The gaming press from all over the world has voted for Players and Revelations of 2007 in Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3 and Quake 4. For the first time in the award’s history, two players will share an award.

The Player of the Year in Counter-Strike is Filip “NEO” Kubski from Meet Your Makers. He won two out of three of the most prestigious tournaments in 2007 with PGS Gaming and performed very well for the large part of the year. He received 37 points, 10 more than Patrick “cArn” Sattermon (27 points) and the 2006 Player of the Year Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg (17).

Mickael “mSx” Cassisi is the Revelation of 2007 in Counter-Strike. The award is traditionally given to the players that made the biggest breakthrough in one year, and mSx was the player that took emuLate to a gold medal in the World Cyber Games. The Frenchman got 29 points. Just four points behind him was mTw’s Christoffer Sunde, who was the ESWC and WCG runner up with his danish team, known in 2007 as NoA. Continued…



Every year, GGL invites several prominent e-Sports coverage sites to vote for the e-Sports Players of the Year. The categories cover three e-Sports games with long traditions and histories: Quake (in this case, Quake 4), Warcraft III and Counter-Strike 1.6.

Each voter (or site) selects three players from every category and assigns them a rank from 1-3. Rank 1 receives 5 points, Rank 2 receives 3 points, and Rank 3 receives 1 point. At the end of the voting process, the points are tallied and the winners are announced. You can see the 2006 winners at GGL.com in a legacy format.

Without further ado, let’s name the 2007 nominees: Continued…



The Championship Gaming Series has got four new teams since last weekend after qualifiers and drafts for Europe and South America took place in Birmingham and Mexico City. Matches to determine the regional champions for the first season of the CGS have also taken place with Berlin Allianz winning in Europe and Mexico City Furia winning in South America. Continued…



Last night, Gameriot’s Rod Breslau posted a news item with the names and logos of the new Championship Gaming Series franchises, beating the CGS itself to it. Following GR, several other sites posted the news.

The CGS has taken action to have news about the names and teams removed. Gameriot and ESReality (a site owned by London GM Sujoy Roy) have been friendly enough to remove their articles. Others, like SK Gaming, Fragbite and Readmore did not do so. SK Gaming also suggested bribery on CGS’s part. Continued…