World Cyber Games tournament in New York

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jun 5th 2007 at 9:55PM }

The World Cyber Games held their US Open video game tournament last week in New York. The two-day event had 68 competitors waging (hyperbole alert) fierce and epic battle for $20,000 in cash and prizes. Players competed in nine different games (titles and winners after the break).

We overheard that one of the most entertaining parts of the event was the coach for team MoB competing in Gears of War. Their "coach," Godfath3r, was apparently intense and entertaining to watch; when they played, the whole place would gather around and watch the show as Godfath3r paced back and forth behind his players, shouting at his team to help out -- and at the other team to trash talk. Some highlights include:

"You CANNOT Handle THIS!" - 'We are the Number One team in this place."
"He is hurt finish him, kill him, kill him, kill him!!!!"
"Get SOME!!," said at the end of the match and followed by, "Go shake their hands!"

Anybody got the video? Screaming video gamers are always amusing. Especially when they're being serious.

[Via Press Release]

Gallery: World Cyber Games US Open

Half-Life®: Counter-Strike™ 1.6 (PC) – eMazing Gaming
Age of Empires® III: The WarChiefs (PC) - Milo "MrMilo" Phillips-Brown
Dead or Alive® 4 (Xbox 360) - Emmanuel "Master" Rodriguez
Project Gotham Racing® 3 (Xbox 360) - Wesley "Chompr" Cwiklo
Starcraft®: Brood WarTM (PC) - Tyler "Nony" Wasieleski
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium WarsTM (PC) - Albert "GeNThO" Berriz
Need For Speed™ Carbon (PC) - Kamran "omegaelite" Siddiqui
FIFA Soccer 07 (PC) - Juan "H2k-Juanqui" Alvarado
Gears of War® (Xbox 360) - MoB Turtle Beach

Tags: competition, new york, WorldCyberGames

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2ez @ Jun 5th 2007 10:15PM

The games of choice for these events are getting worse by the year. Dead or Alive? Need for Speed?... this is not competitive gaming.

Matt @ Jun 5th 2007 10:26PM

Sheesh, Dead or Alive, Gears of War, and Need for Speed... this sounds like the Special Olympics of video gaming.

Where's the Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3 and other top-tier competitive games? You know, the games that actually involve skill and have many highly skilled players?

colin @ Jun 5th 2007 10:48PM

Where's the $20,000 prize for best Wario Ware Inc. player?

I'm normally not a wii-basher. (I really want one!).

But this is THE BARRIER between Wii and everything else. Skill-based competetive multiplayer games with millions of people honing their skills to play against each other online and in tournaments. This kind of tourney used to be just mostly pc games, but then we find out that when you hook the original XBOX into that ethernet port in your dormroom ... Voila systemlink ... 16 player multiplayer halo:ce

... and here we are now.

toan @ Jun 5th 2007 10:49PM

i believed starcraft was on the list

Brandon @ Jun 5th 2007 11:01PM

They have a video of an interview with the winners of the Gears of War event over at Xbox.com

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/viewer.aspx?productId=1584&assetTypeId=2&shotId=2

Jon-Angelo @ Jun 6th 2007 4:33AM

Looks boring! Yay!

Marbury @ Jun 6th 2007 10:16AM

Wait, so 68 players competed in 9 games? So an average of 8 players per game?

Some "open" tournament...

Jordan @ Jun 8th 2007 2:13AM

"Anybody got the video? Screaming video gamers are always amusing. Especially when they're being serious."

Video of the players screaming is available at:

http://www.esportstv.com/newsite/?p=events&id=610

Scroll down the player to find the MOB video and all the other videos from the WCG NY Open event.

Enjoy!