Winners announced in WCG 2008 RP finals

Editor's Note: Updated article with links to list of winners By Alex Villafania INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines -- After nearly three months, the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2008 Philippine leg competition has come to a close with a dozen gamers chosen out of 104 to represent the Philippines. They will join the WCG 2008 Grand Finals in Germany on November 9, as well as the Asian Cyber Games in Singapore in August. Leading the group will be the five-man Counterstrike team Horsemen of the Apocalypse (HOA), composed of Arvin Agbisit, Paolo Nancho, Jupiter Mars Gaboy, EJ Clores and Gary Guevarras. The group has been the consistent Philippine representative to the WCG Grand Finals for the past four years, organizers of the local competition said. Meanwhile, new players have dominated other games during the WCG finals. Frederick Pe won the championship for the game WarCraft III: Frozen Throne, while John Raymond Tan won the top prize in the real-time strategy game Command and Conquer. Rafael Formoso was declared the winner in the Guitar Hero III (GH3) game, which replaced Dead or Alive 4 as a tournament game for the Microsoft Xbox 360 console. Team Meneski dominated the popular local area network game WarCraft III: Defense of the Ancients to become the country's representative to the Asian Cyber Games in August. Team Mineski is composed of Rhymel Olete, Jose Silva, Jr., Ronald Robins, Kendrick Sy, and Rovic John Perez. The national champions received P30,000 in cash, a Samsung mobile phone, an Intel Quad Core processor-based computer system, premium items from computer distributor Villman, Logitech gaming keyboard and mouse, an Asrock motherboard, Sparkle video card, gift certificates, among other items.