World Cyber Games 2009
The 2009 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 09 or World Cyber Games 09) took place from November 11 to November 15, 2009 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It had over 600 participates from 70 countries taking part.[1] The prize money is estimated at around $500,000.
Official Games
Warcraft III, StarCraft, Counter Strike, FIFA 09, Carom3D, Red Stone and TrackMania Nations Forever on PC Guitar Hero: World Tour and Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360 Asphalt4 and Wise Star 2 on Mobile
Competition Draw
The Competition Draws took place on October 19, October 20 and October 21. All competition draws took place on one of these three days.
- Oct. 19: Asphalt 4 > Wise Star 2 > Counter-Strike
- Oct. 20: Guitar Hero > Virtua Fighter 5 > FIFA 09
- Oct. 21: Carom 3D - > Trackmania Nations Forever - > StarCraft - > Warcraft III
Results
Official
| Event |  |
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| WarCraft III : The Frozen Throne |  Wang Xuwen (Infi) |
Lu Weiliang (Fly100%) |
 Park June (Lyn) | |||
| Counter-Strike 1.6 | AGAiN | Jakub Gurczynski (kuben) | fnatic | Patrik Sättermon (cArn) | Mortal Teamwork | Alexander Holdt (ave) |
| Lukasz Wnek (LUq) |
Patrik Lindberg (f0rest) |
Christoffer Sunde (Sunde) | ||||
| Wiktor Wojtas (Taz) |
Rasmus Ståhl (Gux) |
Danny Sørensen (zonic) | ||||
| Mariusz Cybulski (Loord) |
Harley Örwall (dsn) |
Oliver Ari Minet (minet) | ||||
| Filip Kubski (neo) |
Christopher Alesund (GeT_RiGhT) |
Martin Heldt (trace) | ||||
| TrackMania Nations Forever | Jesper Karjalainen (KarjeN) |
Kalle Mortlund Videkull (FrostBeule) |
 Fredrik Bergmann (Bergie) | |||
| StarCraft: Brood War | Jae-Dong Lee (Jaedong) |
Byung-Gu Song (Stork) |
Taek-Yong Kim (Bisu) | |||
| FIFA 09 |  Joshua Begehr (SK_Kr0ne) |
Daniel Schellhase (SK_hero) |
Piotr Zajkowski (Pio) | |||
| Red Stone | ComeonBaby | Ki-Pyo Kang | HAPPY_SWEETS | Hiroto Watanabe | Cool_Runnings | Jon Lunceford |
| Seung-Ryul Kim | Shouta Ueda | Matt Marcou | ||||
| Sung-Min Song | Kuniaki Kitagawa | Sean Snack | ||||
| Tae-Seok Kim | Tomohiro Takami | Colin Fogle | ||||
| Carom3D | Hee-Chul Kim (MARCJACOBS) |
 Jean Monico (jeantek) |
Andreas Krieger (Protonski) | |||
| Virtua Fighter 5 | Keita Ai (FOOD) |
Eui-Wook Shin (ShinZ_Km) |
Dae-Hwan Kim (Rikojjang) | |||
| Guitar Hero World Tour | Fabio Jardim (caiomenudo13) |
Michael Najman (MoB_Shift) |
Robert Michaels (vVv smokyprogg) | |||
| Wise Star 2 |  Enrico Aurora (a.Enrico) |
 Christophe Limet (Blackbelt) |
Trevor Housten (TorcH) | |||
| Asphalt4 : Elite Racing |  Liu You-chen (TER_BURBERRYqq) |
 Jared Beins (slyfoxlover) |
Won-Joon Lee (KimBuJa) | |||
Promotion
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| Dungeon and Fighter | Jong-Min Jeong (UraniumHwangjaeM) |
Shun Ishikawa (CLAY) |
Je-Myung Lee (Marenobba) | |||
Sponsors
Samsung Electronics (Worldwide Partner)
Official theme song
The official theme song of the World Cyber Games is called "Beyond the Game" and the title is also the name of the World Cyber Games Motto.
Videos
The World Cyber Games published the different events on their YouTube account and their site.
References
- "WCG 2009 Overview". World Cyber Games. Retrieved 2009-03-15.