HEAVEN MEDIA ANNOUNCE THE ASUS REPUBLIC OF GAMERS TOURNAMENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH ESPORTS HEAVEN

Three tournaments over two months with £1,500+ in prizes.

30th August 2010 (Huntingdon, UK) – Heaven Media, in partnership with Asus, today announced the Asus Republic of Gamers Tournament to be run on Esports Heaven, Europe’s premier esports cups website.



Over the two months of August and September, £1,500 will be given out in prize money over three different tournaments.

The prize fund will be split across Counter Strike: Source, Call of Duty 4 and Team Fortress 2 with £500 going to each game. Heaven Media’s partner websites, Tek9.org and Cadred.org will both provide top quality coverage of the tournament for its duration.

Esports Heaven will be the host to the Asus Republic of Gamers Tournaments, which will give two months of great esports entertainment with brilliant tournaments for both the fans and the players.

“It’s great to see Asus continue to demonstrate their commitment to competitive gaming with these tournaments,” said Esports Heaven’s Steven Leunens. “The Asus Republic of Gamers Tournaments will appeal to the best gamers around Europe and will provide fantastic matches for all.”

About Heaven Media Group



Heaven Media Group is a publisher of leading websites for enthusiast PC hardware, gaming and esports. Heaven Media’s portfolio consists of some of the biggest names in the industry including Driverheaven.net, Gamingheaven.net, Cadred.org, EsportsHeaven.net, Crossfire.nu and Tek-9.org. Combined, Heaven Media presents one of the world’s largest online communities based around PC and console gaming.

Over 1.6 million unique users and 20 million page views per month currently contribute to Heaven Media’s success. More than a quarter of a million registered users contribute regularly to a collection of vibrant online communities.

Round 3 of the Sapphire Euro Challenge postponed due half the teams being at lan!

Due 2 teams being away on lan ( Vatic on I40 , Speedlink on ASUS Summer ) we decided instead of trowing both games to move them to next week sunday.

29th July 2010 (Huntingdon, UK) – Heaven Media, publisher of leading websites for enthusiast PC hardware, gaming and esports, are today pleased to announce the Kingston HyperX Battle, in association with Esports Heaven.

For the whole of August and September, the very best gamers in Counter Strike: Source, Call of Duty 4, Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will fight for their share of £1,000 and to be crowned the Kingston HyperX Battle Champions.

Each tournament will run on Esports Heaven and feature 16 teams, with each individual game having a prize fund of £250. With top esports talent on show the Kingston HyperX Battle is sure to be a fantastic competition with memorable matches between the best teams around.

“Kingston Technology is the world leader in computer memory and we are very excited to be working with them for the Kingston HyperX Battle,” said Esports Heaven’s Steven Leunens. “The tournament is sure to showcase some of the greatest First Person Shooter talent worldwide and it’s brilliant to see yet another company passionate about esports.”

“Computer gamers are at the forefront of technology, always demanding the most reliable and best performing memorysaid Paul Asher, Business Development Manager, Kingston Technology Europe. “We are happy to partner with Esports Heaven and we look forward to a great competition”. .”

About Heaven Media Group

Heaven Media Group is a publisher of leading websites for enthusiast PC hardware, gaming and esports. Heaven Media’s portfolio consists of some of the biggest names in the industry including HardwareHeaven.net, GamingHeaven.net, Cadred.org, EsportsHeaven.net, Crossfire.nu, EnemyDown.eu and Tek-9.org. Combined, Heaven Media presents one of the world’s largest online communities based around PC and console gaming.

Over 1.6 million unique users and 20 million page views per month currently contribute to Heaven Media’s success. More than a quarter of a million registered users contribute regularly to a collection of vibrant online communities.

About Kingston Technology Company, Inc.

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Through its global network of subsidiaries and affiliates, Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, China and sales representatives in the United States, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, India, Taiwan, China, and Latin America. For more information, please call +44 (0)1932 738888 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +44 (0)1932 738888      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visit www.kingston.com/europe

Kingston and the Kingston logo are registered trademarks of Kingston Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. All other marks may be the property of their respective titleholders.

Even more good news everyone!



We're glad to announce another chapter in our coöperation with Sapphire; the Sapphire EURO Challenge!

The coming weeks gamers from Counter-Strike:Source, Quake live, Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will battle it out on the virtual battleground for a whooping £2,000.
Speaking of the battlefield, wouldn't you like a pair of extra eye's on each side?

Well these extra pairs of eyes may not be as expensive as you think:
The truth is it doesn't require a 5970, 5870 or 5850 to play the latest games across 3 monitors. A card like the Sapphire HD5770 or HD5670 will do the job at the highest resolutions. With Sapphire mainstream graphics you can do a plethora of really useful things to improve your computing experience. These include experiencing real innovation in DirectX® 11 gaming, expanding your visual real estate across up to three displays enabling you to get lost in the action or improve your overall desktop experience with ordinary applications and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed.







In the coming days we'll announce the first 2 games to run their EURO challenge, so stay tuned!

Heaven Media are proud to announce "The Alienware Backpacking Challenge", a two-month competition that will see four gamers, selected from hopeful applicants from across Europe, to travel all over the continent.

Kitted out with an Alienware M11x laptop, a video camera, and a set of camping equipment, the four lucky participants will blog their way over mountains and seas, crossing borders and time zones, completing challenges before going up against each other in a weekly public vote.

With thousands of hopefuls expected to apply, competition will be fierce among the budding bloggers, and in the Alienware M11x they will find the perfect partner, providing the latest laptop technology in a stylish eleven-inch package, ideal for the long road ahead.

Ever wondered how many countries it’s possible to visit in a day on a budget? The best way to enjoy a high-adrenaline session of gaming while travelling at 300kmh, or while looking up to the heavens at an altitude of 3,500 feet? Wonder no more! For the entire two-month period, the four contestants will be blogging, video-blogging, tweeting and uploading pics, all hosted on their own individual site within the competition web site.

As each week goes past, everyone at home following their journeys will be asked to vote on that week’s winner, based on performance in the challenges, imagination and creativity, and blogging talent among other criteria. But these votes aren’t just for a weekly pat on the back. When the four meet up at the end of the eight weeks, at GamesCom in Cologne, only one of them can be crowned the Alienware Backpacker of the Year 2010, taking home the cash prize of $5,000!

Kicking off at Disneyland Paris, during the Electronic Sports World Cup, the bloggers will be released into the wild on June 30th, having received their first challenge, giving them until August 22nd to win the public over to their side.

To find out more about the Alienware Backpacking Challenge and for your chance to enter please visit www.alienwarechallenge.com

Welcome to the online qualifiers for the LAN79 event that will be held in Bressuire, France during the weekend of 14,15 and 16 May 2010. This online qualifier has been set up in cooperation with the LAN79 management and gives you the opportunity to win free entry for you and your team mates into the LAN79 offline event and the Call of Duty 4 or Counter-Strike Source competition. Teams that have already paid their entry fee also have a chance to win back their money should they win the qualifier.



Although the tournament is open to all, we would like to stress that teams entering this online qualifier should have every intention to attend the offline event. To guarantee this we ask that the team leaders of the teams comment on the following news post with the following information:

I, xxx (your name here) of team xxx (your team here) hereby declare that we have signed up for the LAN79 CSS/COD4 ( pick your game ) online qualifier and have every intention to attend the offline event should we win this online qualifier.



Our admin team will take everything into consideration and will judge all applications. We hold the right to refuse anyone entry into the tournament should we feel that your team will most likely not enter the offline event.

We are happy to announce that from now on we will be hosting cups for Battlefield Bad Company 2 on a regular bases.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the latest in the long standing Battlefield series, and has garnered lots of interest from the community. With offline tournaments like Multiplays iSeries already showing their support by hosting a £2500 tournament recently, there is a lot of promise for future development and continual improvement of this new title. The Frostbite 2.0 engine allows for spectacular destruction and dynamic environments, as well as a range of air and land vehicles and weapons to choose from.

One thing is for sure, with the right support, this game will be huge!

On Friday, April 9th we will start with our One Night Wonder series for BF:BC2. In order to participate you will need to create a clan then within the clan create a squad and add all members. More specifics can be found here.

In the first round we saw damagedone go in 4 overtimes against team-unified. Next round damagedone decided to do the exact opposite and destroy Dline without giving them a round.

On sunday we will continue with the Western Digital Cup. On the menu will be round 3 (dust2 ) and 4 (nuke) serving us some action with names like H2K , Ox-gaming , Gamed and Archaic.

Good luck and Have fun!

Boojja has won the second Quake Live One Night Wonder here on Esports Heaven after defeating adrian in the finals 3-1. We decided to go with a slightly different format for this tournament as we allowed only 16 slots to be filled but ran the entire tournament in a BO3 format with the finals being BO5.

Norwegian player boojja managed to come out on top in the end, beating Swedish player adrian with a clear cut 3-1 score after going to the finals without a map lost.

Welcome to the second Quake Live One Night Wonder. This second test event we will take some of the feedback from the previous edition and attempt an even better structured tournament for you as we present the second installment in the Quake Live One Night Wonder series. Behind the scenes we will continue to work on the rules, format and setup of our Quake Live events so that in due time you can expect hardware and cash tournaments.

Maximum players: 32 (can be upgraded to more if needed)
Start date: Tuesday 23rd of March 2010
End date: Tuesday 23rd of March 2010
Format: Single Elimination
Admins: Freekje
Rules: Coming soon as we are still working on them
Sign-up: Click here
Brackets: Click here - Brackets will be released asap.
IRC: #esportsheaven

The cup's schedule will look like this:
19:00 CET - Round 1 - elimination
19:20 CET - Round 2 - elimination
19:40 CET - Round 3 - elimination
20:00 CET - Round 4 - elimination
20:20 CET - Final - bo3 elimination

Map elimination is done like this:
The player who is the highest up in the brackets eliminates the first map.
The other player eliminates another map.
The first player eliminates a third map.
The second player decides, from the remaining two maps, which one is played and which one is eliminated. Brackets are done randomly so no-one is favoured above the other.

Servers
Mutually agree upon a server and if needs be we can spawn a private server for the match. If you need a private server for a match please notify tek9|dfb in #esportsheaven and we can set one up for you.

All times are in CET. If the bracket displays another time you have to correctly setup the timezone under My Account > Edit Profile.

Cup admin: Freekje

To sign up click[http://www.esportsheaven.net/?page=tournament&action=view&tournament_id=112] here