World Cyber Games and Samsung Mobile Kick-off 2011 Samsung Mobile Challenge’s Final Tournament

SEOUL, South Korea, November 30, 2011 -

- The 4th year of the world’s premier mobile game competition features Samsung Galaxy S II phone

- Qualifiers from three continents will compete at the WCG 2011Grand Final in Busanto win US$55,000

World Cyber Games, Inc. (WCG), organizer of the premier international video game competition and festival and Samsung Electronics, the world’s leader in mobile technology, today announced the final tournament of the fourth-annual WCG 2011 Samsung Mobile Challenge (SMC) at the WCG 2011 Grand Final in Busan, South Korea. For more than 4 months, the world’s greatest mobile gamers, with their Galaxy S II, have competed online to get the chance invited to WCG 2011 Grand Final in Busan, South Korea to win total US$55,000 in cash.

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This year’s challenge was uniquely opened online to participants from 27 countries including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Singapore, China, Malaysia, and so on, and winners from each country were invited to WCG 2011 Pan Championship series in three continents to compete for the final ticket to Grand Final.

It is really a great record to have one million official games downloaded and a total of 20,000 ranking registrations in this year. It was enabled by the best-selling smartphones: Samsung’s Galaxy S II and by Samsung’s rapidly growing ecosystem: Samsung Apps. These two factors are successfully combined, and created a great synergy in association with WCG’s global gamers network to show up Samsung’s capacity to communicate with their device owners directly online.

“The Samsung Mobile Challenge gives Samsung the opportunity to showcase our advanced mobile technology while allowing consumers to experience our vision of mobile gaming,” said Younghee Lee, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Samsung Electronics. “Our continued partnership with World Cyber Games allows Samsung to engage and entertain gamers in new ways.”

“WCG has been expanding gaming tournaments for a variety of platforms from PCs, gaming consoles to mobile devices and is at the forefront of mobile gaming,” said Brad Lee, CEO of World Cyber Games, Inc. “Mobile gamers around the world are sure to be impressed by the online tournament platform, allowing participations freely from their devices.”

For more information on the Samsung Mobile Challenge, please visit the official website at mobile.wcg.com.  For more information about the World Cyber Games, please go to www.wcg.com

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com. 

At World Cyber Games, Inc., Ryan Oh, +82-2-2106-6552, realizer at wcg.com