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2008 IeSF Invitational in Korea
Live Broadcasting will start on Nov. 13th. 11:00 KST(GMT+9)
This November 2008, there will be 9 national teams from all over
Europe and Asia who will represent the World E-sports field here in
South Korea.
With cooperation from the newly inaugurated International Federation
of E-sports, the IeSF Invitational in Korea is supported by International e-Sports Federation (IeSF), Korea Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Gyeonggido and is managed by Korea Game Industry Agency (KOGIA) and the Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency (GDCA).
This event will be the first worldwide E-sports Olympics for National
teams from all around the world.
This event will feature the one of the world's most famous games:
"Warcraft3" and one of Asia's most popular FPS games: "Sudden Attack."
They have been authorized as the official games of this event and we
will be featuring E-sports players from 9 different countries to build
an air of excitement in the match ups!
For the Warcaft 3 matches we have:
Kevin Hofbauer "SchLeiM" (Austria)
Bert Luyten (Belgium)
Jaeho Jang "Moon" (Korea)
Yi-Ting Liu (Chinese Taipei)
Andre Sten Jensen "R3CoR" (Denmark)
Jun Park "SK.Lyn" (Korea)
Lennart Mouwering Roest "SushiLicious" (Netherlands)
Andreas David Brunner "WuLvEraTe" (Switzerland)
You will be able to see the present status and the future of E-sports
as a global sport and gaming culture through the 2008 IeSF
Invitational in Korea presented concurrently with the biggest game
festival of Korea, G-STAR 2008.
[ Event Outline ]
What: IeSF Invitational
When: 2008. November 13(thu) ~ 16(sun)
Live broadcast time : Nov. 13. 11:00 KST(GMT+9) / Nov. 14. 10:00 KST(GMT+9)
Where: Kintex E-sports special stage (in Goyang-si)
Management: Korea Game Industry Agency (KOGIA) and Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency (GDCA).and KeSPA
Sponsors: IeSF(International e-Sports Federation), Korea Ministry of
Culture and Tourism and Gyeonggido,
Participants: IeSF staffs, game players and audience. About 50,000 personnel.
Related events: G-STAR 2008
* Official events: All of the Warcraft 3 and Sudden Attack matches
will be broadcasted live at www.GOMTV.NET
Live English broadcasts will be done by Yoan "ToD" Merlo (France)
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Honestly I'm intrigued by Sudden Attack. I want to actually see if english commentary can make an FPS worth watching.
I'll probably skip the warcraft 3 stuff but sudden attack could be cool.
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Melbourne5338 Posts
How were those players chosen for WC3?
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51476 Posts
those players for wc3 are complete trash
except for moon
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they are the players who represent the countries in the federation
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United States13896 Posts
grubby is from the netherlands right? it's a shame he didn't get invited instead of this sushilicious character. i can't imagine that he would turn down the invite.
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MrHoon
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On November 12 2008 15:35 genwar wrote:
Honestly I'm intrigued by Sudden Attack. I want to actually see if english commentary can make an FPS worth watching.
I'll probably skip the warcraft 3 stuff but sudden attack could be cool.
Imagine watching Counterstrike 1.6 sped up by 50% and where moving and shooting is a better idea than crouching/shooting.
thats Sudden Attack.
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oh, wow, Moon is miles ahead of those guys, I don't think one of them is the best in their country, too bad
edit - actually, now that I think about it, this really bothers me, surely there was some reason these players were chosen, was there a poorly publicized qualifier? Were the top 5 in each of those countries all on vacation and couldn't go? I mean, they even got ToD to commentate, what's that going to be like? "oh, Moon rolls over another noob in a seven minute game, this is super exciting!"
Some of the players I kind of recognize, obviously HasuObs is pretty good, WuLVeRaTe was ok a couple of years ago, Sushi is probably like top 5 in the Netherlands, I actually think I know the Austrian guy from Starcraft so, maybe he plays both or something...
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On November 12 2008 16:40 []p4NDemik[] wrote:
grubby is from the netherlands right? it's a shame he didn't get invited instead of this sushilicious character. i can't imagine that he would turn down the invite.
they have better players than that random kid
rotterdam is another clear name
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Melbourne5338 Posts
Myth from wcreplays.com
From what Rotterdam said yesterday, basically they picked some national tournaments (for example in the Netherlands there's the NK Gaming) where you can win like a mousepad or something, fun for the amateurs but the pro's won't attend it, but they still carry the title of 'best of nation' tournaments. These were played months ago and now they reveal that they used the results of these as basis for who to pick from each nation. Pretty big joke tbh and i don't see how they can build any credibility for their tournament on this.
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
I don't recognize any of the players selected hmmm....
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it will be a hard task make these games enjoyable to watch
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Except for Moon of course.
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hasu is being replaced by Lyn
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i only recognize lyn and moon.
wheres the sc?
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United States13896 Posts
hmmm well now there will at least be some competition between lyn and moon. too bad it's just going to be koreans beating the crap out of the rest of the players for the first few rounds though.
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On November 12 2008 16:40 []p4NDemik[] wrote:
grubby is from the netherlands right? it's a shame he didn't get invited instead of this sushilicious character. i can't imagine that he would turn down the invite.
No Grubby? That's lame. Grubby defeated Moon in the WCG'08 grand final.
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hmmm well now there will at least be some competition between lyn and moon. too bad it's just going to be koreans beating the crap out of the rest of the players for the first few rounds though.
kinda like wcg sc!
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51476 Posts
no this is more like moon and lyn vs d- players
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On November 13 2008 04:32 GTR-2-Go wrote:
no this is more like moon and lyn vs d- players
haha they are players from the federation! I'm sure people just either couldn't make it or something. support GOM, GTR!
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Who's casting these events?
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This event will be the first worldwide E-sports Olympics for National
teams from all around the world.
What does this imply about WCG?
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On November 12 2008 23:44 Ki_Do wrote:
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it will be a hard task make these games enjoyable to watch
don't hate on every other game besides starcraft
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So far Sudden Attack is boring but I don't know how to watch any FPS game. I think TF2 maybe could be fun to watch but no one plays that on TV that I know of.
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lol...
the commentator is talking to himself again...
and eating something strange....
*hmph* guess no one can be tastless 
is there an official IRC or somthing?
*edit: i think its http://www.gomtv.net/iesf2008/live/
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ToD is gonna be casting in 10 minutes if you guys wanna take a gander. ^^
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It is on with ToD casting.
These foreigners are awful.
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Someone should TELL the organizers that they really screwed up this tournament with their ridiculous invites.
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51476 Posts
even the commentator is better than all of these players combined
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On November 13 2008 17:40 GTR-2-Go wrote:
even the commentator is better than all of these players combined
...well the commentator IS a warcraft 3 player, after all
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this is equivalent to something like stork vs a d- player =/
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is awesome32274 Posts
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is awesome32274 Posts
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yeah, seriously, throw ToD in there, at least he has a chance
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ToD is the greatest caster I've ever heard. I love his accent.
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At least they replaced HasuObs with Lyn otherwise this would've been a Moon vs Random newbs exhibition.
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On November 13 2008 17:55 IntoTheWow wrote:
Titty sambo!
i swear i saw
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On November 12 2008 16:04 GTR-2-Go wrote:
those players for wc3 are complete trash
except for moon
SK.Lyn .
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It is a so poor tournament. I think Lyn is going to win 2:1(or 3:2) vs Moon in the grand final.
Except HausObs I never saw one of these foreign players.
In NE there are so much better players than SushiLicious; Grubby, Rotterdam.
In Austria there a better players too; Firestrike
Even in Denmark..
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