SteelSeries Siberia v2 got it’s official grand slam tournament debut this weekend at the Extreme Masters in Chengdu. I blogged a bit about the tournament itself in the post below so to keep it short, SK Gaming and Fnatic ended up facing each other in the grand finals, with SK taking home gold and $15,000.

This is quite an achievement due to the recent lineup changes within the team and what we’re extremely excited about, is the fact that both Fnatic and SK Gaming sported the brand new Sibera v2 Full-size Headset throughout the tournament. :)

Check out pictures over at HLTV or SK Gaming, and check out the new Siberia v2 headset in a white non-USB or black USB version.

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The very anticipated Extreme Masters event in Chengdu, China this weekend is underway with a solid list of the absolute best gaming teams in attendance. SteelSeries supported Counter-Strike squads Team EG, SK Gaming, Fnatic and TyLoo are all competing - with the latter three representing 3/4 teams in the final bracket.

WarCraft III players Lyn, Check and Grubby are also in attendance, still playing group matches.

Make sure to check out the galleries over at SK Gaming and HLTV.org for more pictures from the event. It’s worth noticing that the professional players are sporting the SteelSeries Siberia v2 for the first time in Chengdu. :)

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QuakeCon is well underway in Grapevine - here’s a short summary of what you can experience at the SteelSeries booth:

Frag Your Junk and Save
Visit the SteelSeries booth to frag your mouse or headset for a 50% discount on an Ikari Laser mouse or a Siberia Full Size headset (limited quantities). To quickly explain, we basically have a mallet and a box lined up in the booth where you can stop by and smash/frag your current gaming gear and get an awesome price on the products above.

Challenge a Pro for our Employee Discount
SK Gaming’s Quake legend, Rapha, will be seated in our booth to take challenges. If you score a frag in a 5 minute game, you’re entitled to a SteelSeries employee discount for a month! For more details on this shoot-out, stop by the booth and get in touch with the SteelSeries crew.

SteelSeries 10 minute sale
Throughout QuakeCon we’ll be offering seriously deep 10-minute discounts on SteelSeries products in our booth. Listen up for announcements!

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Kwana is one of three professional World of Warcraft players, currently playing for the Asian SK Gaming WoW.PvP team.

Back at the Extreme Masters Global Finals in Hannover earlier this year, he got handed a sample of the World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse and has used since then, so we figured that we’d ask him to let us in on how he uses the mouse. Hopefully this will help or inspire you guys when setting up. :)

Enough with the talking - here is SK.Kwana’s guide to using the WoW MMO Gaming Mouse:

Hi, this is Kwana from the Asian PvP team in SK Gaming.

I think more than a few people are curious about how to use the new WoW mouse which came out in February, so I’d like to introduce how I’m controlling it.
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First week of our Month of Madness on Facebook went superbly smooth and we’re now ready for the second phase. For those of you that don’t know, the idea behind the Month of Madness is pretty simple: Sign up as a fan on the SteelSeries Facebook page and we’ll contribute with daily give-aways for a whole month.

This week we’re putting up four, very unique SteelSeries QcK Lich King Exclusive mouse pads signed by the following, professional players:

Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen (WarCraft III, Team EG)
Dmitry “Happy” Kostin (WarCraft III, Team EG)
Siew Lan “Cassandra” Ng (WarCraft III manager, Team EG)

Valent “another” Sebastijan (WoW.PvP Europe, SK Gaming)
Olivier “orly” Bellemans (WoW.PvP Europe, SK Gaming)
Simon “zom” Palmer (WoW.PvP Europe, SK Gaming)

Corad “Zyz” Lope (WoW.PvP US, Team EG)
Tim “kollektiv” Yen (WoW.PvP US, Team EG)
Isaac “Azael” Cummings-Bentley (WoW.PvP US, Team EG)

Joe “Enforcer” Morrone (WoW.PvP US, SK Gaming)
Mark “Pookz” Rendon (WoW.PvP US, SK Gaming)
Ryan “Realz” Masterson (WoW.PvP US, SK Gaming)

Check below for more pictures of the signed pads. One item will be given away every day, starting Tuesday. The format of every day’s give-away is different - keep yourself updated by checking our Facebook page. :-)
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Quick update on the tournaments: Ensidia came out on top in the WoW.PvP grand finals at DreamHack Summer, taking down SK Gaming. The Counter-Strike tournament is well under way with SK Gaming facing Millenium in one of the semi-finals, and Lemondogs facing the winner of Evil Geniuses vs. Begrip.

Also, SK Gaming’s WoW team as well as Raz from Memento Mori stopped by our booth yesterday to show off some moves - here’s how it went down:

Quick post to show you guys some pictures of our booth at DreamHack Summer, currently taking place in Sweden.

Regarding the tournaments, SK Gaming’s WoW team flawlessly advanced to the grand finals beating Ensidia among others (post-match video interview), and as for the Counter-Strike tournament currently Millenium, SK Gaming, Begrip and Lemondogs are ready for the play-offs.

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Finally the Limited Edition QcK+ (SK Gaming) has now been announced in a press release, just published over on the SteelSeries website.

The mouse pad will premier at DreamHack Summer in Sweden this weekend, with the 50 first pads featuring signatures from the professional SK Gaming Counter-Strike 1.6 team.

Make sure to check out the product launch video co-hosted by the Andreas “bds” Thorstensson and Alexander “TheSlash” Müller:

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The 2nd Pro Circuit event of the 2009 MLG season took place this weekend in Columbus, OH, with a dominating SK Gaming WoW.PvP team taking home the gold medals as well as the $9.000 cash prize.

On the console side, MbN: The Business managed to take home the Gears of War 2 title whereas infamous Str8 Rippin came out on top in the Halo3 tournament.

Check out all the final standings, galleries, interviews and what not over at MLG Pro.

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Thanks to a series of good performances at the recent international, major gaming events, SK Gaming has now managed to reach 2nd spot on the official world ranking presented by the G7 Teams association for Counter-Strike teams.

This means that former leader mTw takes 3rd place, now topped by Fnatic and SK Gaming.

Check out the complete ranking over at G7.

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