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| US gamers sweep World Cyber Games The US contingent to the 2005 World Cyber Games' Grand Final in Singapore returned as overall champions after winning two gold medals and one silver. Capturing the world champion title for the first time, medals for the US team came in Counter-Strike, Halo 2 and WarCraft III: Frozen Throne against a field of 700 of the world's best gamers representing 67 countries. The Grand Final culminated eight months of competition that saw 1.25 million gamers attempt to qualify for the right to represent their country in one of eight gamesand a share of the more than $2.5 million in prizes. With hosts Singapore giving a warm and enthusiastic welcome, the 2005 World Cyber Games will go down as one of the greatest e-Sports events in history. More than 55,000 gaming fans witnessed 1,000 matches officiated by 47 referees during the course of 5 days. Highlight matches held on the main stage regularly drew crowds of 2,500. 530,000 spectators followed the action via the online broadcast. Kyle Miller, Ronald Kim, Sal Garozzo, Josh Sievers, and Mike So comprise Team 3D, who repeated as gold medalists in Counter-Strike for the second year. Now candidates for the World Cyber Games' Hall of Fame, Team 3D upended an upstart Kazakhstan in the final after an exciting run on both sides of the bracket. Dan and Tom Ryan, a set of 19 year-old twin brothers, who play under the gaming alias Ogre Twins, dominated the Halo 2 event making easy work of Canada in the final. Dennis Chan took the silver in WarCraft III. A seasoned veteran, Chan made waves in the gaming community by upsetting reigning WarCraft champion Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen of the Netherlands in the semifinal. Chan couldn't carry that dominance through the final however, when faced with a fierce Xiaofeng Li of China and boisterous partisan crowd. Next year's Grand Final will be held in Europe - Monza, Italy, home of the Italian Grand Prix - for the first time ever. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Game News :: home page |