LGF: Game tourney closes festival

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Oct 9, 2006 11:41 am PT

First London Games Festival draws to a close with epic gaming competition.

An audience of 12,000 gathered to watch the final stretch of a three-day game tournament that closed the London Games Festival this weekend.

The World Series of Video Games (WSVG) UK Gaming Championship was held at the Trocadero in Piccadilly Circus and featured 200 professional gamers from around the world battling it out for bragging rights and cash prizes.

Contestants played Counter-Strike 1.6, Warcraft III, and Quake 4, all on the PC. Well-known professional gamers including Fatal1ty, Stermy, Toxic, Team Fnatic, and homegrown UK entrants 4 Kings were in attendance.

The Counter-Strike winners were Pentagram G-Shock in first place and Hoorai in second. Johan "Toxic" Quick won the Quake 4 tournament, with Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone coming in second. Manuel "4k^Grubby" Shenkhuizen was the Warcraft III champion, and Michael "mouz. Glacomo" Hladik grabbed runner-up.

The first and second place winners for each game will be invited on an all-expenses-paid trip to the finals later in the year, when the overall winners will be crowned.

Although the action at the UK event was confined to PCs, the WSVG is a multiple-platform video game competition circuit and has previously held competitions for console offerings like Halo 2 and Project Gotham Racing 3. The group is aiming to "develop a set of unified rules and regulations, and to elevate competitive gaming as a sport and a profession."

Other highlights of the event included an appearance by Steve-O from Jackass, a Miss World of Video Games contest, and a working three-metre-high joystick.

33 Comments

  • _Sam_

    Posted Oct 12, 2006 6:01 pm PT

    there wasn't that much coverage from gamespot

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Oct 11, 2006 11:50 am PT

    What happened with Fatal1ty? I thought he was the best at Quake. Anyway, nice way to close a festival.

  • piecake

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 9:38 am PT

    yay london and xbox!

  • capthunt

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 9:31 am PT

    cool

  • 9w43

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 9:25 am PT

    i went to LGF it was fun teams were playing against each other for 3 days and they had media coverage there

  • KamaKase

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 8:40 am PT

    I'm surprised there wasn't a DEFCON tournament.....

  • final_cut_hugo

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 8:07 am PT

    Wasn't as good as EVO 2k6.

  • macacd

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 4:24 am PT

    bet the coverage wasn't as good as GS's Tournament TV!!

  • Aametherar

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 4:02 am PT

    "thebuft
    what happened to console gamers? "

    They got owned.

  • Hikiera

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 11:44 pm PT

    Wow. I guess I should join in next time.

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 9:34 pm PT

    interesting

  • Pacemen2

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 7:43 pm PT

    how i wish i could be a pro gamer . . . be able to say goodbye to the cruel normality . . . shucks . . . back to playin halo 2

  • nintendorocks

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 5:53 pm PT

    The1stFishBone-gamespot dropped the ball not showing the final rounds of the competition ----------------------------------What do you think GameSpot can just go and film everything they want and put it on the site?

  • The1stFishBone

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 5:35 pm PT

    gamespot dropped the ball not showing the final rounds of the competition

  • hemakm3

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 5:19 pm PT

    Nice.

  • GearsOfWar890

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 4:57 pm PT

    I can't believe fatal1ty lost.

  • artanisxvi

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 3:40 pm PT

    Grubby is a god

  • Emiroo

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 3:02 pm PT

    Awww. Fatal1ty lost. I'm so sad. He always comes across as a real jerk in everything I've ever seen him in.

  • handag

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 2:32 pm PT

    You could also Try and Get Reporters on the Lan Party Norway has Every Year. They Use a Hangar to Host it, so the number of Gamers is about 6000 People. and its From all over Europe. Atleast our TV Network are Hosting it but Only in Smal Portions.

  • spikeperro

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 2:27 pm PT

    mmm interesting...

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