December 19, 2007
Second Pool of Official Games
Titles for ESWC 2008
Electronic Sports World Cup
announces DotA and Quake 3 as official games titles for 2008 competition in
addition to Counter-Strike 1.6, Warcraft III and Trackmania Nations.
The Electronic Sports World Cup
Committee today announced the second pool of games that will serve as official
disciplines for the ESWC 2008 tournaments.
DotA : Defense of the Ancients (PC)
Community Project (c) Blizzard (“Defense of the Ancients”, is a free mod for
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne.)
Quake 3 (PC) (c) ID Software
Those two tournaments are open to
male and female. DotA competitions will be played 5 versus 5 on last stable map.
Quake 3 will be played in 1v1. ESWC might add games to this list in the upcoming
months. ESWC registrations are locally driven, so international players should
consult their own country’s respective ESWC website, all of which can be
accessed via
http://www.eswc.com/world. The ESWC Grand Final will happen in USA
next summer 2008.
– F.A.Q –
Why moving back to Quake 3 this
year whereas you’ve selected Quake 4 the past two years and that so many new FPS
games have been released this year?
We have made the choice to keep a
fast FPS game in ESWC in spite of the fact that the community of players is
reduced and that the challenge is reserved to an elite. In a word, this family
of games offers the most obvious demonstration of what a cyber athlete is and
what electronic sports should be. We have taken the necessary time to wait and
evaluate all the new potential games. At the end, none of them yet guarantee the
minimum conditions to become a genuine eSports platform, stable, open to
broadcast, and supported by its studio or the community through a mod.
The last titles in our short list
were Q3, Q4, Warsow and UT3. We have finally chosen Quake 3 because we think
this is: a) The best software technologically: best client, server, broadcasting
tools, support b) The best display for the show and public: best readability and
rhythm of match c) The best long-term potentiality with the upcoming Quake Zero
(based on Quake 3 gameplay and engine) that could be the ultimate fast and free
FPS that deserve electronic sports
