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e-games is the name for competive gaming, as we have competitive sports we now have competive e-sports. E-Games was held between the 30th of October 2009 to the 1st of November 2009, the event held many previews, events and competitions. Overall it's basically a place where you pay $13 (concession) to go in all day and play games. The event is always held in Melbourne and this year was no differant with the event being held in Melbourne's old Royal Exhibition Building on the corner of Victoria Parade and Nicholson Street. This years event was one of the best but no event will be able to top 2008's with the FIFA 09 Interactive World Cup qualifyers held their. This year they had some great activities including tournaments. Monash University had an event which was 4 days long. The activities included anything from Presentations and talks about building games to Competitions and and Tournaments. The event talked about everything to do with games and would cover everyones differant needs for gaming.

=2008= 2008 was one of the best yet. 16,544 p eople attended the 2008 tournament, most were males between 19-25 however there were people of all genders and ages. The 2008 show had 50+ exhibitors each showing of their items and games making for a large electronic experiance. Many Media turned up to the event boosting publicity for the following days of the exhibition, these media personal included The Age, You Tube, PC Powerplay, MX Newspaper and The Herald Sun. It is Australia's leading interactive event which shows. The show is mostly about providing gamers with information and gameplay of upcoming or recently releasled games as well as provide a tournement atmosphere. The games played where mostly fighters and shooters (fps's) and sports games but there were music games like rock band and guitar hero.

=E-Sports= The E-Sports section is one of the main areas of the event. It is sponsored by Intel so everything is good quality. Good quality is needed so higher end games like Crysis can run and people can play to their best without lag. E-Sports also has a tournament called the eGames Masters. The 2009 eGames Masters featured Guitar Hero, heats where performed across the weekend to find out the best singers and guitar players. The winner(s) get to perform live on stage on the final day. Counter Strike was also shown on the day with $150 entry fees for teams. Team Imunity (the worlds best Counter Strike team) was also on display and showed off. The winner of the Counter Strike team tournament got a chance to play Team Imunity. If your not in Melbourne you can still play if you are within Australia via online play. This means if you are a Queensland team you can still play people and get the chance to play team Immunity. Other then the chance to play Team Immunity you can win cash prizes and gaming gear for yourself. Overall the event is about competitive fun and the chance to play some of the best gamers in the world.

=On Stage= As always there was a massive display of playable games that haven't even been released yet! Most of them are hit games that are very popular and sometimes exclusive to E-Games; this is normally because the CBD is such a central location for this and Melbourne is known to be the gaming capital of Australia.