Rapture Gaming has responded to criticism from the DotA community that was sparked off by the recent disqualification of team BRTS* during the Intel Gaming Cup 2007 Open Category tournament. Read more »
[b]The World Cyber Games 2007 Singapore Championship tournament schedule have been released along with the launch of the WCG 2007 Singapore official website.[/b] [center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/wcg.png[/img][/center] The WCG 2007 Singapore Championship expands upon the touring format that has been seen in previous years. The tournament will be making stops at polytechnics and community clubs. There are also efforts to bring competitive video gaming to a wider audience, with a SAFRA League, an event at the SHINE youth festival and the Home Team NS League, which appears … Read more »
[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/igc.png[/img][/center] The brackets for this Saturday’s Intel Gaming Cup 2007 Grand Finals have been drawn in a live draw and released. Read more »
[center][img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/igc.png[/img][/center] Em Ai Two (Mi2) and Feeder Village (T@x!S~) have been seeded into the Intel Gaming Cup 2007 Grand Finals after defeating oRz and BakeaCake respectively in the finals of their Open Category brackets. Read more »
[b]Rapture Gaming plans to switch all its DotA Allstars tournaments over to version 6.43b by the open of the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2007 Samsung Campus Festival.[/b] Rapture Gaming Event Executive Andy Tan revealed that version 6.43b was undergoing internal testing. When the map and rule set have been deemed stable and the game play smooth, the switchover will take place. Currently, Rapture Gaming competitions, such as the Intel Gaming Cup 2007, are on version 6.41. Version 6.43 contains several game play changes, the biggest of which is the change of Aegis of the Immortal from a … Read more »
[b]Teams Zenith, xqR, TFO (Nightmare), EnGulf, Rex and Wudi have qualified for the Intel Gaming Cup (IGC) 2007 Grand Finals.[/b] [img]http://www.gamesync.net/img/headers/igc.png[/img] The matches for day one of the IGC Open Category were mostly well known teams against relative unknowns, with most of the results being clear cut. Tomorrow's opening matches promise to make it an exciting day for both participants and spectators. In the first round, Gamers Inc`Alpha will be up against a reformed Em Ai Two (Mi2), while their brother team Gamers Inc finds themselves up against rEv0. The … Read more »
The debate over whether to hold the 2007 Games Xtreme League (GXL) Season 01 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne league in a traditional solo format or a clan based format has revealed the sometimes antagonistic relationship between the community, organizers and sponsors. Read more »
Denmark-based professional e-sports team Meet Your Makers has announced the fifth edition of its international DotA Allstars tournament, MYM Prime Defending (PriDe). Read more »
[b]Matthieu Dallon, the mastermind behind the [url=http://www.eswc.com/]Electronic Sports World Cup[/url] (ESWC) gave some rare and frank insight into the business end of e-sports in an interview conducted by Michal Blicharz of the [url=http://www.ggl.com/]Global Gaming League[/url] (GGL).[/b] Dallon is the president of Games Services, the company which organizes the ESWC. He cited the glut of e-sports competitions, legal pressure from game owners, and an overdependence on sponsorship as a source of revenue as the three biggest challenges faced by e-sports organizations today. Dallon … Read more »
We've taken advantage of this small lull in Singapore video gaming news to begin work on restoring some of the [url=http://www.gamesync.net/features/interviews]interviews[/url] GameSync conducted in 2005, our first year of operations. Browsing through the interviews we conducted then, it quickly became obvious that the local gaming scene has come a long way since the heady days of 2005. Read more »
