Live From Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), celebrity gamer and Entropia Universe Entrepreneur, NEVERDIE, hosted the grand finale of The Massive Multiplayer Online World Championship (MMOWC). The competition, held in Mindark’s Entropia Universe, lasted over 60 rounds and pitted the best players against each other in a fight to the death for one of the largest virtual competition prizes in gaming history, worth over $20,000.00.

Fighting against hundreds of players and vicious virtual creatures, the grueling competition culminated with intense face-off between the top two massive multiplayer gamers in the world Jenna Star Mercury of America and Stoikow of Sweden. Demonstrating the highest-level of strategy and gaming expertise in final rounds, players utilized the most complex of weaponry. With bullets and lasers flying, competition newcomer Stoikow rose above the rest to become the champion.

"The MMOWC is a best of the best event requiring razorsharp gaming skills, firepower, armor, savvy and strategy to win. Over the last 3 years we have known ubers to dominate, but we have also seen new faces emerge and determined challengers rise in the ranks. MMOWC levels the playing field for the best in the world to compete and win," commented host and Entropia Universe legend, NEVERDIE.

Winner and first-time competitor, Stoikow, 22, from Sweden, took home virtual property valued at the upwards of $20,000, the single largest prize in MMORPG history. Runner-up, professional gamer, Jenna Star Mercury, 33, who was the highest grossing champion in Entropia Universe in 2008 and last years MMOWC runner-up, has also earned her fair share of respect this year.