rofl what a weird results :)

MYM got pwooooned fiston!

ye by estro :D:D

(i was for estro btw :P)

(I didn't even know eSTRO)

mym beat estro, the admins beat mym.

oh well :D

Good coverage............:|

well i wasnt going to spend all my weekend updating scores for games no one on esr is interested in :P not doing that again

im interested

i also wont cover US events coz of the timezone thing... being up at 3am doing scores isnt my idea of fun :/

you clearly havent lived :p

ye so much fun updating scores :| i can think of much better things i would prefer doing at 3am

sleep ftw !

oh yes

Yeah the wcg site + ggl were enough for me.

wcg site was not really up to date tbh

I wasn't pointing you or anyone out specifically, just saying that I hardly heard a word about the event, it used to be that every site was buzzing when WCG was around.

well ye im not surprised :P although i think it was covered on gotfrag/ggl/gameriot

i agree, who cares

speed > * :]z
nG team rul3z

what a bunch of crap games, just 3 out of 12 games who deserve to be picked and overall no real shooter in the fucking list :/

hmm, i count 1.

GoW?

It's a little misleading to say the USA won the medal count when they didn't even get a single medal in a game that matters and they were the most populous country behind China to even earn a medal.

But they had the most medals.

So they won the medal count.

In fact :

USA : 3,2,1 = 6 medals

EU (UK, Denmark, austria, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweeden, France) : 5,8,5 = 18 medals :o)

You are going to say that is ridiculous, but in fact it's true that the US medals are in LOL games :o)

It's like if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petanque is going to be chosen for the olympics games, and France of course will win a lot of medals in this "sport" and will finish 1st @ the total medal count, but will earn nothing in all the athletics sports :p

So we don't care about medal count... that represents nothing... or compare something comparable (and in this case EU > Rest Of the World.... :)

<3 Co1nco1n

But I would complain a little if the US got to send 8 teams for every game.

Still EU > US always !!!! :P

uhh, no. they won the medal count.

it's just that it's for most medals for the olympics of dumb games

man, WCG went from being my most favourite event to not even being on my radar,. so quickly aswell!

The GoW teams have imba names 24/7

Supreme Gaming
Quality Gaming
Infitity Gaming

Whats up with ending @ gaming?

Anyway what I so dislike about WCG is that some counteries have 2 to 3 players in one game and some not even a single player or just 1 person.

This should change imho.

"imba names 24/7"

ok!

oké (bn.; alleen pred.)
1 goed => akkoord, all right, dat komt in de bus, kits

dutch invading esr?

ESreality.nl ? :D

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–adjective
1. all right; proceeding normally; satisfactory or under control: Things are OK at the moment.
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4. adequate but unexceptional or unremarkable; tolerable: The job they did was OK, nothing more.

Hang toch niet de slimmerd uit.

Wat is de langste snelweg in Belgie?
De rotonde

Welk bord heb je wel in Belgie maar niet in Nederland?
Einde rotonde.

Ik wil wat Ollander moppen! :-| Was met Belgische meiden uit @ Volendam en die wist er geen.

Ik weet er ook geen.

I thought carom3d was like... a joke...

it probably has a lot more players then that quake 4 game you donkeys still hope to be picked lol.

I was watching the wc3 finals on the stream and the quality was excellent, WCG seems to really know what they are doing for several years, which means they won't pick a dead game to make q few whiny boys happy.

Yea, except having not even one half decent FPS 1v1 title makes eSports sound even more of a joke than it was when it just appeared. While i accept the fact that there are millions of people out there with passion for everything but FPS, I cannot find anything on that game list that would remotely refelct the excitement of having 2 highly skilled players going head to head in person vs person simulation. CS is ok to watch.. but not nearly *

The big problem of FPS duel games is that the strategical aspects take a long time for first time spectator to shine through. If you never played competitive duel FPS before, it will seem like a 90% manual dexterity/who can aim and move better contest. This is a disadvantage compared to CS or W3 where teamplay/strategy and timing are much easier to observe and appreciate for the mainstream spectator.

i disagree for W3, but i'm agree with you for CS (but, i's because it's a camping@slow game :-)

I'm not agree with WC3, because I'm noob in WC3 and i never played it (that's certainly why :))), so i am a lambda spectator...

And in fact, i really don't understand what is happening on the "map" (Too much troops (and i don't know the role of each of them), too much moves, scroll and so on... I'm totally lost.

In FPS 1v1 (quake for example), i think it's easiest to understand what's happening versus WC3... Because, there only 2 guys on a map, and the one who kill more the other one will win the match...

An air rox, a nice combo rox & "pixel" railshot, can be appreciated by everybody, you feel the aim of the player (like when you saw a football player doing some tricks with the ball an pass through three opponents).

No need to know all the subtility of the game and the way to play it with brain (timing the item, or delay an armor for example). But , i admit when you know that, you can appreciate much more the fight...

wow you're fucking stupid. WCG has been a joke since the beginning. They've fucked up qualifiers, didn't care about communities, DIDNT EVEN HOLD qualifiers in major countries with relevant communities, made scheduling conflicts with other tourneys, etc etc., and always used games most people could care less for the most part or that made the whole concept look stupid to most people (i know, except not to nerds like you. But i'm talking about most people, casual AND players) since the very beginning.

His avatar is q3, and you're talking that kinda shit to him over q4? He never even mentioned Qauke 4 you fucking caveman. His point is theres no DM game, which is the pinnacle of skill in FPS. Nor are there any other games which are the pinnacle of skill in their genres, or even just good genres, except Starcraft. It's amazing you'll take a petty squable with q4 and put it ahead of reality or the big picture, courting ignorance. As bad as q4 may be compared to q3 or others, it's definitely better than every game on that list, which are void of a serious competitive community. Get a life and find something with more relevance to vent about you impulsive child.

did he hit a nerve?

dm games are history

ROFL it really seems. Who cares about someone saying that q4 "it's definitely better than every game on that list" anyway, it just shows what a narrow-minded cunt that person is.

well some games were only picked so US could be the overall champion again, which did happen :(

Oh give me a break. You people will come up with any excuse to whine about the U.S. doing good in something.

what you mean you people??

All of us?

how do you know what he meant????

cause it's a common phrase.

oh i thought it was like "you europeeans" !!

could also mean that :)

also:

You'll never know! Muhahahahaha!

Doing good in games that dont matter to most of the eSports world..just like NL

Interesting results in some games, but this makes eSports enjoyable! Special congrats to the NFS players!

haha, gj mondragon 3rd and creo 1st, didnt see that coming
the cs scandals are hilarious btw

€: hope there will be vods up, soon

the counter-strike match final didn't even have hltv..

the starcraft matches were nice. lots of upsets :P

we came in third, gogo fellow koreans!

Heh, it's somehow reassuring to see grunt still owning it up in the age of empires scene.

ZACCUBUS!

is playing Tony Hawk's Project 8.

I bet he is having fun.

well there are people having fun with fistfuck

ID bet Zacc earnt more for playing Tony hawks tho and it was probably less painful for him too.

and he had the chance to do it in Seattle!

a norwege won warcraft? vs professional players
whos that?

the same guy that got second at this years eswc...

and first at blizzcon...

and his retiring..

lol is that him?

he already retired a few months ago, just trained one week for WCG. Now that he won, he is considering going pro again tho.

I know :)

Just a remark about esport, and the coverage in general (i don't want to blame ESR, or someboby else... it's just my pov)

Do i am the only one, who thinks that it's a shame in 2007 to have a coverage like this for a big event like the WCG (Crappy quality of the streaming, no HLTV for the final, and so on...). It's not only the case of WCG, but most of the events are like this

Wake up everybody !! The coverage was better in early 2002 when most of us had 512 k/s DSL line, than now where most of us have 15 Mbit/s :x

Today, with the power of the CPU and so on, if they can't technically offer HLTV broadcast solution (or something else in another game), why they can't directly convert the stream in high quality divx ?!?

Everybody has right now, at least a 19 inch high quality computer screen, but what you see on it, is worst than what you seen in 2002 in your 15 inch 60FPS screen... :/

And what i'm saying, is the same with the TV broadcast and their crappy MPEG2 encoding (they are happy because they can offer and broadcast 200 TV programs in a reduced bandwidth... It's a commercial pov that i can understand).

But when you own a 3k€ plasma screen, we don't want 200 crappy TV channels (especially when you watch, most of the time, only 10 of them), and you prefer quality of the video and the contents versus the numbers of channel available... :/

The technology is not always a good thing, when you think about it... especially when you do not use it, or badly.

I must disagree from a 'rivals' point of view to those that were broadcasting the wcg finals.

I tried to connect to the WCG finals 3 times and had no problems doing so. The stream was of such quality that I could make everything out and other than the adverts (understandable) was really enjoyable. At the same time I could have tuned into Gotfrags stream from the Newegg lanfest and my own company (quadv) coverage of the experience in oslo.

3 Live streams to a degree of quality that I didnt see the complaints I've seen over the past years on the same weekend is a major achievement.

As for HLTV, whilst I didnt follow the final I did watch PGS vs Rocat on gotfrags HLTV without problem.

I would consider myself someone who is within 'esport and the coverage' and I've seen significant gains in technology over the years I've been involved. Whether events ultise what is available to them or not is their decision and often made beyond reasoning available to the public

i guess the point of having so many channels is that people prefer to watch different things :).

RO_IGG (CS Romanian team) -> last in its group. FUCK YEAH!

well done! :D

Olav Undheim ! ! !