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ESWC Masters to be held in Bercy
It was announced today that the ESWC Masters event in Paris will take place in the Bercy sports hall on July 4-6.
By Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz
Jan 18, 2008 20:10
It was announced today that the ESWC Masters event in Paris will take place in the Bercy sports hall on July 4-6.From 2008 onwards, the Electronic Sports World Cup season will not only consist of qualifiers and a grand final event. There will also be international Masters events with cash prizes, through which teams and players will be able to qualify for the ESWC grand final.
The first Masters tournament will take place in the same venue as the 2006 ESWC finals event, the Palais Omnisports of Paris Bercy. It will have application-based invitational tournaments for Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike 1.6 female, Defense of the Ancients, Quake 3, Trackmania Nations and Warcraft 3. Prize money and auto-berths for the ESWC grand final event in California await the best teams and players. The prizing, the size of the tournament and number of berths to be won is still unknown.
The choice of venue for the Masters event is interesting. The Games Services president Matthieu Dallon said in a GGL interview that Bercy proved to be "not the ideal setup." Changes will be made compared to what the 2006 ESWC looked like. Judging by the first images of the setup it seems like the event will be smaller and the public will be allowed to go through the hall's floor like in 2007.
The first Masters tournament will take place in the same venue as the 2006 ESWC finals event, the Palais Omnisports of Paris Bercy. It will have application-based invitational tournaments for Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike 1.6 female, Defense of the Ancients, Quake 3, Trackmania Nations and Warcraft 3. Prize money and auto-berths for the ESWC grand final event in California await the best teams and players. The prizing, the size of the tournament and number of berths to be won is still unknown.
The choice of venue for the Masters event is interesting. The Games Services president Matthieu Dallon said in a GGL interview that Bercy proved to be "not the ideal setup." Changes will be made compared to what the 2006 ESWC looked like. Judging by the first images of the setup it seems like the event will be smaller and the public will be allowed to go through the hall's floor like in 2007.
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This Master and the ESWC are going to be awesome! Can't wait to be in July!
All the Bercy audience will be gathered in one third of the stadium (6000 seats) to create a warmer atmosphere (and more noisy haha). I think they have learnt of their past errors as we can see with your GGL itw.
Yo !! EMULATE!
Cheerz + cya at Eswc grand final + masters
VIVE LA FRANCE !
ESWC is truely the Lead of eSport now imho...
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Nice place bercy it's great ;) see ya !
And since we love people from anywhere, the also organized an other tournament "ESWC Masters", they winners of ESWC France will take part of it (ESWC Masters is after ESWC France), the other players (from different countries) will be invited. The winners win a slot for the ESWC's grand final (in USA) and cash prize.