Taking Place June 2nd 3rd At The Samsung Experience, Competition Kicks Off U.S. Leg of The World’s Biggest International Video Game Tournament Series Players To Battle For A Berth In The U.S. Finals This September; Grand Finals To Take Place This October In Seattle, Washington
NEW YORK - May, 2007 - The United States’ top gamers will meet June 2-3 at the Samsung Experience in New York City for the World Cyber Games US Open video game tournament. The two-day competition kicks off the American leg of the WCG USA 2007 Championship Series for the world’s largest international video game festival, which culminates with the WCG 2007 Grand Finals this October in Seattle, Washington. During the U.S. Open, a virtual who’s who of the top professional video gamers will compete in 10 of the highest profile PC and Xbox 360 games on the market including: Starcraft®: Brood WarTM (PC), Half-Life®: Counter-Strike™ (PC), Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium WarsTM (PC), Age of Empires® III: The WarChiefs (PC), FIFA Soccer 07 (PC), Need For Speed™ Carbon (PC), Gears of War® (Xbox 360), Dead or Alive® 4 (Xbox 360), and Project Gotham Racing® 3 (Xbox 360).
Competitors will be vying for automatic berths and top seeds to the WCG USA National Championships in September and some will earn an invitation to the exclusive invite-only WCG Pan American Championships, taking place at the end of June in Cancun, Mexico. Additionally, spectators and local gamers are invited to compete in Tony Hawk’s Project 8 for an automatic berth at the WCG USA National Final, as well as check out the many interactive product demonstrations and giveaways from tournament sponsors.
Headlining an all-star lineup of elite e-Sports competitors at this year’s WCG US Open are defending WCG 2006 gold medalist Wesley “Chomper” Cwilko (Project Gotham Racing), Sean “Max1mus” Heffelfinger (Project Gotham Racing), Emannuel “Master” Rodriguez (D.O.A.), Isidro “Novusnaim” Sifuentes (FIFA), Team Pandemic (Counter Strike), Ralph “Red_ScorpiO” Geunhwa (StarCraft), Team MoB Hot n Mild (Gears of War) and more. The complete schedule can be found at http://us.worldcybergames.com/sp/web/us.asp.
NEW YORK - May, 2007 - The United States’ top gamers will meet June 2-3 at the Samsung Experience in New York City for the World Cyber Games US Open video game tournament. The two-day competition kicks off the American leg of the WCG USA 2007 Championship Series for the world’s largest international video game festival, which culminates with the WCG 2007 Grand Finals this October in Seattle, Washington. During the U.S. Open, a virtual who’s who of the top professional video gamers will compete in 10 of the highest profile PC and Xbox 360 games on the market including: Starcraft®: Brood WarTM (PC), Half-Life®: Counter-Strike™ (PC), Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium WarsTM (PC), Age of Empires® III: The WarChiefs (PC), FIFA Soccer 07 (PC), Need For Speed™ Carbon (PC), Gears of War® (Xbox 360), Dead or Alive® 4 (Xbox 360), and Project Gotham Racing® 3 (Xbox 360).
Competitors will be vying for automatic berths and top seeds to the WCG USA National Championships in September and some will earn an invitation to the exclusive invite-only WCG Pan American Championships, taking place at the end of June in Cancun, Mexico. Additionally, spectators and local gamers are invited to compete in Tony Hawk’s Project 8 for an automatic berth at the WCG USA National Final, as well as check out the many interactive product demonstrations and giveaways from tournament sponsors.
Headlining an all-star lineup of elite e-Sports competitors at this year’s WCG US Open are defending WCG 2006 gold medalist Wesley “Chomper” Cwilko (Project Gotham Racing), Sean “Max1mus” Heffelfinger (Project Gotham Racing), Emannuel “Master” Rodriguez (D.O.A.), Isidro “Novusnaim” Sifuentes (FIFA), Team Pandemic (Counter Strike), Ralph “Red_ScorpiO” Geunhwa (StarCraft), Team MoB Hot n Mild (Gears of War) and more. The complete schedule can be found at http://us.worldcybergames.com/sp/web/us.asp.