The first Electronic Sports World Cup ever hosted on the American soil kicked off this monday morning as more than 650 players reached the San Jose's convention center to battle out for one of the six championship titles at stakes on Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3, Dota, Trackmania and Quake 3.

As usual, this very first day of competition has been filled with emotion, upsets and a massive amount of games played from  9am to 10pm.

In the Counter-Strike tournament, the competition has already reached the quarter-finals. eStro (South-Korea), ALTERNATE (Germany), mTw (Denmark), fnatic (Sweden), mouz (Germany), SK (Sweden), emL! (France) and MYM (Poland) are still competing for the world title. The matches are set to begin at 10am in California (7pm CET). 

Counter-Strike ladies' tournament will carry on on tuesday morning as the final games of the second groupstage will take place at 10am aswell.

Quake 3 has been in the spotlight this whole day on the main stage of the ESWC. At 4pm, zero4 took on Cooller, the Russian prodigy, Then, at 10pm, the action was still going on on pro-q3tourney4 as Cypher easily defeated the American legend CZM. 

Warcraft has had quite a busy day as two groupstages have been successfully completed, more than 250 maps played! The top8 will provide some cultural entertainment as an all-Korean top bracket will face off against a semi-Chinese bottom bracket. 

Tomorrow, the Dota tournament will pursue aswell, the groupstages are still going on and will provide a lot of action these two next days. Eventually, Trackmania has now reached the semi-finals stage.

All the results of the tournaments can be read here:

http://www.eswc.com/grandfinal/sanjose2008/?c=competition

Photos and videos for the press are available here:

http://files.eswc.com//press/tv/