Alex “JaX” Conroy sat down with WCG Ultimate Gamer star and former CGS competitor Yaz “ClowN” Ammari for an interview. Yaz talks about the WCG Ultimate Gamer experience as well his plans for his gaming future.

Day 1 at WCG USA has come to and end and WinOut has topped Group A. POV was able to beat WinOut 24-6, but then they tied both Turmoil and sUrKaDuRk. The two ties gave them each one point and helped them advance to Day 2.

WinOut and POV will await the top two from Group B, which is set to get underway tomorrow.

Group A	W	L	T	P
WinOut	2	1	0	6
POV	1	0	2	5
Turmoil	1	1	1	4
sUrKaDuRk	0	2	1	1

In a story by the Charleston Gazette, they have informed the public about an Xbox gamer that received an XBL suspension because of the fact that he declared that he was from “Fort Gay.” With this declaration, Xbox officials took offense and issued a ban on his account for a few days.

Little did Microsoft’s Xbox team know, Fort Gay is a real place, and Josh Moore is really from there. His attempts to inform Xbox support of this issue fell on deaf ears. Moore insisted that the support personnel look up the zip code and name as proof. Unfortunately for Moore, the support staff refused to do so and even went so far as to threaten a permanent ban on his account with no refund if he kept it up.

Luckily, after days of attempted reasoning with the Xbox team, Moore received recognition of their mistake from Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement at Xbox. According to the town’s Mayor, Microsoft has not reached out to anyone from the town to issue an apology, however Moore’s account ban has been lifted.

Read the full story by clicking here.

Yesterday, National ESL announced the groups for the IEM5 American Championship. 16 teams, broken up into 4 groups of 4, will compete for the right to go to New York City’s ComicCon for the IEM5 American Championship Finals on October 8-10.

Only six teams will be advancing which means that the top teams from each group will automatically advance to the finals, while the final two teams will be determined through a series of relagation matches.

Group A	Group B
Loaded	Evil Geniuses
mLgaming	Area51
wonderbunnys	scared2plant
excello.zowie	SK Gaming female
Group C	Group D
PLP	ex-compLexity
eXultance	Underestimated
Finesse	Ultimax-Gaming
Backfire	quality Teamplay

Two South American teams will join the six advancing teams in the finals in October. Those teams have yet to be announced. The schedule for the tournament can be found below:

Schedule

Round 1 – 09/08/10 – 7PM EST
Round 2 – 09/08/10 – 8:30PM EST
Round 3 – 09/09/10 – 6:30PM EST
Relegation – 09/09/10 – 8:00PM EST

With the event kicking off at the end of this month, WCG has released the official group drawings to the public. The groups are set up in 3 groups of 4 and 5 groups of 3. The top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
wCrea	Natus Vincere	forZe	SK Gaming
Entity	Greece	FireGamers	MYM
bet4gamers	EXECUTIONERS	i-DX	ATE Gaming
Earthquake

Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
Immunity	mTw	Frag eXecutors	WeMade FOX
Lions	F.azer.Z	TyLoo	Area51
USA	Katana	Duskbin	Gameholics
France			neWave.Play

The official pool of maps has also been selected. Included are the typical four LAN maps as well as de_tuscan.

de_dust2
de_train
de_inferno
de_nuke
de_tuscan

There are still several qualifiers left to be held including the USA, Greece and and France qualifiers before the event begins on September 30th, 2010. The WCG Grand Finals will run until October 3rd, 2010 and will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

In the final day of action, two MSI sponsored teams proved to be the best in attendence as both EG and Fnatic remained.

On de_dust2, Fnatic started on the terrorist side, however the advantage proved to be minimal as EG shut them down on occassion, only giving them a three round advantage (9-6) going into the second half. EG managed to have a more successful terrorist side with Fnatic not able to hold their attack, ending the first map of action with a 16-12 score in favor of EG.

On de_nuke EG continued their momentum in the first half of action on the CT side of the map, taking the first half by the score of 11-4. It looked like EG had the tournament in the bag before Fnatic finally rose to the occassion and battled their way back to tie the score and force the match into over-time. In the first over-time, the score did not deviate from the tie and a second over-time was needed. In the second over-time Fnatic grabbed a final and much needed round to take the map (22-20) and tie the series at 1-1.

On de_train, Fnatic looked to be drained of energy after the double over-time win. EG demolished the Swedish powerhouse by the score of 12-3 on the favored CT side of the map. With Fnatic’s back up against the wall, they needed to string together 13 rounds for victory. Unfortunately for them, EG’s buying strategy took them by surprise and EG capitalize to take the map by the score of 16-7.

With the win on de_train, EG took the series 2-1 and the MSI BEAT IT 2010 Championship. The team has won 5 MSI GT660 laptops as well as $15,000 in prize money.

Final Standings

Evil Geniuses – $15,000
fnatic – $7,500
Lions – $2,500
TyLoo

The former compLexity cs squad has returned with the name of POV.wp. coL.cs was released a day ago when three members missed their flights to CHINA for the MSI Beat IT tournament.

David “savi0r” Park will be replacing Thomas “thoMz” Garcia. Savior played for the previous compLexity lineup when they originally joined from x3o.

“Replacing Tom isn’t something any of us were jumping to do. Even though this isn’t a “team” and this isn’t a “roster change,” Tom gave us little to no space to work with when making this decision. We knew we had to look elsewhere as things would always be a little off due to this unfortunate turn of events. With that said, it is what it is and we’re past that for the most part and we’re all looking forward to the upcoming events instead of dwelling on the past.” – Derek “dboorN” Boorn

This brings the POV roster to:

Derek “dboorN” Boorn
Andrew “Irukandji” Timmerman
Kevin “aZn” Wang
David “savi0r” Park
Jeff “HerotowN” Mettetel

Earlier this week we announced that the CPL website had been released. On Tuesday, the CAL website also made it’s return, sporting a similar design to the CPL site. The official status of CAL is that they will only be offering Heroes of Newerth competitions at the moment.

As of this time, the league has no plans to expand their game list. Below is an excerpt of the official press release:

The CPL has partnered with S2 Games to run a North American online tournament for Heroes of Newerth (HoN) in conjunction with the launch of the new Caleague.com (CAL).

“I was very pleased when the CPL approached us about the launch of the new CAL” said Marc DeForest, CEO and Founder, S2 Games. ‚”The Heroes of Newerth competitive scene has grown significantly since release and competition is getting fierce. That makes HoN the perfect title for the re-launch and we are very happy that they chose HoN to be the first league showcased.”

Registration for the league will open on September 1 and run through September 29. 128 teams of five people per team will be allowed to enter this inaugural tournament for the new CAL. The format will be 5v5 in a single elimination in a best of one for prelim and best of three for quarter finals onwards bracket beginning on October 8 and ending on October 24.

The winning team will receive Hotel and Airfare to the DreamHack 2010 winter event, where they will compete against seven other international teams for $15,000 in cash and prizes! DreamHack Winter 2010 takes place November 25-28 in Sweden.

For more information on CAL, click here.