Intel Extreme Masters arrived in Sao Paulo on January 24th, after four days of running electrical connections, setting up the internet, setting up the tournament arena , setting up 58 Core i7 Extreme processor desktops systems, 13 Core i7 gaming laptops and a Photo Booth we were ready to open the show. From January 29th through February… Read more > Read more
Intel Extreme Masters arrived in Sao Paulo on January 24th, after four days of running electrical connections, setting up the internet, setting up the tournament arena , setting up 58 Core i7 Extreme processor desktops systems, 13 Core i7 gaming laptops and a Photo Booth we were ready to open the show. From January 29th through February… Read more > Read more
It’s our first time in Singapore with Intel Extreme Masters and it’s been a resounding success. SITEX 2012 is the venue and the crowds have been big. For the majority of attendees Intel Extreme Masters is their first exposure to E-Sports and professional gaming, the crowds have been engaged and enthusiastic. SITEX 2012 is turning… Read more > Read more
I leave my house on Saturday morning and 24 hours later I’m half way around the world in Singapore, amazing! We are here at SITEX 2012 for the second stop of Intel Extreme Masters Season 7. In three days, on November 22nd, the best StarCraft II and League of Legend players will square off against… Read more > Read more
It was an amazing start to the 2012/2013 Intel Extreme Masters Season 7, intense battles in both Star Craft II and League of Legends tournaments were the norm. MVP took top honors in Starcraft II competition while Moscow Five won the League of Legends EU Regionals. And what I can only assume is great honor; [...] Read more
The world’s best gamers are gather at gamescom in Cologne, Germany to kick off Intel Extreme Masters Season 7. We will kick things off with StarCraft II competition on Wednesday, August 15, with 16 of the top StarCraft II players vying for a share of the $31,800 prize pool. Competition runs for 5 days with the finals taking [...] Read more
I’m not talking about Intel Extreme Masters, no, what I’m talking about is on-line racing and the Intel GT Series World Championship. The Intel GT World Championship will feature 32 of the very best on-line (sim) racers from all over the world. They will do battle on Saturday, March 24 @ 19:00 GMT, 3:00PM EST; [...] Read more
The Intel Extreme Masters Hall is hosting the best Starcraft ll, League of Legends and Counter Strike 1.6 players in the world, all competing for $283,000 dollars, that’s right, $283,000 dollars in prize money… unbelievable! This Intel Extreme Masters World Championship is the biggest yet with three competition arenas under one roof. The finals for [...] Read more
Intel Extreme Masters is at Campus Party Sao Paulo hosting our final Global Championship of season 6. Starcraft II is the game at this particular Global Challenge with the top two finishers qualifying for the World Championship taking place in March at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. We have gathered the top Starcraft II players from, [...] Read more
If you are a race car driver it can. Those who have followed my blog will know I’m an avid (more like rabid) on-line auto racing fan. Before the holidays I had the opportunity to test my virtual racing skills in the real world, I was given the opportunity to drive my personal car (an [...] Read more
Just a quick update on Intel at Dreamhack, take a look at this video and see how DreamHackers are getting down and dirty with technology at the world’s biggest LAN fest, watch the video and you’ll get an idea of what 15,000 gamers look like when the get together for a little friendly competition, and [...] Read more
Did you know that Dreamhack holds the official world record as the world’s largest LAN party in the Guinness Book of Records? Intel will be there starting today with tons of exciting activities to celebrate the arrival of the new 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition. If you can’t make it to Dreamhack [...] Read more
Remember these numbers; 3930K, 3960X and X79 because if you are a serious gamer and/or computer enthusiast into photo, video or music creation you are gonna want one. The 3930K and 3960X are the latest Intel 2nd Generation Core i7 processors being released today for the enthusiast, and X79 Express is the chipset that supports [...] Read more
The Global Challenge NY competition here at IEM Comic Con has been intense, the preliminary qualifiers have taken place and the finals have been set with WinFakt vs SK Gaming battling it out for the Counter Strike 1.6 championship, FruitDealer faces off against DongRaeGu in StarCraft II and fnatic goes up against SK Gaming for [...] Read more
We have brought the show to the Big Apple, Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge is packing in the crowds here at Comic Con. Gaming enthusiasts from all over NYC and the world have converged on the Intel Tournament Arena to watch the best eSports professionals compete for $93,000 in prize money. League of Legends, Starcraft [...] Read more
The Global Challenge here at Intel Extreme Masters is moving right along, Starcraft II, League of Legends and Counter Strike 1.6 brackets are slowly determining who will play in the finals on Wednesday October 5th. To try and describe the action in my blog would be a disservice to the competition so to stay up [...] Read more
Round two of Intel Extreme Masters Season VI has kicked off here in Guangzhou, China. Competitors from around the world have converged on the Intel Extreme Masters arena here at the Ani-Com and Games show to do battle. Featured games are Starcraft II, League of Legends and counter Strike 1.6. Competitors will be doing battle [...] Read more
As you can see by the picture, Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge here in Cologne is pretty darn popular, this was Fridays crowd watching the competition, Saturdays was bigger! So you may wonder what goes into putting on an Intel Extreme Masters? A lot of work, and literally, a ton of computers. Typically we start [...] Read more
I could write about Intel Extreme Masters day 3 but I’m not going to. As I’m sitting here thinking about what to write I wonder what the readers of this blog would want to know, what interest and excites them about Intel Extreme Masters. Is it information about the competitors? Is it about Star Craft [...] Read more
I could write about Intel Extreme Masters day 3 but I’m not going to. As I’m sitting here thinking about what to write I wonder what the readers of this blog would want to know, what interest and excites them about Intel Extreme Masters. Is it information about the competitors? Is it about Star Craft [...] Read more
