Vote for the Continental e-Sports All Stars!

- The 1st e-Sports Continental Cup (Team East vs. Team West)
- Vote for the Continental Representatives from March 21 ~ April 20
- Meet World Top Gamers in Seoul

[March 21, Seoul] The best digital culture festival, ‘e-stars Seoul 2008’ co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and JoongAng Ilbo with the global e-sports fans run a poll on the Continental Cup players from March 21 to April 20.

There are two continental representatives, team East and team West. Each team has a manager making strategies and the global top e-sports stars will show off all-star matches. It is more meaningful that world fans vote for their favorite players and teams.

The Continental Cup, taking place from July 24 to 27 at SETEC, Seoul, has two official games, Half Life: Counter-Strike and WarcraftIII: The Frozen Throne. The participating teams and players will be decided by three different factors: 50% from on-line poll result, 20% from achievements in 2007, 30% from the evaluation of the Continental Cup Committee, who will oversees the rules, play format and supervises all process to make a world standard.

The Continental Cup Poll will be available at its official homepage, www.estarsseoul.org and its online media partners including naver.com, sina.tom, tom.com, replays.net, gotfrag.com, esl.eu, readmore.de, fragbite.com, proplay.ru, gg-game.com. One IP can vote only one time, and those clickers from the West can not vote for the Eastern players to have a fair result. After the e-stars Seoul office announces about the Continental Cup, a certain e-sports had many replies predicting who will play at the Continental Cup.

One of the Committee members, Jae-Sik Yoo, CEO of JoongAng Entertainment and Sports mentioned “through the Continental Cup poll, global e-sports fans will select world top pro-gamers and witness the establishment of representative e-sports team from each continent” and showed his confidence that the e-stars Seoul Continental Cup will be the world best e-sports event.

You can find more information at www.estarsseoul.org.

e-stars Seoul Continental Cup

Title e-stars Seoul Continental Cup
Schedule 24 July 2008 (Thur.) ~ 27 July 2008 (Sun.)
Venue SETEC, Seoul, Korea
Official Games Half-Life® : Counter-Strike™ &WarCraft® III : The Frozen Throne™
Players 6 CS teams, 6 WC3 players – 36 Players and 2 Managers
Prize US$ 75,000
Committee 8 World e-Sports, Entertainment and Media Leaders
Play Format Team East vs. Team West
Team Battle Death Match and ThreeSome
* Death Match: If one team or player wins, they or continues to play against another team or player
** ThreeSome: Each team’s manager decides the play order and the team or player plays one match. Meaning, 3 teams play against 3 teams, 3 players plays against 3 players in their own order directed by their manager.

The Committee Members for the e-stars Continental Cup (Name in Alphabet Order)

1. David Garpenstahl, Chairman of the Board of Dreamhack, Sweden
2. Gregory Ho, General Manager of ANIMAX Asia, Singapore
3. Jae-Sik Yoo, CEO of JoongAng Entertainment and Sports, Korea
4. Jens Hilgers, CEO of Turtle Entertainment GmbH, Germany
5. Jun-Mo Gwon, CEO of NEXON, Korea
6. Patrick Wang, Senior Advisor of ProGamer League, Republic of China
7. Thomas Kuhlenbach, Revolutionary-at-Arms of KODE5, Germany
8. Trevor Schmidt, Vice President in Operations & Marketing of Gotfrag.com, USA

	Team East	Team West
Counter-Strike 1.6	e-STRO Lunatic-hai.Razer wNv.cn Dragon Team XcN Galacticos Team XQR UMX	fnatic mYm (former PGS) mTw (former NoA) SK Gaming emuLate mousesports Team ALTERNATE Roccat
Warcraft III	Jae Ho "Moon" Jang Sung Sik "ReMinD“ Kim Xiaofeng "Sky" Li Jae Wook "Lucifer“ Noh LiWei “xiaOt” Sun June "Lyn" Park Sung Duk "SoJu" Lee Weiliang "Fly100%" Lu	Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn Kim "SaSe" Hammar Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider Mikhail "XyLigan" Ryabkov Dmitriy "Happy" Kostin Daniel “Xlord” Spenst Lars Gerrit “Protois” Reichelt