Let’s Battle Again From Now On!!
Taipei, Taiwan, 23th September, 2011 – GIGABYTE Technology, a world leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is proud to announce the second season of the GIGABYTE StarCraft® II tournament series. GIGABYTE decided to enlarge their support of eSports and is excited for the tournament series to be continued on Blizzard Entertainment's European Battle.net® servers.
The second tournament season consists of 13 tournaments, played on a weekly basis. Players from all over the world will be able to compete for the prize money of 150 EUR each week and in addition gain ranking-points in order to qualify for a final tournament with a prize pool of 850 EUR and additional hardware by GIGABYTE! The tournaments take place each Monday with up to 512 players and start at 18:00 CEST. Anyone is welcome to sign up in the tournament and compete against the best StarCraft® II players on the European Battle.net® server! The second season will be broadcasted by high-class live video-streams in order to provide the best possible coverage for the gaming community.
“GIGABYTE StarCraft® II Tournament” details
starts each Monday at 18:00 CEST
13 qualification tournaments
Top 8 players get qualification points
Live broadcasting of the best matches
Hardware raffles during the course of the tournament series
Prize money for each of the 12 weekly tournaments
1st place: 100 EUR
2ndplace: 50 EUR
Prize distribution for Grand Final Winners!!
1st place: 500 EUR + G1.Sniper + GIGABYTE GTX 580 SO Edition (GV-N580SO-15I)
2nd place: 250 EUR + GIGABYTE GTX 560 Ti OC Edition (GV-N560OC-1GI) + SSD
3rd place: 100 EUR + Aivia K8100 Macro Gaming Keyboard + Aivia M8600 Macro Gaming Mouse
GV-N580SO-15I
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Super Overclock Edition
GIGABYTE WINDFORCETM 3X Anti-turbulence Inclined Triple Fan
Extreme Dual BIOS Technology
Ultra Durable VGA+ High Quality Components
GPU GauntletTM Sorting Technology
Dedicated Voltage Read Point Design
OC Guru – Graphics Card Smart Tuner
GV-N560OC-1GI
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Overclock Edition
GIGABYTE WINDFORCETM 2X Parallel-inclined anti-turbulence cooling design. PWM fan: 80mm PWM fan & run up to 3300 RPM; 4 pure copper heat pipes
Ultra Durable VGA high quality Components
Core/Mem clock: 900 (std 822) /4000 MHz
Aivia K8100 Macro Gaming Keyboard
Enhanced ergonomic gaming keyboard design
Touch and slide volume control
20 anti-ghosting keys
GHOSTTM Macro Engine
LED backlight illumination with on/off switch
Aivia M8600 Gaming Mouse
GamePlayTM wireless technology
100-hour long-lasting Li-ion battery
Quick-swap Battery System
GHOSTTM engine with 32KB onboard memory
Dual mode functionality
Multi-functional charging dock
For further information and registration for the tournaments please visit: http://starcraft.gigabyte.com
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