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Intel® Extreme Masters Global Challenge: League of eSports champions live at DreamHack
The league of eSports champions – Main round matches of Europe's finest eSportsmen – 285,000 US Dollar prize potCologne, November 26th 2007 – The Intel® Extreme Masters Global Challenge will present live games at DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden. The Intel® Extreme Masters is the global league of eSports champions organised by the Electronic Sports League (ESL). Over 740,000 gamers compete in the ESL and only the cream of crop qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters. Europe's best professional gamers compete in the disciplines Counter-Strike and Warcraft 3 on the latest gaming hardware by Intel. They fight to qualify for the global finals of the Intel® Extreme Masters to be held at the CeBIT exhibition in Hanover. The presented matches will be taken from the main round of the eSports league of champions. The league is endowed with 285,000 US Dollar prize money by Intel.
A World of Warcraft® Global Challenge has been added to the international Intel® Extreme Masters Season II through collaboration between the Electronic Sports League, Intel Corporation, Blizzard Entertainment and Dell Inc. as a show of support for the World of Warcraft pro-gaming community. The sponsors have come together to produce a global final at DreamHack backed with a prize purse of 75,000 Dollars. The eight top-ranked teams from past tournaments have been invited to Sweden to compete for the "World's Best" honor.
"We are excited to bring the Intel® Extreme Masters Global Challenge to Dreamhack. The largest global gaming festival is the perfect location to present top gamers from all over the world", says Sebastian Weishaar, Director of League Operations at Turtle Entertainment. "At the DreamArena in the eSports hall, 1,000 spectators will be able enjoy the Intel® Extreme Masters Season II."
Dell will supply the entire Intel® Extreme Masters Season II with today's latest PC technology, including Dell's award-winning XPS 720 desktops and XPS M1730 notebook PCs, powered by Intel® Core® 2 Extreme quad-core processors.
Select footage from the DreamHack event will also be webcast on www.delllounge.com.
Further information about the Intel® Extreme Masters is available at: www.esl-world.net/masters
Along the Intel® Extreme Masters Global challenge several other gaming events will be held by Intel at the Dreamhack Winter 2007. At a 450 sqm booth Intel showcases the hottest games using the latest Intel hardware. In addition Intel invites 25 gamers from Denmark and the Netherlands to their first Dreamhack experience at www.pack4dreamhack.nl.
Contact:
Turtle Entertainment GmbH
Press Office
Ibrahim Mazari
Siegburger Straße 189
50679 Cologne
Germany
Fon. +49 221 880449-231
Mobile +49 163 5196461
Fax. +49 221 880449-239
www.turtle-entertainment.de
presse@turtle-entertainment.de
About Intel Corporation
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com
Special information for gamers is available at http://game-on.intel.com
About Turtle Entertainment
Turtle Entertainment was founded in 2000. The company quickly grew to the European leader in the sector of electronic sports (eSports). The Electronic Sports League, operated by Turtle Entertainment, is active in 15 different European countries. The league portal www.esl.eu reaches more than 165 million page impressions a month generated by more than 740,000 members. Turtle Entertainment has 100 employees and is located in Cologne, Germany. Turtle Entertainment owns the majority of the Chinese eSports league PGL (Pro Gamer League) since 2007. Important business partners of Turtle Entertainment are global corporations such as Intel, Fujitsu-Siemens, adidas and Wilkinson.
About Dell Inc.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS.
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