UKTerrorist
Posted by Myers at 18:21 20/12/2002.
One of the most popular European tournament Lan-Arena based in Paris, France announced today some details concerning their 2003 event.Ligarena announces the next «Electronic Sports World Cup» at the Futuroscope of France.Expect some more details to appear on their website soon.
On July 8-13, 2003, The Futuroscope of France will host one of the world's biggest electronic sports competition. More than 400 competitors will be selected through qualification events over 32 countries and battle for 150.000€ in cash prizes.During these six days, 30,000 expected visitors will be able to watch the best games played on-stage and share the unique feelings of live high-level competitors. A cyber entertainment village and conferences will introduce the public to the different sides of video games.
About tournaments Electronic Sports World Cup features three official tournaments : HL Counter-Strike (played in 5 on 5), Unreal Tournament 2003 (played in 1 on 1) and Warcraft III (played in 1 on 1). These tournaments will gather 32 teams for Counter-Strike, 32 players for Unreal Tournament 2003 and 32 players for Warcraft III. The winners of these three disciplines will be able to win 150.000€ in cash prizes.
All gamers willing to attend one of these three tournaments will have to qualify in one of the preliminary tournaments. During the whole final event, all qualified players and teams will have dedicated hotel accomodations provided by organisation.
Other tournaments and shows will take place during the event : a Quake III 1 on 1 international challenge, a female Counter-Strike tournament and international console trophies.
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18:27 20/12/2002
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
18:29 20/12/2002
18:52 20/12/2002
19:03 20/12/2002
will rule us out ;/ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
19:25 20/12/2002
19:50 20/12/2002
Did you even read it before posting? :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
22:48 20/12/2002
Ever wanted to see the Euro cup, world cup etc without Man U, Germany, Italy, Barcelona, France etc or any other top team?......tourneyments are a mutualy benificial arrangement.....cpl is good, i-Games are good, WCG is good.......lets see who wants to be the World cup and who wants to be the Euro Cup!! No mater who wants to be No1 tourneyment, they all need top teams!
imo...VGA has done real well so far...and if they run the International events like the UK vents.....well...that says it all. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
00:25 21/12/2002