Bangalore has a cyber winner in World Cyber Games, India

The finals of World Cyber Games, India, the computer gaming championship that ended late on Sunday night, saw Gnanashekar Reddy (in pic) from Bangalore emerge the winner at the T20 fever, defeating top gamers from across the country.

Gnanashekar Reddy had attended the qualifiers in Chennai after losing by a close margin in Bangalore. The tournament featured gamers from Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi, participating in Counter Strike, FIFA, T20 Fever and Asphalt 5 (mobile).

Around 60 gamers, winners of the regional qualifiers tournaments held at the six metros through the past month turned up at Essel World in Mumbai for the final e-sport event. Virtual Impact, a relatively new Counter Strike clan from Bangalore, showed a lot of hope in their initial match but ended up giving away a draw against Invictus, Hyderabad, who eventually reached the finals and finished second.

The toughest and the most entertaining matches at the WCG, India finals were from the game Counter Strike where one of the semi-final matches between the eventual winner clan (team) ATE from Mumbai and Team Brutality, a Mumbai team who qualified from Pune, which went on for three rounds, with the match swinging both ways until the end.

ATE, the winning team, has been representing India at WCG finals for the past five years and many gamers had felt that Brutality might just pull off an upset victory over the reigning champions.