The first ever Starcraft 2 tournament in the UAE is complete. Results:

Blitzkrieg
MarwanBaki

Congrats!

You can see the brackets and other info in the main post. Stay tuned for the announcement of the next cup!

The Que Club Ramadan Tournament, previously announced here, has finished. A total of 16 teams turned up for this tournament. NGU and Team Warrior got to the finals but it seems Warrior forfeited because the time by then was 6am. The teams decided to share the prize money of AED 3500.

NGU [ breAker , brucelee , domenic , w4rlock , something ] - AED 1750
WRR.aa [ rambo , hazza3 , kyo , mafia , rock ] - AED 1750

WRR.aa played iMPULSE in the semi-finals which was an upset as WRR beat iM [16-14; dust2] and [16-3; inferno].

» The playoffs (single elimination)

1st round (1 map)
iMpulse vs RS -> iMpulse
PLO vs GH -> GH
HZ team vs SALAH -> HZ team
FT5 vs Warrior -> Warrior
NGU vs GMC -> NGU
spicy vs royals -> royals
jamal vs common team -> common team
qclub vs A.list -> A.list

2nd round
iMpulse vs GH -> iMpulse
HZ team vs Warrior -> Warrior
NGU vs royals -> NGU
common team vs A.list -> A.list

Semi-finals
iMpulse vs Warrior -> Warrior
A.list vs NGU -> NGU

Finals
NGU vs Warrior -> NGU (forfeit win)

» Some team line-ups:

A.list [ zTara , blanka , smasher , dala3 , danger ]
iMpulse [ whmsy , add1ct , shazak , krona 3lawe ]
Warrior [ rambo , hazza3 , kyo , mafia , rock ]
NGU [ breAker , brucelee , domenic , w4rlock , something ]
HZ team [ HZ , spammah , skipper , a1mb0t , yaf3i ]
common team [ common , wolfpac , kartoon , karkor , tsunamy ]

» Demos

iM vs GH [16-13]
iM vs WRR (Maniac recommends!)

The Hong Kong National Qualifiers for WCG 2010 are over. The team Duskbin won the CS1.6 qualifiers after beating inFragzion in the finals.

Coming from the lower bracket, inFragzion had to win 2 maps in a row to defeat Duskbin. First map was de_inferno, where inFragzion proved to be stronger and won the map 16-11. However, in the second map (de_dust2), Duskbin starting off as CT, won all 15 rounds of the first half. After half-time and now as T, Duskbin got their final round to defeat inFragzion with a 16-0 thrashing.



Duskbin [ Pixl , perhaps , protege , fungbi , Darkkis ] - $1287
inFragzion [ aumei , Express , Kristopher , Kerwin , Ryu ]- $386
2010 - $257

Duskbin have now gained a spot in the World Cyber Games 2010 Grand Finals to be held in Los Angeles, USA.

Ejram will be organising a Counter-Strike 1.6 online tournament for Middle Eastern players. More details can be found here. Tournament managing and organizing and all the other good stuff will be done through the forums here.

The Elite Cafe in Al Ain will be hosting a Counter-Strike 1.6 LAN tournament on August 27th, Friday. Prize pool will be AED 5,000. Prize distribution is as follows:

1st - AED 3,500
2nd - AED 1,500
3rd - Free hours

For more info, PM Fringe or call 050-3346667 or you could also contact him through his STEAM ID.

The Starcraft 2 community in UAE is organising free open 1v1 tournaments for all SC2 players in UAE. You can sign-up and get more info from this page. If you have any further queries you can send a PM to GunmaN and XothermeK, they are managing the tournaments.

IRC Channel

IRC Web Chat

You need to be on their IRC channel on the day of the tournament!

» Brackets

Quote:We are excited to finally announce the debut Starcraft 2 1on1 Friday Cup for all UAE players to join, enjoy, and showcase their skills they have accumulated thus far.

From August 20th, 2010 (Friday) onwards, we will be hosting this cup on a weekly basis, and in the future, once numbers of participants increase, we might have prizes added and granted to cup winners.

Simple guidelines:
- The entire tournament starts from the very morning of Friday (12AM) and must be completed within 24 hours of the day.

- Sign up with your Battle.net (EUROPE) character name & code (ex: unknown.123)
NOTE: Deadline of each week’s sign up is every Friday @ 12AM, so you have a whole week to decide whether you can make it or not!

- Wait for brackets to be made, once they are up, they will include your IDs to add your opponent in-game, and have your games played on the specified map for each round, respectively.

The Future Cafe in Al Ain hosted a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament on August 13th, Friday. The final match was between Assassins List & iMPULSE. The first map (de_train) was a close match, as iMPULSE had to squeeze past A-List in overtime. Going on to the second map (de_inferno), iMPULSE managed to defeat A-List [16-10] and win the finals [2-0].

iMPULSE [ krona , sak , wMz , 3lawi , add1ct ] - AED 1500
Assassins List [ Smasher , zTara , U43.KB , Blanka , Danger ] - AED 500

The prize pot was reported to be AED 5000, but this was not true as the teams found out, and it was also terribly organised. Participant(s) from the tournament informed us about some things regarding the tournament that you can read here. Members of the NGU team were organising admins.

Even though South Korea is one of the countries we'd like to provide news for through this website, it seems there is really no need for it as they must have a hundred different websites doing it for them. In any case,

The final standings are as follows:
Frag eXecutors - $12,572
WeMade FOX - $3,353
Fnatic - $1,676
TyLoo - $838

Head over to HLTV.org for more details, brackets, coverage, demos and all the good stuff.

NESMA.sa will be hosting a Counter-Strike 1.6 online championship tournament on August 13th or 14th. This is a Saudi Arabian online tournament that will be open to all Middle-Easterners. Click here (Google English Translated) to view the rules, regulations and guide to registration.

Links: NESMA.sa - NESMA.sa tournament thread - NESMa.sa 1.6 tournament (Translated)

The Que Club Cafe, Dubai, will be hosting a Ramadhan CS 1.6 tournament on August 19th, Thursday. The tournament will have a prize pot of AED 3500 - 1st place AED 2500 & 2nd place AED 1000.

The owner has given strict orders for teams to be at the cafe at 9:00pm. Teams that are not registered by 9:30pm WONT be allowed to participate.