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…
Week 2 of Quake Nations Cup has just started with two Quake 3 Matches. First, Sweden won in three maps against Italy. fojji and sLONKEN played great games for the Scandanavian Quake owners, while Polterizer was one of most important players for team Italy.The second game was between Serbia and Belarus. Even with Cypher in the Belarus lineup, Serbia managed to win in three maps.
You can check all Week 2 matches on the official homepage and on channel #Quakers.ws there will be info about all matches, GTVs and scorebots. 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.
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…
