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. 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 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 Event 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
External links 2009 tournament group drawings