Wolrd Cyber Games hosting LAN event in S.F
by Kit

Tuesday, June 22 2004

Up to 800 individuals to participate.

ICM Inc.(CEO : Jeong Heung Seop), the organizer of the world’s largest game event-World Cyber Games (Co-chairmen of the WCG committee: Chang Dong Lee, the Minister of Ministry of Culture & Tourism in Korea and Jong Yong Yun, Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.), has announced that it will hold a BYOC event for general gamers in the WCG 2004 Grand Final that will be held in San Francisco in the coming October.

The WCG 2004’s BYOC event will be held with 800 expected participants in the Civic Center Plaza, a grass square in front of the San Francisco City Hall around the clock throughout the five-day period from the 6th to 10th during which the WCG 2004 Grand Final is held. The WCG 2004 BYOC event will consist of Open Play in which participants will be able to play games of their choice and Special Tournament for several popular games. Also a wide range of events and prizes will be provided to BYOC participants. Applications are being received on a first-come-first-served basis at the official WCG site (http://www.worldcybergames.com).

“In addition to providing tournaments for about 700 national representatives from all over the world, exhibitions for game companies, and conferences for game developers, the WCG 2004 Grand Final, as a game-culture event, will offer special events for general gamers from the vicinity of San Francisco,” said Heung-Seop Jeong, CEO of ICM Inc. He also noted that the atmosphere at the WCG 2004 Grand Final will be filled with heat and passion as general gamers and 700 national players will gather together.

The BYOC stands for ‘Bring Your Own Computer’ and it’s a LAN party where gamers gather to play games, brining their own computers and equipment. The BYOC has taken root as a popular games event in the U.S. and Europe and when a BYOC event is held, hundreds of, or even thousands of gamers gather brining their own computers to play games non-stop throughout several days.

Being held overseas for the first time in its four-year history, the WCG 2004, the world’s largest computer- and video- game competition, will be held in San Francisco, the USA. It will be held for five days from Oct. 6 to Oct. 10 with about 700 gamers from 60 countries around the world who are qualified through national preliminaries and will be competing for the honor of their country. More than one million gamers are anticipated to participate in the online, offline WCG preliminaries which have been held in participating countries since April.

--- Kit