This November 2008, there will be 9 national teams from all over Europe and Asia who will represent the World E-sports field in South Korea.
With cooperation from the newly inaugurated International Federation of E-sports, the IeSF Invitational in Korea is supported by the 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 players 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 IeSD 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 "SchLeiM" Hofbauer
Bert "Renaissance" Luyten
Jaeho "Moon"Jang
Yi-Ting "Freedom" Liu
Andre "R3CoR" Sten Jensen
June 'SK.Lyn' Park
Lennart "SushiLicious" Mouwering Roest
Andreas "WuLvEraTe" David Brunner
In the official press release it says: "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."
GOM TV just published the VODs of the games:
Watch them right here!
| Quarter-Finals | Semi Finals | Grand Finals | Champion | |||
Lyn | 2 | |||||
Lyn | 2 | |||||
Renaissance | 0 | |||||
Lyn | 2 | |||||
Sushilicious | 0 | |||||
Wulverate | 0 | |||||
Wulverate | 2 | ![]() | ||||
Lyn | ||||||
Freedom | 2 | |||||
Freedom | 0 | |||||
R3CoR | 0 | |||||
Moon | 1 | |||||
Moon | 2 | |||||
Moon | 2 | |||||
SchLeiM | 0 | |||||
All the matches are broadcasted via GOMTV -
Yoan "ToD" Merlo will commentate the matches in English.
Prizemoney:
#1 - 8,000$
#2 - 4,000$
Additionally every participant receives 1,000$
Important information:
What: IeSF Invitational
When: 2008. November 13th till 16th
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: industry agency and Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency and KeSPA
Sponsors: IeSF (International e-Sports Federation), Korea Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Gyeonggido,
Related events: G-STAR 2008
All of the Warcraft 3 and Sudden Attack matches will be broadcasted live at www.GOMTV.NET
U P D A T E:
The English broadcast will be done by none other than
Yoan "ToD" Merlo and Hasuobs will be replaced by
June 'SK.Lyn' Park!
MYM]Moon during his first match and the mainstage:


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To begin with it wasn't clear which games were to be played, so many countries picked pla
We would very much like to get in contact with WC3 pla | |
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