2008 IeSF Invitational in Korea. This November 2008, there will be eight players 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 Korea Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Kyounggido and is managed by the Korea Game Industry Agency and the Kyounggi Digital Contents Agency.
WarCraft 3 is together with Asia's popular FPS game Sudden Attack the two games featured on this event, held at the same time as the G-STAR festival. 8 players from the WarCraft scene have been invited to play. Among them we find the recent WCG silver medalist Moon from MeetYourMakers as well as Germany's top player HasuObs.
The invited nations are the ones with eSports federations, hence some of the top nations missing such as Sweden, Russia and China.
All the matches will be broadcasted live at GOMTV.net, starting November 13 at 11:00 KST (GMT+9).
Participants
Kevin "SchLeiM" Hofbauer (Austria)
Bert Luyten (Belgium)
Jang Jae "Moon" Ho (Korea)
Yi-Ting Liu (Chinese Taipei)
Andre "R3CoR" Jensen (Denmark)
Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider (Germany)
Lennart SushiLicious" Roest (Netherlands)
Andreas "WuLvEraTe" Brunner (Switzerland)
Full press release
2008 IeSF Invitational in Korea
Live Broadcasting will start on Nov. 13th. 11:00 KST(GMT+9)
This November 2008, there will be 9 national teams from all over Europe and Asia who will represent the World E-sports field here in South Korea.
With cooperation from the newly inaugurated International Federation of E-sports, the IeSF Invitational in Korea is supported by Korea Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Kyounggido and is managed by the Korea Game Industry Agency and the Kyounggi Digital Contents Agency.
This event will be the first worldwide E-sports Olympics for National teams from all around the world.
This event will feature the one 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 we 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 Hofbauer "SchLeiM" (Austria)
Bert Luyten (Belgium)
Jaeho Jang "Moon" (Korea)
Yi-Ting Liu (Chinese Taipei)
Andre Sten Jensen "R3CoR" (Denmark)
Dennis Schneider "HasuObs" (Germany)
Lennart Mouwering Roest "SushiLicious" (Netherlands)
Andreas David Brunner "WuLvEraTe" (Switzerland)
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.
[ Event Outline ]
What: IeSF Invitational
When: 2008. November 13(thu) ~ 16(sun)
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 Gyounggi Digital Contents Agency: and KeSPA
Sponsors: IeSF(International e-Sports Federation), Korea Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Gyounggido,
Participants: IeSF staffs, game players and audience. About 50,000 personnel.
Related events: G-STAR 2008
* Official events: All of the Warcraft 3 and Sudden Attack matches will be broadcasted live at www.GOMTV.NET
