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The 2010 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 2010) took place from September 30 to October 3, 2010, in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, US. [1] The event hosted 450 competing players from 58 countries competing over prizes worth over $250,000. [2] [3]
| Event |  |  |  | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asphalt 5 |  Charlie Elliott (Tenshii) |  Won-Joon Lee (KimBuJa) |  Phillip Mussuri (Mussuri) | |||
| Carom3D |  Fernando Rogoski (Pantaneiro) | Fabio Fonseca (TheLogaN) | Hee-Chul Kim (MARCJACOBS) | |||
| Counter-Strike 1.6 | NaVi  | Yegor Markelov (markeloff) | mTw.dk | Christoffer Sunde (Sunde) | Frag-Executors | Jakub Gurczynski (kuben) |
| Sergey Ischuk (starix) | Alexander Holdt (ave) | Mariusz Cybulski (Loord) | ||||
| Danylo Teslenko (Zeus) | Danny Sørensen (zonic) | Filip Kubski (Neo) | ||||
| Arsenij Trynozhenko (esenin) | Martin Heldt (trace) | Jarosław Jarząbkowski (pasha) | ||||
| Ivan Sukharev (Edward) | Oliver Ari Minet (minet) | Wiktor Wojtas (TaZ) | ||||
| FIFA 10 |  Michael Patsias (MikeZy) |  Zheng Yeng (Zola) |  Michal Polívka (bl4ck_p01nt) | |||
| Forza Motorsport 3 | David Kelly (d.Daveyskills) |  Niklas Krellenberg (Johnson) |  Wouter von Someren (Handewasser) | |||
| Guitar Hero 5 |  Alec Castillo (vVv Acai28) | George Boothby (ti.Monkey) | Boy Kremers (Kaos.Boyke) | |||
| StarCraft | Young-Ho Lee (Flash) | Goo-Hyun Kim (Goojila) | Jae-Dong Lee (Jaedong) | |||
| Tekken 6 | Jae-Min Bae (Knee) |  Akihiro Abe (AO) | Shutaro Kitahara (honnda) | |||
| TrackMania |  Kalle Videkull (FrostBeule) |  Peter Strele (PeZi) |  Dorian Vallet (Carl) | |||
| Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne | Sung-Sik Kim (ReMinD) | Manuel Schenkhuizen (Grubby) | June Park (Lyn) | |||
| Event | | | | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| League of Legends | Counter Logic Gaming  | George Georgallidis (HotshotGG) | IWEARCAPEIRL  | Shawn Roger Bourquin (Osaft22) | AnotherStory | Siong Chong Teo (Opio) |
| Sam Hartman-Kenzler (Kobe24) | Benjamin Hiller (SleazyWeazy) | Lian-Quan Chen (amnesia) | ||||
| Micheal Tang (bigfatlp) | Johannes Lüder (Severus) | Pei-Xiang Daryl Koh (iceiceice) | ||||
| Steve Chau (Chauster) | Wai Noch Shum (Reyk) | Xing-Lei Wong (Chawy) | ||||
| Cody Sigfusson (Elementz) | Christian Dietze (Zylor) | Zhi-Ping Lim (d4rkness) | ||||
| Lost Saga | Sanarae | Young-Ho Jeon (Cheetah) | TheFootClan | Joshua Thomas (Blavebliss) | GoodLuck | Michael Muller (Mike) |
| Hyun-Sub Kim (Fate) | Gustavo Calix (MonopolyGuy) | Eddie Valdez (Professor) | ||||
| Tae-Kyung Park (Quixote) | Eric Moore (TakuyaSugi) | Anthony Piggott (Sonic) | ||||
| Quake Wars Online | AmeriMiX | Richard Singh (H4rdc0re) | -ET- | Suk-Song In (Beatles) | FOOOOT | ? |
| Michael Penna (ras.) | Hyun-Ki Lee (ByukO) | ? | ||||
| Ben Pratte (Adhesive) | Jong-Woo Back (heroes07) | ? | ||||
| Michael Free (raccoon) | Tai-Ho Kim (iLIn) | ? | ||||
| Kregg Malcolm (SoulVoid) | Hyun-Choong Shin (skywest) | ? | ||||
| Aleks Kostrikin (INF3RN0) | Woo-Seong Jang (Woos) | ? | ||||
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