ZOWIE @ Facebook

ZOWIE Gear have announced today via their Facebook page that they will be handing out a ZOWIE Gear EC1 black mouse. The mouse has been created with the help of top professional gamers such as Emil "HeatoN" Christensen. This isn't the only thing that will be handed out this time around however, as there will be an extra added surprise!

ZOWIE has also stated that they will hand out a ZOWIE Gear P-TF SpawN mouse pad. This is your chance to get an excellent combination for your desktop. ZOWIE Gear is the absolute best gaming gear on the market and this is a great way to help raise your game above the competition.

Winner's of the contest will get to choose which mouse they would like to receive from HeatoN's EC-Series and will also receive the P-TF SpawN pad. The best part about the contest is that all you have to do is: LIKE a Facebook post! The Facebook post in question is able to be found here.

Good luck to all contestants!

Excello

Devido ao elevado e inesperado número de inscrições, a organização decidiu repensar a forma de acesso à liga. O principal objectivo passou por  proporcionar as mesmas hipóteses de participação na SCL a equipas que não dispomos informações suficientes para oferecer um lugar garantido.
Os Excello juntamente com o seu principal patrocinador, a ZOWIE GEAR, têm o prazer de anunciar um qualificador que garantirá 3 (três) lugares na SCL.
No entanto, sete equipas foram merecedoras da nossa confiança por todo o seu percurso, nomeadamente em LAN, são elas:

•    k1ck eSports Club
•    Exotic Island
•    Online Kingdom
•    Defining Stars
•    PLAYON
•    Morbid Shot
•    X-Function

Desde já fica o nosso convite a todas as equipas que não constam na lista a participar no ZOWIE Last Chance Qualifier. Este qualificador será realizado no dia 12 de Setembro (domingo) e começa pelas 16:00. O qualificador estará aberto a 16 equipas sendo que as 2 (duas) equipas que chegarem à final estarão qualificadas para a Spinglo Counter Strike League. As equipas vencidas na meia-final jogarão entre si para decidir o último participante na SCL.
Para além do lugar na liga o vencedor deste qualificador também irá receber 5 tapetes ZOWIE P-RF fornecidos pelo nosso parceiro ZOWIE GEAR.

Qualquer dúvida deve ser remetida para o e-mail alberto.duarte@excello.net, através da caixa de comentários ou no canal #spinglo na QuakeNet.

Counter-Strike

wCrea and neWave.PlayMore have won their qualifiers for World Cyber Games 2010.

The serbian team neWave.PlayMore came out on top of a 64-team qualifier. They faced urban Experience in the grand final. The urban Experience was no competition for PlayMore which finished them off with ease (16-2 in de_train and 16-6 in de_nuke. PlayMore were the favourites to take the tournament and the final result proves just how strong the team is compared to home competition.

Unlike PlayMore, wCrea that has players like ArcadioN - that we interviewed - were the underdogs in the Danish qualifier, where they would have to beat mTw to qualify for World Cyber Games. The grand final of the Danish qualifier saw these two teams face each other and it was far from a walk in the park.

The first map was de_train and wCrea came out on top with a 16-10 result.

The second map was de_tuscan and had a different ending: mTw came out on top with 16-8 win, winning the last 9 rounds in a row.

The decider was de_dust2 where wCrea got a 16-9 win, making them the Danish representatives at World Cyber Games Grand Finals.

Source: HLTV.org

Counter-Strike

Lions have just announced the arrival of H2k as their Counter Strike team.

Lions, formerly Oslo Lions, have recently lost their Norwegian counter strike team - which then joined Online Kingdom - and now welcomes a new team to represent them in the counter-strike scene: H2k Gaming.

The team joins Lions after a lot of back and forward statements between them and the former orga, H2k Gaming, they are now representing the Norwegian-based organisation.

"We're glad to be able to get back into Counter Strike 1.6 this soon after we've parted ways with our Norwegian lineup some weeks ago. Having Counter Strike the past 11 months has been a great lift for Lions, and we were not ready to let that effort go to waste so soon. It will be very interesting to see what we can evolve to in tight cooperation with our new Swedish bred Lions." said Christophe Roblin, member of Lions' management to the team's site, lionsek.com

The new Lions team, which recently added Bjorn 'threat' Pers to the lineup, looks as follows:

• Richard "Xizt" Landström

• Niklas "niko" Johansson

• Frej "kHRYSTAL" Sjöström

• Emil "FYRR73" Karlsson

• Björn "THREAT" Pers

The first event under the new flag will be ASUS Summer.

We wish the best of luck to the team as well as the former and new organisation.