Cyber Fusion 2009: Malaysia Broke World Record

I was doing some lurking in Youthsays when I stumbled upon a 'Gaming' topic under the Sports group discussion. Being a gamers myself, I clicked on the link and found an interesting piece of information that's worth posting in my blog.

Last week(11-12 April), at the Cyber Fusion 2009 held at Multimedia University grand hall, Cyberjaya, about 274 people played video games for 40 hours non-stop to break the world records of the longest non-stop local area network (LAN) party. The previous record of 36 hours by 203 gamers, set at NVision 2008 in San Jose, California last year, was broken.

There were suppose to be 291 participants but after 1 hour,only 285 remained and after that 11 more dropped out mostly due to fatigue.

15 minutes before they breached the supposely 38-hour play time, the organisers Cyberview and Advanced Micro Devices challenged the Malaysian gamers to further their attempt to 40 hours. The challenge was taken on with the "Malaysia Boleh!" spirit by all the surviving gamers.

To be exact, the gamers thought it would be better to play more games as it was raining heavily outside the grand hall at the time. ^_^

Finally, when the clock strikes 40 hours at 12 P.M. on 12 April 2009, the new world record was announced and all those in the grand hall stood up and did a Mexican wave, shouting jubilantly. It took more than 1500 cans of energy drink but Malaysia is now in the Guinness Book of World Records.

It was announced by the Guinness World Records adjudication executive Talal Omar. The prizes were presented by Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Fadillah Yusof to the gamers.

Waiting to begin the challenge

Among the gamers who participate in the attempt

The plaque that was autographed by all the gamers

At last, a Mexican wave to celebrate their achievement.

The good source and some reference from New Straits Times.