Every battle must come to an end.

After several rounds and explosive matches during eliminations in the past months, Amped Games’ nationwide tournament “WarRock World Championship: Road to Korea” will finally see through its efforts of finding the top WarRock team in the Philippines to represent the country in Korea for the WarRock World Championship Finals during the prestigious Game and Game World Championship Finals on December 1, 2007..

Eight teams from all over the Philippines will battle it out on November 10, 2007, from 11AM onwards, in Station 168 Eastwood, Libis, Quezon City for the title of the first WarRock Philippine Team.

Teams can join the tournament through two categories: the regional tournaments or the online tournaments. In the regional tournaments, the competing teams will have to be present in a designated tournament location, while online tournaments are given as another option for teams who cannot make it to a regional location but would like to participate in the tournament.

The roster of semifinalists has finally been completed upon the conclusion of eliminations last October 27 in Baguio, except for the final slot in the online tournament category which will be decided on November 10 before the tournament finals start. Dubbed “Z-Wars”, Teams Zero Orange and Zion will face off in a bid to win the last slot of the eight semifinalists. WarGods qualified in the Cebu Regionals, Barriers in the Davao Regionals, Ambush in the NCR Regionals and Baguio Clan Uno (BC1) in the Baguio Regionals. Online tournament winners include Torment, Papable Momol, Accrecia.

Some teams play for the fun of it, while some have gone as serious as drawing the WarRock maps on a notebook and creating different plays for each map.

Rex Aborot, a.k.a. SgtKagawad of Team Ambush said he’s nervous about the upcoming competition, but they are generally “happy and very excited,” said his teammate WrenCris Cañizares, a.k.a. Roshan.

During the eliminations, some Regional Tournaments even served as grounds for some players to meet their team mates for the first time like Team Barriers, winner of the Davao Regionals. “If we lose, we’ll still be smiling. But we’ll always try our best for Davao,” said Berny Mollenido, a.k.a. 6sperm9. “We didn’t expect to win, but we give our 100% in the tournament,” said another Barriers member Greg Go.

All semi-finalists will be given cash prizes from Amped Games. PhP100,000 will be awarded to the team who will win 1st Place, plus airfare and accommodations to Korea; PhP50,000 to the 2nd Place winner, PhP25,000 to the 3rd and 4th Place winners; and PhP15,000 to each team who made up the 5th Place to the 8th Place.

Amped Games, the local publisher of WarRock, will be training the winning team before sending them to Korea. The winning team will be competing against other WarRock national champion clans from Japan, America, Europe and Korea and will be awarded the Best Gamers title plus a total grand prize of USD$5,000.

For more information about WarRock, visit www.warrock.ph.

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Amped Games
Amped Games is the principal online game provider of ABS-CBN Multimedia, Inc. It publishes online games like Tantra Online, the full 3D Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game developed by Hanbitsoft; WarRock, the online military tactical First Person Shooter game developed by Dream Execution Technology Ltd.,; and the recently acquired 3D casual fighting game GetAmped developed by Cyberstep, Inc.

WarRock Philippines
Developed by Dream Execution Technology Ltd., WarRock Philippines is locally published by Amped Games. It started its Closed Beta stage last May 11 and started the Open Beta phase last July 6. WarRock Philippines was commercially launched in the Philippines on September 1, 2007 and has so far exceeded the publisher’s expectations even in its Open Beta stages. WarRock now has three available servers: Alpha, Bravo and Charlie. Military vehicles like Blackhawk choppers are now playable and the Item Shop is now accessible.

WarRock World Championship: Road to Korea
WarRock World Championship: Road to Korea is the nationwide tournament launched by Amped Games in a quest to find the best WarRock team to represent the country in the worldwide competition WarRock World Championship. WarRock Team Philippines will face off the regional champion clans from Japan, Europe, Korea and America in the Game and Game World Championship, where the Finals of the WarRock World Championship will be held.

Game and Game World Championship
Game and Game World Championship (GNGWC) event is an international game competition organized by the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication (KIPA) in 2006 to promote Korean online games to the world. Last year alone on GNGWC’s first championship, the event had gathered about 1,070,000,000 gamers from around 80 countries, representing three online Korean games. This year, six other Korean online games will be participating including WarRock.