{"id":42,"date":"2005-11-20T21:06:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T13:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/11\/20\/world-cyber-games-2005-finals\/"},"modified":"2005-11-20T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T13:11:24","slug":"world-cyber-games-2005-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/11\/20\/world-cyber-games-2005-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cyber Games 2005 Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just reached home from the WCG Finals. Quite wasted. Anyway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USA won CS: Source and Halo 2<\/li>\n<li>China won WC3<\/li>\n<li>Korea won Starcraft: BW (surprise!)<\/li>\n<li>Japan won DOA: Ultimate (does that guy even own an Xbox!?)<\/li>\n<li>Some other countries I don&#8217;t care about won some other games I don&#8217;t care about<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>USA also won the overall championship for having the most wins.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore managed to get second for DOA: Ultimate&#8230; Wilson Chia received louder applauses from the audience than the champion.<\/p>\n<p>China also came close to third placing for Starcraft. It was quite an intense three-round match that was too close to call right till the last map. The Australian player using Protoss got pushed back to his main base by an early game Zerg rush and survived on a single Photon Cannon that finished building just in time. Then he slowly regained the upperhand and eventually won.<\/p>\n<p>The CS:Source Finals between USA and Kazakhstan was also quite close. USA needed 2 rounds to win the game while Kazakhstan needed 8 to force the game into overtime. Then Kazakhstan managed to win 5 rounds during which USA won only one. But alas, USA proved to be the better team.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, WCG 2005 was quite an enjoyable event. Although there is still much more room for expansion in terms of scale, but that&#8217;s up to Italy, the next WCG host.<\/p>\n<p>I will post today&#8217;s pictures later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just reached home from the WCG Finals. Quite wasted. Anyway: USA won CS: Source and Halo 2 China won WC3 Korea won Starcraft: BW (surprise!) Japan won DOA: Ultimate (does that guy even own an Xbox!?) Some other countries I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/11\/20\/world-cyber-games-2005-finals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[321,99,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}