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Next week WCG enters center stage as players from around the World will meet in San Francisco. This event isn�t just special because of the nature of country versus country play but also because this is the first time the WCG will take place outside of Korea. USA will host the event and with the rest of the World looking to break Korea�s back-to-back medal count title, winning every WCG so far. Step one will come tomorrow as WCG announces Groups.

In a break from the normal, WCG will announce its groups for all games September 29th, Tuesday 2pm-5pm PST. WCG has always done group selection on the first day of the five day event; this year is October 6th-10th. As of now the CS groups will consist of three teams of 16 groups� total. WCG has informed GotFrag that there are 50 teams from different countries currently signed up but this number should change as visa issues begin to take effect.

The importance�s of group selections is pretty obvious but even more so this year. Previous year�s groups had USA (3D), Canada (EG) and Czech (nEph) all in the same group. All three teams were seen as possible top 10 hopefuls. This year with only the top team from each group of three moving on to singe elimination group selection will be that much more important. Also all WCG games are randomly drawn to create an even playing field which means any three teams could possibly matched together.

Known list of teams attending WCG

USA	Team 3D		Canada	Evil Geniuses
New Zealand	parallax		France	GoodGame
Sweden	SK		Poland	Pentagram.CNN
Argentina	FA (Fing Aim)		Germany	aTTaX!
Australia	Twenty Three		United Kingdom	4K
Denmark	The Titans		Brazil	mibr
Mexico	Revival		Iran	Sinners Silent Saviors
Peru	Artyk		Malaysia	FMJ Invictus
Colombia	Team tGz		Guatemala	Team revolutions
Venezuela	XPLORA		Singapore	[GBR]Grudg3
Chile	CCDP Arena		Panama	BTX
China	Hunter S		Hong Kong	Terminator
India	ACID		Indonesia	Elf
Israel	NET		Japan	Four Dimension
Korea	MaveN		Mongolia	BMX clan
Philippines	PT&T-iNx		Thailand	Nearly God
UAE	WmW		Austria	Cum.at
Bulgaria	Club35		Czech Rep.	Necroraisers
Finland	Astralis		Georgia	Non-stop
Hungary	bluefish.XDK		Italy	Play.it
Kazakhstan	mF		Latvia	eclipse
Netherlands	eXcellence		Romania	TeG
Russia	M19		Serbia & Montenegro	Hunters
Slovakia	@		Spain	x6stence
Switzerland	JustPlay		Turkey	teamquash*AMD
Ukraine	GSC.GameWorld		Uzbekistan	Prodigy
South Africa	Damage Contral	�	�	�

User Comments

Actually for the Czech. Republic, Necroraisers will not be attending.

More info can be found in this news post on Schroet.com

http://www.sk-gaming.com/scenenews.php?id..

This comment was edited at 09/29/2004 2:23 AM

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top 5 in no order - 3d, sk, eg, titans, and 4k
close to top 5 - m19 and astralis

word word :o

hunter SSS all teh way!!! : S

Mongolia? Um... WOW.

GO TEAM ELF

uK^_^

Looking forward to the group of death. SK, 3D and like 4D all in one group would be very interesting.

I didn't even know some of those country's citizens could afford computers D:

It would be cool to see a team like m19 win or something. but uh... go USA n stuff yay

life

WOW only #1 team in group advances that is crazy....

What if 3d, sk, mibr,cnn, goodgame, attax, titans, 4K all in same group?

......thats why they make sure that the seedings are right ang put top seeds in groupstages in a group with low seeds! ......(duh)

2pac pwnz Jo0!

THEN I GUESS WHOEVER WINS THAT GROUP WILL WIN IT ALL #9!!!@!?!?@!?!?@! OH MAAHH GAAADZZZzz! CARESERV!!

your gay

The Netherlands are not sending eXcellence, eXcellence is the norweagian team that is going to wcg.

This comment was edited at 09/29/2004 3:33 AM

GO UZBEKISTAN!!!

Serbia & Monte[negr]o have this on lock down.

HEAVEN FORBID THERE IS N3GRO IN THE WORD

sweden will win cs and finsih top 2 in wc3! :]

im cheering for mongolia tbh, that's just omg :o

#9, theres only 3 teams in each group, but i can see what u're getting at, hopefully none of the really big teams get lumped together.

Im looking forward to seeing what some of the lesser known countries have to offer, should be a good watch. COME ON 4K! but i'd like to see CNN having a good showing too.

My best bet at a top 5, in no real order, is: SK, mibr, 4K, CNN, Titans. Hmmm, I dunno, its so hard to tell who'll do well.

Any1 know how good the Korean team is?

This comment was edited at 09/29/2004 5:02 AM

#17 well they beat sk in a showmatch in korea, sk was playing with bds instead of potti.

and in korea they only play cz, so i think they have a chance at top 8.

This comment was edited at 09/29/2004 5:06 AM

go parallax and mibr!^^

i want to see a underrated team win this!

This comment was edited at 09/29/2004 5:14 AM

^o^ dohTEM poweR! ^o^

netherlands = mysod lol :) not excellence or something

gl px! ;D

This comment was edited at 09/29/2004 5:44 AM

go go go India!!

|A|C|I|D| for WCG

yay!!

[B]InstantKarma[/B]

#20, yea, norway are sending excellence, not the netherlands.

lol austria's team is named cum. haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

lol, from gp #24

;p!

omg go 23! 23 has this in the bag!

Mr Author,

Where did you get the list of "known attendees" ?
I'm from team "NET" from Israel, but we are not attending WCG...
No Israeli CS team attends WCG, only UT2004, WC3 and FIFA.

If you could give me info kerr@012.net.il

i wish they wouldn't do it in cz... i want my hltv. :(

I am your master!

gogo px!

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go eG

Netherlands: mysod
Norway: eXcellence

I am sorry to say that the chinese team can not attend WCG because of visa problems

NET will not attend the WCG from the info I got ;/

#27 maybe you are just that you don't know about it.. lol :p

Seems no Czech team will be there too :*/

isnt 4K the BoA mix?

that Finland flag seems abit fuuked up
Astralis to win WCG

Joined Jan 1935, never quit

gogo 23 and px

also, last years group of death also had f-zer0, so yeah just thought id mention that.

#qldlan on gamesurge

For everyone wondering where they got the list from, you can go to, http://www.worldcybergames.com/groupdrawi..
Thisa WCG seems to have a lot of Groups and less teams playing. I think they should do it like ESWC did, naming high seeds so no good teams would have to be eliminated in the first round. If midway is right, and they put SK and 3D on the same group, that would be extremely stupid.

As of now the CS groups will consist of three teams of 16 groups’ total. WCG has informed GotFrag that there are 50 teams from different countries currently signed up but this number should change as visa issues begin to take effect.

i guess i was the only one to find that last part funny.

Where would we be without Gotfrag

eXcellence -> Norway

w0w i really didnt know half these countries have power at all
much less play cs

"In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God."

where is iran's cs team

forgot go italy even though the computers here are terrible

This comment was edited at 09/29/2004 10:55 AM

#Jetty Life

rofl. Does anyone know if Noa is entering?

#44 you're smart!

og lankan

"USA will host the event and with the rest of the World looking to break Korea�s back-to-back medal count title, winning every WCG so far."

Germany won the overall title in 2003, followed by Chinese Taipei I think.

#46 true.
Korea finished 3rd. The Korean exhibition game (i don't remember the name) result were not included in the official medal count. Korea loosing 2 or 3 medals.

the UK Team isn't 4K, it's 'Team UK'

lol, Revival is horrible but there arent to many teams in mexico D:
a team that cant get main playoffs is representing their country

I hope they don't put all of the good teams in one or two groups like last time.

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