The 2008 ESWC Grand Finals at NVISION 08 has completed and once again champions have been crowned in the prestigious event. The event had traditionally been held in France but moved this year to the NVIDIA sponsored trade show in San Jose, California. The event encompassed three days of sponsor exhibits, keynote speakers, technical conferences, a live concert, GeForce LAN, a Guinness record breaking non-stop LAN party, the 2008 ESWC Finals and more.

The ESWC event came to a conclusion with several good finals and an awards ceremony crowning the champions. GotFrag was at the event and an overview of the coverage can be found below.

Men's Counter-Strike 1.6

One of the most explosive Counter-Strike tournaments of the year had more than its share of surprises. Nearing the end of the final day of competition, last year's defending victor took on an aggressive Asian team looking to become the first ever champions from the East.

Final Standings

1st. Poland

Meet Your Makers - $40,000
2nd. South Korea

e-STRO - $25,000
3rd. Sweden

Fnatic - $14,000

ESWC 2008 CS 1.6 Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Meet Your Makers	1	-	1	2
WeMade FOX	-	1	-	1
Demos: de_dust2 \| de_train \| de_tuscan
de_dust2: eSTRO [14:16] MYM de_nuke: eSTRO [16:13] MYM de_tuscan: eSTRO [13:16] MYM
e-STRO: ari, bail, hee, solo, term MYM: kuben, Loord, LUq, Neo, TaZ

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 2 Bracket Stage
Day 1 Group Stage

Women's Counter-Strike 1.6

SK's lady division was out to perform on home territory against a barrage of teams from across the globe. Taking on the ESWC original host France's squad, the grand finals had more than just an extra five thousand dollars riding on it.

Final Standings

1st. United States

SK.Ladies - $13,000
2nd. France

emuLate - $8,000
3rd. China

E-honoR - $5,000

ESWC 2008 Women's CS Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
SK Ladies	1	1	-	2
emuLate Ladies	-	-	-	-
de_inferno: emL [08:16] SK de_train: emL [12:16] SK emL: Biki, Diamond, Missharvey, Mitsu, Ritta SK: ali, jane, jso, LiDy, Potter

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage

WarCraft III

Every top player in the world was in attendance for what was easily the most exciting event of 2008. Many of the favorites were knocked out during the group stages, but in the end it was an all Asian final as the up and coming Korean Orc player Du Seop "WhO" Chang solidified his name in the WarCraft 3 scene by defeating the celebrated Chinese champion Xiaofeng "Sky" Li.

Final Standings

1st. South Korea

mTwAMD.Who - $12,000
2nd. China

WE.Sky - $7,000
3rd. China

Ted - $4,000

ESWC 2008 Warcraft III Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Du Seop "mTw.whO" Chang	1	1	-	2
Xiaofeng "WE.Sky" Li	-	-	-	-
Maps: Echo Isles, Secret Valley

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage

Quake 3

Final Standings

1st. Belarus

Cypher - $12,000
2nd. Germany

k1llsen - $7,000
3rd. United States

Rapha - $4,000

ESWC 2008 Quake 3 Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Alexey "Cypher" Yanusheuski	1	1	-	2
Marcel "k1llsen" Paul	-	-	-	-
ztn3tourney1: k1llsen [7:19] Cypher pro-q3dm6: k1llsen [11:12] Cypher

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage

Defense of the Ancients

Final Standings

1st. Poland

Zenith - $13,000
2nd. Malaysia

Kingsurf - $8,000
3rd. Denmark

Meet Your Makers - $5,000

Click Here for Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4 Results.

User Comments

Great tournament!

Need a fix on the wc3, shows Moon ;p

Southeast Asia is really pushing DotA into competitive gaming. Bigger prize pot for DotA than CoD4 and TF2.

And Quake.

GotFrag TF2 Head

NICE SHREWS

GET HIGH RULE THE WORLD

Thanks #2

Coverage Director - GotFrag.com

good tournament.

*DEAD* m Y m Neo : laugh now cry later cogut :D

The bigger prize pot in DotA is due to the fact that DotA is a ESWC game TF2 and CoD4 are nVision events.

DotA even had on-stage finals.

Good event. Nice tournout in all games and very thrilling matches. ESWC knows how to run a event.

If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue you!

Very good event, one of the best

If ya flippin' coke or flippin' burgers, get that paper and provide the best service

TRACKMANIA RESULTS PLEASE

www.valianes.com - www.teamexcello.com

ZENITH-WRONG FL@G

w a f f l e s.

MYM are not champions.

zenith from sg?

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bel..

gotta love that "We aren't sponsored" team name :-D ( who won!)

Life is what you make of it. Dreams are what you live for.

luv it EG.dota got beaten by pakistani dota team :D

major accomplishment

The reason i use GF is to achieve 4 nerd stars and look E-cool.

I don't agree with having Tuscan as a finals map. Wd MYM though.

http://www.gamerthon.com - http://www.anexias.net/ - http://www.anythinginteractive.com

TaZ NiCE iN nuke ;DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD;)))

TEAM ZENITH WRONG FLAG DOOOD.

#11 They just recently lost their sponsor, they WERE Nexus Gaming. They're a solid team and it was a pretty good tournament otherwise. ESWC was a blast to watch.

This comment was edited at 08/29/2008 11:42 PM

#LostProphets #QuakeLive

FU-MYM , THERE 'RE JUST CHEAT DURING THE MATCH VERSUS EMULATE!

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=H5mt6Cr00ug

gz ;D

straightouttaBhutan

wow nice :D

#20 homosexuals originated from your country, id be ashamed if i were u

nice eswc

BANKAI!

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Defense of the Ancients

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