World Cyber Games
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| Medal table (2000–2013) | ||||||
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 South Korea
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25th | 14th | 15th | 77 | |
| 2 |
 Germany
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13 | 9 | 14th | 40 | |
| 3 |
 United States
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12 | 8th | 8th | 35 | |
| 4th |
 Netherlands
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8th | 5 | 8th | 28 | |
| 5 |
 Russia
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5 | 6th | 6th | 22nd | |
The World Cyber Games (WCG) is a former E-Sports -Event, held annually. They were brought into being with the support of the Korean company Samsung in 2000 under the name WCG Challenge . Between 2001 and 2013 the event was called World Cyber Games and took place annually in October or November at different venues.
The program included six to nine PC games each year that are suitable as esports titles. The two game series FIFA and StarCraft , which were on the program at every edition of the World Cyber Games, were long-running hits. Other popular esports titles included Counter-Strike and Warcraft III . The total prize money was usually a five-digit dollar amount for each discipline. Between 2003 and 2011, however, competitions were also held on the XBox or XBox360 console and on the mobile phone.
The number of participants per country was limited and the size of the respective selection also depended on the sponsors of the individual WCG organizations. The number of national players in a nation varied between one and 25 people. With more than 20 players, Germany was regularly one of the strongest represented nations and is second in the all-time medal table. Most recently, 72 nations took part in the preliminary rounds for the World Cyber Games.
Since 2005 there has also been a European version of the WCG with the WCG 2005 Samsung Euro Championship (SEC). It took place at CeBIT in Hanover . In 2006 the WCG Asian Championship and the WCG Pan-American Championship were also added .
In 2014, three similarly designed events took place, which see themselves as successors to the World Cyber Games: the World eSports Championships , the World Cyber Arena and the World eSports Championship Games .
In 2019, after a break of several years in Xi'an, there was a new edition.
Results
For an overview of all the results of the World Cyber Games, see → World Cyber Games / Results List
chronology
| Chronology of the World Cyber Games | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| year | venue | Total prize money | Attendees | Nations | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000 |
Seoul
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$ 200,000 | 174 | 17th | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001 |
Seoul
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$ 300,000 | 430 | 37 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002 |
Daejeon
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$ 300,000 | 462 | 45 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003 |
Seoul
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$ 350,000 | 562 | 55 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004 |
San Francisco
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$ 400,000 | 642 | 63 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005 |
 Singapore
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$ 435,000 | 679 | 67 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006 |
 Monza
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$ 462,000 | 700 | 70 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 |
Seattle
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$ 448,000 | 700 | 75 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008 |
Cologne
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$ 470,000 | 800 | 78 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009 |
 Cheng you
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$ 500,000 | 600 | 65 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010 |
los Angeles
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$ 250,000 | 450 | 58 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011 |
Busan
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$ 303,000 | 600 | 60 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012 |
Kunshan
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$ 258,000 | 500 | 40 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013 |
Kunshan
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$ 306,000 | 500 | 40 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2018: not held | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 |
Xi'an
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Disciplines
| Disciplines in the World Cyber Games | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| platform | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2019 | total | ||||
| Age of Empires | Pc | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Carom3D | Pc | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Command & Conquer | Pc | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Counter-Strike | Pc | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Crossfire | Pc | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Defense of the Ancients / Dota 2 | Pc | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA | Pc | 14th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hearthstone | Pc | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| League of Legends | Pc | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Need for speed | Pc | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quake | Pc | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Red Stone | Pc | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Special Force | Pc | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| StarCraft / StarCraft 2 | Pc | 15th | ||||||||||||||||||
| TrackMania | Pc | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Unreal Tournament | Pc | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warcraft 3 | Pc | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War | Pc | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| World of Tanks | Pc | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| World of Warcraft | Pc | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| total : | 4th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 8th | 9 | 7 (+1) * | 6 (+3) * | 8 (+3) * | 5 (+4) * | 6 (+2) * | 5 | |||||
| platform | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2019 | total | ||||
| Dead or Alive | Xbox | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Forza Motorsport | Xbox 360 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gears of War | Xbox | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Guitar Hero | Xbox 360 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halo | Xbox / Xbox 360 | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Project Gotham Racing | Xbox | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tekken | Xbox 360 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tony Hawk's skateboarding | Xbox | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Virtua Fighter | Xbox 360 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| total : | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| platform | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2019 | total | ||||
| asphalt | Cellphone | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| Clash Royale | Cellphone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Honor of Kings | Cellphone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wise Star | Cellphone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| total : | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
* in brackets: promotional disciplines in addition to the official competitive sports
Hall of Fame
Players or teams who have won two or more gold medals are inducted into the Hall of Fame of the World Cyber Games. In addition, the members of the Hall of Fame receive the status of WCG Legend .
Hall of Fame Members:
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Team 3D (winner of WCG 2004 and WCG 2005 in Counter-Strike )
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Dennis "styla" Schellhase (winner of WCG 2003 and WCG 2005 in FIFA )
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Daniel "hero" Schellhase (winner of WCG 2006 and WCG 2007 in FIFA )
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Christian "GitzZz" Höck (winner of the WCG 2001 and the WCG 2002 in Unreal Tournament )
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Lim "BoxeR" Yo-hwan (winner of the WCG 2001 and the WCG 2002 in StarCraft )
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Matthew "Zyos" Leto (winner of WCG 2003 and WCG 2004 in Halo )
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Li "Sky" Xiaofeng (winner of the WCG 2005 and the WCG 2006 in Warcraft III )
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Byung "Grunt" Geon Kang (winner of the WCG 2001 and the WCG 2007 in Age of Empires )
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Ryoo "SeleCT" Kyung Hyun (Winner of WCG 2005 and WCG 2006 in Dawn of War )
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Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen (winner of WCG 2004 and WCG 2008 in Warcraft III )
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Wouter "Handewasser" van Someren (winner of WCG 2007 and WCG 2008 in Project Gotham Racing 4 )
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Again / PGS Gaming (Winner of WCG 2006, WCG 2009 and WCG 2011 in Counter-Strike )
Web links
- Official website of the WCG ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Official German language website ( Memento from February 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ wcg.com: Medal table ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ wcg.com: Concept ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Legacy of the World Cyber Games readmore.de