Echo 8 News - CrossFire goes to WCA!

[MOD]Fizzeq wrote: »

interested in WCA, keep me updated on that pls

heard from kris and kyle, and it sounds magnificent

Funny part is I told them

Here is the transcript about WCA:

The WCA (World Cyber Arena) Games 2015 has started with the prize money rocketing to 100 million yuan (about 16 million US dollars), the WCA Organizing Committee told Xinhua on Monday.

The whole schedule will be more than 278 days, including 20 stages, five activities and over 1,274 hours of live broadcasting. And the finals will be held in December in Yinchuan, a city in western China.

At present, the organizing committee confirmed that the games project is divided into global E-sports and China E-sports.

The global E-sports comprise "DOTA2", "Hearth Stone", "Cross Fire", "World of Tanks", "Heroes of the Storm ", and "WarcraftIII".

Based on what WCA.com.cn has announced there will be online qualifiers in the regions of "Southeastern Asia, Europe and Americas" from Middle April to July to decide 3 tickets for the WCA2015 Grand Finals(in Dec at YinChuan, China).

Another thing is there will be a series of WCA Open Cup to be held from August ~ September. But it seems not related to the Grand Finals. The locations of these LAN Open Cups are Cologne(Germany), Seoul(Korea), Seattle(USA). And Crossfire is confirmed to be part of it. It might be a coincidence but PAX Prime is scheduled to be taking place in August so there is some speculation that it might be taking place at PAX Prime in Seattle but this is just rumored.

The first WCA Games kicked off in Yinchuan in October last year, more than 3,300 athletes from China, Russia, Japan, the Philippines and other 29 countries and regions had attended the game.