I'm super excited for this, been waiting for nearly a year for season 2!
Now...for those of y'all who don't know what the WCG is, it stands for World Cyber Games, and it is an international e-sports event.
It's basically just like the Olympics, only with video games! How fuckin' awesome is that?!
WCG is the largest gaming festival celebrated once a year. More than one million visitors come and visit every year. It unites gamers from all over the world to allow players to enjoy and respect the gaming environment. Each participating country will conduct preliminary rounds before sending the finest gamers to represent them in this major event.
In 2007, over 700 players from over 70 countries faced off in Seattle, with Spike TV being the WCG's official media partner.
In March 2009, WCG debuted its first reality television show, WCG Ultimate Gamer. Season 2 of WCG Ultimate Gamer will air August of 2010.
This years WCG will be held from September 30th - October 3rd 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
The games offered this year will include:
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Starcraft: Brood War
FIFA 10
Counter-Strike 1.6
Trackmania
Carom 3D
Guitar Hero 5
Tekken 6
Forza Motorsport 3
Lost Saga
League of Legends
Last years 2009 top winners were:
1st. S. Korea w/ 3 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze medals
2nd. Sweden w/ 1 gold, 2 silver medals
3rd. Germany w/ 1 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medals.
And Brazil, China, and Japan all tied for 4th place with 1 gold and 1 silver medal.
For more rankings, go here http://www.wcg.com/6th/history/ranking/ranking_wcgrank.asp#01
But yeah,onto the show itself. I LOOOOVE this show.
Tis a reality show, but with video games! :D
Last years was so amazing, and I still think Robert Paz should have won, he's an AMAZING gamer. He was close, in the end it was him and Mark Smith left. April 28, 2009 The winner was Mark after beating Robert in Soul Calibur IV and Shaun White Snowboarding but Rob won Gears of War 2. Mark still won with a total of 4 points. Whoever won the first game got one point. The second game was worth 2 points, and the third game three. Mark won, 4 points to Robert's 2.
I remember in episode 7 they had to do this one challenge for PGR4.
They were all seated on different platforms, and they had to use a steering wheel and pedals for this one, and at first I didn't understand why they were buckled into their seats, until the platforms turned upside down. :P
Try doing 3 laps of PGR4 facing upside down at your television. Twas sexual.
The format for WCG Ultimate gamer has 12 gamers living in one loft. Each episode they would compete in a Real life challenge and in an Isolation Challenge. The Real Life challenge complimented and provided a clue to the actual XBOX360 game they were to play later in the Isolation challenge. For example, the players played paintball before playing Halo 3, had a dunk contest before playing NBA Live!, and drifted cars before playing Project Gotham Racing. The gamer with the highest score from both challenges had the choice to pick one other gamer to play the gamer with the lowest score in an Elimination challenge where the loser goes home, the gamer with the highest score can pick themselves to play the lowest scoring gamer if they choose to and sometimes the 2 gamers in the Elimination challenge have to pick someone to partner with them but their partner is not at risk of going home.
All in all. It's a great show!
Can't wait to watch season 2 next week! :D
Season 1 contestants:
Can't wait to see season's 2 contestants! :D
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