EM3 with $750.000, CS 1.6 and WoW

Electronic Sports League today announces its third edition of Extreme Masters. The third season will stretch across three continents during the season.

Extreme Masters must be counted as the eSports answer to Champinons League. The prestigious league will this season not only more than double their total prize purse, but also replace one game. Do not fear they would remove Counter-Strike 1.6, as it’s once again one of the two official games this season. As you might have guessed, Warcraft 3 gets removed due to it not having a big enough worldwide appeal. Replacing Warcraft 3 will be by World of Warcraft, ESL already had a few test events with the game, latest at DreamHack Winter 2007.

This season, Extreme Masters will consist of three continental leagues; Asia, America and Europe. The best teams and players from each continental league will advance to the global finals at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, Germany. The season will kick off at Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig, Germany.
ESL states:

The third season of the Intel Extreme Masters unlocks a new level of eSports and entertainment. The Intel Extreme Masters Season III features events on three continents: Asia, America and Europe. The world's best eSport clans will be playing on highest performing Intel Extreme Processors on Alienware Systems from Dell's Gaming group competing for a prize money of 750,000USD. Counter-Strike 1.6 and World of Warcraft are the disciplines.

Last season we saw mousesports taking home the big check and the sparkling trophy. This season will without doubt once again be one of the most important tournaments for teams to win. We will be looking forward to season kickoff in August. HLTV.org will be your home for the entire Extreme Masters III season.

ROCCAT Competition winner

By: Nixon

Time: 2008-06-19 17:56

Prior to DreamHack Summer HLTV.org in cooperation with ROCCAT launched a competition for you guys to win great prizes. All you had to do was guess the top3 in the WGT tournament, but not a single one hit the jackpot.

So who will be the lucky winner of the ROCCAT products? To make it fair for everyone who submitted their guess in time, we made a random draw with all participants. The draw was made with a random number in the range from 1 to 376, the nummer drawn would match one of the comments made in the newspost.

The lucky one is: #43

anssi from Finland had mTw to win, but in the end he got lucky enough to walk away with the jackpot as nobody else guessed the right top3.

anssi will be receiving following products from ROCCAT:

1 x BLOWJOB t-shirt
5 x ROCCAT Sense mousepads
5 x ROCCAT lanyards

I would like to congratulate anssi and thanks to all the participants for their attendance. Look out for more competitions during the summer.

DreamHack Summer Event 08

By: Nixon

Time: 2008-06-14

Event: DreamHack Summer 08

HLTV.org arrived at the world’s largest computer festival yesterday already. Today all the fun begins and lots of exciting matches for you to follow.

We are here on-site covering the DreamHack Summer up close and you won’t miss a thing. The ESWC tournament will start at 15:00 CET with the first set of matches being played, which you already can find the HLTV for on our page. The interesting teams have started to show up in the ESWC arena to set up. We have already shot a series of photos from the event. During DreamHack Summer, you will be able to find the photos from each day in our DreamHack event gallery found here.

Here are a few shots of the event so far..