A Taiwanese student has won the World Cyber Games (WCG) title. Following the lead of Tseng Jeng-cheng, who won the WCG world championship in the Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion group in 2001, 24-year-old Liu You-chen on Nov. 15 defeated Jared Beins from Singapore to become world champion in the Asphalt 4 mobile phone game group. As thousands of onlookers exploded in celebration, Liu said, “It’s very cool. It feels like sitting on top of the world!”
The WCG championships were held in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan province. Liu, who studies at the Language Center at Nan Kai University of Technology has represented Taiwan’s national team for the past four years. Liu, who won a bronze two years ago, battled with last year’s winner, slyfoxlover, from Singapore. He won a clear victory over his opponent in the first round, but then he lost the second round. In the third round, slyfoxlover tried to use the trick from the second round, but Liu saw through him. He elegantly dodged his opponent’s attempt to crash into him and instead overtook him to the praise of thousands of onlookers.
After winning the championship that Taiwan has long missed, Liu, with a nasal voice from a heavy cold, could not suppress his excitement: “Every day I came to the competition sick, coughing and with a headache, but I felt very happy and excited during the competition! Thanks to computer games, I’m on the world stage, and the whole audience cheered for me, I was so excited I couldn’t even cry! That’s an experience money can’t buy.”
Taiwan’s team leader Liu Chun-hung said with a laugh that, “He is incomparable! Thousands of onlookers paid to come and watch, it was sensational.” Liu Chun-hung said that in addition to Liu You-chen’s gold, Taiwan made it to the final eight in StarCraft : Brood War and the final sixteen in TrackMania Nations Forever, all outstanding achievements.
After winning the championship by defeating skilled competitors from Singapore, South Korea, the UK, France, Germany and 10 other countries, Liu immediately called his mother and his university to deliver the good news. His mother was happy and asked him to take good care of himself while Hsu Tsung-hsin, vice president of Nan Kai University, said that after Liu You-chen’s father passed away last year, he helped care for his younger sister and worked after school, and added that “Liu You-chen is a good kid, very considerate.” After the win, an emotional Liu said that, “I wish my dad could see this, I think he would have been happy.”
Liu revealed that he practiced mobile phone games every day before the competition: “On average, one to two hours per day. Every day I was wondering how I could become a little faster.” He added, frankly, “Before, I simply played games, but now it’s become a job. Of course it’ll be tiring, but luckily I am still interested.” In future, he plans to continue to move toward computer games and let Taiwanese parents know that, “Computer games really aren’t a bad thing.”
(TRANSLATED BY PERRY SVENSSON, LIBERTY TIMES)
台灣小子再奪電玩世界第一！繼電玩好手曾政承二００一年首度以《世紀帝國》奪下WCG世界電玩大賽冠軍，二十四歲的劉祐辰十五日打敗新加坡選手，在手機遊戲「精英賽車4」中再奪世界冠軍，全場數千觀眾歡聲雷動，他直呼：「好爽！好像站在世界的頂端！」
今年WCG世界電玩大賽在中國成都舉行，就讀南開科技大學應用外語系的劉祐辰近四年都是台灣代表國手，繼前年在WCG奪下銅牌，他對戰去年冠軍新加坡選手slyfoxlover，第一回合大幅領先對手；第二回合落敗，但第三回合，slyfoxlover起跑時，企圖再度利用第二回合的招數，被劉祐辰識破，俐落地閃過對手衝撞並超越對方，數千觀眾爆出喝采。
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