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Rapture to switch to DotA 6.43b by open of WCG 2007

[b]Rapture Gaming plans to switch all its DotA Allstars tournaments over to version 6.43b by the open of the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2007 Samsung Campus Festival.[/b] Rapture Gaming Event Executive Andy Tan revealed that version 6.43b was undergoing internal testing. When the map and rule set have been deemed stable and the game play smooth, the switchover will take place. Currently, Rapture Gaming competitions, such as the Intel Gaming Cup 2007, are on version 6.41. Version 6.43 contains several game play changes, the biggest of which is the change of Aegis of the Immortal from a … Read more »

IGC 2007 Open Category day one results

[b]Teams Zenith, xqR, TFO (Nightmare), EnGulf, Rex and Wudi have qualified for the Intel Gaming Cup (IGC) 2007 Grand Finals.[/b] [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/igc.png[/img] The matches for day one of the IGC Open Category were mostly well known teams against relative unknowns, with most of the results being clear cut. Tomorrow's opening matches promise to make it an exciting day for both participants and spectators. In the first round, Gamers Inc`Alpha will be up against a reformed Em Ai Two (Mi2), while their brother team Gamers Inc finds themselves up against rEv0. The … Read more »

Caught between a rock and a hard place

The debate over whether to hold the 2007 Games Xtreme League (GXL) Season 01 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne league in a traditional solo format or a clan based format has revealed the sometimes antagonistic relationship between the community, organizers and sponsors. Read more »

ESWC head provides insight into esports business

[b]Matthieu Dallon, the mastermind behind the [url=http://www.eswc.com/]Electronic Sports World Cup[/url] (ESWC) gave some rare and frank insight into the business end of e-sports in an interview conducted by Michal Blicharz of the [url=http://www.ggl.com/]Global Gaming League[/url] (GGL).[/b] Dallon is the president of Games Services, the company which organizes the ESWC. He cited the glut of e-sports competitions, legal pressure from game owners, and an overdependence on sponsorship as a source of revenue as the three biggest challenges faced by e-sports organizations today. Dallon … Read more »

Precious memories: Interviews from 2005

We've taken advantage of this small lull in Singapore video gaming news to begin work on restoring some of the [url=http://www.gamesync.net/features/interviews]interviews[/url] GameSync conducted in 2005, our first year of operations. Browsing through the interviews we conducted then, it quickly became obvious that the local gaming scene has come a long way since the heady days of 2005. Read more »

WCG 2007 Asian Championship official games announced

[b]The World Cyber Games (WCG) 2007 Asian Championship will feature 12 countries competing in five official games.[/b] [center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/wcg.png[/img][/center] The WCG 2007 Asian Championship [url=http://asian.worldcybergames.com/]website[/url] has been updated with a "coming soon" splash page revealing that the Asian Championship will be held on the 2nd to 5th of August 2007. Twelve countries and five games will be involved in this year's tournament. The five official games for the WCG 2007 Asian Championship are:[list] [*]Age of Empires III [*]Dead or … Read more »

IGC Open Category postponed

[b]This weekend's Intel Gaming Cup open category tournament has been cancelled. All matches will be played on the following weekend instead.[/b] [center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/igc.png[/img][/center] This Saturday and Sunday's (7 and 8 April respectively) Intel Gaming Cup open category tournament has been postponed. The competition was originally slated to be held on the 7th and 8th of April and the 14th and 15th of April 2007. Instead, all matches will be played on the 14th and 15th of April instead. According to the E-Sports Championship … Read more »

Mixed results for Singapore teams in ACSL week 4

[b]The close of week four of the Asian Counter-Strike: Source League (The ACSL) left Singapore teams with mixed results across all divisions.[/b] [center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/acsl.png[/img][/center] Division 1 Singapore team [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/flags/flag_sg.gif[/img] X3G met fierce resistance from opponent [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/flags/flag_kr.gif[/img] Gster but managed to pull off a 16-11 win. Team [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/flags/flag_sg.gif[/img] Synergy, however, lost to [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/flags/flag_kr.gif[/img] … Read more »