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A new competition, The New Paper Cyber Challenge, has appeared in the tournaments listing on the e-Sports Championship website. The competition is slated to be held on 14 to 17 June 2007 and will feature 5 different PC and PlayStation 3 games. [b][color=red]UPDATE:[/color][/b] Today's edition of The New Paper carried features on the TNP Cyber Challenge. The official website for the event can be viewed [url=http://www.rapturegaming.com/tnp/]here[/url]. Read more »

[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/capl.png[/img][/center] The Compaq AMD Pro-gaming League 2007/08 season will be launched with an exclusive screening of blockbuster movie [i]Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End[/i] for 16 invited teams, followed by the Spring Season Open Category tournament to be held from midnight onwards. Read more »

[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/articles/2007-05-23_sgc07.jpg[/img] [size=1][color=grey]Lower secondary students from Saint Andrew's Secondary School taking part in the SGC 2007.[/color][/size][/center] The Saints' Gaming Challenge (SGC), a student organized competition for students of Saint Andrews' Secondary School, is being held for the second year running over this week, with the finals on Thursday, 24 May 2007. GameSync takes a look at how e-sports is treated in the school from the student's point of view. Read more »

[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/wcg.png[/img][/center] The match fixtures for the upcoming Nanyang Polytechnic Campus Preliminaries have been [url=http://sg.worldcybergames.com/nyp_schedule.html]released[/url]. The NYP Campus Prelim will be held over Thursday and Friday, on 24 and 25 June 2007. Apparently, Counter-Strike 1.6 has been dropped from the NYP prelims due to a lack of interest in the game. As of last week, none of the 16 slots for CS 1.6 had been taken … Read more »

Fragnetics and StarHub have signed an agreement to jointly host a dedicated Steam Content Server for Singapore users of the Steam software distribution platform, promising faster downloads of games and updates through Steam. Read more »

[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/games_dota.jpg[/img][/center] [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/flags/flag_my.gif[/img] [b]RoA[/b] and [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/flags/flag_sg.gif[/img] [b]Zenith[/b] have been invited to play in the finals of the Tycoon Synergy Experts, Inc. DotA Tournament, featuring a top prize of PHP 150,000 (SGD 4,935). The finals will be held on 23 June 2007, at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall in Pasay City, Metro Manilla, Philippines. Read more »

After several weeks from the first hints of a new Blizzard game release on their website, many were wondering if it will be StarCraft II or Diablo III. Finally on 19 May 2007 at Seoul, South Korea, Blizzard Entertainment announced the sequel to their award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft, at the 2007 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational. Read more »

[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/capl.png[/img][/center] The Compaq AMD Pro-Gaming League Awards Night 2007 exclusive event concluded on Friday night. The exclusive Awards Night, a first-of-its-kind in Singapore, went smoothly but was marred by the less than satisfactory turnout. Read more »

[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/capl.png[/img][/center] The CAPL Awards Night 2007 will go live this evening at the Home Club at The Riverwalk. GameSync is now live on-site where the preparations are on going, and we present to you now a preview on the activities and awards to be given out tonight. Read more »

[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/wcg.png[/img][/center] A DotA Allstars tournament has been added to the WCG.SG 2007 SAFRA League, slated to be held on 26 and 27 May 2007 at SAFRA Mount Faber. The tournament is open to the public. Read more »