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Sujoy Intervewied

Posted by Myers at 09:25 21/8/2002.

MrE over at the newly renamed ESReality has posted a fairly in-depth interview with famous UK gamer Sujoy. Sujoy speaks about his choice in life, his media representation, the VGA and the upcoming World Cyber Games. Watch out for more details on the WCG soon. Here's an excerpt:

What is your role in the VGA?
I am one of two Directors of the VGA along with my colleague, Dominic Mulroy, who invited me to take up the job. The VGA is an alliance of over sixty gaming centres centred in the UK. It acts as a consortium purchaser, event organiser and advice house for all the independent companies. This ranges from obtaining the commercial licenses from game publishers to allow Gaming Centres to charge for game use, arranging discounted hardware and software purchasing, to the more glamourous side of running leagues, tournaments and other sponsored projects.

I tend to spend time on all areas of the business, but my passion is, of course, in the leagues and tournaments. We’ve been refining and improving our Counter-Strike league, which is now into its third full season with 35 location-specific teams taking part in four divisions.

Also the Samsung World Cyber Games (UK) is coming up soon on 3-6 October 2002. As a concept, a Cyber Games with teams from all around the world is just what we need to move ESports forward – for one thing, it gets supporters interested in which teams will win, and also it’s incredibly telivisable. Our UK tournament will be spectacular, we’ve booked out the largest exhibition stand (4,500 square feet) at Earls Court as the central attraction of the Games Matrix within Stuff Live 2002. There’ll be 70 gaming PC’s for the tournament as well as 20 Xbox’s for various competitions that’ll go on each day. On the spectator side we’ll have a main stage for spotlighting major games throughout the day as well as various other ongoing activities. I think placing a gaming competition in such a high profile location is just what we need to get more mainstream attention to this emerging sport.

For the full interview simply click here, or head on over to the VGA website for more info on the WCG.