamsungUSA and on official partner IGN’s premium gaming site www.ign.com. The WCG 2010 Grand Final was also broadcasted in eight countries, including China, Germany, and Russia. 400 international media representatives attended the event, which featured 450 players from 58 countries battling it out for more than $250,000 in cash and prizes.
After a hard fought WCG 2010 Grand Final tournament, South Korea took home first overall place with 3 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze medals. The Brazil, United Kingdom and Germany teams tied second with 1 gold, and 1 silver each and Teams Australia, Ukraine, Sweden and the United States tied third with 1 gold medal each.
Last night at 7:00PM PT, the WCG 2010 Grand Final came to a spectacular close on the Main Stage of the LA Convention Center, with a Closing Ceremony featuring a medal ceremony for each of the winners that was hosted by entertainment star, Cory Almeida.
Thanks to Samsung, the worldwide partner of World Cyber Games, the 2010 Grand Final was the ‘greenest Grand Final ever.’ Samsung worked with Carbonfund.org to offset the WCG carbon footprint including everything from the electricity used at the tournament to the airline emissions of the players traveling from all over the globe. During the WCG Closing Ceremony, Samsung was presented with the first Corporate Climate Leadership Award by Carbonfund.org in recognition of all their environmental programs.
Today, the Los Angeles County Education Foundation will take a delivery of more than $120,000 worth of Samsung SyncMaster monitors, a donation from the World Cyber Games, to enhance classrooms and after-school programs, and encourage the use and development of technology in education throughout the state.
The WCG 2010 Grand Final also included the live taping of WCG’s Ultimate Gamer Season 2 finale which will air at 11:00PM this Thursday, October 7. Tune in to watch the dramatic climax, and find out who is this year’s WCG Ultimate Gamer. The winner will take home the Ultimate Samsung Electronics Package and $100,000 in cash.
World Cyber Games 2010 Grand Final Results
Country Ranking
1st 3 Gold
South Korea
2 Silver
3 Bronze
2nd (Tie) 1 Gold
Brazil
U.K.
Germany
1 Silver
0 Bronze
3rd (Tie) 1 Gold
Australia
Ukraine
Sweden
USA
0 Silver
0 Bronze
Medalists of the 10 Official Titles:
Carom 3D
Gold Fernando Rogoski (Pantaneiro) Brazil
Silver Fabio Fonseca (TheLogaN) Brazil
Bronze Hee-Chui Kim (MARCJACOBS) South Korea
CounterStrike
Gold Team NaVi, Ukraine
Silver Denmark2, Denmark
Bronze Frag-executors, Poland
Forza Motorsports
David Kelly (d.Daveyskills) United
Gold Kingdom
Silver Niklas Krellenberg (Johnson) Germany
Wouter van Someren (Handewasser)
Bronze Netherlands
FIFA 10
Gold Kevin Santer (diamonde) Germany
Silver Zheng Yang (Zola) China
Bronze Michael Polivka (bl4ck_p01nt) Slovakia
Guitar Hero 5
Gold Alec Castillo (Acai28) USA
Silver George Boothby (ti.Monkey) United Kingdom
Bronze Boy Kremers (Kaos.Boyke) Netherlands
StarCraft: Brood War
Gold Young-Ho Lee (South Korea) Flash
Silver Goo-Hyun Kim (South Korea) Goojila
Bronze Jae-Dong Lee (South Korea) Jaedong
Track Mania Nations Forever
Gold Kalle Mortlund (FrostBeule) Sweden
Silver Peter Strele (PeZi) Austria
Bronze Dorian Vallet (Carl) France
Tekken 6
Gold Jae-Min Boo (Knee) South Korea
Silver Abe Akihiro (AO(ALI)) Japan
Bronze Kitahara Shutaro (honnda) Japan
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Gold Sung-Sik Kim (ReMinD) South Korea
Silver Manuel Schenkhuizen (Grubby) Netherlands
Bronze June Park (Lyn) South Korea
Medalists of the Mobile Title:
Not included in the medal tally
Asphalt 5
Gold Charlie Elliot (Tenshii) Australia
Silver Won-Joo Lee (KimBuJa) South Korea
Bronze Phillip Mussuri (Mussuri) Russia
Medalists of the 3 Promotion Titles
Not included in the medal tally
League of Legends
Gold Counter Logic, USA
Silver IWEARCAPEIRL, Germany
Bronze AnotherStory, Singapore
Lost Saga
Gold Sanarae, South Korea
Silver TheFootClan, USA
Bronze GoodLuck, USA
Quake Wars Online
Gold AmeriMiX, USA
Silver -ET-, South Korea
Bronze F0000T, Australia
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About World Cyber Games (WCG)
World Cyber Games Inc. (WCG) is the organizer of the largest global videogame tournament and festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010. With a yearlong competition spanning online, regional and national qualifying matches, elite gamers ascend to represent their countries at the WCG Grand Final, a thrilling high-pressure challenge to crown the world’s best gamers. More than 1.6 million players from 65 countries competed for a spot in the WCG 2009 Grand Final in China. Los Angeles, the entertainment capital in the world, most recently hosted the exciting grand final competition from September 30 to October 3, 2010. To showcase the passion and competitive spirit of gamers, WCG also produces the hit reality show WCG Ultimate Gamer, which is currently airing on Syfy. For more information visit www.wcg.com, or m.wcg.com on smart phones. Follow us on Twitter @beyondthegame.
SOURCE World Cyber Games Inc.