5th Electronic Sports World World Cup heads for Paris in July 2007

How do you say “Just pwned your gaming ass, dude!” in French? Better brush up on your bonjour because the 5th Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) Grand Final will be held at the Expo Park of Paris, France July 5 to 8, 2007. ESWC 2007 is expected to attract over 50,000 visitors as the event gathers 1,000 of the best video games players of the world in the largest international gaming show ever produced.

In order to reach the finals, all champions must qualify through ESWC national selections from January to June 2007. Preliminaries for this global e-sports will involve more than 500,000 gamers worldwide on the following console and mobile games:

• Counter-Strike
• Warcraft
• Quake
• Pro Evolution Soccer
• Trackmania

Official rules and tournaments (games versions, hardware platforms, formats and rules) will be announced in December.

ESWC is a sporting project conceived, produced and managed by a European company of events production, communication and computing development, specialized in video games and electronic sports. Since the fisrt ESWC in 2000, the video games events and the activities of Games-Services have generated tons of buzz including more than 2,000 national and international press articles, more than 500 hours of TV reports, and more than 2,000,000 Internet reviews all around the world.

How do you say “Just pwned your gaming ass, dude!” in French? Better brush up on your bonjour because the 5th Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) Grand Final will be held at the Expo Park of Paris, France July 5 to 8, 2007. ESWC 2007 is expected to attract over 50,000 visitors as the event gathers 1,000 of the best video games players of the world in the largest international gaming show ever produced.

In order to reach the finals, all champions must qualify through ESWC national selections from January to June 2007. Preliminaries for this global e-sports will involve more than 500,000 gamers worldwide on the following console and mobile games:

• Counter-Strike
• Warcraft
• Quake
• Pro Evolution Soccer
• Trackmania

Official rules and tournaments (games versions, hardware platforms, formats and rules) will be announced in December.

ESWC is a sporting project conceived, produced and managed by a European company of events production, communication and computing development, specialized in video games and electronic sports. Since the fisrt ESWC in 2000, the video games events and the activities of Games-Services have generated tons of buzz including more than 2,000 national and international press articles, more than 500 hours of TV reports, and more than 2,000,000 Internet reviews all around the world.