In the third episode of “Mind of the Gamer,” the show that has professional gamers explain their replay and describe what they were thinking during the match, Steven ‘Destiny’ Bonnell II, a very well known zerg player recaps one of this matches to give insight to this gameplay.
In yet another SC2 move for CompLexity Gaming, we would like to announce 
Brendon “Ryze” Walker as the newest addition to our CompLexity Starcraft II roster. Walker, a zerg player, from Ontario, Canada has a strong background in SC:Broodwars as a B/B+ 1v1 and A- 2v2 player on iCCup. Since transitioning to SC2 he has managed to stay ranked in the top 200 players list. Currently, he sits at #113 on Battle.net’s Top 200 list. Ryze has managed to place first in Craft and z33k Cups and has had impressive finishes in Hyper Crew tournaments over the past few months.
coL.sc2 is now:
Sung “Stalife” Min Park 
Victor “Antimage” Poon 
Sam “FireZerg” Prowse John “Ganon” Kang Ryan “Ryan” Rushia Julian “rsvp” Xu Ryan “suggy” Hryczynski Abdulaziz ‘CrunCher’ Abed Brendon ‘Ryze’ Walker
Brett “MrWest” Hoffman (Manager)
Today, coL.Antimage and coL.rsvp will be playing in the Star2.org NA Tournament #2 tonight starting at 8PM EST. Antimage is the #9 seed and rsvp is #2.
Type: 1v1 Single Elimination
Server: North America
Max. Players: 128
Day 1
Start time: Monday, February 7th, 2011, 8pm EST (Monday, Feb 07 5:00pm PST)
(expect it to go ~4 hours)
R1 – Bo1: Xel’Naga Caverns
R2 – Bo1: Shakuras Plateua
R3 – Bo1: Metalopolis
R4 (Ro16) – Bo3: First map through veto, then losers choice
R5 (Quarters) – Bo3
R6 (Semis) – Bo3
Day 2
Start time: Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 8pm EST (Tuesday, Feb 08 5:00pm PST)
3rd Place – Bo3 Match for $30 will be played on the new GSL Maps!
The Finals – Bo5 for $120/$50 (expected start time 9pm EST) played on the Standard Map Pool
You can follow the event at www.star2.org/live!
Some of Monday’s games and All of Tuesday’s games will be broadcasted Live by Ipp on RageQuitTV starting at 8PM EST.
Will go live on Challonge at 7:55pm EST (16:55 PST).
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Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone, a gaming legend and former competitor in the Championship Gaming Series (San Fransisco Optx), has announced his latest gaming initiative, the Ultimate Gaming Championship. The UGC will be held at the Lignano Sabbiadoro at Getur Village and promises to feature five of the most popular games across multiple platforms. Gamers will compete for $30,000 in prizes.
Below is the official release from the UGC.
Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone , the most famous Italian gamer in the world, is pleased to announce “Ultimate Gaming Championship”, the event that all the Italian gamers were waiting for a long time.
The Ultimate Gaming Championship will take place in Lignano Sabbiadoro at Getur Village, from 31st March to 3rd April 2011, and it will be the event that will mark the return of “professional gaming” in Italy.Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone, who has been in the limelight for several years as a “pro-gamer”, has decided to call upon his vast experience to deliver the event that Italian gamers truly deserve.
It will be a chance to see the best gamers in the world and, for those people not lucky enough to attend the event, there will be Live HD Streams, both in English and Italian, with the best commentators.
The Professional Tournaments will boast a $30,000 Prizepurse and on top of that there will be a Lan Party BYOC (Bring your own computer) with 1.000 places available.
Initially we are proud to announce official tournaments for the following games: QuakeLive, Starcraft 2 and Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare for PC, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 and Super StreetFighter 4 for Console. In the coming days we will announce more games and more tournaments!All the up-to-date information can be found on our website www.theugc.it , with different sections where gamers can register to the tournaments and book the hotel. The “Ultimate Gaming Championship” will be present with news and comments even on Twitter and Facebook.
There will be special discounts for people who want to spend nights in the Village and having a good time during the event.
People will also have the chance to book Buses from the main Italian cities such as Rome and Milan that will arrive at our location the day before the event starts.Getur Village is the perfect location for support this type of event. The village can offer different accommodation facilities and a professional and experienced staff, that organized international sport events several times. Attendees will have the chance to take part and compete without any problem. The venue is just steps away from different hotels and restaurants.
Alessandro affirms: “For several years I’ve taken part to the most important tournaments around the world, and after a long time I’m finally able to launch this project that will give the opportunity to have in Italy a worldwide level tournament. In our country there are several little events, really important for all the Italian gamers but, thanks to the acquaintance and the experience I achieved during these years, this event will be the most spectacular and the most awaited. And little by little it will become important on a international level aswell. I would like to send out the message that video-gaming is a passion that joins together people of different ages and countries. It’s a sport.”
More information about the event can be found by clicking here.
Tonight, CompLexity TF2 wraps up the first week of ESEA-Invite action as they take on Apocalypse Gaming. In their first match of the season, coL.TF2 took down Apoplexy Industries with a 5-2 victory on cp_granary. Apocalypse Gaming, on the other hand, fell in their first match of the season to Team Dynamic TF2 by the score of 4-5. The match is set to begin at 11:30PM EST and will take place on cp_granary.
Today coL.CrunCher will be competing in Fnatic Play. The tournament is single elimination with BO1 until Ro8, then BO3 until Grand Final.
Prizes:
1st. $300 + MSI GT laptop (valued over $2,000)
2nd. $200 + BFN Killer network card
3rd/4th. SteelSeries Siberia Headset
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The National ESL has announced their first LoL league for North America. The league, which sports $35,000 in prizes, via numerous tournaments and competitions throughout the year.
What is ESL Major Series?
EMS is a league of the best teams from the entire World. All Partners of the ESL qualify top 5v5 teams from their regions to play against each other. As the North American Partner, National ESL will qualify a team(s) to face off against the best from the World including France, UK, Russia, Sweden and many more. Want to represent the USA or Canada and win some money?
Join our qualifiers to become our representative to the World.
What is National ESL Premier League?
National ESL Premier League is the best of the best from North America. The top 5v5 teams from North America will face in a weekly match similar to the NFL or NBA. One match per week will be the “Game of the Week” and will feature extra press and the focus of the LoL community. The league will feature invited teams from EMS Qualifier and also last chance tournament qualifiers.
What is Go4LoL Tournament Series?
National ESL’s Go4LoL will be the North American version of the current ESL EU Go4LoL series. We will run at least four tournaments or cups each month starting Sunday afternoon. Go4LoL is open to everyone, anyone can sign up and play in the North American Region. 5v5 Teams will earn points per weekly tournament (cup) for a spot in the Monthly Finals.
Information on how to sign up can be found by clicking here.
After an exciting set of matches last night, both Antimage and Stalife have advanced to the semi-finals of the Thunderzark Invitational! Tonight, the two players will face off in a CompLexity vs CompLexity showdown to determine who will represent the team in the Grand Finals. The matches are set to begin at 6PM tonight.
Tonight, coL.SC2 continues its run through the Thunderzark Invitational as the round of 8 begins and both Antimage and Stalife look to make their run for the championship. The matches are set to begin at 8PM EST tonight.
Tonight at 8:30pm EST marks the start of the ThunderZark Invitational that will feature coL.Antimage and coL.Stalife. The tournament will be hosted over the span of two weekends. Tonight’s matchups will last until approximately 11:30pm EST. The round of 16 will be played tonight, the round of 8 will be played on Friday, February 11, and the finals will be played on Saturday, February 12. coL.Antimage and ROOTdrewbie will be facing off as the first match for this tournament. The match will be casted at 10:00pm EST in the following stream:
Round of 16: best of 3
Round of 8: best of 5
Round of 4: best of 5 (semi’s)
Round of 2: best of 7 (finals)
$150 for the winner and $20 for second place.
For more information, check out the Team Liquid Post
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Mattoid Entertainment, a small production and marketing firm from Los Angeles has announced that they will be releasing their second documentary, “I Got Next” by filmmaker Ian Cofino. “I Got Next” is a gaming documentary that follows four prominent gamers in the Street Fighter series around the country as they travel from event to event.
Below is the official press release:
(LOS ANGELES) February 2, 2011- Mattoid Entertainment, an independent film production and marketing firm based out of Los Angeles has acquired their second documentary feature, “I Got Next” by filmmaker Ian Cofino. The film focuses on four leading Street Fighter gamers; Justin Wong, Ryan Guiterrez, Mike Ross and Joe Ciaramelli as they travel from tournament to tournament fighting for not only themselves, but for bragging rights in the growing East versus West Coast rivalry.
“I’m thrilled to be working with Mattoid on ‘I Got Next’. I believe their outlook on distribution via the Internet is in line with how I feel many in the gaming community seek out and consume their content,” -Ian Cofino, Director – ‘I Got Next’.
Mattoid Co-Founder, Andrew Robinson, said recently, “We’re excited to be working with Ian on his wonderful film, ‘I Got Next’ and feel that the film has a very broad appeal as it is really a story about following ones’ dreams. We’re happy to once again be working with a talented independent filmmaker like Ian and look forward to not only the release of his film but of future independent films as well.”
For more information on “I Got Next” or Mattoid Entertainment please visit www.mattoidentertainment.com.
Tonight l2sc.net is hosting a KOTH event. coL.CrunCher and coL.Firezerg have been invited along with nine other top players.
How the prizes work:
-Player with the most consecutive wins is our KING OF The HILL and will receive 50$ at the end of the night
-5 straight win’s nails you 20$
-Beating a KING of 5 straight wins will get you 10$
Invited Players:
VT.looky
VT.Pokebunny
LGPainUser
LGkangwook
coL.CrunCher
coL.FireZerg
FXOmOoNan
FXOOpTiKzErO
FXOSheth
vVv.NGry
vVv.aLeJ
coL.CrunCher – $70
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