djuice National Gaming Championship 2009

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by Ammara Masood Oberoi

The “djuice National Gaming Championship 2009” came to an end on Aug 16, 2009 at the EXPO Center in Karachi.......

after a month long journey from July 14th in search for the best players for various PC and Video Games in Pakistan. Qualifying rounds were held in 8 cities across 40 gaming zones in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Pindi, RahimYar Khan, Bahawalpur, Hyderabad and Quetta in which a total of 3,031 participants registered to play. There were a total of 6 popular games for which the championship was held; Counter Strike 1.6, Defense of the Ancients (DOTA, Call of Duty 4 (COD4), Medal of Honor –Allied Assault (MOHAA), FIFA09 (on PC and PlayStation 3), Need for Speed –Most Wanted (NFS-MW). Four of these games were team games (5vs5) from both Action and Strategy genre’ and two of them were single player games (1vs1) from the sports genre’.

In the end a total of 417 players qualified to play at the national finals in EXPO Center on Aug 16th, 2009. A turnover of more than 800+ spectators came to enjoy the festivity throughout the day with lucky draws for prizes and t-shirts and a chance to play.

After a very competitive national final at EXPO Center, Karachi which, continued very late in the night and the following day Karachi came out on top overall and won three (3) champions trophy’s, three (3) runner-up positions and 5 second-runner-up positions; Lahore won a single champions trophy, three (3) runner-up positions and two (2) second runner-up positions; Islamabad won three (3) champions trophy’s and Hyderabad a single runner-up position. The other cities were not able to secure any top positions and were eliminated early on. djuice gave out a number of prizes like Laptops, Nokia and Samsung Phone sets, Speaker Sets and Gaming Accessories to the first three spots in each game.
National Final Results as follows:

Download Demos of Counter Strike: De_Dust2 , De-Nuke , De_Train

Download Demo of Dota

Counter Strike 1.6	DOTA	COD4
1st Rank: Team Incredibles (Karachi)	1st Rank: Team TW (Islamabad)	1st Rank: Team Metal (Islamabad)
2nd Rank: Team Fury(Karachi)	2nd Rank: Team U5 (Lahore)	2nd Rank: Team X3 (Lahore)
3rd Rank: Team Heat (Lahore)	3rd Rank: Team Cyberstar (Karachi)	3rd Rank: Team Tech 47 (Lahore)

COD4	MOHAA	FIFA09 on PC
1st Rank: Team Metal (Islamabad)	1st Rank: Team CinepaxA (Islamabad)	1st Rank: Babar Butt (Karachi)
2nd Rank: Team X3 (Lahore)	2nd Rank: Team Killerz (Lahore)	2nd Rank: Ali Taab (Hyderabad)
3rd Rank: Team Tech 47 (Lahore)	3rd Rank: Team LLC (Karachi)	3rd Rank: Zeeshan Maqsi (Karachi)

NFS-Most Wanted

1st Rank: Farhan (Karachi)

2nd Rank: Fauzaan (Karachi)

3rd Rank: Usama (Karachi)

This year there were some major upsets especially in Counter Strike, DOTA, Call of Duty and FIFA09 where some of the top professional teams and players were eliminated in the early rounds and could not make the top positions. Wiredup Gaming was the national organizer for the event contracted by Telenor Pakistan to organize the qualifying rounds in various cities as well as the national event at EXPO. There was a setting for about 100+ computers on the stage and a separate Playstation lounge for the FIFA09/PS3 players. Spectators were provided with large screens to watch but it was hard to control them getting on the stage to cheer their teams on.
You could see the festivities and the gamer community excited to meet with their peers from different cities for the first time. The most popular games as always proved to be Counter Strike, DOTA and FIFA09 were there were a lot of fans to be seen and the highest participation. Congratulations to all the winners on their glorious win.

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