Something terrible is happening in Spain. Since 2001 the most important e-Sports competition, World Cyber Games (WCG), has been held in Spain year after year. 2008, however, seems to be a difficult year for Spanish gamers and the first sign was that last WCG SP rejected to help developing the WCG Spain competition. As a result this year Spain will have no representation at the Samsung European Championship (SEC); an event where Team Spain has won medals each year.

• Which medals Spain got at past SEC events?

This year was the first where the official SEC shoot'em up game was Counter-Strike:Source. A terrible option in my opinion since CSS was "dead" and no pro teams were playing that game. x6tence.AMD was really strong that year and with less than a month they were able to defeat all the teams attending in Hannover and won the gold medal. But that was not all! Our very own Spanish player Masi won the silver medal, unable to beat SK|styla. And finally R0rUm, the player who joined ToT, showing the world his skills at WCG 05, got a silver medal too.

2007: FIFA 07

2007 was not a year like 2006, but at least Spain was able to get one medal, a Silver. That was the beginning of a star, Delfin-1, who came close to getting the gold medal against dignitas`Walkman but in the end it wasn't possible.

 Spain has shown in Europe that it’s an E-sports country to be reconned with, but since TV and the mass media won’t stop telling the Spanish citizens that it's just about "guys who spend lots of hours playing videogames and have no social life" we’re having really serious problems. Anyway, our situation needs to improve, and with no support that's quite impossible.

- Why Spain?

- What must we do to change the general Spanish public’s point of view?

- What must the spanish community do to gain support from big companies to make it possible for big events to be held?

Pray for us!