Counter Strike Source £2000 Prize Tournament!

The event is called HMV gamerbase Cup in association with Esports Heaven. It will be taking place over the first weekend of May. The HMV gamerbase Cup will be situated at the HMV gamerbase supercentre in Reading (England) where the event will consist of eight of the country’s finest Counter-Strike: Source teams.

Regional qualifiers take place at gamerbase locations in Reading, London, Glasgow and Manchester and will see four local teams win spots to the event, whilst top teams from around Europe will qualify for the remaining four spots through online tournament website Esports Heaven.

The prize is prize split of £1,250/£500/£250 for first, second and third respectively, and plenty of other exciting prizes

Gamerbase Reading is the venue and is known to be the most advanced gaming centre in the world, offering a cutting edge first class gaming experience on some of the most advanced gaming machines available today.

“We are very excited to be organising the first high profile hmv gamerbase Cup,” said Adam Godfrey, Business Development Manager for Heaven Media. “We are sure to see some cracking matches that weekend, as well as in the preceding qualifiers; it’s really great to see hmv doing their part to push esports forward.”
“This is set to be the first of many highly exciting tournaments from gamerbase in 2010,” said hmv’s Head of Gamerbase, Dominic Mulroy. “We look forward to producing a fantastic event, both for the competitors themselves, our sponsors and the spectators at home.”

The event’s final is in Reading, the four offline qualifiers in regional hmv gamerbase centres, and the online qualifiers hosted by Esports Heaven, will all be covered by leading esports website Cadred.org, with journalists on the ground at all events.

I know me and Digbert won’t be taking part… We’re pretty bad at Counter Strike… Well I am.

For more information visit http://www.gamerbase.com