July brings us more than just sunshine and a football tournament this year, but also the largest European competitive gaming event ever. The Electronic Sports World Cup, held at Futuroscope, Poitiers from the 6th to the 11th of July, will feature 500 players from dozens of countries taking part in 5 disciplines and competing for $200,000 in prize money.

If you are looking for information about this competition, interviews with players and staff, previews, predictions, recaps of 2003's event, or for our 2004 coverage, then you have come to the right place! Read on for all you could possibly want regarding this year's ESWC.

Don't forget to spend all your E$ on the ESWC fixtures!
You can also find all the ESWC demos on their FTP, as detailed in this post plus Group 3 & 4 round-up and results for Quake 3 in this post. Streaming information is available on the ESWC site.


Contents:
Page 1: 2003 Retrospective
Page 2: 2003 Retrospective Cont.
Page 3: 2003 Links
Page 4: 2004 Information
Page 5: 2004 ESWC Interviews
Page 6: Plans for 2004 Live Coverage
Page 7: 2004 ESWC Galleries
Page 8: VIP Journal Directory
Page 9: Live Tournament Scores
Page 10: Tournament Seeds
Page 11: Sunday Journal: Carmac
Page 12: Monday Journal: Daishi
Page 13: Monday Journal: Carmac
Page 14: Tuesday Journal: Daishi
Page 15: Tuesday Journal: Carmac
Page 16: Wednesday Journal: Daishi
Page 17: Wednesday Journal: Carmac
Page 18: General Schedule
Page 19: ZeRo4 Interview
Page 20: Lauke Interview
Page 21: Thursday Journal: Carmac
Page 22: Friday Journal: Daishi
Page 23: Knockout Games
Page 24: Friday Journal: Carmac
Page 25: Final Games & Standings
Page 26: Saturday Journal: Daishi
Page 27: Saturday Journal: Carmac
Page 28: Sunday Journal: Carmac
Page 29: PK in Retrospect
Page 30: UT2004 in Retrospect
Page 31: Q3 in Retrospect
Page 32: CS in Retrospect
Page 33: ESWC Moments

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Some pictures I took during my visit to ESWC 2004 in Poitiers, I arrived at thursday so I missed a lot of the fun but these are some pictures of the rest of the event.

Ok chaps, it's been a whole year since last time. I'm not going to pull a long speech on you, since I guess you all know the drill by now.

Let the browsing commence!