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WCG History in Russia. Part II: 2007–2011

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October 12, 2012 Kindiarsport

We present to your attention the second part of our story about the history of Russian e -sports on World Cyber ​​Games. By the way, this is far from our only material about WCG, because we cover all the most interesting events of the cyberlympiades from SSAMSUNG in our special section

The first on our list is the 2007 tournament, held in Seattle. Following, of course, we will recall other WCG grand finals until 2011 inclusive. Enjoy reading!

2007 – scandals, intrigues, investigations

2007 events open the second part of our history about Russian qualifying to WorldCyber ​​Games. Recall that the grand final then took place in the American Seattle – The city is nearly a landmark for e -sports, because it was there a month ago the grandiose The International 2 from Valve.

► The famous Space Needle TV tower is the main attraction of Seattle.

Selecting a place for the final, which was supposed to pass from October 3 to 7, the organizers from Samsung We stopped at the stadium Qwest Field. It was there that seven hundred players from seventy -four countries of the world were supposed to accommodate – an absolute record for World Cyber ​​Games At that time.

With an increase in the number of participants, the list of official disciplines of the tournament has expanded. The best gamers of the world competed in a whole dozen games, of which eight were on personal computers: Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Starcraft: Brood War, Counter-Strike 1.6, FIFA 2007, Need for Speed: Carbon, Command & Conquer III: Tiberium Wars, Age of Empires III: The Warshiefs And Carom3d ; And four more – on Xbox 360: GEARS of WAR, Dead or Alive 4, Project Gotham Racing 3 And Tony Hawk’s Project 8.

► Tons of small arms and fighters armed to the teeth – this is what we remembered in 2007 in 2007, the team shooter on the consoles GEARS of War.

The most weighty amount was played in Counter-Strike 1.6 And, oddly enough, in colorful GEARS of WAR. The prize fund in the first case was $ 95,000 (55 per gold, 25 per silver and 15 per bronze), and in the second – fifty (thirty went directly to the champion). A decent reward for diaphoretic training.

But the path to the All -Russian final, where the right to travel to the New World was won, lay through many qualifying ones, which passed in June and July in the eleven major cities of the country. The best of the best from August 8 to 12, 2007 fought in Moscow for the title of Russian champions worthy of representing the country at the World competition.

On the national finale in the white -stone played eight games ( Tony Hawk’s Project 8 , Command & Conquer III: Tiberium Wars, Carom3d And Age of Empires III: The Warshiefs Apparently, we did not take root). The strait is a lot of virtual blood and real sweat, the winners became the following:

• Kpobb ( Virtus.Pro) -Counter-Strike 1.6;
• Xyligan, Titan, Swift – Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne;
• Notni – Project Gotham Racing 3;
• Notforu, ex, Androide – Starcraft: Brood War;
• Alan, n1trous, mr.Raser – Need for Speed: Carbon;
• Alexx, Hackerfifa, Wer – FIFA 2002;
• Xboxrussia Team – GEARS of WAR;
• Staryi – Dead or Alive 4.

However, a trip to Seattle for the Russian team turned out to be a failure – only a virtual racer brought a bronze medal home Alan Enileev. The “consolers” acted especially unsuccessfully, all as one who flew out at the group stage. This was not a surprise for anyone, in the end, serious competitions for Xbox We have always been a rarity, but it does not become less insulting from it.

► Koreans from Estro, on the one hand, showed a good and colorful game, and on the other, were more than once seen in disputes with judges.

But this is what the Grand Final in Seattle was especially remembered is the scandals on the basis of CS 1.6. First in 1/8 Koreans from Estro , out of the fourthly losing to the Norwegians from Meet Your Makers, convinced the judge that their rivals committed a serious violation by applying Double Duck). He, having consulted with his colleagues, took and did not count the result of the battle, saying that the Norwegians should outplay the match. The decision made the entire game community of the world, and the Meet Your Makers starred from the championship, sending the Koreans and the judge far away.

And in the quarterfinals, the story repeated with our guys. Americans from EMG Similarly pressed on the organizers, and more flexible than the Norwegians, Russian athletes obeyed. Unfortunately, it was not possible to win the second time – the depressed mood after the scandal affected.

► LIVE-Video meeting virtus.Pro and EMG – one of the most scandalous in the history of domestic computer sports

However, the Ukrainian team took revenge on the Russians A-gaming , which won the mature matches for third place. Perhaps it was then that an asterisk really lit up in AG Sergey Ischuka ( Starix ), now advocating Natus Vincere.

But even on this sensation did not end, because the French from WCG 2007 became the French champions Emulate , which no one was considering seriously before the championship. MSX And the company then jumped much higher than the head, but since then they have never really won anything again.

2008 – the victory of our riders

Having stuck in the USA, WCG was visited in Europe for the second time in history, or rather in German Cologne. The venue of the November WCG’2008 became Koelnmesse Event Hall number 8. The 2008 Grand Final broke last year's record in the light-800 players from 78 countries came to it, and this record has not yet been beaten.

► Cologne – the third in the number of population of the city of Germany and one of the most important economic and cultural centers of the country.

The organizers clearly liked to add more and more disciplines every year: in Cologne there were already fourteen. In addition, many of the series managed to upgrade, the players fought already in FIFA 2008, Need for Speed: Prostreet, Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. They remained unchanged Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne , Starcraft: Brood War , Counter-Strike 1.6 And Carom3d , In addition, the list was replenished with a "novice" Red Stone.

The number of console games in the tournament has not changed, but only from previously acquaintances I met only Halo 3, A Project Gotham Racing 4, Guitar Hero III: Legend of Rock And Virtua Fighter 5 Online participated in the Cyberlympiad for the first time.

The fourteenth game, for the first time on WCG, was a mobile project. The pioneer in this controversial competitive genre was races Asphalt 4: Elite Racing, and their prize fund was surprisingly rather big. The record, however, remained for Counter-Strike 1.6 (50,000 dollars per gold), and came out in second place Halo 3 (40,000).

► Tired of PC races? In 2008, Samsung provided everyone with the opportunity to become a WCG champion in the Asphalt 4 Mobile game.

The Russian national final was held in Moscow from September 12 to 14, 2008. Due to the decrease in the prize pool and the lack of medal prospects in console games at the Moscow festival of e -sports, they played only five games: Counter-Strike 1.6 , Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne , Starcraft: Brood War , FIFA 2008 and Need for Speed: Prostreet.

In all individual disciplines, we had three tickets to the Grand finals, but not all participants came to Germany in connection with passport and visa problems in Germany. The following teams and athletes admired the sights of Kyulna:

• Putb -Counter-Strike 1.6;
• Xyligan, Nicker, Happy – Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne;
• Slam, Pika, Alexx – FIFA 2008;
• Pomi, Localhost, Brat_ok – Starcraft: Brood War;
• Prostreet, Mrraser, Mrtuner – Need for Speed: Prostreet.

This time our team performed much more successful – mainly thanks to virtual riders who won two medals in a foreign land. So, Nikolai Frontov ( Mrraser) became the champion, and the winning Russian qualifications Valery Nikolaev ( Prostreet) came to the finish line second. The third medal to the piggy bank of our national team was brought by the well -known Dmitry Kostin ( Happy ).

► VARSRAFT III gathered to look at the battles of the best players in Warsraft III. Germans love e -sports, and strategies are no exception.

But the Counter-Strike team upset, in the first round of the playoffs, losing to Kazakhs from K23 , Which in CS 1.6 at that time stars from the sky were not grabbed. After those games, the captain of the "Path" Alexey Kolesnikov ( Lex ) said that everyone “played like rooks,” the phrase instantly became winged and is still regularly used in the community. And then last year's silver winners – the Danes from MTW , who in the final managed to defeat the star Swedish composition SK Gaming.

Having won only three medals, Russia shared the fifth team place with Japan, and the South Koreans won. Apparently, their successful years alone coincide with ours ..

2009 – quieter than water, below the grass

Poking on other continents, in 2009 World Cyber ​​Games finally returned to Asia. But the grand final was not accepted by the ancestor of the South Korea tournament, but China-the most densely populated state in the world.

The venue of the first Chinese WCG was chosen the city Chenddu and Century City New Convention & Exposition Center / 4-6 Hall, a glorious 339-meter television tower of West Pearl Tower, the highest in Western China.

► Chenddu became the first Chinese city to honor the world finals of World Cyber ​​Games.

I must say, the organizers did not lose the choice of the country. In China, they love computer sports, and leading e-sportsmen have whole fan clubs here.

A noble crowd gathered to see the decisive games, you can imagine what was happening there when Chinese players … the strongest Europeans in the medals fought for medals Starcraft And Warcraft I had to defend like pop stars, because from those who wanted to take an autograph or at least touching their idol, there was no end.

► as many spectators as at the WCG’2009 matches, there has not yet been on any grand final for more than a ten-year history of the tournament.

Official disciplines in China were seven computer games ( Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne , Starcraft: Brood War , Counter-Strike 1.6 , FIFA 2009, Carom3d , Red Stone And Trackmania Nations Forever), two console ( Guitar Hero: World Tour And Virtua Fighter 5 Online ), two mobile ( Asphalt 4: Elite Racing And Wise Star 2 ) and mysterious "promo game" Dungeon & Fighter.

THIS IS INTERESTING: Since 2009 within the framework WCG There was a decline in the popularity of CS 1.6. If last year the prize for first place in the “Shooting No. 1 in the World” exceeded 50,000, then in China only 35 was handed to the champion.

The All -Russian final was held in Moscow from October 3 to 4, there were six disciplines. Surprisingly, the local organizers, ignoring the consoles, decided to conduct selections on mobile games, which also did not enjoy particular popularity. Here is a list of the most worthy Russians, following the results of those who went to the Celestial Empire:

• tp.Usports, Virtus.Pro -Counter-Strike 1.6;
• Happy, Nabs, Rob – Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne;
• Brat_ok, Bruce, Advokate – Starcraft: Brood War;
• Xaxotun, Malish, Terstas – FIFA 2009;
• Benq – Wise Star 2;
• Mussuri – Asphalt 4: Elite Racing.

In 2009, the organizers first gave our country two quotas on Counter-Strike 1.6, and went to Candu like Virtus.Pro , so their main rival represented by the Moscow-Ufa team tp.Usports. But the legendary Russian tag of our fans disappointed – the “bears”, who changed the player on the eve of, failed to leave their group. Moreover, they managed to get only one victory over the Australians and lost even weak Greeks from VATOS LOCOS – Although what is surprised, we lose to the Greeks in football.

► Record of the first map of the final meeting of the Swedes Fnatic and Poles Again

Brothers Stolyarov ( Dosia , Fox ) performed more successfully and only in the last minutes of the game lost to the Poles from Again ( Neo , TAZ , Loord , Kuben , Luq ) on the decisive third map. Looking ahead, let's say that after this game the Poles will go to fight for the championship with Fnatic (and successfully get it), and ours will give in to the Danes MTW and in the match for bronze.

The victory of the Golden Polish Five over Fnatic should be noted by a special reward. And that's why – in 2009, when the five F0rest’a The https://sister-site.org/golden-pharaoh-bet/ tournament won the tournament, the gentry could not find the organization all year and almost did not visit international tournaments. Chinese WCG for them was the main event in the year and, perhaps, the only way to wipe his nose Patrick Sattermon ( Carn ) who won everything that is possible – but not WCG. By the way, Carn last year announced the completion of his career, never having mined the gold of the "cyberlympiability" from Samsung.

► Patrick Sattermon (Carn)-one of the best captains of the Counter-Strike teams for the entire existence of the game.

A step before the medal will stop and our strategist Dmitry Kostin ( Happy ). He was unlucky with the net in Cunda – the favorite of the local public came out against him Infi , And in a bronze match – a strong Korean Lyn. IN Starcraft And FIFA 2009 The best achievement of our fighters was the access to the quarterfinals, and in the consoles the light at the end of the tunnel never caught fire – it all ended in groups. Thus, not having mined in China, not a single medal, in the overall standings, Russia did not fall into the top ten, which, of course, equivalent to failure.

2010 – Acquaintance with the "City of Angels"

Los Angeles became the third American city in WCG history. Compete with each other, as well as wander around the stars of the stars and see firsthand the famous inscription Hollywood 450 players from 60 countries of the world arrived in the United States. The championship matches were held in exhibition halls Los Angeles Convention Center Hall G & H.

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The official disciplines of the California tournament became:

On PC – Carom3d, Counter-Strike 1.6 , FIFA 2010, Starcraft: Brood War , Trackmania Nations Forever, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne ;

On Xbox 360: Guitar Hero 5, Forza Motorsport 3, Tekken 6;

On mobile platforms: Asphalt 5 ;

Primo-Games: League of Legends, Lost Saga And Quake Wars Online.

For the championship in the team CS1.6 This time they awarded $ 25,000, and in other individual disciplines – seven. A crisis was walking around the world, which also affected computer sports. Most tournaments ceased to exist a few years earlier, but the cyberlympiad from Samsung managed to survive, although not without losses.

The final of Russian qualifying was held in Moscow in the midst of summer, July 24-25, 2010. For trips in Solar California fought in seven disciplines. The best in Russia were:

• Meetyourmakers, Forze -Counter-Strike 1.6;
• Happy, Nicker, Naps – Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne;
• Brat_ok, Advokate, Heme – Starcraft: Brood War;
• Frostee, Semjke, Park – FIFA 2010;
• Coe Darkmax – Forza Motorsport 3;
• SLIM – Tekken 6;
• Hell Knight – Guitar Hero 5;
• Mussuri – Asphalt 5.

The third WCG on American land for our compatriots did not successfully. The medal to his homeland only brought Mussuri , and then in mobile races Asphalt 5. Most of our computer lovers then missed this news, because mobile devices as an e -sports platform are not perceived at all.

► What was beyond our power, Ukrainians from Na’vi were able to. The team rejoices in the victory after the 2010 WCG final.

Behind the performance of the Counter-Strike 1 teams.6, perhaps, the majority of our spectators followed, but both failed in the first stage of the playoffs. Champions of Russian qualifying Mym lost 0: 2 Chinese from Tyloo , A Forze with a similar score broke about Koreans from WEMADEFOX. But the champions were Ukrainians from Natus Vincere, but it is unlikely that this is news for those who are at least a little monitored by e -sports events, because the excitement was fantastic in the CIS then in the CIA.

Closest to the medal on WCG’2010 Among all the Russians was Warcraft Nikita lipsticks ( Nicker ), who managed to overcome the titled compatriot in the quarterfinals Happy. True, there was not enough Nikita for more, and two of their next matches, against the Koreans Remind And Lyn , He lost.

2011 – Home, Sweet Home

About the 2011 tournament, we had two separate material – one dedicated to the results WCG 2011 RussianPreliminary, And the second is directly the Grand Final in the South Korean city Pusan. Let's just say that last year Russia at home World Cyber ​​Games won two bronze medals in team shooters Counter-Strike 1.6 (team Moscow Five ) And Crossfire (team Ruulegends ). Want to know which country won the medal offset? Hint: We have already said here, whose successful years coincide with Russian ..

► After eight years of wandering on continents, the tournament finally returned to his homeland.

And then?

From October 12 to 14, in the Moscow Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya, or rather, in pavilion number two, in the sixth hall of Argentum, the Samsung innovation festival will take place, and the long -awaited All -Russian finals of World Cyber ​​Games will begin a day later.

On these finals, the best domestic players will traditionally fight for prizes, Russian champions and trips to the Grand Final to China. Take friends, relatives and acquaintances – because you can not only join the legendary championship, but also get a chance to win a lot of delicious in all kinds of competitions.