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…
I just had the chance to interview Chinese Warcraft III player Infi, winner of the iCoke tournament, and asked him some general questions about DigitalLife and what’s going on with him. Check it out.
Disclaimer for the haters: this isn’t as serious an interview as some of you may have preferred, but we’re here until Sunday. That means that if you want me to ask Moon, Sweet, Check, Winners, Infi, Longwalk or others a couple of quick questions, post them here. I’m camera-equipped and ready.
This weekend we have two twin tournaments in South Korea - the International E-Sports Festival 2007 (formerly called the China Korea Cyber Games) in Gangneung and the World E-Sports Games e-Stars 2007 event in Seoul. Both had StarCraft, Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike 1.6 competitions with a combined total of $194,000 in prize money. Continued…
The International E-Sports Festival 2007 has only got two matches to be played. In Warcraft 3, Yuwen “Infi” Wang will face June “Lyn” Park. But the main course will be the match between Kim “Bisu” Taek Yong and Ma “sAviOr” Jae Yoon in the StarCraft final. Continued…
WEG e-Stars 2007 is not the only major event held in South Korea this weekend. The other one is the International Esports Festival 2007 with top notch StarCraft and Warcraft 3 tournaments. Both are now in their quarterfinals. We already know Sky will not be winning the WC3 competition and we can hope that it will be Bisu and sAviOr playing in the final of the one for SC. Continued…
