#78 Are you literally retarded? Even FIFA needs sponsors (in case you still don't get it [Barclaycard Premiership, Coca Cola Championship]), I'm not going to explain the details of how it's worked out since you've got a pair of eyes and can read the FIFA site for yourself.
As for your other comment.
The only reason the WCG and ESWC is in the format that it is, is purely marketing terms. You can get sponsorship much easier if you can say you have more demographics and regions seeing your branding. It has absolutely nothing to do with widening the participation of eSports.
The difference between the Olympics and World Championships in real sports is, that each country has federations behind them and an infrastructure. If the WCG or ESWC didn't pay the travel costs for the players, the majority if not all of the players from countries your talking about wouldn't turn up even if they won their qualifier.
Go google Christine Ohuruogu, she just won the womens 400m in Osaka (World Championships) for the Great Britain team. If you want to continue like a dick then carry on. By the way, Estonia is ranked 15th in the medal tables and well despite your shit stirring and "UK don't even get top 10 unlike Estonia", the Great Britain team is ahead :(
http://osaka2007.iaaf.org/results/medals/index.html

coca-cola part was a joke ..
eswc does not pay accomodation fees ..
I am impressed that you chkd where estonia is on medal table
estonia has population of 1.3mio vs UKs 60(?)mio :) ..
then we shall work together to achieve that goal, to get esport federations in each country :P ...
but overall, I got owned by a britt :I
we have cheaper beer ! .. now u got owned :I

#115 bla bla bla. Answer #84.

UK > estiona. without a doubt! xD

Nice. GL all.

#120 alright, you might be right :) .. but it will take forever to list the countries that are better than france :)

#122 its ok im not from france, i use it to hide my true identity! xD

What's the problem with the old France #122?Sry I didn't understand your "argumentation"
UK>Estonia maybe but synck>4k ..i think.
gL all, go France (i hope emL)

#118
There is a difference between being narrow minded and being sensible. Teams from the likes of Kazakhstan attend at the expense of teams like NiP, SK, EYE and Dignitas etc. The list goes on. Competitive eSports needs strong participation and stability.
The majority of the countries your referring to, barely have a internet infrastructure to grow talent. It's the same reason why gamers from the UK and Spain (despite the countries being fairly rich) struggle against the best. Although this isn't the only "variable" in growing talented players.
I'm not saying exclude them, if they are good enough they will still qualify and win. The system needs to change though to promote and actually be worthwhile to gaming. I would rather see four Swedish teams in the CS competition and however many Koreans/Chinese in the Warcraft III. It gives an accurate picture of competitive gaming and you have the best possible competition to promote to a mainstream audience.
You only have to look at athletics to see that the system of "survival of the fittest" is the best. Despite African countries being among the poorest and worst equipped, they supply year in year out some of the best middle and long distance runners in the world.

#125 it is a very long way to run for the water in africa and ppl are thirsty there ..

#125 thats why it is called World Cyber Games , its like Olympic Games in Real Sports...
that is the reason why they put only one team from each country to the final tournament.... dont you get it?

#127 actually :D:D If a person X(sportsman/woman) gets a good result at some tournament, that is better than the qualification time/ammount of points/lenght/height/whatever for olympics/world champs, he has a chance to get a "ticket" the olympics/world champs to represent the country. Lets say .. Uncle Sam and yankies, how many 100m sprinters did they have in Osaka ? Yep yep .. shitloads, why ? because they are good ..
u got the point I hope

#125 3/4 of the events, there's no one from the countries you're thinking. (kazak,Australian,Peruvian... even Estonia)
There's 2 possibilities in a year to respresent their flags and their lvl. ESWC, and WCG, 2 big events where you need to be the best team of your country (at a moment for some countries, on average of the year for others)
Let them play 2 international events. LoL
In soccer european cup is more dificult than world cup, that's maybe the same. But at the end you have 4-8 best team.
(sry for my poor english)

this is to eazy for pgs and fnatic

#125 I'd also like more teams from the best countries, but that's not the point. There are other events for that. And saying that at the WCG the other countries have teams at the expense of NiP, EYE and so on is simply wrong: see the ESWC for example, where there are sometimes several teams per country. Yet less skilled countries still get to come. If the WCG wanted Sweden to have three slots they'd give it three slots but in order to do so they wouldn't have to prevent other countries from hosting qualifiers. The two aren't linked.

fu.sk gooooooooo ! :P waaaa.... ;D

Jika tekitab actionit.!.
1.sYnck 16-0 The Rest

1.PGS/FNATIC
2.PGS/FNATIC
3.USA

#134 USA? haha no chance!!!
Fnatic
PGS
Roccat/NoA/MYM

go jaan, rainer & co !!! u can do it :DS:A

will shaguar play for EG?

The seedings are pretty random...
Group A looks interesting. I think KPOBb or Virtus.Russia, which is the actual name of the team for WCG has a very good chance at upseting PGS. They had an excellent WCG qualifier in Russia and as groove said, they'll be practicing for WCG really hard. So they have a decent shot at taking down PGS. EG is a good, ol' team, but they'd have to pull out a miracle to advance to the next stage.
Group G's the obvious group of death. But fnatic and g3x have pretty good chances at advancing.
In Group H, i'd watch out for Denmark and Kazakhstan. They are capable of doing some pretty seriouus damange.

GO ELEMENT PRB NAIKON JUVE REAL

Groups are horrible

Group A&D best

gl fu and KPOBb

chk it out lol - NiP to feature in the Guinness World Records book
http://www.nip-gaming.com/index.aspx?newsid=3009&page=announcements
awesome lollero :D

On the 8th of September wil the Belgium team reveil himself by winning in the finals .

ffs :P !!!! G-UNITTTTTTTT :P omfg !!!!

GL sYnck show what Baltic can doooo!!!~~~

I just saw elvis again!

#88
well, we have some skill in playing against sYnck :x

Group G (Y)

GOGOGO RUSSIA MUST WIN GOGOGO LEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

lorenzo no, it was keravan toni

Group D: 1, Germany
2, fu.sk

fu.sk > wNv o_O :)

go serbia go!!!!!!!!