Russian Football Premier-League and Electronic Arts Company give notice of The Virtual Russian Football Championship 2012 on the base of football simulator FIFA 12 EA SPORTS is finished. And our player Empire.Bydlo - WCG Russia 2011 silver prize winner has gained maximum number of points in the period from April 4th to May 11th!

In the capacity of prize Marat will get not only brand new smartphone and annual stock of Pepsi but priceless football trophy - the Cup, which is identical to the Cup which will set off the Real Russian Football Champion the Hall of Fame.

Awarding is taking place this summer on "The Russian Football Super Cup" finale. Broadcasting with awarding will be shown on central channels of Russia TV.

This weekend many tournaments have passed traditionally and part of them became victorious for our players. Two 1st places and one 2nd place: Empire.Kas, Empire.Happy и Empire.Mista.

And if our new player Mista wasn't able to conquer the top of BsC Arena then old residents Kas and Happy make a packet at Cup For All #1 by Team Empire and Regular Cup #5 by Russia FCC respectively.

Blizzard have decided on prize pool distribution for qualifications in Russia and Ukraine. At the moment qualifying online tournaments are running at the full tilt and two tournaments in Kiev Cyber Sports Arena as a result of these qualifications. Best 16 Russian players and 8 Ukrainian players will fight for these slots in tournaments which will take place July 21st and 22nd.

Winners of previous qualifications::
Россия: Empire.Happy + Empire.ho8ot, VPBenQ|Neytpoh + 3D.Noname, VPBenQ|Turuk + RoX.KIS.TitaN
Украина: RoX.KIS.Fraer, FXO.Strelok, Tt.White-Ra

place	Ukraine	Russia
1	800$	4000$
2	500$	2000$
3	240$	900$
4	140$	500$
5-8	80$	300$
9-16	-	175$

Young Swedish player ThorZaiN has left German organization Mousesports which gave shelter to him after a raving success at TSL 3. Having become a leader of this team he provided it with win in many team leagues.

Today it became known that ThorZaiN was recruited by "evil geniuses" who didn't show positive results for quite a long while: they aren't shining with as individual tournament as team leagues. Such strengthening increases team's chances getting the prize-winning places and Swede will gain the right to train in SlayerS' house with one of the best Korean player.

Computer supplies company GIGABYTE decided to make a big LAN tournament in two disciplines - StarCraft II and League of Legends with total prize pool 21.000$.

Tournament is going to be held June 15th to 17th in California and gathers 24 players and 6 commentators.

First two invited players: Empire.viOLet and GoSu.HwangSin.

Regular patch for StarCraft II company Blizzard has decided to test in a different way. Now all changes for zergs and protoss it is possible to test not using PTR. All you need is download the new map where is the game balance is already changed. Details inside the news:

One year later Team Liquid officialy announced the 4th season of TSL!. 32 players will take part in TSL and the first 3 players are already known: Empire.Kas, mouz.ThorZaiN and Quantic.NaNiwa, prizewinners of the last tournament. Others 29 slots will be raffled at online qualifications: 18 from America and Europe and 11 from Korea and Asia.

LAN-finals will take place in New York and the detailed information, prize pool and time TBA.

TaKe is preparing to the 5th series of HomeStory Cup tournament which is very popular among fans. Meanwhile players have chance to win prepaid voucher to Germany and raffle 1000 EUR and other prizes.

Prizes:
1st place - 300 EUR + prepaid voucher to HomeStory Cup 5 + XMG Notebook
2nd place - 500 EUR + DX Racer Stuhl
3rd place - 200 EUR + respect

Today was held a long-waited conference which gathered giants of modern starCraft and StarCraft II. The official decision has become transfer sc:bw PRO-gamers to SC2 in the new season this October.

KeSPA and GomTV also came to agreement. According to this agreement they will spread their broadcasting grid making an effective competition and not steal one another's broadcast time.

OnGameNet will conduct a tournament opened to players of each level and it doesn't matter they play in GomTv or KeSPA tournaments. Tournament will be broadcasted all over the world.

GomTV want to conduct a tournament in which sc:bw players will be able to take part as soon as they'll be self-confident in this new game for them.

MSi Pro Cup - this is the series of tournaments which gathers best European players and not only in the fight for 1000 EUR. At 9th Cup a serious struggle was started - in the TOP-grid two Korean PRO-gamers are fighting while two CIS's representatives have left the LOW-grid. Today the semifinal matches are going to be held, the finale and match for 3rd place!