Joystiq on hand at WCG East Coast Regional finals

by Joystiq Staff { Aug 12th 2006 at 8:55PM }

Joystiq went ahead and hung out at the World Cyber Games East Coast Regional finals today in New York City. Held at the Samsung store in Columbus Circle, gamers participated Saturday in Counter-Strike, FIFA, and DOA4.

Besides seeing some of the best players show off their skills, the set up was actually pretty nice because there were Xbox 360s at different stations in the store where you could play DOA4, Halo 2, PGR, or Geometry Wars on the sweet Samsung set ups.

In the Counter-Strike finals, [f2]Fearfactor (pictured) took on ViGor, with [f2] coming out the victor after a few overtime rounds. Both teams, however, will be headed to Vegas for the U.S. finals. In FIFA, Juan Alvarado beat Greg Shevach and in DOA4, Michael Saunders took out Paul Michael.

If you happen to live near Vegas, I suggest you swing by and check out the finals Sept. 15-17. And, if you happen to live in New York City, events will continue on Sunday for the final day of the East Coast Regional finals with gamers battling in Warcraft III and Starcraft.

Tags: World Cyber Games, WorldCyberGames

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

marcin @ Aug 12th 2006 9:48PM

eh, WCG are unorganized.

I was called two days ago asking if i wanted to fill in for someone. I call back and find out they gave the spot to someone else.

LAME.

Johnny @ Aug 12th 2006 9:57PM

Those kids are so cool! I bet they get laid ALL the time...

marcin @ Aug 12th 2006 10:04PM

yeh johnny, KIDS...

Johnny @ Aug 12th 2006 10:06PM

I'd assume that they're ~16, which means they're in highschool...

Exbzurg @ Aug 12th 2006 11:14PM

i gotta get some warcraft III action... whats with the lack of coverage of rts's these days? I mean you need to train and play as hard as in any fps... So why the lack of respect??? (not that im targetting joystiq or this tourney, just the lackof rts action in general... its always fps tourneys in america...)