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06/09/2002

bbc covers world cyber games

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Jay Dave Jeffreys posts : 178 the bbc have completed a tv piece on the world cyber games, filmed in london and featuring sujoy and greg edwards (from infinity-esports). you can view the video online from the website here. computer gaming is a sport borne out of kids playing computer games in their front rooms – but now dedicated gamers are competing with each other all over the world. to this new breed of professional gamer the business of gaming is very serious indeed, and with big prize-money, sponsorship deals offering top-notch computer equipment, and flights to exotic competition venues – who can blame them? the piece is also going out on the bbc world service - news24 from saturday and on bbc1 in the uk on sunday.

07/09/2002 13:01 #1 [spectator] Laurent Humblet posts : 222 administrator Ireland isn't in the WCG ... But countries like Bulgaria, Chile, Kazakstan, Ukraine, Venezuela are. What's the story? Will the irish gaming community wait until gaming is huge everywere in Europe before making a decent move? pfff ... [spectator]

09/09/2002 09:39 #2 Zero Ronan Condon Absolute Fucking Champion clan : n8z posts : 816 site administrator What are you talking about? What exactly is a gaming community without a sponsor expected to do? Are you going to fly us over to Korea? The Irish gaming community (Quake) has done more shit and gone more places than a lot of others from countries a lot bigger than this. And the reason we have no sponsor, (if you read this site at all), was discussed last week.

10/09/2002 16:48 #3 [spectator] Laurent Humblet posts : 222 administrator 1. I didn't read that post, I -really- don't know how I missed it. Probably too much work to do these days. 2. I'm off reading it, digesting the whole lot and will come back right at you with hopefully some ideas. [spectator]

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