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Recently, the WCG Organizing Committee determined that the WCG, which has been suspended for six years will be restarted again. The WCG will be held in the ancient city, Xi'an from July 18th to 21st, 2019. Currently, the organizing committee officially announced "DOTA2" and "王者荣耀" will be included in this tournament, and other related content such as other games will be released later.









At the same time, WCG officially released a new version of the theme song "Beyond the Game", which was remix by Steve Aoki.





(This video is on the WCG Youtube Channel)





On 4th March 2019 (Monday), WCG will publish details such as registration methods, event schedules and rules on their official website.









Previously, the person in charge of Qujiang New District of Xi'an signed the MOU with WCG, said: "WCG is the world's largest e-sports event, and we are very happy to have the chance to host WCG." He went on to say, “We are honored to cooperate with the new WCG. For the success of WCG, we will try our best and support them."





Kwon, Hyuk-Bin, the chairman of the WCG Organizing Committee said: "The reborn of WCG will be a celebration of international e-sports events. In addition to the e-sports competition, we will also prepare some entertainment elements." And he also said, "Xi'an is the holy place of culture and the ancient capital. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Xi'an Municipal Government for their support, they are going to show diverse and new content for WCG."





World Cyber Games (WCG) was founded in 2000 and ended in 2013, it was a global e-sports event and it was called "E-sports Olympics", StarCraft II, Warcraft III, League of Legends, DOTA2 and many other games have all been listed as competitions.





WCG was started from the "WCG Challenge Competition" in 2000, and lasted until 2013 in Kunshan, China. After 14 years, it became the world's largest e-sports competition. After the WCG was stopped in 2014, many e-sports fans felt deeply regretful. However, in March 2017 Smilegate Holdings acquired the trademark rights of WCG and announced the restart of the event. The new WCG will satisfy the needs of e-sports fans around the world, and they plan to start the selection from national regional trials. The WCG already confirmed the venue and schedule, they will publish the announcement with other related content such as the competition in the future.









Steve Aoki is a world-class DJ and has been named one of the top five most paid DJs in the world by Forbes. He is also one of the hardest working DJs in the world, he was nominated twice for the producer/DJ Grammy Award. Nowadays, he is one of the most successful American cross-type artists.





The WCG's theme song "Beyond the Game" was originally a rock music with a favorite chorus, and all WCG e-sports fans can sing at least a few words. Steve Aoki reinterpreted the theme song and made it a more modern adaptation of EDM. Steve Aoki released this song on his own social networking site to show his love for new theme song and his expectations for WCG.

























Original Author: War3station