Have you been loading up on your Nectar? Are you ready to test your skills? Ubisoft, Game Crazy, and GGL have teamed up to bring you an Official Haze 4v4 Tournament, where the top squad can win $5,000! The second place squad takes home two Ubisoft games per player, and everyone gets to join in on the thrill of heated competition.

The game drops on 5/20/08 but we’ll open up a Practice Ladder right here on 5/14/08 - join the group and start finding teammates now, so you can join the ladder and start challenging and playing opponents as soon as it opens. On 6/4/08 the Practice Ladder will be reset (all squads’ records and points set to 0), and we will start the official Ladder Stage.You can challenge other squads, play matches, and move up and down the ladder. Points are awarded not only for winning, but also just for playing, so the more you play the better you will do! At the end of the Ladder Stage on 7/13/08, the top 64 squads will advance to a single-elimination bracket, and the winner of the bracket phase gets $5,000!



scforall logoSCForAll.com has announced a StarCraft tournament open to the public with 128 slots available. the 300th, 500th, and 1000th user will receive a free mousepad autographed by a Korean pro gamer.

Prizes will be awarded to players who place from 1st to 16th place. Shoutcasting will be provided for the best matches. All players are eligible, regardless of nationality.

The tournament format is single-elimination, best of three. Semi-finals are best of five, and finals are best of seven. All the details can be found at the post at SCForAll.com.



GGL’s Ace Combat 6 tournament has concluded its Battle Royale, bringing an end to the $15,000 Ace Combat 6 tournament.

The Battle Royale was originally conceived as an 8-man free for all (in contrast to the 2v2 tournament), but only seven players made it to the match. Here are the results:

1. Devin “D Ray 13th” Ray ($2,500)
2. Adam “SHART STAINS” Wheeler ($1,000)
3. Casey “INEVITABLE HERO” Coleman ($500)
4. Mike “AirWolF 13th” McFadden
5. Leslie “THEBOOGIEMAN83” Brown
6. Eric “vintage” Jung
7. Joseph “tulosten” Pramuka

Congrats to all the winners!



Team Liquid StarLeague

After six years as one of the most prominent sources of StarCraft news, TeamLiquid.net is hosting its own tournament for the international community: the TeamLiquid StarLeague. Broadcast live with experienced English commentators, the TSL will attempt to look and feel just like a professional Korean tournament.

On the eve of StarCraft’s 10th Anniversary, with thousands of viewers watching and a prize pool of over $10,000 at stake, you could be the champion in StarCraft’s most prestigious online international tournament ever.

There are no invites. Anyone can make it. The ambitious will enter, the determined will qualify, but only the best will be victorious.

Prizes will be awarded to the top 16 players. View the breakdown: Continued…



A few days ago, I posted a news item about the Call of Duty 4 map pack. Now comes word that GameStop is hosting a preview event/party for the upcoming map pack. Dubbed the “Variety Map Pack Challenge Event,” attendees will be able to play the upcoming maps for various prizes, including a $1,000 gift card. Along with the gaming, there will be a Q&A session with the developers of COD4, trivia contests and eye tests.

Unfortunately for most of us, the event, which takes place on March 28, will only be held in New York City and San Jose. If you plan on attending you can register here. The first few who sign up will get a token that lets you download the map pack for free.

Sounds like fun. Too bad I lack the funds and the time to trek from Columbus, Ohio to NYC. If any of you plan on going drop us a comment letting us know how it went.

Read: GameStop Hosts COD 4 Map Pack Preview.



The 7th Edition of Epileptic Gaming’s Faces for Radio features two sets of special guests. We first talk to “Shart Stains” about his victory in GGL’s latest tournament, Ace Combat 6. We also discuss the tournament with Ace Combat Veteran & GGL Admin, “Airwolf 13th”. Our very special guest for this episode features Will from TheWiiCast. Will joins us to discuss the Nintendo Wii in a way it’s never been discussed on Epileptic Gaming or Faces for Radio. Will offers some great insight to the Wii as well as other consoles and the state of the video game industry. We get some great user call-ins from Deathsaw, Coldguy, and more!



Today, Gamestop announced that on Saturday they will be holding a Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament at 2,500 of its stores. The tournament will follow standard single elimination rules and will begin at 10PM. Gamestop asks that you arrive 30 minutes in advance to secure a seat.

Those who dominate the competition will advance to multiple qualifying rounds, ultimately leading to the finals, held in San Jose, CA on April 12th. The last man standing will receive a Nintendo Wii with accessories, an LCD-TV, “an entire Nintendo Wii Software Library” and $5,000 cash.

If you think you got the skills to make it all the way, you better cancel those Saturday night plans.

Details can be found here at the GameStop site.



Blizzard has released more details on its upcoming World of Warcraft tournament, showcasing NPCs who will equip you for all your battles.

In what I consider to be a brilliant move, the tournament will not require players to level up their characters. Instead, you will start at level 70 and get free epics in order to compete–separating the PVP and PVE portions of the game, hopefully, forever.

Gold will be obtained by speaking to an NPC gold giver. If you ask him/her for gold, you’ll get an easy 5,000 in order to pay for respecs, repair damage, and buy pretty much whatever you want. Speak to another NPC to get free epic items, and so on. Continued…



Today Blizzard Entertainment announced that they will be hosting a series of tournaments using the Arena system in World of Warcraft. Competitors will come from Europe, South Korea, North America, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau and will have to pay a $20.00 entry fee.

Due to the fact that you don’t need to level a character to play in the tournament, and epic/arena-quality gear is available from the start, all 10 million-plus WoW players are potential competitors.

The tournament will run for six weeks on special tournament realms. Throughout these six weeks, teams will play 3-vs.-3 matches. The top four teams from each round will advance to the regional finals. Here players will compete for more than $27,000 in cash prizes. Those who win the regional will then move on to a global championship event. At the championship event, players will then compete for $120,000 in cash prizes, including a $75,000 grand prize.

Competitors won’t actually be using their characters they put all that time and effort into leveling. When they go to make a character on the special realm, they will “instantly create level-70 characters with epic equipment.” According to Blizzard, this is to place the focus “on tactics and execution rather than normal adventuring.” Continued…



Hello, Ace Combat 6 fans! Your semi-finalists have been crowned!

As of yesterday, Jan. 3, four teams remain in the Military and Civilian brackets of our Ace Combat 6 competition. All four of them are headed to New York City for the televised finals on Gameplay HD.

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The GGL is proud to announce its new $15,000 Soldier of Fortune: Payback Xbox 360 tournament is now live! Players can compete in 1v1 or 4v4 battles in the Xbox 360 version of the game.

Qualified teams will be flown to New York City to compete in the finals at the Voom Gameplay HD studios!

Prize breakdown:

The first place 1v1 qualifier wins $1,000 and the runner up gets $500. In 4v4 competition, each player from the first place qualifier wins $500, while runners-up win $250 each. Travel and lodging for the televised finals will also be covered by the GGL.

To sign up for the tournament, visit sof.ggl.com.



GameStop announced today that it will be opening a new store that will host videogame tournaments as well as sell games. The San Jose, California store comes equipped with 24 networked gaming stations, and is the first in a line of tournament-focused stores.

Tournaments will occur most weekends and include “GameStop system-wide tournament finals occurring at least once a quarter.” The first event will take place noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 15. The game being played is Madden NFL ‘08, and the grand prize is a $1,000 shopping spree.

There was no announcement about how many tournament-focused stores GameStop plans to open, but I know I would be very excited if they were to open one in Columbus Ohio.

Read: GameStop Opens “Tournament Store”