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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
The largest video game tournament in the world reaches its peak: Worldwide’ve served millions of football fans fought for months to qualify. In Munich, the football’s world governing body Fifa chooses now in the grand final the winner.
The 24-year-old Abdulaziz Alshehri from Saudi Arabia’s football World Cup, but only in the virtual world. In the final of the FIFA Interactive World Cup, he won at the game console against the 25-year-old Frenchman Julien Dassonville.
David Alaba from Bayern handed Aslheri the trophy. One should never give up, Alshehri said after his victory. He had done it in tournaments in recent years into the quarter- and semi-finals
This time he won the football videogame in the finals with a 3:. 0 the Portuguese national team against Dassonvilles Argentina. The champion receives a cash prize of 20,000 dollars (17,500 euros). What he wanted to spend the money, he did not know, Alshehri said.
The 15-year-old Daniel Butenko, who starred as the only German in the final round of the tournament, was eliminated on Monday in the group stage. The hitherto reigning virtual World Champion August Rose Meier from Denmark had made it to the semi-finals.
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According to the organizer of the FIFA Interactive World Cup, the largest videogame tournament in the world. It is organized by the world football governing body Fifa. The game itself comes from the games publisher Electronic Arts. In the current issue Fifa 15 the deceptively real-looking football simulation reached in Germany alone a distribution of more than 500,000 copies sold.
FIFA 15 is one of the so-called console games made specifically for players with devices like the Sony Playstation was developed or the Xbox from Microsoft. Detail and gameplay are so advanced that even professional football players openly confess to electronic football game. The game series Fifa competes with the also very successful football simulator Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) from Konami.
Source: n-tv.de
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