AsiaFortress wrapped up today. Results from the Division 1 and 2 grand finals posted below:

Division 1:
The Fluffy 6
Galaxy

Division 2:
+ Xtremely Generic Name (+XGN)
syck

The Future Cafe in Al Ain is hosting a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament tonight (Friday) at 21:30 GST. The prize pot is going to be AED 2000 - 1st place 1500 & 2nd Place 500.
We will update this space once the tourney is over.

The qualifiers for this year's WCG India 2010 has ended. The event saw six qualifiers being held at six different cities. The winners from these qualifiers moved on to the National Finals which was held at Essel World, Mumbai.

» The 6 teams that made it past the city qualifiers:

Virtual Impact - Bengaluru
iNvictus - Hyderabad
MakeWay - Chennai
Diemensions - New Delhi
Colossal Damage (Brutality) - Pune
A+e Gaming - Mumbai

» The above 6 teams were then grouped:

Group A:
A+e Gaming
MakeWay
Diemensions

Group B:
iNvictus
Colossal Damage
Virtual Impact

Group A Results:
A+e vs Makeway : 16-9
A+e vs Diemensions: 16-4
MakeWay vs Diemesions: N/A

Group B Results:
iNvictus vs Colossal Damage: 16-14
iNvictus vs Virtual Impact: 15-15
Colossal Damage vs Virtual Impact: 16-7

This way, A+e Gaming (with 2 wins) & MakeWay qualified from Group A. Whereas, Team iNvictus (with 1 win & 1 draw) & Colossal Damage qualified from Group B.

The first semi-final was played between A+e Gaming & Colossal Damage. This turned out to be a great match as all 3 maps were close. But in the end, A+e Gaming emerged to be victorious.
A+e Gaming vs Colossal Damage [Dust2 16-13, Inferno 9-16, Train 16-14]

The second semi-final was between iNvictus & MakeWay, where iNv proved to be stronger and gained entry into the National Finals to face A+e Gaming.

The National Final saw A+e Gaming & iNvictus battling it out for the WCG India 2010 title. However, A+e Gaming had no difficulties winning the finals as they won both maps with a large margin.
A+E Gaming vs iNv [Dust2 16-4, Train 16-4].

With this victory, A+e Gaming have won 5 WCG qualifiers in India in a row from WCG 2006 onwards.

A+e Gaming [ Rshkhn^ , Wuzz , f1re , r4iD , RiTz ]
iNvictus [ ribbi , smOka , spAz , BinaryBug , L337 ]



A+e Gaming have not only won a fully-paid trip to Los Angeles, USA, to play the WCG 2010 Grand Finals, but the winning team also won 5 x Laptops, 5 x Samsung Mobile Phones & 5 x Razer Gaming Mice.

UPDATE: The demos from the National Finals are out.

Demos: A+e Gaming Website (Registration Required) - WCG India Facebook Page

The Elite.AA Cafe tournament which was announced here is over. The tournament was played on the steam version of Counter-Strike. Initially, 12 teams had registered for the tournament, but 2 teams from Dubai left early as it was 12:30am when the tournament had finally started.
Team Warrior.aa, who had defeated iMPULSE in the last tournament, were shown the exit early on as A-List defeated them [16-4, 16-4]. The semis were between NGU vs A-List [2-1 for NGU] & iM vs Team Star(*) [2-0 for iM].
The finals was played between NGU & iMPULSE, where on de_dust2, iMPULSE had to squeeze past NGU in OT [19-17]. The second map, de_nuke, was not as close as the previous map, as iM sealed the deal with a 16-7 scoreline. Thus, winning the finals 2-0.

Final standings as follows:
Impulse [ St1cker , Sak , whMsy , al00X , 3lawi ] - AED 3,500
NGU [ breAker , bruce_lee , s0mething J. , warLock , domenic ] - AED 1,500
A.list [ zTara , U43.KB , blanka , smasher , danger ] - Free cafe hours

Click here for the demos.

Here we are again with a new cup for the new week, with a new name! Yes, from now we shall be calling this cup the SC2.AE Weekly Cup since it makes better sense, and we have made some slight changes with the rules, so check down below for more info. This cup from now on shall be hosted on a one week on, one week off basis, just to give players a chance to revise their previous mistakes, as we are all still learning, and better their gameplay by every cup that passes, hopefully.

» Simple guidelines (UPDATED):

1. Sign-ups for the weekly cup will only be available for the first 3 days from the date it has begun.
2. Sign up with your Battle.net (EUROPE) character name & code (ex: unknown.123)
3. 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.
4. REMEMBER: Preliminary, first round, and semi-finals have to be done by Thursday, so that we can commence with finals on Friday.
5. Make sure to appropriately report scores, save your replay, and upload it to this site after your matches are played. You can add it under “Match Attachments” button by your names.

» Map Pool:

Preliminary Round: Steppes of War (bo1)
Round 1: Xel Naga Caverns (bo1)
Semi-Final: (bo3)
Final: (bo3)

Facebook Group | Sign-up page | IRC chat

UPDATE!!
The links have been updated for the cup on 26th August, 2010. Please be informed!

CyAC Sunday Cup is back!
Now open! the sign-ups for the 6th India/ Singapore/ UAE Quake Live Duel Sunday Cup which is on 29th August 2010! Go ahead & sign up!

» Cup info:

Map pool: qzdm6 | qzdm13 | qztourney7 | qztourney9 | ztntourney1

Format:
Rounds 1, 2 & Semi-Finals: best-of-1 matches
Finals: best-of-3 match

» Prizes:

1st Prize

+ 1600CyEN

2nd Prize

+ 800CyEN

3rd Prize

+ 400CyEN

» Server Info:

in.servegame.org:27082 [Duel Server] (6 slots)
in.servegame.org:27080 [TDM/CA/CTF Server] (8 slots)


Please see the following links for all the details:

Summary | Brackets | Participants | Sign Up

It requires you to be on #sundaycup@irc.friend-chat.jp or #cyac@irc.friend-chat.jp to be able to know about your matches. In case you have no experience with IRC, a simple guide to IRC has been linked in this thread. You can also post your CyAC ID here along with your other contact information [mobile number, Gtalk/MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/XFire/Steam] on which you can be contacted regarding your match.

The Thai qualifiers for MSI 'BEAT IT' finals is over. A total of 14 teams showed up at the Sakhi Cybercafe to gain a spot for the Grand Finals in Beijing.

The final match was between NearlyGod.Roccat and SUPREME. NearlyGod.Roccat managed to defeat SUPREME with a 16-9 scoreline.

NearlyGod.Roccat [ Hax0r , Reno , Rapper , Thee-o , ViperDemon ]
SUPREME [ Aim , Ott0 , fRiend , pippy , dreamily ]

They are the final team to qualify for the MSI "BEAT IT" finals. A total of 12 teams will be fighting for a total prize purse of $25000 & also 5 MSI GT660's. The event will be held between 4th-6th September in Beijing.

Teams attending BEAT IT:
Fnatic
Complexity
Evil Geniuses
WeMade Fox
Immunity
H2k-Gaming
UMX Gaming
Tyloo
Espirit
ATE-Gaming
VN Gaming
NearlyGod

Click here for pics from the Thai qualifiers.

Dharma Point is a Japanese firm that make gaming gear especially designed and suited for Japanese gamers. They've sent us one from their several different products for review. Let's get on to it.

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The third season of the Asia Fortress League has finally reached it's play-offs. Only 8 of the 18 teams could get past the group stage, you can see who managed to do so here.

WeMade FOX have won the South Korea WCG 2010 National Qualifiers for Counter-Strike after beating esq.wind in the finals.

WeMade FOX [ bail , glow , peri , solo , Termi ]
esq.wind [ sukha , musa , jonghyun , kuni , mong ]

The scores were [16-1] on de_inferno and [16-5] on de_dust2. WeMade FOX have now gained a spot in the World Cyber Games 2010 Grand Finals to be held in Los Angeles, USA.

HLTV.org has more info.