Gamers leave for WCG
An eight member team with seven participants left Dhaka yesterday to take part in the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2010 Asian Championship in Singapore to be held on July 9-11. The participants left Dhaka late on Thursday night hoping to put up a good showing at the event which will see top gamers from 14 nations including Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia and New Zealand take part. Gamers will be vying for top spot and a prize money of 4000 Singaporean dollars in three games; FIFA 10, FORZA 3 and DOTA. Bangladesh have been a consistent performer at the World Cyber Games for a few years now and Md Irfan Hussain, Bangladesh Country Manager of World Cyber Games, who is credited with taking forward this initiative believes that this team is as talented as any that have represented the country so far. "We are very hopeful to be able to put up a memorable showing at this World Cyber Games. We have some very talented young players who can make a difference," said Irfan. Irfan was particularly hopeful of success in the game DOTA as the same team who recently won the South Asian Championship in Goa, in May would also be participating this time around. "Shadowplay is a talented team and we can expect them to do good." But most of Irfan's hopes rest of Arafat Jani, a youngster from Government Lab School who has impressed in FIFA 10 and has stood second twice in the WCG National Championships. "Arafat is in great touch and playing absolutely superbly. Given his youth, if he can hold is nerves he will almost be unmatched in this game," said Irfan. Also, Ashiqur Rahman Moin from North South University is a very talented player for FORZA 3 and is ranked 14,000 th among 500,000 online gamers.
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