And World Cyber Games held competitions in the newly opened Hall 10 at the convention center.

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After all, the current World Cyber Games champion is from The Netherlands.

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Hank Jeong runs World Cyber Games, an annual tournament he hopes will one day be to gaming what the Olympics is to mainstream sport.

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My time in the community as both a player and staff member, has given me amazing opportunities to work with organizations such as Major League Gaming and the World Cyber Games.

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Cyber attacks against websites have become high profile in recent months and Mr Adiba is under no illusions about how attractive the Games will be to cyber criminals.

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We have a designed a metaphorical data Cloud where we can store our searches, photos, games, links, tweets, favorites and other cyber-babble.

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