21 year olds Manny Rodriguez and Isidro Sifuentes of Houston recently beat out over 40,000 others to qualify for Team USA in the World Cyber Games, the world’s largest e-sports competition with over 2.5 million participants.CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post hereSifuentes, a student at the University of Houston, and Rodriguez, a student at North Lake College, will represent their country at the Grand Finals in Monza, Italy next month against 800 of the world's best video gamers from 70 countries for $430,000 in prizes, medals and national honor in eight game events.
Further information on the Team USA and the World Cyber Games can be found below and at http://www.worldcybergames.com
Friday, September 29, 2006
Two Houstonians going to the World Cyber Games
Congratulations to two Houston video gamers that are competing internationally at the World Cyber Games in Italy. Go Team USA. Here is more from an email I received: