Samsung European Championship is the European version of World Cyber Games. The tournament is held every year in the Spring, marking the start of a new WCG-year. The SEC-event will usually utilize the same games as the past WCG-event, though it is not a certain thing.

2008 competitions

• CounterStrike 1.6
• WarCraft 3 TFT
• Dead or Alive 4
• Need for Speed Pro Street
• Command and Conquer 3
• Project Gotham Racing 4
• FIFA 2008

The event will be hosted at the CeBIT Convention in Hannover and will last from the 6th to the 9th. The official tournament computer will be state of the art, though many gamers might have mixed feeling about Vista being used as OS.

Tournament computer

• Athlon Phenom 9600
• 2GB Ram
• ATI Radeon 3850 
• 500GB HDD
• Windows Vista

The total amount of money distributed throughout the games will be a massive €52,000. The brotherly part of the money will be put into CounterStrike 1.6, as is is the only team game.

Prize distribution

CounterStrike 1.6

1. €12,500
2. €7,500
3. €5,000

Other games

1. €2,500
2. €1,500
3. €1,000