Amazing news for the Cult of Razer from ESWC 2008, which just concluded over the weekend in San Jose, California. This annual tournament gathers the crème de la crème of best gamers in the world, and Alexey ‘Cypher’ Yanusheuski from Serious Gaming/Team Razer has clinched the Quake 3 Title in ESWC 2008!

Even though the reigning Quake world champion Maciej ‘av3k‘ Krzykowski was denied a visa to enter the USA, Cypher has continued to keep his team as leaders in the gaming scene.

Congratulations to Cypher and Team Serious Gaming! Feel free to leave your greets out for Team Serious Gaming and Cypher below in the comments.

Some of his Cypher’s previous achievements

• 2nd place ESWC 2006
• 1st place ESWC Masters 2008
• 1st place QuakeCon 2008 (previously reported on the Cult of Razer)

About Team Serious Gaming
Serious Gaming, founded in 2004, is the leading Benelux-based electronic sports team with world-class divisions in Quake, Warcraft III, Call of Duty 4 and Defense of the Ancients. The team consists of players coming from Belarus, Canada, France, the Netherlands, New-Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia and the United States of America. Serious Gaming is build on the idea that an organization should be instrumental in furthering the careers of potential professional gamers.

The youngest Quake world champion ever, Maciej ‘av3k’ Krzykowski and other current exponents of this philosophy include Pan-American Warcraft III champion Nikolaus ‘SonKiE’ Cassidy and Electronic Sports World Cup Masters and Quakecon champion Alexey ‘Cypher’ Yanushevsky.

• ESWC – Masters of Athens
• Team Serious Gaming “Cypher” – ESWC ‘08 Commemorative Edition Razer DeathAdder
• Razer at Games Convention 2008 (Longer version)
• Razer @ Gigafrag