Danny "ViBE" Scherlong, the very talented zerg player from america joined the new re-formed Team ROOT Gaming we informed you about yesterday. Paulo "CatZ" Vizcarra proudly announced on TeamLiquid's forums that Scherlong is the seventh member in ROOT's Roster and the fourth zerg. ROOTCatZ on TL:"Today we're extremely proud to announce Dan "ViBE" Scherlong will be joining our family! We have known this for a little while now, Dan is a good friend of a lot of us in ROOT Gaming as well as a fantastic and an incredibly talented player.we first set eyes on ViBE in the beta, where he came out of nowhere and showed his incredibly high apm was accompanied by a brilliant brain! unfortunately for us, when we decided to pick him up, sixjax had already contracted him and we got left without a ViBE.Today ViBE finally joins ROOT!!!!" Paulo "CatZ" Vizcarra Source: TL.net
The DreamHack is the world's biggest Computer festival held in Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre in Jönköping, Sweden since 2001.DH is holding two events each year. After the multi-year deal was signed with the Elmbia Convention Centre the DreamHack team could officially announce their Dates for the year 2013 and 2014. The Summer and Winter events will take place on the following dates: DreamHack Summer 2013, 15-18 JuneDreamHack Winter 2013, 28 November – 1 DecemberDreamHack Summer 2014, 14-17 JuneDreamHack Winter 2014, 27-30 November The summer event for 2012 will start in about a month from 16-19th June.
After team oGs was constantly losing their Stars, especially Kim 'SuperNoVa' oGs was nearly without top players.But the main reason was that the eSports Holding, the official Sponsor, discontinued the partnership with the team in order to be more focused on the League of Legends scene.All player's contracts had been cancelled. Unsure is where the TeamLiquid team will live from now on because they used to live in the oGs Team House in Korea. Time will show, if the team will be regrouped under a different name someday. Source: Naver
Root Gaming is a North American Starcraft II Team that was first founded March 22nd 2010 which is now coming back to life. Leading formers were Paulo 'CatZ' Vizcarra and Drewbie after leaving Team compLexity.Vizcarra announced details on 15th May in a self-interview introducing their new Roster and future plans. Current roster:ROOTdrewbie (T)ROOTCatZ (Z)ROOTKiWiKaKi (P)ROOTDestiny (Z)ROOTslush (Z)ROOTFayth (P) Catch up the whole Interview on TeamLiquid Source: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=337937
Arguably one of the best foreign Zerg, Stephano has been awarded a spot for the upcoming GSL code S season.The Millenium player was supposed to resume his studies in September and quit competitive gaming. However, it seems his recent achievements made him reconsider his position. Stephano repeatedly said going to Korea to practice was not a priority. Yet, now that he has a code S spot secured, he said he will take the chance to compete in the GSL.He will be the second foreigner in the upcoming GSL code S, together with Naniwa. He is set to depart for Korea in the upcoming weeks and all the foreign community will be looking forward to his games.
For a lot of MYM fans this news should be interesting. The old MYM lineup is now together again in Dota 2. It's now in the roster of Eclypsia, a new organization who only generated attention in StarCraft II, yet. Link was kicked out of the old Quantic roster and replaced by the teams old mate PlaymatE. Statement by Brian 'MaNia' Strandby:The ultimate dream for all dota2 players out there, is the chance to play dota2 for a living and fully being able to concentrate on the game itself. We are so lucky to have been given that chance by Eclypsia. We have also made a change in the roster itself. The roster is now strengthened by my old teammate from MYM, Playmate. I believe we in the future can provide some strong results with this roster, and everyone in the roster will use our hunger to be the best as fuel to win. I hope our fans will keep supporting us, since we rely so much on your support! Current roster Eclypsia.Dota2: Gaëlle 'MystresS' Pavillon (Manager) Miggel 'miGGel' Berg (Captain) Martin 'AngeL' Olsen Christoffer 'Ryze' Winther Brian 'MaNia' StrandbyAmel 'PlaymatE' Barudzija
Red Bull, the famous Austrian energy drink company, has just announced that it will host a great offline event in Austin, Texas on the 26th and 27th of May 2012.It will take place in the insanely beautiful Austian City Limits Live center that allows up to 1,500 spectator seats and a big stage, as well as a streaming place.16 world-class StarCraft II players will be invited to battle it out in this offline event, for an awesome prizepool of $41,000.Day[9], djWHEAT, Husky and Rob Simpson will be the 4 official streamers of the event. Source: esfiworld
EHOME returns to the DotA scene after its disbandment in 2011. Yao '357' Yi with Zhou 'KingJ' Yang and Lei 'Dai' Zengrong from Canis Lupus Campestris hasvemade a return to their former team, EHOME.They started about a month ago when they posted on their Weibo (Twitter's Chinese equivalent) saying EHOME is making a return. They would be joined by former World Elite and EHOME player Zhang 'PCT' Miao Long and legendary player Gong 'ZSMJ' Jian.With that said, nothing has been confirmed yet.EHOME.DotA looks as follows: Dong 'DC' Can (Coach) Yao '357' Yi Zhou 'KingJ' Yang Lei 'Dai' Zengrong Zhang 'PCT' Miao LongSources: Weibo(EHOME) , joinDOTA
His famous signature heroes are Puck, Akasha, Troll Warlord, Lanaya and Ursa warrior, he is noone other than the professional malaysian Dota player Chai ‘Mushi’ Yee Fung. He is also humble, cute, funny, hillarious, friendly and hardworking. Q: How did you come up with the name “ Mushi “ ?Mushi : " Last time my nick is Mushi.Lushi ~ After I get a sponsor, I cant put such long name anymore, therefore I shorten it to Mushi. But why I used Mushi.Lushi before, I really cant recall that. "Q: Let’s move on to your personal life. Which player, commentator and manager do you idolize and respect so much?Mushi : " None for player, Toby "TobiWan" Dawson and David "GoDz" Parker are both great and awesome commentators. For manager, it is always our manager, Kenchi. "Q : Is Orange Academy still around ? After Ohaiyo and shenGG left and started playing for Invasion-Red ?Mushi : " Orange Academy has been disbanded. The former players were Ohaiyo, bunbun, shenGG, Shizuma and xiaobai. They are all potential players, just need more experience. But cos 2 of their players are from Penang and they need to train together on LAN, so they choose to join team Invasion. All Invasion players are from KL, so it makes things easier for them to practice together. Hope they can get good result and make Malaysia proud. "Q: Which players do you think is very smart ?Mushi : " Yamateh "Full InterviewSource : OrangeE-Sports
For many months, everyone has been waiting for an answer to Valve's Dota 2. Is it going to be free to play or pay to play? Hours ago in an interview with Seven Day Cooldown, Valve has confirmed that Dota 2 will be free to play."It's going to be free-to-play -- it'll have some twists, but that's the easiest way for people to think about it," Newell said.As some of you maybe heard, Dota 2 has some indicators already implemented which give a hint about something like an ingame shop were you probably can buy new skins for a few characters or similar. But till yet there is no official statement about it.Source : In-Game shop , Verge
Toby "TobiWankenobi " Dawson has arrived in Seattle,USA. He will be touring and working with valve for 1 week. As we speak today it is his 1st day in valve. He reveals some information about valve that 1 hero will be out tonight. TobiWanKenobi statements in Seattle :" Hey all, I arrived safely in Seattle and was able to rest up last night. I am writing this as I am about to go to sleep after my first day at the Valve office, and really just wanted to share a little bit of my experience with you. Obviously I cannot say much and cannot show much but I was able to take some pictures at non-revealing angles, but it is better than nothing.I met the whole crew at Valve and spent a lot of time with the development team of Dota 2 (played some games on the internal client as well). It is amazing to see the creation process of all the different stages of the development of the game, and not only the talent of the staff but the vibe and energy they have and how the put that into their work. These people love Dota 2, they love their job, and I am sure we all feel that passion with each patch released.I will give you more updates soon, and hopefully some more pics from different areas of Valve, and will see if I can get the holy grail shot, the picture of Icefrog's desk (no promises)."Source : joindota
Keita Gaming picks up the swedish team YouBoat after it drops its own dota 2 squad. Keita Gaming was quite dissapointed about the ex dota 2 squad because they decided to quit gaming when Keita was fully believed in them.New roster as follow : Mathias ‘bonzajajaj’ Andersson Niclas ‘Niqua’ Westergård Dante ‘Wall-eater’ Rönnlund Alexander ‘PiNoY’ Flores Björn ‘QuiX’ Granström Janne ‘poi’ Liu Source : Keita Gaming
An era ended as It's GoSu has parted ways with members from EZ Style due to internal conflicts plus unresolvable issues. Even with good results at (JoinDota Master Cup II and top four placing at the 1st season in StarLadders).They will make way for Captain Planet who recently beat World Elite in a best of 3 showmatch which they won 2 maps to none.Having work with 1437 and PowerNet before, I can't even tell you how excited I am to work with them again. Their potential is incredible, and I am so happy to know that we will be able to help them in achieving their goals. We also look forward to working with Demise, Koreya and Celdur as well. With how higly 1437 and PowerNet speak of them, I am sure they will be able to continue to show our fans exciting games! I would like to thank our fans for their support so far, and I hope you will continue to provide support to our new roster! I am just so happy to welcome them home! Statement by Scott 'RuMCaKe' Ball, It's GoSu's eSport manager Current members in It's GoSu: Theeban '1437' Siva (captain) Todd 'Celdur' Fu Hector 'Demise' Sandoval David 'Koreya-' Kim Tim 'PowerNet' Moon Source: It's GoSu
The famous German team Mortal TeamWork has merged with the French team WesternWolves, formerly known as Virus-Gaming and then Team SHAKIRA, in order to build a decent line-up, capable of doing good against most of the best teams.The team is lead by Troels 'SyndereN' Nielsen, known to everyone as he uses to stream himself or great tournaments with JoinDOTA. mTw.Dota2 looks as follows: Troels 'SyndereN' Nielsen (captain) Rene 'Kebap' Werner Titouan 'Sockshka' Merloz Sebastien '7ckngMad' Debs Thibault 'Funzii' Calonne Source: mymTw
For those who have not heard about Team Sypher before, they are a growing structure from Belgium which first made itself a name with WarCraft III and now turned to League of Legends.Last week-end took place the Gamers-Assembly where our players ended 4th. There we could see a great performance of Team Sypher, a team that most of the big teams did not expect at all. During the whole tournament, they only lost a single map to Counter Logic Gaming in the semi-finals of the upper bracket.They have shown a great performance all week-end long and great teamplay. Nonetheless, after their win against CLG.eu we could see they shout like hell due to such an happiness. Some could say it is a proof of them being a newly born team; true - but it clearly shows aswell that they are capable of beating the finest European teams. And that's what they did.During the Grand Final, a Sypher's computer crashed and took 20 minutes to be replaced. Meanwhile, the AbsoluteLegends players remained clearly focused in their game while their opponent had taken away their headphones and started to have fun and trolling with the public. One could say again that this is unprofessional, but they still won it!As a consequence, Moopz was declared the tournament's Most Valuable Player and came back home with the €4,500 cheque for the first place, and an awesome MSI laptop.
MiTH and Moscow Five - the two big, popular teams have travelled to India to try their luck at the first, highly endowed Indian LAN, the India Gaming Carnival. They set out to fight for the $300,000 prizes but then they had to suffer from strange circumstances.Moscow Five for example fought their way into the semifinals. But then, suddenly, the orginizators shut down the event for unknown reasons. The team decided to move back to Russia instantly but then the next incident arrives. An, at first, unknown man followed them in a taxi and told them that the organizators are not involved in the shut down of the tournament. He offered the team $14,000 if they didn't publish the recordings of the shutdown incident and of all of the circumstances. The manager of M5, Dima 'ddd1ms' Smeliy recorded a short Interview with this man, called Kushagara, director of WTF Eventz which organized the event. But then later in the hotel room someone broke in M5's rooms and stole a bunch of money and the USB-stick where parts of the recordings were stored.M5 announced a live stream on Friday where they will try to tell to story by themselves and answer questions in Russian and English.There was also MiTH, who had some bad experiences at the IGC, too. They sent 21 people to this event to compete in 4 games - DotA, Battlefield 3, FIFA and StarCraft II. Unfortunately only the tournaments in DotA and FIFA went ahead, whereas the other tournaments were cancelled due to PC problems. Furthermore, there was a huge delay, so the whole event was postponed by an entire day. Here is a statement of MiTH's team manager Sarindhorn 'JinNy' Wanothayarnchai.Statement by Sarindhorn 'JinNy' Wanothayarnchai:Today, the timetable actually asked us to come at 10am. We prepared everything and came. But until now, it's 6pm already, everything (the tournament setup) still hasn't finished. At least they should have [set up] yesterday and prepared everything. [...] We feel very disappointed, because we came from Thailand, we bought tickets and everything. We went to so many countries, but this is the very first time we feel very bad and very disappointed with a competition.At least the MiTH's DotA team won themselves a prize money of $7,333, however considering the circumstances of this event, it isn't certain that they will retrieve this money. Sources: nogamenotalk.com, hltv.com
Overall we have 45 Players divided into 5 divisions with 9 players in each one. The event will start tomorrow, April 11th, some newly added and improved features. There is a $150 bonus for each game a player wins. This should improve the activity and incentive of the competing players. We will get a big live coverage with some famous shoutcasters. Andre 'Gretorp' Hengchua, Ben 'MrBitter' Nichol, Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi and Dan 'Frodan' Chou will celebrate the event witch can be followed through streams. As before, you will have to buy view-tickets for $19.99 for which you will get a packet of HD streams, VODs and a few more extras.Division I Puma Cloud TT1 BratOK Zenio HayprO Stephano NightEnD Hwangsin Division II DeMusliM Sjow Ryung DarkForce Crazymoving Dimaga Nony HasuObs Hero Division III Ganzi Rain Strelok TLO Vibe Sen Mana Axlav HuK Division IV Thorzain Select Alive CatZ Lowely Idra Ret Cruncher Alicia Division V Jinro qxc Polt Targa Sheth Morrow WhiteRa MC Puzzle Source: nasltv.com
Overall there 5 games to compete in. At IPL4 and The Gathering we had StarCraft II and League of Legends, whereas on Copenhagen Games StarCraft II, League of Legends, Counter-Strike:Source, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Counter-Strike 1.6.IGN Pro League 4StarCraft II: Han 'aLive' Lee Seok - 40,000$ Park 'Squirtle' Hyun Woo - 16,000$ Lim 'NesTea' Jae Duk - 7,000$ Moon 'MMA' Sung Won - 5,000$ Ilyes 'Stephano' Satouri - 4,000$ Lee 'MarineKing' Jung Hoon - 4,000$League of Legends: Team SoloMid - 25,000$ Counter Logic Gaming - 12,500$ dignitas - 5,000$ Monoesports - 2,500$The GatheringStarCraft II: Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Duran - 7,350€ Pavel 'Brat_OK' Kuznetsov - 3,350€ Marcus 'ThorZaiN' Eklöf - 1,350€ Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen - 675€League of Legends: MaseTV - 5,300€ Team BX3 - 2,650€ Lion eSport - 1,325€ Loud EskimosCopenhagen GamesStarCraft II: Mihaylo 'Kas' Hayda - 3,350€ Vesa 'Welmu' Hovinen - 1,750€ John 'Seiplo' Seipel - 900€ Dmitry 'Happy' Kostin - 500€Counter-Strike: Source: Mousesports - 9,400€ Team Alternate - 4,700€ Epsilon - 2,600€ Fully Torqued - 1,300€Counter-Strike 1.6: fnatic - 9,400€ Natus Vincere - 4,700€ WinFakt - 2,600€ Lemondogs - 1,300€Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: SK Gaming - 1,000€ ESC Gaming - Hardware Mousesports - Hardware TargetDown Source: ign.com, gathering.org, copenhagengames.com
After The Defense the now announced ProDota2 League will be the next global tournament with a high amount of cash prizes. 22 of the competing team were invited, whereas the last 3 spots will be taken by online qualified teams. As it should be for a tournament on this scale the tournament gets a video shoutcast from Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson. The online qualifier will start at April 13th.Invited participants:USA ComplexityIt's GosuEvil GenuisesHallyuInclement GamingFabioCaptain PlanetQualifier #1Europe Na'ViDTS Moscow FiveQuanticCLGMousesportsQualifier #1Qualifier #2Asia Absolute LegendsOrange eSportsMUFC ZenithMitH.TrustStarsBobaCLCDKBeyond the ProLeague there will be also a NonProLeague with a total prize money of 10,000$. More information about the NonProLeague can be found in the official forum of this tournament. Source: prodota2.com, prodota2.com forum (nonproleague)
It was the first M5 organized Dota2 Tournament ever and surprisingly the organizing team won their tournament themselves. They won 2-0 in the grand final against the, also russian team, USSR. Altogether 8 teams were invited and 8 spots were taken by an online qualifier.Standings:Moscow Five - 30,000 rublesUSSR - 10,000 rublesTeam Empire - 6,000 rublesDM - 4,000 rubles Source: Dota2.ru
As Curse has announced, there will be a second part of the International Invitational Tournament, in which 16 teams from the USA and 16 teams from Europe will compete locally against each other and the best two teams from each region will play the grand final at the 1st and 2nd of June in San Francisco.Already confirmed participants:USA4NothingTeam LegionCurseTeam SoloMidJpak and FriendsLzuruha GamingTeam Green ForrestmTw.nav8 eSportsEuropeAbsolute LegendsLow Land LionsThe prizes:1. – 10.000 $2. – 5.000 $3. – 3.000 $4. – 2.000 $ Timetable:Round of 32 – 29th April until 5th May: Matches have to be organized by the participants themselves.Round of 16 – 12th and 13th MayRound of 8 – 19th and 20th MaySemifinal - live in San Francisco – 1st and 2nd JuneFinal und game for the third place - live in San Francisco – 3rd JuneSource: lolpro.com
The tournament has already started and will finish tomorrow at 8pm with the final match. Top players like Jeffrey 'SjoW' Brusi or Pavel 'BratOK' Kuznetsov will try to get the prize money of around €7,350 for the first place.You can find recent information about the standings and general information about the tournament below. Source: Gathering.org, Standings
The IPL announced a new tourney on Wednesday, the "IPL Ye Old Map Tournament", in which earlier Starcraft 2 and Beta Maps will be played, with mostly american players and players, who live in ths USA will compete. In addition korean players like Kim 'viOLet' Dong Hwan und Ryoo 'SeleCT' Kyung Hyun will compete for the 2000 US$ prizepool.The idead behind the tournament is, to see the newest strategies and playstyles on older maps, which helped the game to get to the level of playing nowadays. The Maps are:Steppes of WarKulas RavineDesert OasisJungle BasinLost TempleBlistering SandsScrap StationIncineration ZoneAnd the Players will be: Minigun State iNcontroL Axslav NonY avilo Illusion qxc Machine Destiny DeMusliM SLush wbc SeleCT viOLet SleepPrizemoney will be split in:1. Place: $ 5002. Place: $ 3503. Place: $ 2004. Place: $ 1505.-8. Place: $ 1009.-16. Place: $ 50
Yesterday, the german website MyStarcraft.de released a Moneyranking for this years March, in which the richest Progamers are told with their completed sum of all prizemoneys. Unsurprisingy, the Korean Zerg Park 'DongRaeGu' Soo Ho is on Top of this list, with his win of the GSL and his second place at the MLG and a sum of 43.900€. The second in the list is the Korean Protoss Jang 'MC' Min-Chul with 29.337€ in March, because of his win at the IEM.You can see the Top 25 of March here:1. DongRaeGu 43.900€2. MC 29.337€3. MarineKing 20.150€4. Genius 13.035€5. PuMa 11.251€6. MMA 8.105€7. Stephano 7.450€8. Heart 6.785€9. aLive 5.302€10. Parting 4.595€11 . viOlet 4.180€12. HuK 4.150€13. GanZi 3.940€14. JYP 3.605€15. Polt 3.360€16. Feast 3.270€17. GuMiho 3.260€18. Zenio 2.475€19. SuperNoVa 2.050€20. Puzzle 1.955€21. Nerchio 1.730€22. Naniwa 1.695€23. Socke 1.680€24. Keen 1.675€25. White-Ra 1.562€Source: MyStarcraft.de
Yesterday, Team Acer uploaded a small interview with James 'Kaelaris' Carro, in which he is talking about life changes through moving to Cologne, Germany, his exectations about his new job at the ESL and his future in mousesports. Source: Team Acer
As released yesterday - the finals of the NASL Season 3 will be taking place in Toronto, Ontario, not Ontario, California. This is the first time a major tournament has come to the country of Canada.This tourney is now the proof, that an active community, such as the Canadian, especially the BarCraft-scene can be heard by big tournaments and will get offline events. This also is a very big chance for Canada to get more and more into E-Sport and become a major country in the gaming worldwide scene.The Season 3 of the NASL starts on April 11th.Source: TL.net
Two Days ago, the ESL announced a new Shoutcaster for the Starcraft 2 Section: James 'Kaelaris' Carrol. The British Shoutcaster will be the replacement for 'BitterdaM', which left ESL TV within the last week.James 'Kaelaris' Carrol said in the announcement:"I am extremely humbled and excited by the prospect of working with ESL. I feel monumentally lucky to have been picked for the position and as such, intend to take my casting to the next level during my stay. The community deserves 110% effort. There's a thousand other people out there that want these kinds of opportunities and I intend to prove I was the right choice. This is certainly a chance for a Commentator of Britian to show his Quality."He will start shoutcasting the Go4SC2 cups, the German EPS matches and the upcoming Intel Extreme Masters events and join some ESL TV projects later. Source: ESL TV
Blizzard Entertainment announced the Battle.net World Championship, which will be the biggest Starcraft 2 tourney series in the history of this game. Over 30 different tourneys will be held in different countries and they are collectively known as the StarCraft II World Championship Series.The idea behind this very large tournament is to find the best Starcraft 2 Player in the world. The tour will have open qualifiers for the national finals and then the best players of the national finals will compete in continental finals, to get the spots for the world final, as you can see in this graphic by Blizzard:Click link to enlarge The countries in which national finals will be held are:North AmericaCanadaMexicoUnited States of AmericaSouth AmericaArgentinaBrazilChilePeruColombiaEuropeBelgiumDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyItalyNetherlandsNorwayPolandRussian FederationSpainSwedenUkraineUnited KingdomAsiaChinaSouth KoreaSingaporeTaiwanOceaniaAustraliaNew Zealand Source: Battle.net World Championship
As Valve's very busy employees are working hard to polish the current Dota 2 beta into a full, releasable game, the already not-so-small community consisted of beta invitees seems to be really enthusiastic with providing extra motivation for that labor.Ever since the beta was released, it was already obvious to everyone that the competitions will not stop with The International, as other tournaments and leagues were slowly coming up. This was already a big deal, since no beta game has ever made such an impact on the competitive gaming scene, especially considering it is actually a closed beta. Of course, expanding the user-base with quite a lot of new invites made it a bit less closed, but in no way could it reduce the awe created by the aforementioned fact.Even with this, one would say, satisfying indication of great success for the game's full release and the creators behind it, the excitement doesn't look like it will plump any time soon, as announcements of even greater tournaments and leagues with even bigger prizes are flooding the gaming news sites. It is natural to assume that the more-than-probable huge success of Dota 2 is making organizers and tournament managers try to get in on the action and make a name for themselves as early on as possible. One thing is sure - the scene is being filled with chances to compete and win prizes, as each week goes by, and as we get closer and closer to the pinnacle of all tournaments, the International 2.Here's a list of some of the just recently announced online as well as offline Dota 2 competitions, in random order (some of these have already started):ProDota2 League"Pro": $10,000 $6,000 $4,000"Non-pro": $5,000 $3,000 $2,000GosuLeague $750 $500 $250M5.Dota2 Open $1,000 $350 $200 4th $150 RAZER INVITATIONAL SHOWCASE 2012 $2,000 USD + Hardware prizes2nd - 4th: Hardware prizes4PL Play4Dota2 500€DREAMHACK VALENCIA 2012Prizes yet to be declaredEvoSport ProLeague €1,000 €500 €250Let's hope the tempo will continue and the competition between teams will get all the more gritty and allow everyone to prove their worth in equal terms, as well as receive tangible awards for all the time and effort (and, of course, skill) invested in their game.
Carlsbad, Calif. – April 1st, 2012 – Razer™, one of the world’s pioneering supporters of e-Sports, lover and stoic patron of competitive cellular telephone gaming in competitive titles such as Robot Unicorn and Angry Birds, has decided with recent events to conceive a brand new mobile gaming division to win ALL the major international tournaments. With the sensational news that major international tournaments would now be advocating mobile phone competitive gaming (being dubbed, ‘m-Sports’) instead of PC gaming, Team Razer jumped at the opportunity to champion this new and exhilarating branch of electronic sports by creating, training and nurturing its first ever competitive cell phone team – awesome, right? “There was a point in my life that I realised as I got older my reflexes were getting sharper. Now with the help of Razer, I am able to live my dream and become a professional tele gamer,” said Toby “TobiWanKenobi” Dawson, Chief Diversity Officer and Team Manager. “While shoutcasting is an important part of my life, being a gamer is the strongest of all callings, and now I can do that anywhere in the world and this is one call I will not answer alone. Our conference must be called.” Having already embarked on a heavy training regime at a location which cannot be disclosed, the newly formed m-Sports team of mobile elites will undertake brutal training hours, little food, and an unquestionable love of competitive gaming on their mobile phones, ready to participate in any and all major international tournaments. The newly formed uber-team consists of: Toby “TobiWanKenobi” Dawson – CDO and Team Manager Chiren “Athene” Boumaaza – Robot Unicorn professional Kim “viOLet” Dong Hwan – Angry Birds professional Ben “MrBitter” Nichol – Fruit Ninja professional Kim “SaSe” Hammar – Angry Birds professional Rachel “SeltzerPlease” Quirico – Fruit Ninja professional Park “DongRaeGu” Soo Ho – Plants vs Zombies professionalGeorge “HotshotGG” Georgallidis – Angry Birds professional About Razer: Razer has been a pioneering supporter of e-Sports since its conception. It is in our blood and we are driven to further the culture of professional gaming in all that we do. We work hand in hand with our pros to forge weaponry for the players who stake their livelihood on podium placements. Our gear is designed to perform flawlessly in high-stress tournament conditions where winning is everything and mistakes cost championships. Those who compete with our equipment will attest – We live by our words: For Gamers. By Gamers.For more information, please visit www.razerzone.com
The MLG Spring Season is upon us. MLG has just released new information about the Spring season including new price points. MLG has also announced that the spot they will be doing the Arenas will still be in New York, but they said there will be more room.Click link to enlargeThey have given Gold members an amazing price point and a great deal of $30 for full access to all events. Sundance and the MLG crew really did great with this. The Winter Arena was highly questioned for its $20 pass to view it, with that being said many reviews including mine were extremely pleased with the content given for just $20. This season of competition should be a really great way to kick off the 2nd quarter of eSports action. Kudos to Sundance and all of MLG for being able to offer a small price, but keep the content levels to a high that they achieved in the Winter Season.
The North Amercian Star League (short: NASL) has announced that beside Andre 'Gretorp' Hengchua the two now ex-ESL TV shoutcasters Ben 'MrBitter' Nichol and Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi will join the team for the third season of the league, which should start at the 11th of April 2012.By now, the NASL has been a huge sucess in the past two seasons and the third season promisses to be as big, as the first ones. The sponsors that have been announced by now are: CoolerMaster, Epson and Kingston.It's a clear move now for both the new shoutcasters, because of the Razer Academy taking place in the USA. Source: NASL
