Short notice for the kickoff (this weekend in Brisbane) but Pantheon e-Sports have word that the Australian season of World Cyber Games for 2005 is about to begin. Unfortunately, the 2005 update to the official WCG-Au website is delayed, holding back full details.

This years programme takes on a tour format with 16 stops around the country where each event carryies ranking points. The top ranked players/teams play off at the national finals as well as gain representative selection for a number of mid-season international events. Ultimately, the national winners score trips to Singapore to play off for global fame and phat lewt.

Games on the Au programme so far are Warcraft 3 and CS:Source on PC. Other games may come later. The Xbox tour format is still being finalised but is expected to include both Halo 2 and DoA:Ultimate.

I guess its understandable that the WCG is sticking with a staple diet of CS: Source, but it would have been nice to see something else - I think CPL has chosen to support Painkiller this year, right?

wcg can't use painkiller though because cpl has all the rights to it.
well, thats what ive been told anyway ;p

so i assume that seen as all the prelims seem to be being held in LAN centers/cafes that they arent byo pc - is the finals like this too? if so thatd suck - i hate gaming on pc's other than my own :(

(not that i actually intend to enter, cause i suck at both games *cue support for bf42 comps ^_^* but yeah, why not having prelims at proper lans?)

Almost level, people from the home town can surely practice on the netcafe PC's of choice alot more.

WCG and CPL both died in the arse when q3 was dropped, imo.

last edited by shrapse at 23:49:38 03/Apr/05

shrap you say that in EVERY wcg thread :p

silly quake groupie :p

hehe, shh, you're not supposed to remember that stuff!