Seattle is located 113 miles (182 km) south of the US-Canadian border in the far northwestern corner of the continental United States. The city lies in the Puget Sound region of western Washington State. The waters that lap the feet of Seattle's city towers, however, are not strictly those of the Pacific Ocean.For in-between Seattle and the great ocean lies the Olympic Peninsula.
Renowned for its youth oriented culture, technology leadership, and for being a window onto the Pacific Rim, Seattle will be only the second US city to host the wcg Grand Final. San Francisco hosted the event in 2004, the first time the final was held outside of Korea.
Hosting the World Cyber Games in Seattle is a perfect fit to the Seattle's thriving video game industry, which has over fifty game development companies in the Puget Sound area. The Seattle area is also home to major IT companies such as Microsoft and RealNetworks.
The Qwest Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks, was chosen as the venue for the 2007 Grand Final.
Qwest Field is a football stadium in Seattle, Washington. It serves as the home field for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and men's and women's Seattle Sounders soccer teams. The stadium opened in July 2002 and was built on the site of the Kingdome, the previous stadium for the Seahawks, Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners, and several other Seattle sports teams. On March 26, 2000, to make way for the construction of the stadium, the Kingdome fell in the world's largest implosion of a single concrete structure.
It is expected that up to 700 of the worlds best gamers will fly to Seattle in October, 2007 to participate in the worlds most prestigious e-Sports competition.
