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SoJu grasps his trophy and manages to balance his cheque at the same time.
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A final shot of the 2007 champion on the stage TVs.
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Q4 action between Purri and winz in the losers bracket on one of the smaller screens on the lower floor. winz eventually took the 3rd place and a cheque for $3k.
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The 4kings player holds a press conference.
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Fnatic playing their game against MIBR.
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A close-up of the action.
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I believe this is the game for the losers bracket, which was won by El Matador.
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Cooller vs Avek is one of the most hotly anticipated match-ups of the day, which was emphasised by the sheer amount of people queuing for the match outside the stage.
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The board also confirms winz's victory.
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The players jump up and hug each other. Aww.
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The results of the day, which sees PGS go up against NoA later on in the grand final.
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A beat-'em-up I've never seen before... seemed a bit like Dead or Alive though.
Answers on a postcard.
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SoJu holds a press conference, with his translator and trophy.
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The tournament continues, and I think Bisou must still be sitting there way into the night as he was even there when we left the 1.6 finals. I hope he got paid a lot!
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The losers bracket match goes on.
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A line for the Quake 4 arena, although fairly dark. We stood outside the stage for about half an hour!
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A shot of the huge crowd who waited to see Av3k take on Cooller.
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Yes, there were lots of people.
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Poland vs Russia, pupil vs teacher.
By the way, can you spot the mistake here?
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Just in case you were wondering.
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One of the front-screens.
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Although this shot doesn't show much, before the Q4 and 1.6 events, they showed a video about the history of the ESWC and venues it had been at.
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Past champions are displayed.
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The action was at the huge exposition park in 2004 also.
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I attended this one, and it was a damn fine tournament back then too.
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This was meant to be 2006 - Bercy, but it kinda went off-screen a bit too quickly. I got a snap of it later.
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A fuzzy shot of an overview of the Bercy arena in 2006.
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The hosts chat about the up-coming game, wondering 'if the pupil could surpass his master'.
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Cooller takes the stage to rapturous applause.
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Cooller talks about the game in hand, and stated 'we are both already winners, we just want to play our best and put on a good game for everybody'. Well said!
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The Russian's flawless path of progression to the final.
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Cooller at his PC on his side of the stage. Interestingly, he turns it to the side.
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The hosts introduce the early WC3 game just as we arrive at the event. The Norwegian from 4k.Creolophus takes on WE.SoJu.
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The hosts call the 4kings player to the stage.
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His profile on the big screen.
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The Norwegian gives his thoughts and opinions on the up-coming final.
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The outstanding record of the 4k player throughout the tournament.
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The hosts continue their interrigation.
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The Korean's side of the stage.
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His profile on the big screen.
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This was quite a funny moment. The host talked to SoJu about his chances, but his English isn't that great. So, the interviewer simply asked 'Do you feel good about this match?' to which SoJu replied 'No...' and began shaking his head. This was all he said the entire interview.
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SoJu walks to his PC after the brief introduction.
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Norway vs Korea - the world champion will be decided today.
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The players wish each other good luck and begin building.
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A sideways view of one of the banners. Ok, so I could rotate it, but surely you can let me off one photo ;)
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An overview of the map, showing the two players absolutely side-by-side. Ouch!
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The two players quickly discover they've been plonked right next to each other and an early melee ensues.
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The Demon Hunter in a stand-off.
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The situation of the two bases means SoJu literally uproots and goes to attack with some devastating impact.
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A shot of the two players head-to-head.
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The final bracket, showing the path of SoJu and Creolophus. The losers bracket is just off-screen, which shows Grubby winning his match to take 3rd place.
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I finally get in a photo after 3 days... The NVIDIA lanyard is from ESWC 2005!
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A full view of the big screens and competitors battling it out.
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SoJu mounts a strong onslaught in the second map.
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The game ended with a 2-0 victory to SoJu, despite his earlier show of nervousness. The hosts recap on the action (in French, of course).
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The victor sits behind his screen adorned with Korean flag.
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Creolophus talks about the game.
He stated that although he thought he played well, his strategies just didn't work in the end.
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SoJu, who has found a translator, talks about his joy at being World Champion for 2007.
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More talking, although it was a bit broken.
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The gaggle of reporters in front of the stage taking snaps and videos of the participants.
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Grubby takes the stage to claim his 3rd-place award and talks a little about eSports.
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Gold: WE.SoJu - Korea
Silver: 4k.Creolophus - Norway
Bronze: 4k.Grubby - The Netherlands
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The Dutchman takes his cheque and medal.
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The second 4k. player on the podium holds up his prize.
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The award-giver prepares to crown SoJu as champion.
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SoJu receives his $10k cheque and prepares to accept the cup.
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An organiser makes the presentation.
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Korea has won the world championships of Warcraft 3 for 2007!
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The competitors lined-up on stage.
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I made my way to the front of the stage and took some photos of the three contestants.
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The view when we first got in the venue... HOW many people?!
To be honest, I'm not a die-hard anime person like the person who dragged me here, so the whole thing was a bit overwhelming in general. However, there were a couple of cool things, amongst the hoardes of insanely dressed cosplayers...
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A Fox (ok, so I thought it was a Dragon at first) on the Naruto stand.
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Another shot of the event.
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Some games! Albeit, Dragonball Z and the like.
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I used to love this game and lost many hours of time at Uni due to it. Shame they went the 'pay for the best items' route that so many games are going for these days.
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Pre-game team, mobile and power-up decisions.
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Robocop and some afro-laden guy who looks straight out of Ready 2 Rumble...
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More arcades on the go, this one offering the shooter ESP Galuda II I believe...
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One of the Metal Slug games.
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Another arcade shooter in action.
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I think this is Ikaruga on the Dreamcast...
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A game playing on the Japanese hardware.
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Double Dragon on what looks like a Sega SG-3000 (the Master System in the western world).
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Some guys playing Sega's trackball arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog.
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More action from the game.
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A Mega Drive playing Streets of Rage 2, and a Saturn with one of those Qix updates.
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A Vectrex in all its shining glory. Cool stuff!
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A Famicom (NES in the western world) playing one of the Mega Man titles.
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Bubble Bobble being played on an FM Towns Marty.
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Penguin Adventure on the MSX.
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