WCG 2001 - my short "progaming" career

GoPlayTetriz

26 Posts

January 26 2019 00:00 GMT

Here is a photo with me from World Cyber Games 2001 - the top 16 players in Poland. Now, eighteen years later I got old and creepy, but I wasn't always that creepy or was I? The photo is in low resolution, so you can't really tell

Eliminations for WCG 2001 in Poland took place in internet cafes in 50 cities with 50 players qualifying for Warsaw finals. You probably won't believe it, but we've competed against computers and player that scored highest qualified in given city. Only one player qualified in each city, so in big cities where there were several good players, they agreed with each other to which cities they would go for qualifications. Three best players from the Warsaw finals went to Seoul for world finals.

In these times I was able to win with the best, however on the day of WCG 2001 finals in Warsaw I performed poorly. I didn't get any sleep on the night before as I was traveling in the night and I've had stomach problems just before the games, so I couldn't really focus. After that event I haven't played much or seriously in StarCraft anymore, so that was all of my "progaming" experience. I've played with the best in Poland, so in the end I've had fun.

Update.

The first Word Cyber Games was held in 2000, but in Poland the first WCG was in 2001. There were 33 countries participating in the second WCG 2001, but what is surprising they called it "the 1st World Cyber Games" as seen on the poster below. I guess they realized that it wasn't "world" when there were only 16 countries invited to WCG 2000.

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The top 3 in Poland in 2001 were:
1. tOmsOn
2. Mario
3. GreatZyneck

Here is the Liquipedia page for WCG 2001:
(Wiki)

WCG 2001

TelecoM

United States10619 Posts

January 31 2019 12:38 GMT

Looks like Blackman with his arms crossed in the upper right hand corner...

Where is Draco? =P

GoPlayTetriz

26 Posts

January 31 2019 12:44 GMT

Yes, that's Blackman - middle row, second from the right. I've played zvz with him... and lost

BlackMan wasn't top 3 that year.. he was real good, but I guess he was unlucky as well. If I recall correctly he went to Korea the next year or so.

There was no Draco in WCG 2001 finals. I don't think he was playing sc at that time or maybe he was still a newbie then