The Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament held in Que Club that was announced previously finished last night (at about 2 am). Since the teams that attended was not up to the expected number the prize money was AED 2,000 for winners and AED 1,000 for runner-up.

Results
Team Impulse [ shazak / add1ct / havoK / jAP / alawi ]
Team Future.AA (aka W4rr1or) [ F_B_I / Mafia / Pirlo / Ky0 / Smiley ]
Team Mist [ HZ / barbar1an / Mus3 / Kurt / danger ] & LOH [ smasher / t0x / teka / kartoon / 17 ]

• alawi was playing as a stand-in for whMsy who couldn't play because of other priorities.
• In the second map of the semi-finals between Impulse and Mist, there was a quarrel between alawi and members of Team Mist regarding bad mouthing. This also involved Mist calling a forfeit in the very beginning of the second map, after playing a very close first map.
  

UPDATE: This tournament is now over. Winners listed below:

*N/A* - 150 KD
Al Jahra
1thing4all

CyAC will be hosting a QL Duel Cup on Japanese QuakeLive servers next week on 13th March. Sign-ups are open on the website until 23:00(GMT+8) March 10th. To participate you need to register an account at CyAC and go to the cup page and click "sign up". Your name will be shown up on the participant list after approved by an admin. All the matches will also be streamed live on CyAC TV. Use the following links for more info:

Main post | Sign-up page | CyAC TV | Rules

Que Club Network Cafe will be hosting a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament this weekend on Friday, March 5th. The Que Club Cafe is located in Dubai, UAE. The 1st place winner will receive 5,000 AED. Tournament registration ends strictly by 16:00 PM on Friday.

Sign Ups for the Street Fighter 4 Challenge is now open!
Date: 20th March 2010
Time: 2pm-8pm
Registration Fee: S$5.00
Venue: Samsung Flagship Store @ Vivo City, Singapore

Please visit http://www.round1.sg/ for Rules and Regulations!


Prizes are as follows:
1st Prize: Samsung R430e Notebook worth $1,299
2nd Prize: Samsung 2233RZ 22'3D Monitor worth $429
3rd Prize: Samsung 1000P 10' Digital Photo Frame Worth $328
4th to 8th Prizes: Samsung Voucher worth $100 each

Sign up HERE now:
http://www.esportsc.com/index.php?option...nt&ref=SF4

Cash Payment:

Players who want to make payment in Cash can also come down to our office.
Address:
41 Jalan Pemimpin, #02-03A
Kong Beng Industrial Building
Singapore 577186

Telephone: 6440 0536
Date: 26th February 2010 to 12th March 2010
Time: 10am to 12pm / 2pm to 6pm (ONLY weekdays)

Future Cafe will host one of their weekly Counter-Strike 1.6 tournaments in Al Ain, UAE on Friday, February 26th 2010. Winners will be announced when we know more.

Update: Warrior.AA wins the tournament! Top placings listed below (no 3rd place decider, so bronze goes to 3rd/4th):

Warrior.AA [ Pirlo / Mafia / Ky0 / F_B_I / Rock ]
Elite$ [ Breaker / Ramb0 / ww2 / $pawNz / AMAZINGLioN[K]` ]
IMPULSE [ whMsy / Alox / havok / JAP / sak ] + MisT [ barbar1aN / Mus3 / danger / HZ / Kurt ]

Update II: AmazingLioN has kindly posted some of his POV demos for us! Note that the compiled .rar file is quite huge (186 MB) which extracts to about 945 MB(!!!). Please direct all love/flame comments to him!

Grab the demos here.

GunmaN has done an interview and put up some pictures for us regarding DWGC 2010.

"I visited DWGC “Dubai Mall Venue” on the 19th Feb in the hopes of getting decent coverage; ie pictures, demos, video and an interview. Unfortunately I couldn’t get hold of the demos due to the incompetency of EmiratesTech guys who are clueless when it comes to games. I will try to talk to the organizers directly about setting up HLTV so guys and gals can watch the finals live and whatnot from the comfort of their homes. As a community we should work in close collaborations with organizers who are venturing into gaming and taking risks. We should help them out with our knowledge rather then complaining about not getting demos, coverage, brackets, etc. We should not expect everything to be spoon-fed. For gaming to succeed in this region, we MUST work in collaboration.
The whole tournament couldn’t be possible without the effort of Index Holding, a company which has created a high standard when it comes to hosting tournaments for this region and it hopes to change leading e-sports in this part of the world. To tell you more I interviewed their Vice President."

» Click here to read the interview

Q: Hello. Can you please introduce yourself to our readers?
A: I am Anas Al Madani, VP of Index Holding, the organizers of World Game Championship and the Dubai World Game Expo.

Q: You help gaming scene by providing tournaments, but are you a gamer yourself? And what are your favorite titles?
A: Gamer??? Well, I do not consider that I am a real gamer But definitely I play video games. We all grew up playing video games from the days of Pacman till the days of winning eleven, which is my personal favorite. Video games became an integral part of our every day life.

Q: How much time and resources does it take to undertake the biggest tournament series in the Middle-East?
A: When it comes to time, we prepare almost a year to create World Game Championship. The logistics and operational requirement of staging games is too taxing. Thanks to the team who has been working doubly hard every year to come up with bigger and better video game event. When it comes to financial, big money is really involved, but because we believe in the potential of growth for the MENA gaming industry we have been investing to give gamers and industry players the best gaming experience in the region. We believe that we have a pool of talented gamers who can become professional players and compete with teams from around the globe. WGC is becoming the most important platform to prepare them for this adventure.

Q: Any plans we can see in the future of your collaboration with other gaming partners like WCG, so we the local gamers can get foreign exposure?
A: We have forged strategic partnership with the World Cyber Games and we are working closely with them to expose our gamers to the rest of the world. One of our objectives is to give as much exposure to gamers here to compete with the best of the best in the world. And we are continuously on the look-out for opportunities for international exposure for the gamers. As an Emirati, I take personal pride on seeing our local gamers become world class cyber athletes.

Q: How has the public responded to gaming tournaments, do you think the general public’s perspective gaming is being changed in this part of the world?
A: Year after year, we see the number of game participants increase dramatically. Statistically, from 2008 and 2009, there was an increase of 150% gamers in WGC. And last year, the endorsement of Hamdan Bin Mohammad eUniversity acknowledged the importance of video games in the process of educating the youth. Hence, I could say that we are opening up to the world of interactive entertainment. We see video games in every aspect of our life. We see them on our cell phones, iPods, PC’s, and consoles. Video Games are also being integrated in the gym and becoming part of the work-out program. Serious games have become more common in the work place too as companies and organizations are using video games for either training or exposure. The world of interactive entertainment is no longer perceived as a time waster, on contrary and due to the constant change in this industry, it has become a way of life even in this part of the world.

Q: How was your tour in china for WCG2009, where you fascinated by the esports in that part of the world?
A: Indeed, it’s a totally mature gaming world back there. Cyber athletes are considered celebrities. They play and get paid. I look forward to the day that gamers from this region gets the same recognition as those in China or other parts of the globe.

Q: Starcraft2 Beta has been released for 4 days. Most experts of esports believe it will change esports as we know it, what do you think about blizzard and starcraft in general? Can we expect your company to incorporate Sc2 in the future? (In just four days of beta!! it has attracted tournament organizers, Zotac is now hosting weekly cups for sc2).
A: We shall see the popularity of SC2 in this region. And of course we are always open for new games. We cater the demand of the market. We generally add games to the tournament as we go one we will definitely have great surprises and exciting stuff for our gamers as we proceed to the final rounds.

Q: Any last words or details you want to give out?
A: I would like to encourage gamers in the region to support World Game Championship, as organizers, we wanted to help both gamers and corporations build a strong video game environment that will enable everyone to benefit from. We also would love to see games developed in the Arab World included in our games of the future and would like to make this a platform to expose our rich Arabic Culture to the rest of the world.

"Here are some pictures which I was able to take from XothermeK’s camera, sorry no videos at this time."

Spring Fiesta 2010, this year's version of the Spring Fiesta events organized by the American College of Dubai, is going to include a video game competition. The games will be Forza Motorsport, FIFA and Band Hero (Band Hero? *facepalm*). The platform for all games will be XBOX360.

Participants will be representing their schools/colleges/universities, and can register using the forms in the attachments below. Check their official website to check for contact details and other info.

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Links: Spring Fiesta 2010 - American College of Dubai

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Future Cafe will host one of their weekly Counter-Strike 1.6 tournaments in Al Ain, UAE on Friday, February 19th 2010. Winners will be announced when we know more.

Update: Heroes.AA wins the tournament! Top three placings listed below:

Heroes.AA [ Pirlo / Rock / Hunter / $miley / Mafia ]
Future.AA [ Bruce_Lee / Effect / Pitbull / K@en / Breaker ]
Elites.AA [ Breaker / FBI / Domenic / ww2 / Ky0 / walele ]

Dubai World Game Championship (DWGC) 2010, the biggest gaming event in the UAE, is starting very soon, with about AED 100,000 in cash prizes. The DWGC includes several events, including the national qualifiers for World Cyber Games (WCG), a number of open championships and a few inter-school tournaments.

Games and competitions included this year are:

Counter-Strike 1.6
Platform: PC (ofcourse)

• WCG qualifiers
• Open Championship
• Inter-school tournament
  

• Open Championship
• Inter-school tournament
  

• Open Championship
• Inter-school tournament