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Straits Times (12 December 2007) - Singapore gamer grabs the gold in world finals
Dec 12, 2007
S'pore gamer grabs the gold in world finals
By Oo Gin Lee
A SINGAPOREAN professional cybergamer has become the world's No. 1 player in the gongfu action game Dead Or Alive 4.
Mr Wilson 'Tetra' Chia, 25, scored a major upset on Monday when he outfought the competition's top-rated player Ryan 'Offbeat Ninja' Ward, from the United States team Carolina Core, to end the latter's 14-game unbeaten run at the Championship Gaming Series (CGS) World Final in Los Angeles.
'I was initially very nervous because I had lost 5-1 to Ryan in our earlier practice match. But after I took a 2-0 lead in the final match, my confidence came back and I won 5-2,' said an exuberant Mr Chia over the phone.
Mr Chia walked away with the US$5,000 (S$7,200) prize money, denying the Americans a clean sweep at the finals of the individuals' category of the US$1 million championship, the largest prize money at stake ever in a single gaming competition.
The other four games - Counter-Strike: Source, Project Gotham Racing 3, Fifa Soccer 2007 and the women's Dead Or Alive 4 - were all won by Americans.
The team competition is now at the quarter-finals stage and Mr Chia's win is a huge morale boost for his team, the Singapore Swords, in their game today against the British team, Birmingham Salvos, at the Sony Pictures Studio tournament venue. The winning team walks away with US$500,000, half of the total prize kitty.
While most gaming websites from the US and Europe have called Mr Chia's victory a surprise win, the truth is that he has always had the potential to be among the best.
He came in second at the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2005, the equivalent of the Olympics for cybergames. In the 2006 WCG, he won all his seven preliminary games and beat Mr Ward to top his group, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals by a French player. Mr Ward went on to win that year.
This year started badly for Mr Chia when he could not even go beyond the first round in WCG 2007. But his win at the CGS now puts him back on track, marks a new high in his pro-gaming career and puts tiny Singapore on the big stage of cybergaming.
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S'pore gamer grabs the gold in world finals
By Oo Gin Lee
A SINGAPOREAN professional cybergamer has become the world's No. 1 player in the gongfu action game Dead Or Alive 4.
Mr Wilson 'Tetra' Chia, 25, scored a major upset on Monday when he outfought the competition's top-rated player Ryan 'Offbeat Ninja' Ward, from the United States team Carolina Core, to end the latter's 14-game unbeaten run at the Championship Gaming Series (CGS) World Final in Los Angeles.
'I was initially very nervous because I had lost 5-1 to Ryan in our earlier practice match. But after I took a 2-0 lead in the final match, my confidence came back and I won 5-2,' said an exuberant Mr Chia over the phone.
Mr Chia walked away with the US$5,000 (S$7,200) prize money, denying the Americans a clean sweep at the finals of the individuals' category of the US$1 million championship, the largest prize money at stake ever in a single gaming competition.
The other four games - Counter-Strike: Source, Project Gotham Racing 3, Fifa Soccer 2007 and the women's Dead Or Alive 4 - were all won by Americans.
The team competition is now at the quarter-finals stage and Mr Chia's win is a huge morale boost for his team, the Singapore Swords, in their game today against the British team, Birmingham Salvos, at the Sony Pictures Studio tournament venue. The winning team walks away with US$500,000, half of the total prize kitty.
While most gaming websites from the US and Europe have called Mr Chia's victory a surprise win, the truth is that he has always had the potential to be among the best.
He came in second at the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2005, the equivalent of the Olympics for cybergames. In the 2006 WCG, he won all his seven preliminary games and beat Mr Ward to top his group, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals by a French player. Mr Ward went on to win that year.
This year started badly for Mr Chia when he could not even go beyond the first round in WCG 2007. But his win at the CGS now puts him back on track, marks a new high in his pro-gaming career and puts tiny Singapore on the big stage of cybergaming.
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Chicago Chimera, the New Champion.
Chimera proves to be a force not to be reckon with, they once again mauled their opponents with their sharp teeth. Core was heavily injured this time, if not for their CSS team saving them some from being totally wipe out by holding up the game, winning over Chimera by 11 - 7.
Nevertheless, the Chimera still stormed Core's defenses by wiping them out in all other games, forcing them to score only 1 points for each of those games.
CSS 7-11
PGR 8-1
FIFA 2-1
DOAF 5-1
DOAM 5-1
Final score: Chimera 27 - Core 15
PGR, DOA male and female have the most impressive showing, they totally give opponent no chance stifling their opponent with the huge score difference. Black Mamba has also won the title of MVP for the World Final.
With this win, the Chimera would be USD$50,000 richer, bringing the glory and riches home.
Congratulations to CGS's new World Champion, Chicago Chimera.
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