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Esports World Convention
The Electronic Sports World Convention (ESWC) (formerly known as Electronic Sports World Cup) is an international professional gaming championship. Every year, winners of national qualifier events around the world earn the right to represent their country in the ESWC Finals. The event has been praised for its organisation and ability to put on a good show for spectators. The ESWC was originally created by a French company, Ligarena, that had previously hosted smaller Local Area Network (LAN) events in France under the name of LAN Arena. In 2003, Ligarena decided to do something on a larger scale and the ESWC was born. In 2005, Ligarena became Games-Services. In 2009, ESWC was bought by another French company, Games-Solution, which became the owner of the brand. In 2012, Oxent, an agency specialising in electronic sports, acquired the ESWC. The grand finals and masters of ESWC have had a total prize purse of €1,721,000 between 2003 and 2010. Overview The first Electronic Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendell
Johnathan Wendel (born February 26, 1981), more commonly known by his online alias Fatal1ty (pronounced "Fatality"), is an entrepreneur and former professional esports player of the first-person shooter titles '' Quake'' and ''Painkiller.'' He was an early pioneer of competitive gaming and was once considered one of the best professional gamers in the world. He founded Fatal1ty Inc., which licenses the Fatal1ty brand to gaming accessory manufacturers. Playing career Fatal1ty turned professional in 1999 at age 18 playing ''Quake III Arena''. Wendel has won about 450,000 in cash and prizes from professional competitions, mainly in the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL). In addition to receiving numerous product partnerships with his company Fatal1ty Brand (Fatal1ty, Inc.), he has been featured in mainstream newsprint publications such as ''Time'', ''The New York Times'', Forbes, and the BBC World Service. He has also been featured on '' 60 Minutes''. He has a training regim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li "Sky" Xiaofeng
Li Xiaofeng (), who also goes by the pseudonym "Sky" or "WE.Sky", is a Chinese former professional gamer of the popular Blizzard Entertainment real-time strategy game '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne''. He played for the China-based World Elite team. He is considered one of the best Human players in the game's history by World Cyber Games In the past few years he has been heavily involved with coaching Team WE's ''League of Legends'' team. Li Xiaofeng is featured in the documentary film ''Beyond the Game'', and as a cameo in drama series '' Gank Your Heart'' as himself. Game style He is widely known for his aggressive playing style with the Human race, which many considered to be a “slow” defensive race. He is known for using a fast tech build with a lumber mill, which leads to a push using the Archmage, Beastmaster, militia, towers and numerous summoned creatures to overwhelm the opponent. In numerous Warcraft III forums this strategy has been coined “Sky Rush." He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen
Manuel Schenkhuizen (), better known as Grubby, is a Dutch real-time strategy gamer and former professional esports player. He competed in the RTS games ''Warcraft III'' (WC3), '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne'' and ''Starcraft II''. Grubby is the most successful WC3 player of all time, as an Orc player, having won more than 38 LAN tournaments, of which six were World Championships. His command over the Horde placed him early enough among the elite of the ''WC3'' players, while his clash with Jang "Spirit Moon" Jae-ho rewarded him with a legendary status among the fans of the game. Grubby has been known for being part of one of the most successful ''WC3'' teams in history, namely the British 4Kings. Later teams include the Danish MeetYourMakers and the North American Evil Geniuses. Grubby is widely regarded as one of the greatest Orc players of all time. Grubby is now a popular full-time streamer on Twitch. Esports career Grubby has been on three professional teams through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CompLexity
Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interaction, interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence. The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways, culminating in a higher order of emergence greater than the sum of its parts. The study of these complex linkages at various scales is the main goal of complex systems theory. The intuitive criterion of complexity can be formulated as follows: a system would be more complex if more parts could be distinguished, and if more connections between them existed. Science takes a number of approaches to characterizing complexity; Zayed ''et al.'' reflect many of these. Neil F. Johnson, Neil Johnson states that "even among scientists, there is no unique definition of complexity – and the scientific notion has traditionally been conveyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
Sander Kaasjager (; born 21 June 1985), who plays under the pseudonym Vo0 (pronunciation: ), is a Dutch professional player of the first-person shooter games ''Painkiller'', ''Quake II'', '' Quake III '', ''Quake 4'', ''Quake Live'' and '' Quake Champions'', and also ''World of Warcraft''. He has won more titles and prize money—over US$250,000—at professional ''Painkiller'' tournaments than any other player. Career Originally starting with ''Quake II'', Kaasjager later rose to widespread popularity with the release of a self-made highlight montage (or "frag video") from the game '' Challenge ProMode Arena'', which showcases his unique aggressive style of playing. Kaasjager played ''Painkiller'' for esports team Fnatic. Kaasjager won two world championship titles in 2004, one with CPL and one with ESWC,. In 2005, Kaasjager competed in the 2005 CPL World Tour, in which he won at five out of nine stops and earned $223,000. Kaasjager was named the Most Valuable Player of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painkiller (video Game)
''Painkiller'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Polish game studio People Can Fly and published by DreamCatcher Interactive in April 2004 for Microsoft Windows and ported to Xbox (console), Xbox in 2006. The game's single player campaign follows a dead man in Purgatory who is offered a deal to defeat the invading forces of Satan, Lucifer's army in exchange for being allowed to enter Heaven. The game was particularly well-received for its Multiplayer video game, multiplayer experience and was featured for two seasons on the Cyberathlete Professional League's World Tour. Gameplay The game is inspired by first-person shooters such as ''Quake (video game), Quake'', ''Doom (1993 video game), Doom'' and ''Serious Sam (series), Serious Sam'', with the emphasis on killing large numbers of monsters. The game is divided into five chapters, each about five levels long. The player's objective is to get through each level, from start to finish, by slaughtering hundreds of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro Evolution Soccer 3
''Pro Evolution Soccer 3'' (known as ''World Soccer: Winning Eleven 7'' in Japan and ''World Soccer: Winning Eleven 7 International'' in North America) is a List of association football video games, football Sports simulation, simulation video game developed and produced by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Konami as part of the ''Pro Evolution Soccer'' series. Initially released for the PlayStation 2, it is also the first in the series to be released on Microsoft Windows. The cover features the image and signature of iconic Italian referee Pierluigi Collina, who had previously officiated the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final. This was unusual, as football games had come to almost exclusively feature only players and managers on their covers; plus, referees only appear in cutscenes in this game (they would only be integrated to the playing field in the next entry of the series). ''PES 3'' was succeeded by ''Pro Evolution Soccer 4'', which was released in 2004. New features * New gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurens "Lauke" Pluijmakers
Laurens "Lauke" Pluijmaekers (; born September 22, 1984), last name sometimes spelled Pluymaekers, is a Dutch former professional ''Unreal Tournament'' player. Lauke won the gold medal in ''Unreal Tournament 2004'' at the World Cyber Games 2004. Notable achievements Tournament and placement Source: *2005 ESWC 2005 ''UT2004'', Paris: #3 *2005 ECG 2005 ''UT2004'', Hannover: #3 *2005 GGL Digitallife ''UT2004'', New York: #1 *2004 EOGC 2004 ''UT2004'', London: #1 *2004 ESWC 2004 ''UT2004'', Poitiers: #3 *2004 WCG 2004 ''UT2004'', San Francisco: #1 *2004 cXg ''UT2004'', Las Vegas: #1 *2003 WCG 2003 ''UT2003'', Seoul: #2 *2003 ESWC 2003 ''UT2003'', Poitiers: #5 *2003 Euskal 11 ''UT2003'', Bilbao: #1 *2002 WCG 2002 ''UT'', Daejon Daejeon () is South Korea's fifth-largest metropolis, with a population of 1.5 million as of 2019. Located in the central-west region of South Korea alongside forested hills and the Geum River, the city is known both for its technology and ...: # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unreal Tournament 2004
''Unreal Tournament 2004'' is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. Part of the ''Unreal'' franchise, it is the third game in the ''Unreal Tournament'' series and the sequel to ''Unreal Tournament 2003''. Among significant changes to gameplay mechanics and visual presentation, one of the major additions introduced by ''Unreal Tournament 2004'' is the inclusion of vehicles and the Onslaught game type, allowing for large-scale battles. A sequel, '' Unreal Tournament 3'', was released on November 19, 2007. Plot The game is set in a universe where humans long before fought a war with the Skaarj, leaving their galactic empire in shambles. To assist in the rebuilding of the colonies by calming down enraged colonists, the Liandri Corporation came up with the idea of staging a gladiatorial tournament for the miners. The interest was so high that it grew into a sport, with sponsored teams battling in specially made arenas. From the ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chun "Sweet" Jung Hee
Chun Jung-hee () is a retired South Korean professional player of the real-time strategy game '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne''. He used to play for the Chinese professional gaming team Beijing eSport Team. He goes by the gamertag of Sweet (previously nOma) and is a member of clan WeRRa. He has been recognized among the top tier of ''Warcraft III'' players since the beginning of the professional competitive scene and has won two world championships as well as several professional events in South Korea. After finished his military duty, he became coach of the Jin Air Greenwings ''League of Legends'' team. Career Global fame After the release of ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' in 2002 Jung Hee Chun rose to quickly be noticed as one of the strongest players in the South Korean scene, which was at the time known as the most competitive gaming scene in the world. He participated in several televised leagues and showed strong results, finishing top three in two of the bigges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
