SonKiE 1st, KiWiKaKi 3rd & Kowi 5th at BlizzCon American regionals
From 6-7 september the American qualifier for BlizzCon 2008 or Battle.net Season six will take place in 
Boston, Massachusetts. At this event two players will qualify for BlizzCon and there is a 8.000$ prize purse.
BlizzCon 2008 is an annual event which features the best players of the major three Warcraft III regions. It will take place in Anaheim, California 10-11 october with a 40.000$ prize purse.
Serious Gaming/Team Razer will be represented by three players at the qualifier. WCG Pan-American champion Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy, WCG Asia vice-champion 
Hamish 'Kowi' Parker and two-fold BlizzCon finalist 
Jonathan 'KiWiKaKi' Garneau.
*Update*
Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy wins the event by beating Nilknarf in a nailbiting finals watched by over 27.000 people. He is now qualified for the BlizzCon finals and goes home with 5.000$ for this event. Jonathan 'KiWiKaKi' Garneau takes a very respectable 3rd place and wins 1.000$ for his trouble.
Grand Final
Because SonKiE comes from the lower bracket he has to win two best-of-threes to win the event
Nilknarf [1:2] srs.Razer.SonKiE - best-of-three one
Nilknarf [1:2] srs.Razer.SonKiE - best-of-three two
Consolation Final
srs.Razer.KiWiKaKi [0:2] srs.Razer.SonKiE
Final Ranking
1. srs.Razer.SonKiE - 5.000$ + BlizzCon finalist
2. Nilknarf - 2.000$ + BlizzCon finalist
3. srs.Razer.KiWiKaKi - 1.000$
4. KoD.apm
5/6. srs.Razer.Kowi
5/6. H2O.HolyHuman
7/8. nGize.Yane
7/8. nGize.Shriek
Serious.Razer and ESWC San Jose in retrospective
This past week the 2008 Electronic Sports World Cup took place in San Jose, California. $200.000 was at stake in five games, Serious Gaming/Team Razer being represented in three of them by nine players.
Unfortunately for us the tournament started with some sad news as the nine were supposed to be ten, the visa of ESWC 2007 champion 
Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski was denied and he was unable to defend his ESWC title. av3k remains the Quake 4 world champion however and we are looking forward to seeing try and reclaim the ESWC world championship next year.
As the actual tournament progressed some good news came to us that somewhat relieved the pain. After winning the ESWC Masters and QuakeCon 
Alexey 'Cypher' Yanusheuski was one of the favorites to win ESWC, but we still find it somewhat unbelievable to see the 18-year perform so well as he kept the world cup in hands of the team and became the reigning Quake 3 and ESWC world champion.
The entire team is proud with his performance.
None of our other players might have won titles likes av3k and Cypher have, but they still performed admirably and proved to be worldclass players at this event.
Our 
Defense of the Ancients team managed to beat ESWC Masters champion 
SK Gaming. Unfortunately a loss to the eventual runner-up 
KingSurf prevented them from reaching the finals, but they still finished a admirable 7th in the event.
Similiarly our Warcraft III players more than held their own and were only stopped in their progress by the very best players at the event, Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi's only losses came from the eventual number two and four of the event and Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy beat French champion Christopher 'Wolf' Laporte only to be defeated by the eventual champion 
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang.
Hjalmar 'DowaQ' Högberg came within one map of upsetting a higher seed, however former Serious Gaming player 
Valentine 'FiX' Krulikovsky managed to prevent the young Swede from beating the odds in his international debute.
All in all the event was a great succes with a world title and otherwise good signs for future events. We are looking forward to the 2009 Electronic Sports World Cup!
Serious.Razer at ESWC San Jose: Cypher wins Q3
This year's edition of the Electronic Sports World Cup is going on in San Jose, California right now. This annual tournament gathers the best of the best in various of gaming's top disciplines.
Serious Gaming/Team Razer is represented strongly at the 200.000$ event with players in Defense of the Ancients, Quake III and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Unfortunately reigning Quake world champion Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski was denied a visa to enter the USA and will therefore be unable to prolong his title.
The players representing Serious Gaming are:
Alexey 'Cypher' Yanusheuski (Q3) - 1st
Clement 'Soycd' Rodmacq (DotA) - 7/8th
Loic 'Kiram' Renoullin (DotA) - 7/8th
Kovacevic 'SilentCat' Marko (DotA) - 7/8th
Olivier 'darkarax4' Barriere (DotA) - 7/8th
Thomas 'Jester' Wolff (DotA) - 7/8th
Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi (WC3) - 17/24th
Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy (WC3) - 17/24th
Hjalmar 'DowaQ' Högberg (WC3) - 17/24th
Alexey 'Cypher' Yanusheuski (Quake III)
2nd place ESWC 2006
1st place ESWC Masters 2008
1st place QuakeCon 2008
Considered one of the favorites for the event, Cypher will be the sole defender of our Quake world title. Reaching the ESWC 2006 finals was the kick-off of his professional gaming career and he will be looking to reach his second one but with a different result.
Cypher vs. ESWC
0-2 SK.Rapha - August 25 21:00 CET
2-0 
4K^Noctis - August 25 23:30 CET
2-0 
Impulse*LLL - August 26 0:30 CET
2-0 
Toxter - August 26 1:30 CET
2-1 aAa*Linkin - August 26 2:30 CET
2-0 EG.czm - August 26 6:30 CET
2-1 EG.Chance - August 26 19:00 CET
2-1 K1llsen - August 26 20:00 CET
2-0 SK.Rapha - August 26 22:00 CET
2-0 K1llsen
Serious Gaming Defense of the Ancients (DotA)
1st place ESWC France
2nd Miage Lan
5th place ESWC Masters
- Clement 'Soycd' Rodmacq
- Loic 'Kiram' Renoullin
- Kovacevic 'SilentCat' Marko
- Olivier 'darkarax4' Barriere
- Thomas 'Jester' Wolff
The French champions have been preparing for this event for a long time. Among the best DotA teams in the world, they will be finding out exactly where they stand in the world rankings. Their latest online results have been extremely encouraging, including a win vs. Masters vice-champion 
TeG.
Serious[Razer]DotA vs. ESWC
0-1 Evil Geniuses - August 25 19:00 CET
1-0 SK Gaming - August 25 20:30 CET
0-1 KingSurf - August 25 23:30 CET
1-0 
S3X - August 26 1:00 CET
0-1 NAFU- August 26 2:30 CET
Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi (Warcraft III)
1st EuroCup 2006
5th ACON 5
9th ESWC 2007
One of Europe's leading Orc players, RotterdaM will be competing at his third ESWC event. He has had time to prepare for the event but will face a tough group.
1-2 
WE.Sky - August 25 19:00 CET
0-2 SK.ReiGn - August 25 20:00 CET
2-0 
Darkdancer - August 25 23:30 CET
Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy (Warcraft III)
1st WCG Pan-America 2008
1st WCG USA Open 2008
1st ESWC USA 2008
The American champion player will be entering his first ESWC with a homeground advantage. He has been training a lot and is eager to leave a mark at the event.
1-2 
Bonecracker - August 25 19:00 CET
2-1 aAa*Wolf - August 25 20:00 CET
2-0 Firestrike - August 25 21:00 CET
0-2 mTw-WhO - August 25 23:30 CET
Hjalmar 'DowaQ' Högberg (Warcraft III)
2nd Dreamhack Winter 2007
2nd ESWC Sweden 2008
2nd KODE5 Sweden
The Swedish talent will be making his international debute. In the past year he has beaten a host of experienced professional gamers in tournaments taking place in Sweden and he will now be learning how he himself stacks up internationally.
forfeit win HasuElf - August 25 19:00 CET
1-2 FiX - August 25 20:00 CET
0-0 PaulYan - August 25 21:00 CET
0-2 SK.Soju - August 25 23:30 CET
Selection of Serious Gaming in media (links)
SK Gaming - Cypher crowned as ESWC 2008 champion
MeetYourMakers - videointerview: srs.RotterdaM
SK Gaming - Pre-ESWC interviews: RotterdaM, SonkiE
ESreality - ESWC 2008 Interviews with Cypher & av3k
SK Gaming - Cypher's real challenge comes in America
Fragster - Alle gegen Cypher
ESreality - No av3k at ESWC finals
SK Gaming - US embassy denies av3k ESWC title hopes
Kowi and NightWolf qualify for World Cyber Games
Some time ago Hamish 'Kowi' Parker represented us in the New Zealand qualifier for the World Cyber Games. The reigning WCG Pan-Asia vice-champion succesfully won the event and will now represent us in Cologne.
WCG New Zealand
1st - Hamish ‘kowi’ Parker
2nd - Chase ‘FiZiX’ Barnes
3rd - Jason ‘Snoop’ McCartney
source: scoop.co.nz
Last weekend Yaraslau 'NightWolf' Kavetski played his national Belarusian World Cyber Games as one of four players that qualified for the finals. He beat Vladislav 'Frozen' Baranov in round one and proceeded to face and beat Aliaksandr 'Dragod' Dramkou in the upper- and winner-bracket finals, also succesfully qualifying for the event.
All our Warcraft III players will be attempting to qualify for this prestigious tournament, some of the qualifiers are already on-going: Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi is one of two finalists remaining in the Dutch qualifier and WCG Pan-American & WCG USA Open champion Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy has qualified for the national USA finals.
DotA groups released ESWC 2008
The tournament that has to suffer the most from visa issues is without a doubt the Warcraft III DotA competition. With teams such as 
fnatic, 
Rush3d and KS International (former Virtus Pro) having to cancel on their trip, the tournament has lost some of their top contenders. As a result of this the groups were only released today. The tournament will be played in 2 groups, with the top 2 finishers of the respective groups advancing into a single elimination bracket.
For Serious[Razer] the draw resulted in a spot in group A together with German ESWC Masters winners SK Gaming, ESWC Masters runner-up TeG, 
Kingsurf, s3x and Canadian team NAFU. In our last matches Serious[Razer] has shown good shape, beating both fnatic and TeG in the PDL League. Let's hope the team can continue their recent form and snatch a top 2 spot in their group.
Group A:
SK-Gaming
Evil Geniuses
Kingsurf
Serious Gaming
NAFU
s3x
Group B:
MeetYourMakers
The elder Gods
Team Pandemic
Zenith
Fearz
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