World Cyber Games 2009
# World Cyber Games 2009

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. The prize money is estimated at around $500,000.

## Official Games

Warcraft III, StarCraft, Counter Strike, FIFA 09, Carom3D, Red Stone and TrackMania Nations Forever on PC Guitar Hero: World Tour and Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360 Asphalt4 and Wise Star 2 on Mobile

## Competition Draw

The Competition Draws took place on October 19, October 20 and October 21. All competition draws took place on one of these three days.

* Oct. 19: Asphalt 4 > Wise Star 2 > Counter-Strike
* Oct. 20: Guitar Hero > Virtua Fighter 5 > FIFA 09
* Oct. 21: Carom 3D - > Trackmania Nations Forever - > StarCraft - > Warcraft III

## Results

### Official

| Event | | | | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| WarCraft III : The Frozen Throne | Wang Xuwen (Infi) | Wang Xuwen (Infi) | Lu Weiliang (Fly100%) | Lu Weiliang (Fly100%) | Park June (Lyn) | Park June (Lyn) |
| Counter-Strike 1.6 | AGAiN | Jakub Gurczynski (kuben) | fnatic | Patrik Sättermon (cArn) | Mortal Teamwork | Alexander Holdt (ave) |
| Counter-Strike 1.6 | AGAiN | Lukasz Wnek (LUq) | fnatic | Patrik Lindberg (f0rest) | Mortal Teamwork | Christoffer Sunde (Sunde) |
| Counter-Strike 1.6 | AGAiN | Wiktor Wojtas (Taz) | fnatic | Rasmus Ståhl (Gux) | Mortal Teamwork | Danny Sørensen (zonic) |
| Counter-Strike 1.6 | AGAiN | Mariusz Cybulski (Loord) | fnatic | Harley Örwall (dsn) | Mortal Teamwork | Oliver Ari Minet (minet) |
| Counter-Strike 1.6 | AGAiN | Filip Kubski (neo) | fnatic | Christopher Alesund (GeT_RiGhT) | Mortal Teamwork | Martin Heldt (trace) |
| TrackMania Nations Forever | Jesper Karjalainen (KarjeN) | Jesper Karjalainen (KarjeN) | Kalle Mortlund Videkull (FrostBeule) | Kalle Mortlund Videkull (FrostBeule) | Fredrik Bergmann (Bergie) | Fredrik Bergmann (Bergie) |
| StarCraft: Brood War | Jae-Dong Lee (Jaedong) | Jae-Dong Lee (Jaedong) | Byung-Gu Song (Stork) | Byung-Gu Song (Stork) | Taek-Yong Kim (Bisu) | Taek-Yong Kim (Bisu) |
| FIFA 09 | Joshua Begehr (SK_Kr0ne) | Joshua Begehr (SK_Kr0ne) | Daniel Schellhase (SK_hero) | Daniel Schellhase (SK_hero) | Piotr Zajkowski (Pio) | Piotr Zajkowski (Pio) |
| Red Stone | ComeonBaby | Ki-Pyo Kang | HAPPY_SWEETS | Hiroto Watanabe | Cool_Runnings | Jon Lunceford |
| Red Stone | ComeonBaby | Seung-Ryul Kim | HAPPY_SWEETS | Shouta Ueda | Cool_Runnings | Matt Marcou |
| Red Stone | ComeonBaby | Sung-Min Song | HAPPY_SWEETS | Kuniaki Kitagawa | Cool_Runnings | Sean Snack |
| Red Stone | ComeonBaby | Tae-Seok Kim | HAPPY_SWEETS | Tomohiro Takami | Cool_Runnings | Colin Fogle |
| Carom3D | Hee-Chul Kim (MARCJACOBS) | Hee-Chul Kim (MARCJACOBS) | Jean Monico (jeantek) | Jean Monico (jeantek) | Andreas Krieger (Protonski) | Andreas Krieger (Protonski) |
| Virtua Fighter 5 | Keita Ai (FOOD) | Keita Ai (FOOD) | Eui-Wook Shin (ShinZ_Km) | Eui-Wook Shin (ShinZ_Km) | Dae-Hwan Kim (Rikojjang) | Dae-Hwan Kim (Rikojjang) |
| Guitar Hero World Tour | Fabio Jardim (caiomenudo13) | Fabio Jardim (caiomenudo13) | Michael Najman (MoB_Shift) | Michael Najman (MoB_Shift) | Robert Michaels (vVv smokyprogg) | Robert Michaels (vVv smokyprogg) |
| Wise Star 2 | Enrico Aurora (a.Enrico) | Enrico Aurora (a.Enrico) | Christophe Limet (Blackbelt) | Christophe Limet (Blackbelt) | Trevor Housten (TorcH) | Trevor Housten (TorcH) |
| Asphalt4 : Elite Racing | Liu You-chen (TER_BURBERRYqq) | Liu You-chen (TER_BURBERRYqq) | Jared Beins (slyfoxlover) | Jared Beins (slyfoxlover) | Won-Joon Lee (KimBuJa) | Won-Joon Lee (KimBuJa) |

### Promotion

| Event | | | | | | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dungeon and Fighter | Jong-Min Jeong (UraniumHwangjaeM) | Jong-Min Jeong (UraniumHwangjaeM) | Shun Ishikawa (CLAY) | Shun Ishikawa (CLAY) | Je-Myung Lee (Marenobba) | Je-Myung Lee (Marenobba) |

## Sponsors

Samsung Electronics (Worldwide Partner)

## Official theme song

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.

## Videos

The World Cyber Games published the different events on their YouTube account and their site.

