ESWC

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The Electronic Sports World Cup is an international professional gaming championship. Every year winners of national qualifier event around the world earn the right to represent their country in the ESWC Finals in France. The event has won a lot of praise for its organisation and ability to put on a good show for spectators.

The ESWC is hosted by a French company called Games Services (previously called Ligarena) who previously hosted smaller Local Area Network|LAN events in France under the name of LAN Arena. In 2003 they decided to do something on a larger scale and the ESWC was born.