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The World Series of Video Games (WSVG) was an international professional electronic sports competition. It held its first season in 2006, with competitions in six different games and six events held around the world including the finals of the event. The total prize purse of the season was US$750,000 which includes the $240,000 prize purse that was winnable at the finals. The WSVG was operated by Games Media Properties, an American gaming company founded in 2002 with the BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) Lan section subcontracted out to Lanwar Inc. The series was the continuation of the one million dollar 2005 CPL World Tour, as one of the founders of the WSVG as well as Intel, the major sponsor of the tour left the Cyberathlete Professional League to help fund these series.〔"After the collapse of the 2006 CPL World Tour, the WSVG was announced and took over basically every prior scheduled World Tour stop. They strived to not repeat any mistakes the CPL had made in prior years, and also have a better plan to bring gaming to television." l- ()〕 ==2006 Season== The 2006 Season was the WSVG's first season. International competitions were held for the PC games ''Counter-Strike'', ''Quake 4'', and ''Warcraft III''. Xbox tournaments were also held for ''Project Gotham Racing 3'', ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter'', and ''Halo 2'', but these were open to American participants only. Participants included Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, four-time CPL world champion and runner-up of the WSVG Quake 4 competition, Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho (veteran professional gamer, one time Electronic Sports World Cup champion and third place of the WarCraft III competition), Li 'Sky' Xiaofeng (twice World Cyber Games champion, considered strongest ''WarCraft III'' player of 2006 in a worldwide poll of gaming journalists〔(GGL - Sky, Lucifer, Toxic, av3k, archi, f0rest Players of 2006 )〕) and Team 3D (twice World Cyber Games champion team and runner-up of the WSVG Counter-Strike competition), as well as eventual champions Johan 'Toxic' Quick and eSport Player of 2006〔(eSport Awards 2006 Results )〕 Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen. The six events took place at the following times and places during the first season: * June 15–18: Louisville, Kentucky, United States — Kentucky Exposition Center 〔(SK Gaming | Lanwar 2006, Team 3D Wins! )〕〔(SK Gaming | u5.NilknarfLP wins Lanwar 2006 )〕 * June 17–19: Jönköping, Sweden — Elmia Exhibition Center〔(SK Gaming | DreamHack, NiP wins )〕〔(SK Gaming | DreamHack, SK.Deadman wins! )〕 * July 5–9: Grapevine, Texas, United States — Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center〔(SK Gaming | SK.tox wins Quake 4 tournament! )〕 * September 7–9: Chengdu, PR China — Sichuan University Stadium〔(SK Gaming | WSVG China finished )〕 * October 13–15: London, United Kingdom — The London Trocadero〔(GotFrag eSports - All Games News Story - Steve-o at WSVG London )〕 * December 9–11: New York, New York, United States — Chelsea Piers〔(SK Gaming | WSVG Finals Details )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Series of Video Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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