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Well look at this, according to ShackES a recent WCG tournament (Similar to the CPL) which featured about $300,000 in cash being given out last weekend made the front pages of several Taiwan newspapers. Not for giving money to computer geeks though, but because one of the winners waved what the Chinese government feels was the wrong flag. Here is some of the story lifted from Matt:

IamKmkm_tw, the Taiwanese winner of the Age of Empires 2 tournament at the World Cyber Games, has been harshly criticized by WCG for shouting "Taiwan number one!" and waving his country's flag at the award ceremony where he was awarded a gold medal for his sterling performance.  A Chinese reporter for the state-owned CCTV saw the action and complained to event organizers, who have since denounced the actions of the player, 17-year-old Tseng Jeng-cheng. China doesn't ever like to see the Taiwanese flag displayed and has exerted its world political influence to have it removed from the Olympic Games. Taiwan has been an independent country for 52 years but China believes Taiwan (aka the Republic of China, aka Chinese Taipei as it was called at WCG) is still a Chinese terroritory.

You can check out this story in the LATimes - "China's communist leaders believe that by displaying the flag, Taiwanese are asserting their independence" which I guess is a bad thing.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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