Lahore : Hussain, No.1 in Fifa 09 (PS3)
The “Djuice National Gaming Championship 2009″ came to an end on Aug 16, 2009 at the EXPO Center in Karachi after a month long journey from July 14th in search for the best teams and players for various popular PC and Video Games in Pakistan. Qualifying rounds were held in 8 cities across 40 gaming zones in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Pindi, RahimYar Khan, Bahawalpur, Hyderabad and Quetta in which a total of 3,031 participants registered to play. There were a total of 6 popular games for which the championship was held; Counter Strike 1.6, Defense of the Ancients (DOTA, Call of Duty 4 (COD4), Medal of Honor –Allied Assault (MOHAA), FIFA09 (on PC and PlayStation 3), Need for Speed –Most Wanted (NFS-MW). Four of these games were team games (5vs5) from both Action and Strategy genre’ and two of them were single player games (1vs1) from the sports genre’.
After a very competitive national final at EXPO Center, Karachi which, continued very late in the night and the following day Karachi came out on top overall and won three (3) champions trophy’s, three (3) runner-up positions and 5 second-runner-up positions; Lahore won a single champions trophy, three (3) runner-up positions and two (2) second runner-up positions; Islamabad won three (3) champions trophy’s and Hyderabad a single runner-up position. The other cities were not able to secure any top positions and were eliminated early on. Djuice gave out a number of prizes like Laptops, Nokia and Samsung Phone sets, Speaker Sets and Gaming Accessories to the first three spots in each game.
