On 23 July qualifying rounds of World Cyber Games (WCG)* Russia 2007 for North-Western Federal District started in St.-Petersburg. OJSC NWT is the official sponsor of the event.

The competitions take place in “Zanevsky Kaskad” cinema of Kronverk cinema chain. They will last for 6 days until the Counter-Strike 1.6, StarCraft: BW, Warcraft III: TFT, FIFA 2007 and NFS: Carbon finals on 29 July.

During the finals the OJSC NWT will hold the promotional action for Avangarde broadband internet access. Any visitor will be able to check the technical availability of the service, take part in quizzes with Avangarde prizes and obtain an instant photo in Avangarde frame. All competitions participants will receive branded Avangarde gifts.

The St.-Petersburg qualifying rounds for the World Cyber Games will determine the North-Western team which will take part in the final Russian round of competitions in Moscow.

The main goal of the competitions is to involve young gamers and to contribute to the development of computer sport in Russia as a new kind of sports competitions.

Being one of the larges internet providers in North-Western Russia who promotes new communications services and internet access technologies, OJSC NWT supports the development of computer sport and contributes to computer literacy among young people and increased interest for contemporary telecommunications technologies.

*World Cyber Games (WCG) took place for the first time in 2001 in Korea and created a revolution in global computer culture. From the very start the goal of WCG was to gather together the best of the best in cyber sport and to turn computer games into an independent sport. As a result WCG has huge number of fans all around the world, developed infrastructure and prizes which exceed prizes in many traditional sports.