World Cyber Games 2009

The 2009 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 09 or World Cyber Games 09) took place from November 11 to November 15, 2009 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It had over 600 participates from 70 countries taking part.[1] The prize money is estimated at around $500,000.

Official Games

Warcraft III, StarCraft, Counter Strike, FIFA 09, Carom3D, Red Stone and TrackMania Nations Forever on PC Guitar Hero: World Tour and Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360 Asphalt4 and Wise Star 2 on Mobile

Competition Draw

The Competition Draws took place on October 19, October 20 and October 21. All competition draws took place on one of these three days.

  • Oct. 19: Asphalt 4 > Wise Star 2 > Counter-Strike
  • Oct. 20: Guitar Hero > Virtua Fighter 5 > FIFA 09
  • Oct. 21: Carom 3D - > Trackmania Nations Forever - > StarCraft - > Warcraft III

Results

Official
Event
WarCraft III : The Frozen Throne Wang Xuwen (Infi) Lu Weiliang (Fly100%) Park June (Lyn)
Counter-Strike 1.6AGAiN
Jakub Gurczynski
(kuben)		fnatic
Patrik Sättermon
(cArn)		Mortal Teamwork
Alexander Holdt
(ave)
Lukasz Wnek
(LUq)		 Patrik Lindberg
(f0rest)		 Christoffer Sunde
(Sunde)
Wiktor Wojtas
(Taz)		 Rasmus Ståhl
(Gux)		 Danny Sørensen
(zonic)
Mariusz Cybulski
(Loord)		 Harley Örwall
(dsn)		 Oliver Ari Minet
(minet)
Filip Kubski
(neo)		 Christopher Alesund
(GeT_RiGhT)		 Martin Heldt
(trace)
TrackMania Nations Forever Jesper Karjalainen (KarjeN) Kalle Mortlund Videkull (FrostBeule) Fredrik Bergmann (Bergie)
StarCraft: Brood War Jae-Dong Lee (Jaedong) Byung-Gu Song (Stork) Taek-Yong Kim (Bisu)
FIFA 09 Joshua Begehr (SK_Kr0ne) Daniel Schellhase (SK_hero) Piotr Zajkowski (Pio)
Red StoneComeonBaby
Ki-Pyo KangHAPPY_SWEETS
Hiroto WatanabeCool_Runnings
Jon Lunceford
Seung-Ryul Kim Shouta Ueda Matt Marcou
Sung-Min Song Kuniaki Kitagawa Sean Snack
Tae-Seok Kim Tomohiro Takami Colin Fogle
Carom3D Hee-Chul Kim (MARCJACOBS) Jean Monico (jeantek) Andreas Krieger (Protonski)
Virtua Fighter 5 Keita Ai (FOOD) Eui-Wook Shin (ShinZ_Km) Dae-Hwan Kim (Rikojjang)
Guitar Hero World Tour Fabio Jardim (caiomenudo13) Michael Najman (MoB_Shift) Robert Michaels (vVv smokyprogg)
Wise Star 2 Enrico Aurora (a.Enrico) Christophe Limet (Blackbelt) Trevor Housten (TorcH)
Asphalt4 : Elite Racing Liu You-chen (TER_BURBERRYqq) Jared Beins (slyfoxlover) Won-Joon Lee (KimBuJa)

Promotion
Event
Dungeon and Fighter Jong-Min Jeong (UraniumHwangjaeM) Shun Ishikawa (CLAY) Je-Myung Lee (Marenobba)

Sponsors

Samsung Electronics (Worldwide Partner)

Official theme song

The official theme song of the World Cyber Games is called "Beyond the Game" and the title is also the name of the World Cyber Games Motto.

Videos

The World Cyber Games published the different events on their YouTube account and their site.

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References
  1. "WCG 2009 Overview". World Cyber Games. Retrieved 2009-03-15.


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