World Cyber Games Semi-Finals Kick Off

SAMSUNG WORLD CYBER GAMES USA
COMPETITION MOVES INTO SEMI-FINALS

Competition to be Among Nation’s
Top Gamers Intensifies

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – July 2, 2003
— The United Cyber Games Association (UCGA) today announced that the U.S.
semi-final rounds of the third annual Samsung World Cyber Games (WCG) will kick
off this weekend, July 6th. The winners of this next heat will advance to the
U.S. Finals, which will take place in Los Angeles at the Ultimate Gamers Expo,
August 15-17.

The competition’s qualifying rounds
finished this past weekend, with Half-Life: Counter-Strike proving to be the
most popular of the six games, claiming 48% of the total turnout. California
boasted the best attendance, with CompUSA locations in Redondo Beach and San
Jose bringing in the most gamers. The semi-final rounds will take place each
weekend throughout the month of July at the same 20 CompUSA locations that
hosted the recent qualifiers.

The World Cyber Games is the world’s
largest e-sports competition with more than 700 competitors from 50 countries
around the world participating. Team USA, made up of the country’s top players
from the U.S. Finals, will move onto the WCG 2003 Grand Final in Seoul, Korea in
October, where they will compete for a cash prize pool of $350,000.

The schedule for the semi-finals is:

Sunday, July 6 Warcraft III

Saturday, July 19 Half-Life:
Counter-Strike

Sunday, July 20 Unreal Tournament
2003

Saturday, July 26 StarCraft: Brood
War

Sunday, July 27 Age of Mythology and
FIFA Soccer 2003

The following CompUSA stores are
hosting qualifiers and semifinals in the Samsung World Cyber Games USA
Tournament:

Redondo Beach, CA 1611 Hawthorne
Blvd.

Bellevue, WA 100 108th Ave N.E. The
Shops @ Main St.

Phoenix, AZ 860 North 54th Street
Chandler Pavilions Shopping Center

Las Vegas, NV 3535 W. Sahara Ave.

Southlake, GA 1915 Mount Zion Road
Southlake Pavillion

Pittsburgh, PA 2000 Park Manor Blvd.

Columbus, OH 3749 Easton Market
Easton Market Center

Sacramento, CA 2040 Alta Arden
Expressway

Austin, TX 5601 Brodie Lane, Ste.
800 Sunset Valley Village Shopping Center

St. Louis, MO 3614 Lindbergh Blvd.
The Shoppes at Sunset Hills

Braintree, MA 500 Grossman Drive

Raleigh, NC 7101 Glenwood Avenue

San Jose, CA 634 Blossom Hill Road
Sunrise Plaza

Lewisville, TX 2325 S. Stemmons
Freeway Vista Ridge Village

Denver, CO 8691 Park Meadows Center
Drive

Woodbridge, VA 14427 Potomac Mills
Road

Plantation, FL 12170 West Sunrise
Blvd. Plantation Crossing Center

Nashville, TN 719 Thompson Lane,
Ste. 5

Syracuse, NY 320 Hiawatha Blvd. West

Chicago, IL 101 East Chicago Avenue

Check-in for semi-finals is at
10:30am and the games begin promptly at 11:00am.

For more information, please visit
www.wcgusa.org .