The gaming press from all over the world has voted for Players and Revelations of 2007 in Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3 and Quake 4. For the first time in the award’s history, two players will share an award.
The Player of the Year in Counter-Strike is Filip “NEO” Kubski from Meet Your Makers. He won two out of three of the most prestigious tournaments in 2007 with PGS Gaming and performed very well for the large part of the year. He received 37 points, 10 more than Patrick “cArn” Sattermon (27 points) and the 2006 Player of the Year Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg (17).
Mickael “mSx” Cassisi is the Revelation of 2007 in Counter-Strike. The award is traditionally given to the players that made the biggest breakthrough in one year, and mSx was the player that took emuLate to a gold medal in the World Cyber Games. The Frenchman got 29 points. Just four points behind him was mTw’s Christoffer Sunde, who was the ESWC and WCG runner up with his danish team, known in 2007 as NoA. Continued…
Every year, GGL invites several prominent e-Sports coverage sites to vote for the e-Sports Players of the Year. The categories cover three e-Sports games with long traditions and histories: Quake (in this case, Quake 4), Warcraft III and Counter-Strike 1.6.
Each voter (or site) selects three players from every category and assigns them a rank from 1-3. Rank 1 receives 5 points, Rank 2 receives 3 points, and Rank 3 receives 1 point. At the end of the voting process, the points are tallied and the winners are announced. You can see the 2006 winners at GGL.com in a legacy format.
Without further ado, let’s name the 2007 nominees: Continued…
There are just few days until the Quake Nations Cup signup deadline on Jan. 13. On the same day, seeding for QuakeWorld, Quake 3 and Quake 4 will be published on the QNC website. Quake 2 base groups will be selected by NDML admins and will be announced later. On Monday, Jan. 14, a live draw of basic groups will be presented on PG24 Television. The draw show begins at 20:00 CET.
There are currently 22 national teams with 47 squads. The first nation that completed a “QuadRun” was Sweden; they already have a squad for each Quake TDM. Finland is close behind with almost completed QW squad and other nations compensate for missing Quake 2 squads by two teams in Quake 3. Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary are among those. The most powerful Quake country is Russia, with full 5 squads.
- Every Nation can sign up 2 squads per game. Read more about the rules here. Continued…
The i32 LAN for Quake 4 will have the “old” prizing after all. The prize purse will be $20,000 with the cash spread out between players that finish between 1st and 12th place, not 1st and 5th.
The “new distribution” turned out to be a false alarm. One of the organizers claims it to be a simple mistake on ESReality.com. Whatever the case, we are back to the original prizing. This puts a smile back on the faces of all the players that hoped to compete but don’t have a realistic chance of picking up first place.
The i32 tournament will probably be the last major tournament for Quake 4. The world’s best players have signed up. The favorites will be Johan “Toxjq” Quick, Maciej “av3k” Krzykowski, Tim “DaHang” Fogarty and Alexei “Cypher” Yanushevsky. The one big name missing will be Anton “Cooller” Singov who did not manage to obtain a visa in time.
The Insomnia 32 LAN in Newbury, England is very likely to have a major international Quake 4 competition. Although nothing was officially announced, the event on November 9-12 may have a prize pot of $20,000 and a very impressive list of attendees. All the details are still being negotiated with Intel, the sponsor of the event.
The previous I-series LAN had a very successful Quake 4 tournament. It was the first in the 2007 season. After the cancellation of the World Series of Video Games, it looks like i32 will be the last. According to ESReality, the competition’s organizer is Gareth “GaRpY” Marshall, one of the best duelers in the U.K. He has convinced Intel to sponsor the prize purse for the tourney. Continued…
The Electronic Sports World Cup page has added over six hours of VOD content from this year’s grand finals in Paris. If haven’t seen a true esports competition before, then you had better start downloading the video of the Counter-Strike final. Continued…
Last Friday, we gave you a “1on1″ with the Warcraft 3 player Olav “Creolophus” Undheim. Today, we give you one of the most important people in German esports, Cengiz “django” Tuylu. Django is the manager of Mousesports, one of the world’s most affluent teams and a founding member of the G7 group.
Find out about the difficulties in being a team manager, how many German teams have budgets of over €100,000, the wages of the best players in the world, how much it would cost you to buy Navid “Kapio” Javadi, handling cantankerous players like Anton “Cooller” Singov or Ola “elemeNt” Moum and django’s views on differences between the CGS and the ESL.
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Last weekend had a bountiful amount of esports action with ESL’s European Nations Cup and NGL One finals at Games Convention in Leipzig and the World Series of Video Games in Toronto. Well over $150,000 was given out in cash prizes.
NGL ONE
NGL One has had two LAN finals for their Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3 leagues with four teams in a double elimination bracket in each of those. For CS 1.6, the Swedish team Fnatic won in a competition with Team NoA, Mousesports and SK Gaming.
Fnatic went through the bracket beating SK in the semi final (2-0) and Mousesports in the UB final (2-1). SK Gaming came back to the grand final from the lower bracket after beating NoA and Mouz, 2-1 each. Fnatic was the best lineup of the tournament and solidified their position as one of the most consistent teams this year, next to Made in Brazil and PGS Gaming. Continued…
This weekend, Wire hopes to be flooded with coverage from the floors of Games Covnention, but we are not forgetting the World Series of Video Games tournament in Toronto, Canada. When Johan “toxjq” Quick’s name is (hopefully) read out for the Player of the Year eSports Award, the Swede should be railing the living hell out his opponents for prize money and ranking points.
Toronto will be the third WSVG tournament to feature Quake 4 this year. The retirement of players like Jason “socrates_” Sylka and Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel has not really made the competition any weaker. Alexei “Cypher” Yanushevsky and Maciej “Av3k” Krzykowski, two players too young to be eligible to compete last year, have pushed Toxjq more than those that have quit. Continued…
The second season of the GGL LANtics was completed a week ago. We have been transferring the content to Wire over the last days and we could not miss those videos. Inside this post you will find the complete Season Two. In the interim, Season Three has already started, so keep checking back for new episodes every Tuesday! Continued…
