World Series of Video Games

2006 season

The 2006 season was the WSVG's first. International competitions were held for Counter-Strike, Quake 4, and Warcraft III on PC, while Xbox tournaments for Project Gotham Racing 3, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and Halo 2 were open only to American participants. Notable participants included four-time CPL world champion Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel, who became runner-up in the Quake 4 competition; Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho, a veteran professional gamer and one-time Electronic Sports World Cup champion who placed third in the WarCraft III competition; Li 'Sky' Xiaofeng, twice World Cyber Games champion and considered the strongest WarCraft III player of 2006 in a worldwide poll; and Team 3D, twice World Cyber Games champion team and runner-up in the Counter-Strike competition.

Champions included Johan 'Toxic' Quick and eSport Player of 2006 Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen. CBS aired a one-hour special on the Louisville stop. The six events took place from June to December at venues in Louisville, Jönköping, Grapevine, Chengdu, London, and New York.

2007 season

The second season featured Fight Night Round 3, Guitar Hero II, Quake 4, Warcraft III, and World of Warcraft as main circuit games, with Counter-Strike, Call of Duty 2, and Gears of War planned for some events. The total prize purse was planned at US$574,000, with travel funds available for high-finishing participants. Events were scheduled in Wuhan, Louisville, Grapevine, Toronto, Los Angeles, London, and Sweden, though the last three were cancelled. TV By Mills (now Spacestation) was brought on to produce televised WSVG episodes for CBS, marking the first time a video game competition appeared in an hour-long format on US network television.

Cancellation

On September 12, 2007, the WSVG main page announced that Games Media Properties would no longer produce the World Series of Video Games, cancelling the remaining three events in Los Angeles, London, and Sweden. The stated reason was that revenue from previous events was insufficient to sustain the league, particularly due to its extensive televising campaign and large event sizes. The WSVG indicated it wished to continue expanding in online advertising and its network of websites.

2014

The World Series of Video Games was relaunched by World Series Corporation in August 2014. A key element was the exclusive WSVG Battleroom software, which included an anti-cheat feature promoted as at the forefront of technology for clean gaming. A LAN event was hosted in Maldives in October 2015 featuring Starcraft 2, Hearthstone, FIFA, and Age of Empires 2, though doubts about its viability were raised on gaming forums beforehand. The event suffered from technical and logistical issues, and of the $50,000 total prize pool, $32,000 was not paid out. No future plans have been divulged since.