Week 3 of ESEA-Invite has been completed with coL.cs coming out on top against Loaded. David “DchozN” Cho has compiled a COTW showcasing some of the best frags from the match on de_train. The movie runs 4 minutes and 20 seconds in length and is available for both download and streaming.
Download: Coming Soon
Stream: Here
The Syndicate would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Byron “Reckful” Bernstein as he turns 21 today!
Byron first joined compLexity to replace Happy Minti on what was our only WoW team at the time. Now, he is considered one of the best Rogues in the world as he leads our coL.Red team. Reckful also hosts his own site where you can find recorded and live streams of him as he plays.
Once again, we’d like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Byron “Reckful” Bernstein!
Winner #3
Congratulations to Omar Cruz, the second winner of our Sound Blaster Facebook Contest. Omar has won an official compLexity Gaming Headset valued at $99.99. Stay tuned, as a new winner will be chosen next week as well.
Contest
This event will run for four weeks and is a Sound Blaster Facebook contest. As we move into 2010 we will be holding more contests on Facebook and will be releasing exclusive insider sneak peaks via our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Be sure to subscribe to both to stay updated on all the action!
The event is easy to enter. Simply join the Creative Sound Blaster and compLexity Gaming Facebook pages and post at least 1 comment each week. We will randomly choose a winner who is subscribed to both pages and posts a comment on each during that week. Each Saturday for the next four weeks we will announce a winner.
Prize
The winners will receive the compLexity Edition Sound Blaster Arena Headset which retails for $99.99.
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Major League Gaming today announced that World of Warcraft is returning to MLG Pro Circuit as this year’s title. In addition, there will be more prizes, matches and teams making it even more exciting.
MLG Columbus, Ohio kicks off on June 4th to the 6th where 16 of the top WoW teams compete 3v3. Two groups of eight teams will compete in a round robin format and the top two teams from each group advance into a double-elimination Championship Bracket where the winners take home $15,000 prize purse.
Starting with Raleigh, an Online Qualifier will be held prior to each Live Competition. The top four placing teams in this open competition will earn invitations to the following live event. The top two placing teams in the Online Qualifier will also receive hotel accommodations for the following live event. Also beginning in Raleigh, each Regular Season live event will host 16 teams total: the top four teams from previous event, four MLG invited teams, four Online Qualifier placing teams, and four open registration slots available for purchase.
In addition, MLG rank points will be awarded to each of the three regular season events. Only eight teams will be chosen by the MLG rank points and they will face off for $25,000 in cash and the MLG 2010 World of Warcraft Championship title. MLG Pro Circuit broadcast crew will also bring back the “Live Broadcast from each Pro Circuit Live Competition”.
The all new MLG WoW Primetime Show, as well as many select matches from the Online Qualifiers, will be broadcast live throughout the season at GotFrag.com and MMO-Champion.com. Stay tuned to MLGPro.com and GotFrag.com for more information on the season and broadcast schedules.
3 – Regular Season Live Competitions
16 team 3v3 World of Warcraft Arena $15,750 in cash prizes per Regular Season event First Regular Season Live Event June 4th-6th, 2010 Columbus, Ohio Live broadcasts with expert play by play and color commentary1 – Championship Live Event
8 top ranked teams qualify based on Regular Season points $25,000 in cash prizes for Championship event Live broadcasts with expert play by play and color commentaryMultiple Online Qualifiers and Tournaments
Multiple open Online Qualifiers Ladders and tournaments throughout the year More prizes Live broadcasts with expert play by play and color commentary For more information visit MLGPro.com
QPAD, the Swedish company world-renowned for it’s premium gaming gear, today announced their official sponsorship of the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC), held from June 30th to July 4th at Disneyworld Paris Resort in Paris, France.
Introduced for the first time in 2003, the ESWC has established itself as the leading event in the world of video games. The only one of its kind, this event is an annual electronic sports celebration that gathers the best teams in the world for competing on video games specially designed and adapted to player confrontation.
“We are very happy to announce QPAD as an official partner, since it is one of the oldest and most respected gaming gear companies in the world. We hope that this partnership will be the beginning of a long term relationship between our two companies”. Stephane Cosse, CEO ESWC
QPAD will be the official mouse pad supplier of ESWC and will produce a new unique premium pad specifically for ESWC. To even further extend the media coverage of ESWC QPAD will also bring a professional grade TV production team down to the event, to create media content that will be distributed globally. To not just stop there QPAD also will bring the world’s most famous player, Emil “HeatoN” Christensen, down to the grand final to host the TV-shows.
It is a great honor for QPAD to be the sponsor of the ESWC in Paris, France. This is the first year QPAD sponsor ESWC on a global level and it brings great opportunities for the future. We feel that the partnership is great on several levels, especially since QPAD and ESWC shares the same vision in building a great future for E-Sports” Said Christer Körnbäck, president of QPAD.
QPAD is a world-renowned premium brand working exclusively with lifestyle products and peripherals for computer gaming. QPAD have been sponsoring electronic sports for over 10 years, and beyond that been used by gamers for over 16 years. QPAD brings a no nonsense approach to gaming peripherals where quality and feeling always have been the lead words during development. QPAD takes no short cuts and makes no compromises when it comes to producing the best gaming products the world has seen. The Q in QPAD stands for quality. For more information on QPAD, visit the official website: www.qpad.com
Games-Solution handles the Electronic Sports World Cup. The ESWC is an international video games competition gathering 500 gamers coming from the 5 continents after 6 month of preliminaries in 40 countries. The ESWC touch more than 100,000 gamers that dream to compete for the world title and the $213,500 prizes celebrating it. The next Electronic Sports World Cup will be hosted in Paris from June 30th to July 4th. The competitors will have the privilege to battle inside a prestigious arena: the Disneyworld Paris Resort. Games-Solution will provide to all gamers accommodation inside the park and permit to the champions to live a unique experience for their journey in France attempting to bring their national flag on the top of the video games nations ranking. The players will play on different discipline with several games and platform from console top sale to PC games best classics. For more information visit: www.ESWC.com
Directly after our live chat with Ryan Schlieper in April, he and Tawnee Kendall sat down to discuss the event, including some of the best questions from the night, as well as the history and future of the WoW Headset itself.
After months without a CS team, the mibr organization has finally announced their next 5 players to carry the banner. The former playArt team, most noted for their Brazilian LAN experience and 3rd place WCG Brazil finish has been announced as the new team. With this announcement also comes the invitation to the ESWC 2010 Brazil tournament in late May.
The Made in Brazil organization had the following to say about the team. (Translated from Portugese to English):
The team showed in 2009 that CS is one of the best in the country.With the same formation from the beginning of last year, the Knicks win DIDE Brazil in 2009 and finished third at the WCG Brazil, after the teams and Firegamers MIBR. This year, won three championships in the Midwest and was invited to the ESWC 2010 Brazil.
Filipe “bt0” Moreno Alan “ADR” Riveros Pedro “Maluke” Campos Jean “Michel” Oliveira Frederico “RedFox” Bernardes
Source: mibr
Today the TF2 developers over at Teamfortress.com released a new blog. The blog updates fans on a recent TF2 update on the 119th update badge. The update released on the 29th of March, gave TF2 fans the ability to wear three different badges, depending on how long they have been playing Team Fortress 2 since its release on October 10th, 2007.
Today’s small update goes to all the beta testing personnel, prior to release. The” Primeval Warrior” badge will replace the badge of anyone who purchased TF2 prior to the official release date.
We initially chose to calculate which badge to give players based on the beta release of TF2, because that was the date that customers could first play TF2. This turns out to have been a mistake, largely because many players did the math and thought they were getting something other than what they ended up with. So to remove that confusion, this new update moves that date forward to the official retail release of TF2, the 10th October 2007, and reissues updated badges to anyone who would be affected by that date shift.
And, if you did not hear, the Engineer Update is coming soon! Check out the video here.
Source: Teamfortress.com
e-stars has announced ten Counter-Strike 1.6 teams, both West and East Coast for this years 2010 event. The event is scheduled to take place from August 13th-15th at Seoul’s COEX D Hall. Now that e-stars has announced the teams, the community can now vote for their favorite teams. It was reported last year that the organization received over 1.5 million votes. Many blame the organization for its poor and unorganized voting process.
On May 10th through June 13th, the fans can start to vote on e-stars website. The voting process is broken down into three sections: 30 percent will be based on last season’s tournament results, while 20 percent will be the opinion of the event’s committee and 50 percent will go towards the final team selection.
On June 23rd, six Counter-Strike 1.6 teams are expect to be announced by the South Korean organization.
| West | East |
 fnatic |
 WeMade FOX |
 Natus Vincere |
esq.wind |
| SK Gaming |
Lunatic.Hai |
 mTw |
 TitaNs |
 UNiTED |
 TyLoo |
 Frag eXecutors |
TyLoo.raw |
 Evil Geniuses |
 UMX Gaming |
| compLexity |
 Team XCN |
| Meet Your Makers |
 eSrael Gaming |
 mousesports |
 Team Immunity |
Source: HLTV.org
coL.cs has just been announced as the latest competitor to the Inferno Online League tournament to be held one week after Arbelet Europe. With the team already planning to bootcamp for a week after Arbalet, the timing is perfect. The event is set to take place on May 22nd and 23rd.
Prize
To the winner of the tournament will be over 50,000SEK ($6845 USD) in cash, as well as the final spot in the Dreamhack Final 4 tournament in Jönköping, Sweden on June 19-22nd. SK, Fnatic and h2k have already qualified for the other 3 spots.
UPDATE: Despite some news outlets claiming Team EG was attending this event we have contacted the team and they are not and never were.
34 teams have already confirmed their participation in the event.
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cbteam – kalle, REAL, syrtekz, prb, tacky MYM – delpan, pita, zet, jumpy, FYRR7e
Antwerp Aces – cieseta, nookbrid, luosrevo, TRx, Monu umop.episdn – eksem silverbane dalito rape sobek limbokungen – frostnova, radix, eliotth, kylig, bergqvist Playzone.se – huggan, keiz, manne, pinne, dennis H2k-Gaming – xizt, pronax, pop, barbarr, hyvlarn Bespredel: pnkt, besp, aLLi, Rain, twizteed INFAME: floreNz moddii Jumpy zneel Zyppe venatus – Ns^, fain, FuzioN, KbH, Hewkie