The weekend just past saw a selection of SteelSeries sponsored teams attend CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, to take part in the two biggest tournaments of the 2007 gaming calendar. World Cyber games held their European version of their tournament, the European cyber games, along with ESL holding the ESL Masters. In total both events boasted in excess of $240,000 worth of prize money for players to compete for.
SteelSeries was widely represented by some of the best teams in Europe in both competitions, and as you can see an excellent weekend was had by all.
ESL Masters - Counter-strike placings:
1. Pentagram G-Shock - 40,000 €
2. H2k Gaming - 25,000 €
3. Fnatic - 10,000 €
4. SK-Gaming - 7,000€
5. Mousesports - 3,000 €
6. Meet Your Makers - 3,000€
ESL Masters - WC3 placings:
1. Yoan "4K^ToD" Merlo - $19,987
2. Mykhaylo "SK.HoT" Novopashyn - $10,660
3. Olav "4K^Creolophus" Undheim - $6,662
4. Andrew "SK.Fire_de" Regendantz - $3,997
5. Manuel "4K^Grubby" Schenkhuizen - $1,332
6. Andrey "SK.Deadman" Sobolev - $1,332
European Cyber Games: Counter-strike placings:
1. SK-Gaming - 15,000 €
2. Pentagram G-Shock - 6,000 €
3. Meet Your Makers - 3,000 €
4. 69°N-28°E
5. Team NoA
6. TeG
European Cyber Games: WC3 placings:
1. Mykhaylo "SK.HoT" Novopashyn - $5,330
2. Yoan "4K.ToD" Merlo - $2,665
3. Manuel "4K.Grubby" Schenkuizen - $1,332
As you can see SteelSeries sponsored teams and individuals faired very well and did us all very proud here at SteelSeries. Each of these winners used SteelSeries products throughout the tournaments, in which they collectivley picked up a staggering $123,000 in cash.
