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    World Cyber Games, poor uk performance

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4456288.stm
    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_r....php?aid=13112
    http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=438

    US overall winners, UK could only muster a measly 18th place overall. I'd always seen the UK as a hive of great gamers, so why the poor show?
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    why did they use Fifa Football 2005 has a competition game? stupid people they should have used PRO EVO!! the british would of SLAUGHTERED THE YANKS!!!!!!!

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    Nah, the only sport Americans would have an advantage in would be American football. Nobody in the US even knows the rules to soccer. It's like black magic to me.

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