The IEM Asian Championships held in Taiwan is now over. Placings are listed below:

Counter-Strike 1.6:
1st. WeMade Fox - $11,000
2nd. UMX Gaming - $5,000 (20% prize money deducted for 2 penalty points)
3rd. Team TitaNs - $3,600
4th. Team Immunity - $1,800
5th-6th. Ka4 - $900
5th-6th. DuskBin - $900
7th-8th. edge7 - $900
7th-8th. XgamerS - $900

World of Warcraft:
1st. Button Bashers - $9,000
2nd. mousesports - $4,000
3rd. SK Korea - $2,800
4th. Death Blooms - $1,400
5th-6th. DkP - $700
5th-6th. R.O.C. - $700
7th-8th. Gaming - $700
7th-8th. Suit Time Alb - $700

QuakeLive:
1st. Jibo - $1,750
2nd. proZaC - $800
3rd. uNleashed - $550
4th. Fenda - $300
5th-6th. MUSTAINE - $150
5th-6th. Utal1ty - $150
7th. nitroN - $150

Links: ESL Taipei - Gaming420 ESL Taipei Discussion

The ESL Intel Season 4 GameOn MEA Cup has concluded tonight. Major thanks go to all the players who participated! Winners and rankings listed below:

spammah
GunmaN_csz
YMH

Final rankings:
1st. spammah - Intel® Core™ i7 Processor based desktop + spot to Cross-Country GameOn Finals
2nd. GunmaN_csz - Intel® Core™ i5 Processor based desktop
3rd. YMH - Intel® Core™ i5 Processor based desktop
4th. MCFRAGG3R - ROCCAT™ Kone Max Customization Gaming Mouse
5th-6th. RaYYaN
5th-6th. memph1s
7th-8th. TmaTT
7th-8th. rage285

In addition, two ROCCAT™ Sota Granular Gaming Mousepads will be given out at random to any of the participants.

All eight winners of the GameOn Cups will now face off each other. 1st place winner will win a Alienware M17x Laptop and free tickets to CeBit, Germany.

Links: PlayOff Brackets - Intel GameOn

DOTASG along with Cyberdome Cafe will be hosting the first ever Heroes of Newerth competition on Februrary 7th, Sunday.

Info & rules can be found here. Registration thread can be found here.

There is no actual directions to the place, but I'm quite sure Cyberdome is in dobhy ghaut; beside the place where our president guy lives. Its the corner unit of this hotel whose name eludes my memory.

Links: DOTASG Registration - Winter War Tournament Info - DOTASG

Some tournament organizers will be hosting the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7: Malaysian Edition which will take place from the 5th - 7th of March at Blitzone Cyber Cafe Damansara Jaya, Malaysia.

Tournament games used will be:
Call of Duty 4: Promod (5v5)
Counter-Strike 1.6 (5v5)
QuakeLive (1v1)

Registration fees and prizes are quoted as:

Quote:Registration fees are at RM30/Person and RM150/team. As this is an event with NO BUDGET and being organized for the community, by the community, 80% of the registration fees will go into the Prize Pot. More teams sign up, the bigger the Prize Pot.

Group Stage --> Single Map Double Elimination
For Team Games : Prize Triggers

8 Teams - RM 1000 1st Place
16 Teams - RM 2000 1st Place
24 Teams - RM 3000 1st Place
32 Teams - RM 4000 1st Place

Future Cafe will host one of their weekly Counter-Strike 1.6 tournaments in Al Ain, UAE on Friday, February 5th 2010. Winners will be announced when we know more.

Update: The tournament is over. Winners are listed below:

Warrior.AA [Pirlo/Rock/AlKaser/Avenger/Lord]
Dubai/AD Mix [Sticker/Skp#/TARIQ/HaMMaN#/DR.XP#]
Elites [Breaker/ChampioN/walele/ww2/Domenic]

The Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship Finals in Taiwan starts next week. Official games used for the tournament will be Counter-Strike 1.6, World of Warcraft and QuakeLive.

Participating teams and players:

Counter-Strike 1.6:
1. Team Titans
2. Team DuskBin
3. WeMade Fox
4. Team Immunity
5. Team UMX
6. Team Ka4
7. Team Edge7
8. XgamerS

QuakeLive:
1. Cyrus 'proZaC' Malekani
2. Joe 'Fenda' Fender
3. Tahara 'uNleashed' Naonobu
4. Lee 'Gosia' Byungwook
5. Zhibo 'RazerJ' Fan
6. Sung-Lin 'MUSTAINE' Tsai
7. Kong Chian 'nitroN' Lian
8. Utaro 'Utal1ty' Ohno

Update: Groups have been drawn!

» Counter-Strike 1.6

Group A
WeMade Fox
Team DuskBin
UMX Gaming
XgamerS

Group B
Team TitaNs
Team Immunity
Team Ka4
Team Edge7
» World Of Warcraft

Group A
Button Bashers
Team Infinity
ROC
Death Blooms

Group B
SK Gaming
Team Angelref
DKP
Gaming
» QuakeLive

Group A
Jibo
Fenda
Gosia
Utal1ty

Group B
uNleashed
proZaC
MUSTAINE
nitroN

Links: IEM Asia - Team DuskBin - Discussion Thread - Groups Drawn

The Street Fighter: 3rd Strike tournament held in Abu Dhabi is over. Results are below:

Duel 1v1 - 30 players:
Rizu
Furqan
Gambit

Team 2v2 - 20 teams:
Black_Berserk & EnvyMask
Gambit & Boss
Rizu & Furqan

Coverage videos can be found in the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/user/UAESF3rdStrike

The AsiaFortress Team Fortress 2 tournament wraps up on February 9th 2010 with .er and SLP going head-to-head in the 2nd set of the Grand Finals.

Today's 1st set of the Grand Finals ended with .er claiming a narrow win over SLP.

Map scores were cp_badlands: 4-0 SLP, cp_granary: 3-2 .er, cp_well: 2-1 .er (Golden Cap).

The 2nd set of Grand Finals will be played since .er progresses from the Lower Bracket Finals.

ESL|SaSa has kindly agreed to start some online cups for QuakeLive for the Middle East Region. Tentative date for the start of the first online cup is middle of February. Fixed dates and other info will be posted here as soon as we receive them. CS 1.6 Fun cups may also be possible soon.

General idea of a fun cup:
In a fun cup, teams/participants solely play in the tournament to gauge their skill levels vs. each other, win some fame and top seed spots for use in official tournaments in the future. Fun cups usually last 1 whole day or just 1 night. Tournament format is most likely single-elimination, best of 3 maps format.

XGAMES, a game hoster providing free game servers in the UAE will be hosting an official Counter-Strike 1.6 online tournament. The tournament format and prizes are currently unknown but will be updated when we find out more info. XGAMES volunteer admins will be managing the tournament. Tournament registration ends on February 14th.

Links: XGAMES Announcement - Tournament Details - Registration