This February, FnaticMSI PLAY will begin its first venture into Starcraft with its inagural tournament!

FnaticMSI's PLAY events have been incredibly popular throughout the gaming world, bringing in great fun, prizes, and competition to Quake, Counter Strike, HoN, and CoD. Now PLAY will be venturing into the Starcraft universe. The first PLAY SC2 tournament will be held Saturday, February 6th 2011 on the EU Battle.net server. Up for grabs is some prize money, a MSI GT laptop, and products from Steel Series and Bigfoot Networks - bringing the pot to over $3,000! 

Without further adieu, here is the tournament information: 

When: Sunday February 6th, 2011 at 19 CET 
Check-in: Sunday February 6th, 2011 - from 18:00 until 18:45 CET
Format: Single elimination, max 512 players, games BO1 until Ro8, then BO3 until Grand Final
Who can play: Anyone with an EU Battle.net account 

Map List: 

  • Ro256 : Blistering Sands 
  • Ro128 : Jungle Basin
  • Ro64 : Metalopolis 
  • Ro32 : Lost Temple 
  • Ro16 : Xel Naga 
  • Ro8 : Shakuras (Loser choose next map) 
  • Semi Final : Metalopolis (Loser choose next map)
  • Grand Final : Xel Naga (Loser choose next map)  

Everyone is probably interested in the prize pool, here it is: 

It is mandatory to have your Battle.net user name added and you can do it via the DASHBOARD. The tournament will be cast by none other than Andre "Gretorp" Hengchua, and will run until we have determined a winner! Sign up today, because the event will cap at 256 participants. 

If you want to sign up, go HERE. 

MSI Notebook

MSI Notebook

MSI is proud of its more than 20 years experience in designing and manufacturing high performance IT products. The product lines of MSI are motherboards, graphic cards, notebooks, consumer electronics, barebones, networking and server products, and fully integrated add-on peripherals. With its ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 qualified facilities, MSI products provide the ultimate performance, reliability and value-increasing productivity. 
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SteelSeries

SteelSeries

SteelSeries is all about gaming. Their mission is to create performance enhancing gaming gear, created for and by leading professional gamers. They continuously strive to better themselves, and work with leading professional gamers from 3 different continents to create their products. Their staff are distributed throughout the world, working from offices in Europe, North America and Asia.

The SteelSeries headquarters are located in Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark), and host the primary office facilities for the company. The headquarters handle all planning, production and partner coordination. For logistical reasons they also have sales offices in Asia (Taipei, Taiwan) and USA (Los Angeles, California). From Taipei they can reach the entire Asian market, as well as New Zealand and Australia. From Los Angeles they can reach North America, Canada and South America. All manufacturing is done by sub-suppliers from Europe and Asia, and then delivered to one of the warehouses for final processing.

Bigfoot Networks

Bigfoot Networks

Bigfoot Networks, the networking technology company behind the Killer® line of gaming network cards, develops groundbreaking networking hardware and software for gamers and mass-market consumers. Bigfoot aims to support the rapidly growing online and competitive gaming markets, in addition to mainstream consumer applications that can benefit from the company's leading technology. 

The company's second-generation gaming network card, Killer Xeno, offers integrated audio for hardware-accelerated voice-chat, designed to bring gamers the ultimate online experience. In addition, the Killer Xeno platform provides Bigfoot Networks™ partners and customers the fastest time to market with a flexible product design for customizing, licensing and distributing Killer Xeno. Bigfoot Networks is funded by leading venture capital firms North Bridge Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures. To learn more, visit Bigfoot Networks at www.bigfootnetworks.com.

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