- Electronic Sports World Cup
The Electronic Sports World Cup is an international professional gaming championship.Every year winners of national qualifier event around the world earn the right to represent their country in the ESWC Finals. The event has won a lot of praise for its organisation and ability to put on a good show for spectators.
The ESWC is hosted by a French company called [http://www.games-services.com/ Games Services] (previously called [http://www.ligarena.com Ligarena] ) who previously hosted smaller LAN events in France under the name of [http://www.lan-arena.com LAN Arena] . In 2003 they decided to do something on a larger scale and the ESWC was born.
The grand finals and masters of ESWC have had a total prize purse of 1,507,500 USD from 2003 till 2008 [ [http://www.esworldcup.com/2003/main.php?act=grandfinal_prizes Electronic Sports World Cup ] ] [ [http://www.esworldcup.com/2004/?act=finals&topic=competitions [ESWC Electronic Sports World Cup ] ] [ [http://www.esworldcup.com/2005/?act=competitions Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC 2005) Official Website ] ] [ [http://www.esworldcup.com/2006/?act=grand_final Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC 2006) Official Website ] ] [http://www.eswc.com/world/main.php?c=documents&s=display&ID_Document=177 Eswc.Com ] ] [ [http://www.mymym.com/en/news/13845.html MYM - Moon 'revival' in ESWC Masters - Beta ] ] [http://www.eswc.com/document/23.html] [http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1611222] .
Past ESWC Finals
2003
The 2003 ESWC saw around 150,000 players narrowed down to just 358 players from 37 different countries who would attend the finals at the
Futuroscope nearPoitiers in France. The total prize fund for the event was USD 156,000$.*SK Gaming representing Denmark
2006
The event took place at
Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy and the total payout this time was around 300,000euro s.Masters of Paris
Paris wasn't abandoned for the ESWC. In place of the ESWC, there was the Masters of Paris, during the Mondial du Gaming from
July 4 toJuly 6 and took place at thePalais omnisports de Paris-Bercy . The same disciplines took place during this Masters offered additional qualificative slots for ESWC Grand Final in San Jose. All winners won a slot to participate in the ESWC Grand Final and hotel accommodation for San Jose, free of charge.External links
* [http://www.eswc.com Electronic Sports World Cup]
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* [http://www.mondialdugaming.com Mondial du Gaming] (fr)Official Media Partners
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