- The most important festival of video games of the world continues growing in Mexico;
World Cyber Games 2009

- Samsung is the worldwide sponsor for the World Cyber Games, and once more demonstrating their support for the Mexican youth.

- Mexico achieves a top level position in the videogame industry by organizing the WCG Pan American tournament 2009 for the 4th time; Guadalajara

Mexico City, June 16th. , 2009.-  Only some of the participants will have the chance to represent Mexico at the Worldwide Grand Final, that will take place in China in November this year. Oelli, the company in charge of organizing the World Cyber Games in Mexico, has generated a new culture by promoting a healthy competence through videogames. From its beginnings, their aim has been to attract more young people and casual adults to this discipline that nowadays is part of a worldwide culture that is well known as "e Sports" or "electronic sports".

The biggest videogame competition in the World, that in the last years has also demonstrated an important growth of the country, thanks to the support of Samsung Electronics Mexico and to the enthusiasm of thousands of young participants, is striking back with an important agenda that will cover the most important cities of Mexico. WCG, which has been called the most exclusive international tournament, turns out to be the most important festival of its kind by attracting gamers from more than 75 countries around the globe. Oelli´s aim, the organizing committee of the WCG in Mexico, has always been to motivate a healthy use of the videogames, and has turned the World Cyber Games into an initiative focused on a public that is interested on getting more involved with the digital Entertainment World.

The venues for the regional events for this edition of the World Cyber Games are: Monterrey, Mexico City and Guadalajara, being Monterrey the venue for holding the first eliminatory event. The organizing committee has made an important agreement with Best Buy® store in Mexico City, for holding a second eliminatory and a regional final in June, closing the events with a National final and receiving more than 12 countries from the American continent for the Pan American event of the World Cyber Games in Guadalajara City on September 11th, 12th and 13th this year. 

The number of gamers in Mexico has considerably increased, and producing the WCG represents an important evolution of this market inside the country, turning Mexico into the place with more growth potential in Latin America and the world.

The official games for World Cyber Games in Mexico are:

 Visit WCG Mexico Official Website

Official Agenda for the World Cyber Games 2009 in Mexico

June 23^rd, 24^th and 25^th

Preliminary @ Samsung Zone
(Av. Del Valle #440, Col. Del Valle, Mexico City, 03100)

September 11^th to 13^th

Preliminary Regional Final @ Guadalajara

Pan American Championship WCG 2009 @ Expo Guadalajara

(Av. Mariano Otero No. 1499, Col. Verde Valle, Guadalajara, Jalisco, C.P. 44550)

The World Cyber Games growth in Mexico has made possible to expand its impact to other markets, and in 2009, Samsung Mobile phones will also be another platform for holding official tournaments through their title: Asphalt 4 from Gameloft.

"We are expecting to directly impact more than 20,000 people in Mexico by producing the World Cyber Games 2009 in this country, which also adds an important value for the gamers in our country" declared Jorge Lizarraga Director Oelli´s CEO "this activity gives Mexico an international position inside the sector"

Among the Brands that are officially sponsoring the WCG in Mexico are: Electronic Arts®, the most important videogame Developer and Publisher of the World, as well as Microsoft with the official console of the WCG: Xbox360®, and Infinitum® which is sponsoring this event for the 4^th year in a row.

"It is not easy to produce an event like this, it is important to count with the support and the effort of a big staff of professionals as well as the support of important companies in order to offer our audience an unprecedented experience" "Samsung is aware of this, and this is why we have prepared a large number of human and technological resources, to make sure that this event goes beyond everyone's expectations, especially the ones from people who have been joining us through all these years" said Ronaldo Duarte, Consumer Electronic Sales and Marketing Senior Director for Samsung Electronics Mexico

There are around 20 million gamers in Mexico with an exponential growth in the last 3 years. Nowadays, Mexico turns out to be the country with more growth potential in Latin America, by reflecting a market value for more than 670 million dollars and with an expectation for 2010 to go beyond the 1000 million dollars.  (Americas news intelligence, 2007)