The World Cyber Games will be holding their Live Group Drawings for their 2006 Grand Finals on September 20th at 1:00am EST (11:00am KST). Details regarding the draw order and other information can be found on the press release below.

World Cyber Games | Press Release

WCG 2006 Grand Final group drawing will be held as follows. We invite all country representatives and WCG friends to take part in this event through our website.

Date: Sep 20, 2006 11:00 AM (KST GMT+9)
(What time is it where I live? Visit http://tinyurl.com/hxozg)

Location: OnGameNet Broadcasting Studios, Seoul, South Korea
Events
- Official Game Events: Half-Life: Counter-Strike/StarCraft:BroodWar/WarCraft3:The Frozen Throne/FIFA Soccer 06/Need For Speed: Most Wanted/ Dawn of War: Winter Assault/ Dead or Alive 4/ Project Gotham Racing 3

Management: WCG Committee


Everyone can watch the results of the group drawing in real-time at the WCG official website. (www.worldcybergames.com)

* A separate announcement will be made on or around Sep 18 regarding details
of the group drawing for each event.

General Regulation

- The rankings of players within each country are reflected as much as possible to avoid two players from the same country are not in the same group.
(Except in unavoidable circumstances)
- Group drawing order (events): CS/SC/W3/FIFA/NFS/W40K/DOA/PGR/PangYa

- The group drawing will start from the first place country from last year for each title: Ex) Japan for DOA
- In case of new titles not represented last year, the group drawing will start from the first country in alphabetical order.
- If there are multiple players from a single country, the order will be 1st place, 2nd place, then 3rd place.
- If two players from the same country are drawn into the same group, the drawing will be re-done. (Except when re-drawing is not possible, such as the last country/player to be drawn.)
- No person or organization may raise an objection regarding the results of the group drawing.

Regulation in case of absent players

- The absentee will be recorded as forfeiting the every match of the tournament
- Group full league will continue as is without changing groups or re-drawing
- If all players in a group qualify due to absentees, only the seeding match will be held
- For events where points or records are important, any match with the absentee will be recorded as a win, but the point or record will be 0 for that match.

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Source: World Cyber Games