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ESC Announces the eSports Canada Alliance

Feb 11 2013 06:05 PM | Tristan Clausen in Announcements

UPDATE 24 Feb: Alberta has joined the Alliance through Project X LAN based out of Calgary.

TORONTO, ON February 11, 2013 – Competitive gamers will go head to head this year in the first Canadian-grown national tournament, dubbed the eSports Canada Alliance. During the spring and summer, challengers will meet at local tournaments in cities across Canada to qualify for placement in high-level provincial finals in August with the grand finals taking place in September. The Canadian champion will receive a trip to Korea to represent Canada at the International eSports Federation 2013 World Championship in South Korea.
Competitors will qualify by pitting themselves against each other in the hit game StarCraft 2. Armed with mouse and keyboard, they will match wits with response time until three emerge as victors to later fight for the right to represent their province on the national stage. Confirmed participating local tournaments in the eSports Canada Alliance include:

·   Lan ETS in Montreal, QC

·   BaseLAN in Winnipeg, MB

·   Frag for Charity in Halifax, NS

·   UBC Cup in Vancouver, BC

·   SaskGamers in Regina, SK

·   LAN ON in Toronto, ON


“We’re very excited to host the first Canadian-run and Canadian-owned national eSports championship,” says eSports Canada President Ken Silva. “Canada has tournaments of high quality happening in cities across the nation, but little cooperation between them to raise the profile of eSports in Canada and create a more robust amateur and professional scene—until now.”

eSports Canada is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of electronic sports: professional competitive gameplay. Founded in Toronto in 2011, eSports Canada has held events in nearly every province and is dedicated through volunteerism to the advancement of the eSports industry. For more information about eSports Canada, please visit www.esportscanada.ca

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansions, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010.

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If you’d like to know more about this event or to schedule an interview about this event, please contact us at info@esportscanada.org.


14 Comments


Frank Ricci
Feb 11 2013 06:33 PM
Hot!

Ken
Feb 11 2013 06:59 PM
We’re truly excited to create a national tournament that will unite the Canadian landscape and foster the growth of local players, talent and events. Pride will be online in 2013 as Canadians in each province battle it out for fame and glory, GL HF!

MasterDalK
Feb 11 2013 06:59 PM
Good stuff =]

Gofarman
Feb 11 2013 07:05 PM
Yo, will someone answer me on skype? I'm pretty choked that there is no Alberta event on that list, can we solve that?

Ken
Feb 11 2013 08:22 PM

Gofarman, on 11 February 2013 - 07:05 PM, said:

Yo, will someone answer me on skype? I'm pretty choked that there is no Alberta event on that list, can we solve that?

There will be an Alberta event <3

iamcaustic
Feb 11 2013 09:07 PM
This is really awesome news. Always excited to see us Canadians pushing forward on the eSports frontier. :)

StickyFlames
Feb 11 2013 09:43 PM
cant wait

NuBrGNi
Feb 11 2013 10:36 PM
so awesome!!!

cannot contain excitement!!
http://gifrific.com/...-excitement.gif

SFJoriko
Feb 11 2013 10:37 PM
How does a Canadian tournament group join the Alliance? Can someone message me on facebook or skype and run me through the application?

Hydrolis
Feb 11 2013 10:49 PM
Wooo, Canada WHAT WHAT!

anderhyo
Feb 12 2013 12:05 AM
alberta details? is alberta not part of this alliance?

Rick Jandris
Feb 12 2013 01:12 AM

anderhyo, on 12 February 2013 - 12:05 AM, said:

alberta details? is alberta not part of this alliance?

I would assume Project X never got back to us on if they wanted to join or not.

Tristan Clausen
Feb 12 2013 02:00 AM
Don't worry, Albertans. We fully intend to have an Alberta event. We have been in contact with event organizers in Alberta but did not receive a confirmation from them before our publication deadline. We will have an event in Alberta, we just don't have anything to announce today.

EnderSword
Feb 13 2013 11:41 AM
I once found a giant teasure chest full of Gold and Silver with 3 supermodels standing next to it.

That was my favourite day until I saw this announcement
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