WCG Pan-American is set to take place in Sao Paulo from August 27-29th. There is a total of $4,250 in prize money for the Counter-Strike tournament.

The Evil Geniuses will represent the United States and Area51 will represent Canada. The Chilean representative is still unknown, but the qualifier is scheduled to take place this weekend.

Team List:

FireGamers
Made in Brazil
Area 51
Evil Geniuses
TBD
TicoGamers
Artyk

More information can be found by clicking here.

Yesterday, WinOut announced the addition of their 1.6 team for 2010. Featured in the new team are some famous esports names, including Ron “Rambo” Kim and David “zid” Chin, as well as several old-school players such as Cyrus “org” Habibi. Together, the team sports some of the highest amounts of experience in North America.

Doug Jacobson had this to say:

 

Like anyone, I’m thrilled to see these legends playing again, but also to see them with a a reinvorgated motivation that will help drive them to hopefully many victories. It’ll be exciting to follow Rambo, Zid and the rest of the team through some exclusive videos on top of our normal video features.

 

WinOut 2010
Ron “rambo” Kim
David “zid” Chin
Ric “iNERTiA” Bundy
Hoang “s0nny” Tran
Cyrus “org” Habibi

The team will make their debut at WCG USA at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on September 10-12th as they compete to represent Team USA in the WCG Grand Finals that will take place later in the month.

More information can be found at WinOut.net.

After a solid showing at Arbalet Dallas in which the TAU CS team was able to make it to the second group stage, CompLexityGaming.com has discovered that they may no longer be with the TAU organization. We have discovered that Blight owner BlackFoger has joined the TAU ESEA roster after paying for their league fees.

We have also discovered that the TAU team has expressed their dissatisfaction with the way the TAU organization has handled the team. At this current time, the TAU organization appears to lack the sponsorship support and the financial backing needed to harbor a top US team.

With this discovery, we expect to see an organization swap for the current TAU.cs to Blight.cs, which also brings up questions from the past in regards to Blight’s lack of promised payment to their teams.

The former TAU administration had this to say:

First there are 2 parts to this news piece, both will be short and sweet.

The first thing I would like to address is that, yes I was the one who made the post in response to the TAU dissatisfaction with their management. What happened in the article did happen, however the article was written at the time out of anger because both myself and one of the players were going back and forth arguing. I thought that he was the one who made the public post about how bad the management was. Well in all actuality come to find out that it was their new “management” (Blight) that had made the comment about it. So for that I apologize for making harsh personal attacks on you Tyler. I do not like to admit it because of the type of personality I have, but I understand it shouldn’t have gotten to that level of public viewing and it should have been just simply squashed between us. So once again I apologize, it was immature and I was writing out of the anger at time. Also, apparently in the article I was writing about how we gave the team things for free, which is true we did. However, one thing after going back and reading I noticed myself. Is that I stated we paid for “league fee’s”. Now what I meant to say by this was, that we paid for an ESEA fee so that they could practice pre-Arbalet. So I understand why Josh had gotten upset at that. Which is perfectly understandable, being how Josh is the one that paid for actual “league fee’s, food, lan fee’s”. So to you Josh, I apologize for the way that I wrote that piece of the article, I understand that you paid for all those expenses, and I do not want you to think I was trying to take that from you.

Alright, let’s move onto the second piece of this article.

For those of you who do not know TAU has been picked up under the Finesse Organization. Which personally if you ask me, is a million to one times better than going to blight. I am happy they are able to have a secure sponsorship now, and hopefully be able to travel to events outside of Texas. Finesse has also picked up Spencer “hiko” Martin for their starting 5. Which in my personal thoughts, is a very good pickup. Now I know many of you were hesitant with how things were going when Finesse lost to Hausen 16-5 on nuke. In my personal views, it seemed that Finesse was feeling a little hesitant to be aggressive in situations that they are normally aggressive or confident in. However that all changed come the next match against HRG on nuke. For those of you who watched it, it seemed like it was going to be another blowout from the other team when Finesse went 4-11 on terrorist side. Well, if you were watching and have followed most of the players of Finesse or even played with them. From my point of view it seemed that there was one round when all hell broke loose and it was the real Finesse coming out. Which was awesome to see, literally they came back to win the game 19-15. So it was really awesome to see the guys playing like they normally do, I am confident they are going to do very well this season.

Well I hope this article cleared things up, no hard feelings amongst anyone. I am still a strong supporter of TAU and I look forward, along with the rest of the community of Finesse(TAU) supporters, to seeing you guys progress with your new starting 5.

Best of luck coolahaNx, punkvillE, TMN, HRGRVE(Anabolic_st), hiko.

-Revsta

tyler_
coolahaNx
HRGRVE_st
punkvillE
sinysteR_st

CompLexityGaming.com will continue to investigate this possible transaction and provide an update as soon as possible.

Quake Live

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Av3k	rapha	strenx	Cooller
Spart1e	noctis	DaHanG	k1llsen
calipt	STING	matr0x	draven
sc00T	madix	Sl1p	bodzo

World Cyber Games have announced they have partnered with djWHEAT and the Lo3 crew to cast the WCG USA National Finals.

The National Finals is taking place at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California from September 10-12th.

World Cyber Games is one of the most prestigious competitive gaming organizations in the world. All of us at Live on Three have attended WCG events, so when they asked us to come to Los Angeles to host and produce their US Nationals live stream, it was a no-brainer for us! We are extremely excited to be partnering with the WCG for their US Nationals and we hope this is just the first of many events we do together – Scott ‘SirScoots‘ Smith, Lo3 Host.

About Live on Three (Lo3)

Live on Three is the live production arm of the djWHEAT.tv network and is considered one of the best live stream producers in the competitive gaming scene. With over twenty years of combined experience covering the gaming scene, Marcus ”djWHEAT” Graham, Rod ”Slasher” Breslau, and Scott ”SirScoots” Smith deliver a live professional stream from competitive gaming events that is top notch. The Live on Three crew also produces and hosts a weekly podcast that covers all the news and drama within the competitive gaming scene. In addition to Live on Three, the djWHEAT.tv network also produces and hosts three other weekly podcasts that each cover a variety of topics within gaming and popular culture. Information on Live on Three, Epileptic Gaming, Weapon of Choice, and Call and Brawl can be found at www.djWHEAT.tv.

Starcraft II Teams Preview – Part 1

by JP “Moogle” McDaniels

Hey. Did you hear? Starcraft 2 is out. It’s a game where you have these bugs fighting against some glowy dudes and some space cowboys. Oh. You’ve heard of it? Well that’s good!

Well have you heard about the SC2 North American scene? It is blowing up right now and SC1 nerds everywhere are in jubilation! Names both old and new have been springing up all over the place and this article series ( featuring 2 teams/players an article) will serve as a simple directory of the best and brightest players in the NA scene today.

Root-Gaming

Root Gaming is a new team with some of the best players in North America scene. Every single player on this team has had a big tournament win or a notable match and some have builds all across Battle.net being used right this minute.

With so many great players on this squad, the oldest and probably most prolific player on the team has to be SLush. As a member of the famous X`Ds~ clan back in the vanilla days of Starcraft, SLush made quite a name for himself alongside teammates like Grrrr. He’s now come full circle and is terrorizing nerds everywhere with his impressive Zerg play, really utilizing the Infestor unit to hits full potential. He’s not the only zany Zerg on the team though! Sheth has proven to be one of the best Zergs in the world!

The team also possesses the best North American Terran users in qxc, CauthonLuck, and drewbie. All three of these players have preformed well in countless tournaments and showmatches. There really isn’t a better group of NA Terrans out there.

And who could forget the Protoss users of the bunch? While I can’t speak much for Nightwolf and sky (because I haven’t had a chance to observe them), Kiwikaki is a force to be reckoned with. This nerd has been taking names for quite some time and really showing how strong of a player he is.

qxc (T) vs. HuK (P) – Replay
Kiwikaki (P) vs. ThisIsJimmy (T) – Replay
Sheth (Z) vs. Morrow (T) – Replay

Fnatic

If you follow eSports what-so-ever then of course you’ve heard of the name Fnatic. From their triumphant days in Counter-Strike to the terror (re: hilarity?) of Hafu and company destroying MLG events, the team has a history in the world of competitive gaming. With their latest addition of SC2, the team has picked up three North American players: Gretorp, KawaiiRice, and TTone.

You might of heard about Gretorp as he does moonlight as a caster from time-to-time with his impressive, expansive vocabulary. Well, he’s also a beastly Terran user and one of the smartest players I’ve seen thus far in the game. If you’ve ever watched his stream then you know all about his analytical style of play, giving viewers a window into the mind of a madman (and I do mean that — sometimes he says crazy stuff!).

Opposite from the well-known Gretorp is tournament shy KawaiiRice. A hidden gem of sorts, his friends all consider him to be one of the best NA Terran and with his recent showing at a SoCal LAN event in which he finished top four among a sea of great players, expect him to break out onto the scene even moreso into the future.

Rounding out this squad is Protoss player TTone. who has been battling it out on top of the global ELO leaderboards and boasts an impressive 275 games played at time of writing. When I first met and spoke with TTone about playing in showmatches, he kept asking me to get the best players to play against him. I was kind of in the dark as to how strong of a player he actually was so I was hesitant. When I put him up against a strong Zerg user and he absolutely squashed him like a bug, I now knew why he wanted the best players: because he too was one of them.

TTone vs. KawaiiRice – Replay
Gretorp vs. Khufu – Replay

Expect a strong showing from Fnatic and Root Gaming going into future tournaments in the North American scene. Next time we’ll be discussing quite possibly the best Protoss player in the world as well as a strong Terran user who made a name for himself from beating a powerful wizard.