Majulah e-Sukan untuk Negara!™

Finally, I’ve found the time and mood to write something on my little blog. I knew it has been a while since my last update, in fact, it’s been way past a fortnight looking back into my previous entry. I’ve been busy with my lovely girlfriend ^O^ recent weeks who had just left to further her study in Beijing, China. Thus, I wasn’t really in the right of mood to do anything these days, but life moves on and its time to continue putting some updates to the blog.

Past two days, I’ve been working for GameAxis at the World Cyber Games 2006 Malaysia Championship, held at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) on the 25th to 27th of August, 2006. Having involved in the past WCGs since 2001, from participant to tournament marshal and now working for the media sponsors, it’s indeed a great pleasure to again, get involved in the prime e-Sports event in the country.

A new venue, a new perspective and new winners, the WCG 2006 Malaysia Championship had concluded itself as a new chapter of e-Sports in Malaysia, which will uberly crucial to the future development of the local e-Sports scene.

Despite some unforeseen glitches and flaws in the organization of the event during the first day of the tournament, the event did run smoothly and deemed successful in its contribution to the local e-Sports community. While holding the event at KLCC doesn’t help in drawing more crowd as compared to the previous events held in MidValley Exhibition Centre (MVEC), the support from the local e-Sports community is nothing less than massive with a healthy number of local gamers participating in 6 respectives games namely Counter Strike 1.6, Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne, Starcraft: Brood War, FIFA 06, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and DOTA AllStars.

Aside from Warcraft 3, in which PaulYan was expectedly crowned champion without much difficulty, we’ve witnessed new faces winning the other 5 different game categories. This was a good sign as for the healthy development of our local e-Sports scene, new bloods are crucially wanted. More results and winners list of the whole event can be obtained here.

I’ll try my best to update the blog frequently but I won’t have much time until 11th September, which supposed to be the due date for my literature review submission of my master dissertation. While I’ll be again involved in an annual local gaming event, GameAxis’ CelGames and the kick-off week of the event will fall on 4th Sept. to 10th Sept., located at LowYat Plaza, Kuala Lumpur. Wish me luck and hope to see you again soon. And for my lovely girl who current wandering around in mainland China, “I miss you so much!“. ^O^