The 2009 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 09 or World Cyber Games 09) took place from November 11 to November 15, 2009, in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It had over 600 participates from 70 countries taking part.[1] The prize money is estimated at around $500,000.
Warcraft III, StarCraft, Counter Strike, FIFA 09, Carom3D, Red Stone and TrackMania Nations Forever on PC and Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360 Asphalt4 and Wise Star 2 on Mobile
The Competition Draws took place on October 19, October 20 and October 21. All competition draws took place on one of these three days.
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WarCraft III : The Frozen Throne | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
Counter-Strike 1.6 | AGAiN![]() | Jakub Gurczynski (kuben) | fnatic![]() | Patrik Sättermon (cArn) | Mortal Teamwork | Alexander Holdt (ave) |
Lukasz Wnek (LUq) | Patrik Lindberg (f0rest) | Christoffer Sunde (Sunde) | ||||
Wiktor Wojtas (Taz) | Rasmus Ståhl (Gux) | Danny Sørensen (zonic) | ||||
Mariusz Cybulski (Loord) | Harley Örwall (dsn) | Oliver Ari Minet (minet) | ||||
Filip Kubski (neo) | Christopher Alesund (GeT_RiGhT) | Martin Heldt (trace) | ||||
TrackMania Nations Forever | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
StarCraft: Brood War | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
FIFA 09 | Joshua Begehr (SK_Kr0ne) | Daniel Schellhase (SK_hero) | ![]() | |||
Red Stone | ComeonBaby![]() | Ki-Pyo Kang | HAPPY_SWEETS![]() | Hiroto Watanabe | Cool_Runnings![]() | Jon Lunceford |
Seung-Ryul Kim | Shouta Ueda | Matt Marcou | ||||
Sung-Min Song | Kuniaki Kitagawa | Sean Snack | ||||
Tae-Seok Kim | Tomohiro Takami | Colin Fogle | ||||
Carom3D | ![]() | ![]() | Andreas Krieger (Protonski) | |||
Virtua Fighter 5 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
Guitar Hero World Tour | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
Wise Star 2 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
Asphalt4 : Elite Racing | ![]() | Jared Beins (slyfoxlover) | ![]() | |||
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Dungeon and Fighter | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
Samsung Electronics (Worldwide Partner)
The official theme song of the World Cyber Games is called "Beyond the Game" and the title is also the name of the World Cyber Games Motto.
The World Cyber Games published the different events on their YouTube account and their site.