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INFOCOM 10-25-2006: The article talks about the results of Uzbekistan national team’s participation in the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2006 Final. The WCG 2006 final ended on October 22 in Italy. Over 700 gamers from 70 national teams took part in the championship. They competed for eight sets of medals in eight official types of games of the championship. This is Uzbekistan’s third year participating in this event, and this year the team has shown its best results. Nine gamers represented the country in four categories of games: StarCraft®: Brood War™, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, WarCraft® III: Frozen Throne and Half-Life™: Counter-Strike 1.6. The best results among the teammates showed Artur Arnazanov (Andold) in the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted, who took the fifth place and reached the ¼ final. He is 15 years old, and plans to become a prize winner next year. Vyacheslav Yugay (overdrive) brought a significant amount of points to Uzbek team, and became one of the 16 best gamers in the world in StarCraft®: Brood War™. In Grand Final WCG 2006 the first place won the team from South Korea, Russia-second, and Germany -third. Championship of World Cyber Games series are held since 2000 and Uzbekistan was invited as a participant in 2004. In 2005 Uzbek national team was rated 29th among best 70 national teams in the world. This year five cities (Bukhara, Samarkand, Namangan, Karshi, Tashkent) held competitions, WCG Uzbekistan Preliminary, among 3000 local gamers to choose the representatives of the national team. This year’s results are not published yet, but Uzbek team is convinced of the growth of its professionalism. Next Final WCG championship will be held in October 2007 in Seattle. Article web site link:http://infocom.uz/more.php?id=1872_0_1_0_M