Here's the follow-up to the recent news post about the CS1.6 tournament organised by the Emperors network in Dubai, UAE.

The actual format is 2 tournaments leading up to another bigger tournament, which can be considered as 2 qualifiers and the grand finals. The top 2 teams from both qualifiers will play in the grand finals. The prizes for the qualifiers are AED2500 (~US$680) for the winners and free play time at Emperors for members of the runner-up team. The grand final's prizes are AED5000 (~US$1361) for 1st, AED2000 (~US$544) for 2nd and AED1000 (~US$272) for 3rd place. The tournament held on 8th Jan was the first qualifier, the Dubai qualifier, which was for teams from Dubai only. Results:

Winner:
Impulse - whmsy/havoK/add1ct/shazak/jap

Runner-Up:
Team Giga - jamal/danger/Rani/Oji/mahdi

The 2nd qualifier, the Abu Dhabi qualifier, will be for teams from Abu Dhabi and Al Ain only. The top 2 here will receive the prizes for qualifiers and will go on to play in the grand finals. It will be held this coming Friday (15th Jan). The grand finals will be held on the Friday after that which is the 22nd of January, and most probably in double-elimination format.

I should add that Emperors is now very well set up. The PCs are great and they have some really slick hardware (old school Plantronics DSP-500!). One issue are the widescreens which are total BS for CS1.6 (similar to the ones that Que Club now has in their new extension). There's one 5v5 stage with a dedicated server, and a separate 'special' area. The charges are AED5/hour generally and AED10/hour for the 5v5 stage and the special area. Smoking is not allowed inside Emperors. The special area is a separate room with slightly better hardware, slightly bigger monitors, and you are also allowed to smoke. It's probably for the WOW fags. There's also another room with consoles and HDTVs, where I saw some guys playing Pro Evo on a PS3. I've attached a few random crappy pics that I received from someone, just for the heck of it.

Thanks to whmsy for the tournament info (and havoK too).

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The IEM4 Asian QuakeLive Championship will be hosted in Taiwan with the finals starting from February 5th to February 9th. The current released list of invited players are:

Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani
Joe "Fenda" Fender
Tahara "uNleashed" Naonobu
Lee "Gosia" Byungwook
Zhibo "Fan Zhibo" Fan
Sung-Lin "Mustaine" Tsai

Cash prizes are as follows:
1st: $1,750
2nd: $800
3rd: $550
4th: $300
5-8th: $150

Links: ESR Newspost - Asian Invitees - ESL IEM4 Asia

The Emperors Gaming Network (of Dubai, UAE) had closed some time ago for renovations and to 'refresh' the place, just like other networks, some of which are already done while some are still in the process.

Emperors will be opening again very soon and have announced a CS1.6 tournament which will be held on 8th January 2010. It's said that a good amount of money is up for the winners but the amount is currently unknown. Will update this as soon as we know.

Extra: the tournament is for teams from Dubai only, no teams from other emirates (eg. Abu Dhabi, Al Ain) are to participate in this tournament. This also means that the tournament will start and end on time instead of dragging past midnight into the next morning. Teams from other emirates will be able to participate in another tourney to be held very soon after this one.

ZOWIE GEAR is a recently started company that have been making quite a buzz for some time. From what has been seen they are pretty hardcore and are also actually working with pro gamers. They sent in 2 products, their new headset and a hybrid mousepad designed by Counter-Strike great SpawN.

Click the following to read the reviews:

• ZOWIE G-TF SpawN Mousepad
• ZOWIE Hammer Headset
  

Quad Gaming is a new South Korean company that make gaming hardware and accessories. These guys have been getting quite popular recently, especially in their home country, but don't have any website at the moment. This review is about their Fab series of cloth gaming mousepads.

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The newly opened Future Cafe in Al Ain, UAE will be hosting a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament today, Friday December 25th. Prize details are unknown. Winners will be announced tonight or tomorrow.

Update: Elite.AA has won the tournament. Congratulations to them.

1st. Elite.AA [AlKaser/54lf4n/ww2/Domenic/FBI]
2nd. MyF (Mix team) [Essa/AlW47sh/Bl4nka/Sosa/Ringer]
3rd. Heroes.AA [Hunter/Rock/Mafia/Smiley/Hazza3]

The CityGames Counter-Strike 1.6 Tournament taking place in Saudi Arabia has concluded. The winners are:

1st. L*S
2nd. Kamikaze
3rd. Team Offenders

Team L*S wins 10,000 riyals.

Here's a picture of the winning team L*S. Congratulations to them!

The groups for the Game-On MEA National Final have been announced. The matches will start on Monday, 4th January 2010. There are 4 groups with 4 players in each, and the top 2 from each group will advance to the 8-player playoffs.

Here are the groups:

» Group A
spammah
MaNi_DaDuDe
LunaTeck
GunmaN

» Group B
rage285
TmaTT
YMH
frozenzero

» Group C
memph1s
EleoT
McFRAGG3R
Smartic

» Group D
semsem99
havoK
Backstabber
RaYYaN


Click here for the dedicated thread. You can also go here to go to the groups page with detailed info, and here for the main page.

Planet Giga LAN cafe in Dubai will be hosting one of their weekly tournaments with an unknown prize pot, December 11th 2009 (today). As usual, the tournament will start quite late at 18:00 PM or so.

Update: A mix team from Al Ain has won the tournament. Congratulations to them.

1st. Al Ain Mix [Breaker/Ramb0/Mafia/FBI/Inho]
2nd. Team Smasher [Smasher/Teka/Kartoon/Wala3/17]

Update: Cup #8 is now over, YMH is the winner.

The regional finals are up next, and will be on 4th January 2010.

» Final standings:

YMH - 60 points
spammah - 54 points
memph1s - 48 points
Backstabber - 30 points
havoK - 14 points
TmaTT - 12 points
McFRAGG3R - 12 points
Gunman_csz - 12 points
rage285 - 8 points
Mani_DaDude - 8 points
frozenzero - 6 points [NO SHOW]
EleoT - 4 points
Rayyan - 2 points
Lunateck - 2 points
Maestro - 2 points [NO SHOW]


The last cup of Intel/ESL GameOn MEA, cup #8, will take place on December 9th, Wednesday at 22:00 PM GMT+4. You can sign up for it here.
You can check this thread if you need any help with registration etc.

Links: Intel/ESL GameOn Cup MEA