(Europe) - The WCG 2006 Samsung Euro Championship has announced games for the event which is the official kick off of the WCG season. The WCG 2006 SEC begins Thursday, March 9th, 2006. The opening ceremony is taking place at Cebit in Hanover, Germany and continues over the course of four days. 250 players from 25 countries will be competing for $100,000 in seven different games. The games announced for the SEC are listed as follows.

Counter-Strike: Source 5v5
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
FIFA 2006
WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne
Dawn of War: Winter Assault

In addition to the PC based games, the SEC will also include two X-Box 360 console tournaments as listed below.

Dead or Alive 4
Project Gotham Racing 3


About the WCG
The World Cyber Games are the Olympic Games of PC and Console Gamer. But it’s a lot more than that. The WCG gather players from all over the world for a friendly and fair competition. The slogan “Beyond the game” stands for the hope of a peaceful together from all different nations.
In the year 2005 there have been overall 70 Nations who sent their National Teams to Singapore where 700 players competed for nearly 500.000 US Dollar prize money.
Worldwide main sponsor is Samsung Electronics.

Source : http://ec.wcg-europe.com/news11.htm