Reason Gaming, proudly sponsored by Razer, wins Multiplay i38 LAN 2009 3rd time in a row!

The event was a huge success with Reason’s Counter Strike Source team being undefeated through the entire event reaching 1st place (for the third i-series in a row) defeating Team Dignitas and Power Gaming on route.

Reason-Gaming vs. LOD 24:6
Reason-Gaming vs. TP.GSG 16:14
Reason-Gaming vs. SOG 28:2
Reason-Gaming vs. Velocity Gaming! 16:14
Reason-Gaming vs. CK | [4DC] 17:13
Reason-Gaming vs. Deceived 16:14
Reason Gaming vs. AMDERS 16:2
Reason Gaming vs. TLR 16:9
Reason Gaming vs. Power Gaming 16:2 (Semi Final)
Reason Gaming vs. Team Dignitas 16:14 (Upper Bracket Final)
Reason Gaming vs. Power Gaming 39:31 (Grand Final)

Products featured –

Razer Carcharias Gaming Headsets(http://bit.ly/ed6Uy)

Razer DeathAdder 3500dpi Gaming Mouse (http://bit.ly/Px1LC)

Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboards(http://bit.ly/ed6Uy)

Razer Goliathus Gaming Surfaces(http://bit.ly/F1jfW)

Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboards(http://bit.ly/11BCvg)

Razer Armadillo cable management system(http://bit.ly/qadHp).

You into COD4? Yeah, we too. Serious Gaming, one of our sponsored teams has posted a frag video featuring members Bob ’supreme’ Janssen & Nick ‘toxjee’ Hol. Sampled from global tournaments such as CODQCUP, ESL Major Series, Antwerp Sports Festival and the Acer Challenge.

Enjoy.

Our sponsored pro teams had a killer weekend at various tournaments worldwide over the past weekend and we’re happy to share some of those updates with some of the eSports fanatics you are.

Over at the ESL IEM Counterstrike Supercup Tournament – Team Mousesports wins 4,000EUR (approximately 5,696 USD) over the weekend from defeating pro gaming teams mTw and Fnatic to win the ESL Counterstrike Super Cup. The world class counterstrike team battled some of the world’s most feared CS teams to emerge victorious and hats off to them for taking top spot.

ESL Counterstrike Supercup 2009 Standings

1st -  Team Mousesports (Razer) ($4,000USD)
2nd – mTw int. ($2,000USD)
3rd – SK Gaming ($2,000USD)
3rd – fnaticMSI ($2,000USD)

Over in WCG China - Our best teams (Team Mousesports and Team World Elite) battled it out to dominate all 3 placings for the Warcraft 3 tournament for WCG China (Shanghai).

Weiliang “Fly” Lu (Team Mousesports) also takes the lead at WCG China, followed by Xiaofeng “Sky” Li and Xuwen “infi” Wang from Team World Elite in 2nd and 3rd place. All three win a spot to battle it out in the Grand finals in Chengdu later this year.

WCG China Final Standings

1. Weiliang ‘Fly100%’ Lu – 30,000RMB [$4,300] (Team Mousesports)
2. Xiaofeng ‘Sky’ Li – 10,000RMB [$1,300] (Team World Elite)
3. Xuwen ‘infi’ Wang – 5,000 RMB [$650] (Team World Elite)

Asus Summer 2009 – Alexey ‘Cypher’ Yanusheusky from Team Serious Gaming clinches the Quake 3 championship after defeating some of the world’s leading European Quakelive/Quake3 gamers.

The plus point? All 3 positions were dominated by our team of sponsored pro gamers (2nd Place Cooller from Team Mousesports and Jibo from Team Razer) . Rock!

Final Result ASUS Summer Cup 2009

1st place – Alexej “Cypher” Yanushevky (Team Serious Gaming) 20,000 Rubels ($640 USD)
2nd place – Anton “Cooller” Singov (Team Mousesports) 12,000 Rubels ($370 USD)
3rd place – Fan “Jibo” Zhibo (Team Razer) 8,000 Rubels ($255 USD)

Once again, our heartiest congratulations to our pro gaming teams from Team Razer!

These guys truly walk the talk.

=== COMING SOON ===

Keep in tune if you wanna win one of our Team Sphexs. (comes in 4 available Team Razer designs)

The Razer Sphex Gaming Desktop Team Edition Skins will be available for purchase exclusively on razerzone.com. Crafted with team motifs from professional eSports Teams such as Team Serious Gaming, Mousesports, World Elite ‘Sky’ and Team Dignitas! Four special editions, specially for eSports and precision fanatics.

Discover more details here

Razer and ESL TV are proud to join forces and announce their first ever QuakeLive invitational tournament. Both parties are passionate and fully committed to putting Quake back on the eSports map, starting with our first Live broadcast on the 14th July 2009.

Our invitational is destined be the most intense and competitive online tournament since the birth of QuakeLive. Razer is proud to be the preferred choice by pro gamers, and will be sponsoring prizes for viewers during the live show, hosted by James “2GD” Harding – Host and Editor at ESL TV.

With the top European professional gamers taking part, we would like to invite you to join us over at ESL TV.

Participating Gamers:
srs/rzr/av3k
SK|bodzo
srs/rzr/cypher
broken`calipt
spart1e
LLL*fox
dignitas/GaRpY
dignitas/HELL
RazerJibo
noctis
mTw|smoke
Stermy
[R]draven

Show schedules:

Tuesday, July 14th – Introductory show, Including show match
Thursday, July 16th – 1st Qualifying Tournament
Tuesday, July 21st – 2nd Qualifying Tournament
Thursday, July 23rd – 3rd Qualifying Tournament
Tuesday, July 28th – 4th Qualifying Tournament
Thursday, July 30th – Grand Finals

Show starts at 19:00 CEST; Ends 21:00 CEST at ESL TV.

James “2GD” Harding – Host and Editor at ESL TV

It’s with great pleasure that we bring the Quake community a tournament the scene so desperately needed and which fans have eagerly anticipated. ESL TV aims to bring you the perfect balance of entertainment and insightful commentary with our years of broadcasting expertise. This is our first major step into QuakeLive. We aspire to build, nurture and invigorate electronic sports. We’d like to thank Razer for its ongoing eSports support. Without them this tournament wouldn’t have been possible. And we’re thrilled to team up and bring the quake community what should be an outstanding tournament.

Robert “Razerguy” Krakoff, President of Razer

In 1999 Razer sponsored our first Quake invitational event in Stockholm Sweden and after 10 years we are proud to sponsor the ESL’s 2009 Quake Live Invitational. It is huge to be here for the next generation of Quake champions.

Good luck gamers!

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