I manage to catch up with Khairul Ridhwan, the Project Manager of the upcoming UTP Electronic Sports Championship 09. I asked him a few questions and this is what he has to say.
Girls Prepare To Be Melt1) This is the biggest tournament held by UTP, how do you feel about this?
Having said that we are handling the biggest ever gaming competition in UTP, for sure, me myself as the project manager is very proud to bring this dream comes true. All this while, UTP had never held a big gaming competition which involve outside participants and so on. We only organize a small gaming competition which is always categorized as a side event in other big UTP events such as UTP Convofair and so on. With the mission and dream to bring something new to UTP's calendar event throughout the year, I took the initiative to approach the UTP management in requesting them to grant the permission for me and my IT club; Syntech Organization to handle this first ever gaming competition which is UTP Electronic Sports Championship 2009 with the theme "Challenging The Limits"
2) What are your expectations from this tournament?
My expectations from this tournament is this event will be remembered by all students of UTP and will eventually be noted as an annual big event for UTP like their UTP convofair. On top of that, I want to make ESC as a platform for professional gamers to compete every year just like World Game Master Tournament and World Cyber Games. I want it to be a prestige gaming event like that in the future. The only difference ESC compared to WGT and WCG is that; the venue will be tentatively held in Universiti Teknologi Petronas every year.
3) How does the organizing team feel about this upcoming tournament? ( example : busy, tiring, stressed)
As being the first to organize these event, for sure; me and my team which consists of 100 committees have to face many obstacles from many parties. I; as the project manager at first have the difficulty to convince the UTP management to proceed with this event at first. On top of that, we have difficulty to attract main sponsors for gaming competition like Intel and AMD as they cant sponsor us as they have to lay down many of their workers due to global economic recessions. My sponsor team worked very hard to gain sponsors. At last, we are quite happy with all the amount of sponsors that we gain after full of hard work from last December until now. Here, I want to take this opportunity to express my heartiest gratitude to all my committee members which all of them really work hard to make my event come true and also not to forget my main sponsor for this ESC which is Computer War and Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.
4) Simultaneously, MMU is running the same type of competition. Did you think of them as a rival?
No, me myself didn't consider them as a rival. UTP ESC actually targeting gamers around the northern region like Perak and so on to participate. There are many gamers at the northern region, however, they always didn't have the chance to join any professional gaming competition like WCG and WGT as they are very far from KL. So with ESC, they can join us easily as it is quite near for them to come.
5) Many gamers usually are located at the Klang Valley. Did the distance effect these gamers?
Yea, i really realise that. Actually the location of UTP is itself have bring so much obstacle for gamers to come here. Of course these will effect gamers that will come to UTP because of distance issue. However, we are smart to counter this distance issue. We offer very attractive prizes to attract them to come. At last we do have participants from KL to join our gaming tourney.
6) How do you feel to have Rinie to speak during that event =D ?
For having Jali in our event, it is really a dream come true for all of us here. We didn't expect him to come here at the first place because he might look down to our small event and he might arise the distance issue. However, we are really glad that he can come and we are happy as he agree to participate in a game forum during our event. For Jali, it will really be an honor for us to have a professional gamer like you to join our event. Jali, you are cool and supportive! =)
7) Shoutouts
LONG LIVE GAMERS, GET LOST NERDS! IN UTP ELECTRONIC SPORTS
CHAMPIONSHIP, ITS TIME FOR FRAGGING THE ENEMY!
Spotgamers wish UTP all the best for this weekends competition. Game ON!
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