May 6-9, 2011 in Moscow there will take place The Grand Finals of Ural Steel Championship. Competitions a based on the World of Tanks videogame (www.worldoftanks.eu) and will gather participants from all over the world.
The date of GF is timed to annual celebration of the Victory in Great Patriotic War (World War II), whereas the tournament is dedicated to the 75-th anniversary of the UralVagonZavod factory, one of the biggest tanks manufacturer in the World. Which is the main sponsor of the event.
Ural Steel Championship is the first large-scale international tournament held within World of Tanks and this is the first contest to unite players of Russian, European and North American servers.
The participants of the tournament were divided into three divisions on each server: 6⁄60 is a division which participants are allowed to use vehicles that do not exceed tier 6 and the total number of tier points per team cannot exceed 60; the second division – 8⁄90 – combines members who can use vehicles that do not exceed tier 8 and the total number of tier points per team must not exceed 90; as for the last division – 10⁄140 – there are no restrictions on vehicles there.
The tournament has already detected the winners on both European and American servers in all three divisions. The Russian fighters are still struggling for the right to represent their server in Grand Finals.
Nine teams (each is of 20 persons) from very different countries (flight and accommodation provided) will meet in Moscow to fight for prizes: 1st place – powerful gaming HP laptops, 2nd place – 10-inch Archos tablets, 3rd place – Asus netbooks. The World of Tanks videogame is one of the most played game in the World. On the 24th of January this year it set up a World Guinness Record™ in the category of Most Players Online Simultaneously on One MMO Server. It was 93311 players (now sometimes it exceeds 120000 players simultaneously.
