WCG 2011 to take place in Korea?

23/12/2010 - 01:24

Reports in China are indicating that the 2011 World Cyber Games event will take stage in South Korea.

Approximately two months ago, HLTV.org reported that Shanghai could very well turn out to be the next host city for the 2011 World Cyber Games event. However, fresh reports now say South Korea will be the next stop.

The reason behind choosing Shanghai was, according to tatazu.com, because Samsung, WCG's main sponsor, were very pleased with how the 2009 event in Chengdu played out and therefore wished to see a similar arrangement unfold for 2011.

The 2011 event to be held elsewhere than China?

Fresh reports over at the Chinese website pcgames.com.cn now claim that the next host city will however not be situated in China, but rather South Korea, a country which has hosted the prestigious event four times throughout its existence.

The website furthermore claims that their source is an insider with the World Cyber Games organization.

Stay tuned to HLTV.org as we will keep you updated on the ongoing situation.

Nice

2010-12-23 01:25

14 replies

-i dont know about you,but what is nice about that -i want europe central time -i cant watch every day in 06:00 ffs

2010-12-23 01:49

13 replies

1st being in Asia, better to be in Korea than in China(nothing against china tbh) 2nd nice for asian teams, that wouldnt attend the event, if it was held in europe ... is that enough?

2010-12-23 01:53

8 replies

ea ASIA well what about without a bit scary team VMF only it can do damage, and I'm not talking about teams that do not even interested in talking about the fans who already 2-3 VCG's look at 5-6-7 in the morning what we are talking about this crap ...

2010-12-23 02:17

2 replies

didnt understand shit of what u said bro..

2010-12-23 02:43

1 reply

google trans sry All in all, I want to is another time zone european myb becouse from there is moust fansand i just to watch lika a man =D

2010-12-23 02:54

lol what are u talking about, u just wrote nice to have the first post and didnt have anything constructive to say. Nice that its better for asian teams?? all 2 of them as opposed to top 15 from europe? and i dont think asian teams would care whether its in korea or china(europe has nun to do with this post really), except maybe a south korean team. word.

2010-12-23 02:44

word.

2010-12-23 03:14

Letters = Word

2010-12-27 19:16

trololol

2010-12-23 13:18

u even know what that is idiot?

2010-12-23 13:27

+1 pls do it in europe match's on 18:h 18:30 :D

2010-12-23 11:46

Screw WCG , NP 25. december <3

2010-12-23 22:16

ahahhha

2010-12-23 22:22

North Korea Pleaseeee :D

2010-12-27 13:52

Yeahh very nice, I like Korea :)

NEO always hape at wcg

2010-12-23 01:54

as long as it's south korea

i lold

2010-12-23 01:43

i'd love to see what it would be like in North Korea.

2010-12-25 05:23

Good

2010-12-23 01:26

awesome, e-sports is very popular down there.

2010-12-23 01:27

Maybe somewhere in Europe? ^^,

2010-12-23 01:28

there's a lot of e-sport activity in asia bro :D

2010-12-23 01:40

Hope Mouz will be there ;)

2010-12-23 01:30

7 replies

they dont even have the lu complete right now..:)

6 replies

lu ? :D

2010-12-23 03:16

5 replies

That would be lineup.

2010-12-23 03:22

4 replies

oh. thanks. :)

2010-12-23 10:53

3 replies

Mouz will loose cs team in the near future :P

2010-12-23 19:46

I dont think so. :)

not when they have Karrigan <3 <3 <3 GOGO Flame me ill beat u to it :D

2010-12-27 19:19

no :)

2010-12-23 01:31

just like in 2001

it will be great, in Korea cyber-sport's level is very hight, well organization will be hight too!! GL WCG !!!

I wonder how Japan haven't been interested in SC or any conventional PC games. They play their JRPG and date sims. And there is no even 1 person form JP in here(HLTV.org). That is sad for me. Such a great country full of fans of everything but CS or WC3.

2010-12-25 05:31

+1 as I know in Japan, the consoles, like PS3 are more populare than PC, I thnik thats why they dont take part in the others competitons..

2010-12-25 13:23

nice i want to see some asiatic teams

nice ? nice shit !

i bet u would love to see it in portugal ahn kid?

2010-12-23 01:55

i would love to see it in Portugal... the timezone is way better for me than Korea... but it's ok, i like korea, will be harder to watch but i'll try

asia asia asia asia & asia HELL YEAH :S

2010-12-23 01:32

Lets not hope so..!

2010-12-23 01:34

theres a war happening

2010-12-23 01:36

it's nothing compared to buisness

2010-12-25 05:32

I hope not.

there will be tournaments in: -starcraft -starcraft -starcraft -starcraft -starcraft II and -starcraft :D

omg.. newb.. remember starcraft! :D

2010-12-23 03:17

naa i think he got it.. but im not sure.... o_O

2010-12-27 19:20

hehe :D

2010-12-27 20:17

Korea <3 good place to host @ wcg

2010-12-23 01:38

go europe :d

2010-12-23 01:39

gimme the link in chinese pls. it could be just a rumour....

pcgames.com.cn/

2010-12-23 01:46

thx dude, but that's the website not the news page. I found it anyway and the chinese replies are pretty funny. ^^

2010-12-23 01:52

I want to learn chinese but but :(

but what?

2010-12-23 01:58

Impossible =[

2010-12-23 02:37

hard? :P

2010-12-23 02:02

Nice Korea<3 Hoped for Japan tho:p

Yeah, Koreans are really good at organising things

another week, another report, another city/country ~~

2010-12-23 01:42

so nice i think for cs winn SK Gaming :p

2010-12-23 01:44

korea ..shitty because of the time zone ..we have to watch the games at 2-3 am:\ otherwise it`s nice

i have to watch IEM, arbalet, ESWC, ESL nordic, ESL Germany, Dreamhack @ 2am in the morning :)

2010-12-23 03:07

thats dedication :D

2010-12-23 03:51

U should move @europe :P lol

2010-12-23 10:45

r the organizers not concerned with the situation between South & North Korea???

2010-12-23 01:51

they will settle it in a counter-strike 1.6 match

2010-12-23 02:03

Good decision XD

2010-12-23 04:41

so I know the winner.

nicee

de_INFERNO

wmf got this ahahahahaha I like means I can watch the games >:D

2010-12-23 02:10

This sux `coz just few teams from Europe will be there...

2010-12-23 02:16

i dont think so, plenty of teams went to the previous WCG's in China, Korea, and USA.

not like when it was in Monza and Cologne...

2010-12-23 04:36

Actually I think he has a point, only the big teams would be invited/qualified.. Not the upcoming youth teams available nowadays.

2010-12-23 07:50

doensn´t matter, wcg sucks

2010-12-23 02:33

Invite North Korean teams

2010-12-23 02:34

Then i hope the the war don't break out :O

2010-12-23 02:38

gief it to europe

2010-12-23 02:41

no way :S

just look how many teams were at WCG Cologne, Germany 2008.. wcg.com/6th/tournament/2008/tm_match_ful..

2010-12-23 03:00

GO WMF ~ ~ ~ ~ I love korea ~ ~

2010-12-23 03:04

u live in korea -.-'

2010-12-23 03:20

2010-12-23 03:57

i love Korea too. Difference is that i live in Europe. Damn. Buy me a ticket.

2010-12-23 17:30

korea sucks

2010-12-23 03:18

If Korea exist in 2011 anymore..

2010-12-23 03:33

North or South Korea ? LOL :D

2010-12-23 03:34

allways the same countries. wcg is getting boring :\

2010-12-23 03:52

isn't korea about to breakout in war?

2010-12-23 04:03

who knows,hope they dont.

2010-12-23 04:21

ahaha. it's planned, all the gamers will die in teh war :P

2010-12-23 05:10

hahaha maybe they can play real-person-cs in there. I bet EG would be the best!!

2010-12-23 05:29

there will be tons of specs thats for sure

2010-12-23 04:04

To fans like us,better to host in KR than in our country,our live stream suks because of the slow internet speed.But I dont think they will be as successful as they used to be in ChengDu 2009. Cause we have so much fans in China about E-sports.Most popular event, even more popular than real sports in our country.

2010-12-23 04:26

Well, i know e-sports is quite popular in China. But more popularity than real sports? Anyway, I'm impressed by how ChengDu managed to held WCG in 2009, the spectator is enormous.

2010-12-23 04:50

agree,our internet provider suks,it's really bad for the rest of fans outside of our country to watch anything from esports(War3,Dota,CS,and SC2). But i believe that for younger age people,Esport is probably #1 most popular thing to do and to watch right now in our country. They are building a Super league for WAR3 now called CEPL.More than 1 million RMB (130,000 dollar)per year will be given each year.They saw this huge market in Esports.I hope one day they put CS in this league. ps:KR is always a good country to hold eports event other than China.

2010-12-23 08:00

good spot ;)

2010-12-23 04:54

South Korea has never dissapointed us in the past. But i think Sweden or a european country should take the slot. Not Qatar nor Russia..

2010-12-23 05:33

I wonder if fnatic is still boycotting them.

2010-12-23 07:51

Great, now we will need to wake up at 5 am to see the matches.

2010-12-23 08:07

Sick place to hold the tourny, time zones will suck, but over all the spectators will be huge

This time also less CS fan n more Starcraft fan in the arena But WCG \m/

2010-12-23 09:01

i think it will be one of the best WCG if North Korea won't attack South neighbor

2010-12-23 09:12

cs ftw

2010-12-23 09:15

Do it in L.A again :D

2010-12-23 10:09

S.Korea is heaven for gamers <3

2010-12-23 10:11

Europe won't be ideal because of the timezone issue, also America sucks due to visa problems. Asia is the best and ideal location. Although Europe would have been the 2nd choice. Now that no team will have any problems reach S.Korea, we can see the best teams in the world.

2010-12-23 10:29

sick koreans ;)

koreans are game addicts bte, i think they play 100 hour in day

2010-12-23 11:00

wanna see new Tyloo

2010-12-23 11:01

fuck ! go europe WCG !

2010-12-23 11:14

LOL made my day.

2010-12-23 11:32

the only bad thing is the time! i won't see all the matches because i need to sleep as every europe people.

2010-12-23 11:43

Hope we'll qualify, Korea is so nice:)

2010-12-23 12:20

hope to see you here dude :)

2010-12-24 17:24

GET FUCKED

2010-12-23 12:37

vn ;DD

2010-12-23 12:43

pls no, it would be like 8 hours of difference :(

2010-12-23 12:50

asia,asia,asia,asia,asia and more asia

2010-12-23 13:21

This is definitely a bad move. We can't see this matchs because the difference of time... but yes money is more important :)

2010-12-23 13:22

hope no one will die =D It may be DE_NUKE IN RL xD

2010-12-23 13:37

hahahah @nuke

2010-12-23 21:20

omg i hope i'm still here in Korea when WCG is on... fingers crossed the organisers will push it forward before september!!!!

2010-12-23 14:16

i think it will suck. Wowim cheerful and optimistic today haha

2010-12-23 14:19

why not,gl Korea :)

2010-12-23 14:30

I hope its in South Korea, because I'll finally get to go to a WCG.

2010-12-23 14:33

where abouts are you teaching? you enjoying it so far?

2010-12-24 17:22

why not

2010-12-23 14:54

FX !! :)

2010-12-23 15:23

2012 Kazakhstan :S NOT~

2010-12-23 15:42

I am kazakh, but nevertheless can't agree more. what're you mean btw?

2010-12-25 05:37

never mind :) i want WCG in EUROPE :)

2010-12-31 01:49

it will be nice in korea !!!!

2010-12-23 16:30

I hope it'll be South Korea

good time to held wcg in Korea. I support South-Korea, GL in war.

2010-12-23 17:37

WeMadeInferno.

2010-12-23 18:30

Awesome "excuse" to visit korea! ^^

2010-12-23 20:23

damn it!

2010-12-23 20:24

Maps to be played: de_inferno, de_inferno, de_inferno and de_inferno! Can't wait :D

2010-12-23 21:15

haha

2010-12-24 19:40

hy guys, whats wrong with inferno?

2010-12-25 05:34

On WEM 2010 WeMadeFox played inferno like 4 times in a row... :D so it's a joke about Koreans. WeMadeInferno! :D

2010-12-25 05:50

Very nice

2010-12-23 22:20

Good news :)

2010-12-24 00:48

OH, why not IRAQUE? ): WCG IRAQUE 2011! a true field of battle haha :P

2010-12-24 02:29

did you mean: Iraq?

2010-12-24 17:23

portuguese obviously

2010-12-25 05:33

dont worry pasha will be there :)

2010-12-24 17:56

shitty place, this kind of events needs to be in Europe.

2010-12-24 18:46