Arbalet Europe – Group B

Score	1	2	OT	F
H2K	0	0	–	14
PiNG	0	0	–	16

Time: 6:00AM EST

Status: Not Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
CompLexity	0	0	–	14
Mousesports	0	0	–	16

Time: 6:00AM EST

Status: Not Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
CompLexity	0	0	–	11
H2K	0	0	–	19

Time: 7:00AM EST

Status: Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
Mousesports	0	0	–	17
PiNG	0	0	–	13

Time: 7:00AM EST

Status: Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
CompLexity	0	0	–	15
PiNG	0	0	–	15

Time: 8:00AM EST

Status: Not Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
H2K	0	0	–	13
Mousesports	0	0	–	17

Time: 8:00AM EST

Status: Not Complete

Arbalet Europe – Group A

Score	1	2	OT	F
MTW	0	0	–	17
Alternate Attax	0	0	–	13

Time: 11:00AM EST

Status: Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
Navi	0	0	–	22
MYM	0	0	–	8

Time: 11:00AM EST

Status: Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
MTW	0	0	–	21
MYM	0	0	–	9

Time: 12:00PM EST

Status: Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
Navi	0	0	–	28
Alternate Attax	0	0	–	2

Time: 12:00PM EST

Status: Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
MTW	0	0	–	3
Navi	0	0	–	27

Time: 1:00PM EST

Status: Complete

Score	1	2	OT	F
MYM	0	0	–	9
Alternate Attax	0	0	–	21

Time: 1:00PM EST

Status: Complete

EA Sports is going after the used game market with a one-time only sale code that will come with all their games. Starting with the upcoming release of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 for XBOX360 and Playstation3, the publisher will introduce a new ‘Online Pass’ – which is a one-time registration code, included with each brand new copy of their game. This code allows players to access the publisher’s online services and features, up to and including bonus content.

Those who decide to wait out the big name games to buy used can buy an Online Pass for an additional $10 directly from EA. This pass will be implemented for the upcoming NCAA Football, NHL, Madden NFL, NBA and FIFA 11 titles for 2010. The pass will offer different features for each title, however those who buy it used will not have access to basic multiplayer features.

You will be unable to play multiplayer online game modes or use your downloaded content in online game modes.

Online leagues, dynasty and franchise modes are also only available with the Online Pass. The break down for each title can be seen on the publisher’s official website.

“This is an important inflection point in our business because it allows us to accelerate our commitment to enhance premium online services to the entire robust EA SPORTS online community,” said Peter Moore, President of EA SPORTS.

Despite being the leader in used game sales, retailer GameStop, which acknowledged that it plans to focus on digital content in the future, supports Electronic Arts’ new direction.

“GameStop is excited to partner with such a forward-thinking publisher as Electronic Arts,” said Dan DeMatteo, Chief Executive Officer of GameStop Corp. “This relationship allows us to capitalize on our investments to market and sell downloadable content online, as well as through our network of stores worldwide.”

How will this effect your wallet, or other publishers? More money for used EA Games. The question remains whether or not other publishers will follow suite with a ‘one-time’ activation code.

Source: EA Games

The Arbalet organization has released the official groups for the European event that is scheduled to take place this upcoming weekend (May 14-16). Sixteen teams have been divided into 4 groups, making for an amazingly competitive event.

According to HLTV.org, groups A and B will be the first to play, while groups C and D will play later in the day. The top two teams from each group will advance to the second day where they will battle it out in a two group semi-final. From there, 4 teams will advance to the final day and the single elimination bracket.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Natus Vincere	mousesports	SK Gaming	fnatic
mTw	H2k Gaming	Evil Geniuses	Frag eXecutors
MYM	compLexity	WeMade FOX	Ravens
Alternate	PinG	UNiTED	forZe

More information can be found at the Arbalet site

It has been announced that the e-Stars organization has opened the voting process for their e-Stars 2010 event. Featuring the world’s best teams from both the east and west, users will have the chance to vote for who they desire to represent each conference. The always controversial voting process does not require the creation of an account.

Voting by the fans will run until June 13th, 2010. Voting will account for 50%, while last season’s results will account for 30%. The final 20% will be judged by the event organizers. 6 teams in total will be chosen.

e-Stars will run from August 13-15th in Seoul.

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

Cast your vote by clicking here

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 brings HeatoN to the ESWC finals.

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.

About 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

About ESWC:

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

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.

mibr

Filipe “bt0” Moreno
Alan “ADR” Riveros
Pedro “Maluke” Campos
Jean “Michel” Oliveira
Frederico “RedFox” Bernardes

Source: mibr