The World Cyber Games (WCG) held the WCG 2024 Festival in Indonesia. Lasting for two days from 31 August to 1 September 2024, the festival was held at ICE BSD, Tangerang, Jakarta Metropolitan Area. It was attended by more than 150 global influencers, as well as special performances from Tiara Andini and JKT48.
Since its inception in 2001, WCG has been a premier global esports competition. Originally focused on video game tournaments for titles such as FIFA, StarCraft, Warcraft DOTA, and Counter-Strike. This year, World Cyber Games also rebranded their event. The WCG 2024 Festival aimed to highlight not only esports players but also to engage numerous international key opinion leaders (KOLs) and content creators from the gaming industry.
“The reason why WCG Festival? Because we want to invite diverse participants. While previous editions focused on esports teams and professional players, this year’s concept has shifted towards involving KOLs and influencers.” stated Jati, the representative of Mineski Indonesia as the Event Organizer of the WCG 2024 Festival.
Kyoung Jun Min, the Director of WCG added “WCG this year is something very new that we created as well as a re-branding of the event we created previously since 2001 where we focused on esports tournaments filled with pro players and now we want to combine this by inviting content creators and KOLs from all over the world as a new colour of WCG this year.
At WCG 2024 festival, there were 3 different stages with various entertainment, namely Stage W, Stage C, and Stage G. On these stages, there were various exciting competitions and entertainment programs, such as WCG Rivals, Creator Rumble: 60, Cosplay Contest, Lokapala Special Showcase, and mini-game shows. In addition, special performances from JKT48 and Tiara Andini concluded each day.
One of the main events of the WCG 2024 Festival is Creator Rumble: 60, a worldwide competition involving 60 influencers from various countries, including Indonesia. The competition consisted of twenty teams, each with three players, competing in four distinct games: Fall Guys, Chained Together, Free Fire, and The Finals. The total prize pool for this competition is IDR 600,000,000. Several Indonesian content creators such as Windah Basudara, DeanKT, Ibnu Wardani, and Shandy Luo, also participated in this event.
In addition to enjoying lots of entertainment at the WCG Festival, visitors can also take part in the Cosplay Contest and Sparring Zone. Cosplay Contest participants have the opportunity to win prizes of IDR 50 million. Meanwhile, in the Sparring Zone, visitors can compete in various games such as Mobile Legends Bang Bang, Valorant, The Finals, and Magic Chess.
Prominent esports teams such as Paper Rex, ONIC Esports, and Geek Fam were also presented at the event, opening several booths that offered their official merchandise. The Paper Rex booth also featured a special coaching program with an Indonesian pro player f0rsakeN for his fans. In this event, f0rsakeN also had a special segment for his fans.
In addition, there is K-Street section, which displays games from Korean developers such as The Finals and Brown Dust II. There was also the Indonesia Gaming Zone which displayed various games made in Indonesia such as Lokapala.
Business Lead from WCG, Ben Choi said “Why are we presenting a showcase of South Korean games at this WCG? We present this segment to introduce games from our country from various genres. There are 5 different developers and publishers here. We hope South Korean games can penetrate the Southeast Asian market, including Indonesia, which is predominantly mobile and PC gamers.”.
Visitors also had the opportunity to meet and interact with their favourite influencers, such as Windah Basudara, Ibnu Wardani, and Dean KT, through the Fan Meet-Up session. Visitors who get access to the fan meeting can meet and take pictures directly with their favourite influencers.
The WCG 2024 Festival is supported by numerous sponsors and partners, including Smilegate, Rexus, IOH, Coca-Cola, Grab, Orang Tua, and more than 50 other companies including game publishers, communities, corporates, and F&B.
The Indonesian Anime Times | Coverage & Documentation Photos by Aldin Firgiawan | This is the modified version of the Indonesian article, which is available here
