12:39 | 13.06.11 | News | 4175

Armenian Computer Game Open Championship to take place on June 22-26, given support of Beeline

ArmenTel (Beeline trademark) and National Professional Cybersport League announced realization of the fifth Armenian National Computer Game Open Championship on June 22-26.

The contest also represents the qualifying round of the biggest championship on computer and video games World Cyber Games (WCG).

The regulations of the contest provide for holding a qualifying round in each of the countries, which want to participate in the international championship. The national qualifying round of the Armenian championship will take place in “Congress Hotel” in Yerevan on June 22-26, 2011.

This year, the official game disciplines are FIFA 2011 and StartCraft 2, and the unofficial ones – Counter-Strike 1.6 and WarCraft 3 Dota. The winners in official game disciplines this year will compete at the International Tournament of World Cyber Games on December 8-11 in Busan, Korea.

The general prize fund of the Armenian national stage makes AMD 3 600 000 and will be distributed among the winners of the first three positions in all four game nominations.

“ArmenTel” Company will provide online internet broadcasting of WCG Armenia 2011 Championship games.

“The World Cyber Games Championship is the biggest game contest in the world, a particular analogue to Olympic Games for sportsmen. ArmenTel is happy to support the Armenian youth in this undertaking as well. Let the team spirit, luck, faith in a bright future and victory accompany our cyber sportsmen”, General Director of ArmenTel Igor Klimko said.

This year, the qualifying round will be of a bigger scale and besides the main game disciplines, contests will also be held in the following nominations: “Amateur Artist”, “Amateur Photographer” and Touch Typing contest for females on the speed of typing texts on the computer.

Registration of contest participants is underway at the official website of the Armenian Championship www.wcg.am. There is also additional information on the contest available at the website.

The global sponsor of the Cyber Games tournament is Samsung Company. General sponsor of the National qualifying round is ArmenTel.

The computer equipment is provided by Fine Company.