CyberGamer is proud to announce the Western Digital PSI STORM 2010 StarCraft II Tournament, with $5000 in CASH prizes thanks to Western Digital's VelociRaptor:
CyberGamer and Western Digital are striving to bring the ultimate StarCraft community experience to everyone in the Oceania and Southeast Asia regions. A large part of this is providing everyone with the chance to participate in the largest and most influential tournaments available to Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asian players. What better way to show our support for the Oceania community than by teaming up with Western Digital to present to you the premier SC2 event for the SEA sever.

The WD Psi Storm 2010 event not only boasts a whopping AUD $5000 prizepool but it's also open to EVERYONE native to the SEA server - Australians, New Zealanders and Southeast Asians can all participate. There's no limit to the number of players, no limits on skill or league, no special invites, and prizes go all the way down to the top 16 players meaning almost everyone has a shot at a prize. How can you be a part of the largest community tournament for the Oceania region? Read on...

Find Out More
LIVE broadcast of the best games!


In addition to the completely open tournament registration you can get your dose of Psi Storm 2010 action each week with broadcasts, VODs, showmatches, replays, weekly shows by Gamestah, and more! Dedicated staff will be more than willing to answer questions you may have about participating in or spectating the event, and anything else you care to bring up!

Note that throughout the tournament the full CyberGamer StarCraft II Ruleset:
will be in full effect and breaking one or more of the rules at the attending admin's discretion may incur heavy penalties. Foul play and cheating will immediately disqualify you from the tournament.

Get Involved
Open registration! Unlimited players!


Any Australian, New Zealand or Southeast Asian resident playing on their own SEA server Battle.net account may participate in this tournament. Registration for the four qualifier events[/...

With the season about to go live i took a few minutes (quite a few) to go hunt down some teams and ask them 3 questions about the season, here are what the guys had to say about their team and the season in general.


GameKILLER - Sequential Gaming - WD Black Invite Division 1

Q: Post MSI Championships which SQL gaming did come away victorious the source community has been relatively idle, what are your thoughts about the teams in your division now the community is back into full swing? Do you feel there is a good depth in the teams this season and how well does it compare to previous seasons?

A: I think the community is back into full swing, with all the new comps coming up from Cybergamer and Thermaltake things have never been better. I think the teams picked this season couldnt have been done any better. This season we will see new teams looking to prove themselves on the big stage. I think this season will be more exciting to watch as the challenge for the number one spot will be a lot harder to take out.

Q: New lineups new additions to the invite league, of all the teams in your division who do you think will be a quiet achiever this season and why?

A: I think the dark horse will be Team Exile 5 NZ alot of people at the start of the season have criticized the selection of this team but i think that they will pove everyone wrong with there hard work and determination, and they have alot of very talented players in their line-up.


Q: With the closure of the CEVO season with no announced resumption coming, do you feel the source community still has as many options on the table? Are you excited for the future of CSS in Australia or do you see it slowly declining from here on in?

A: With the closing of one door it only opens another, we have seen the sublimecomp come to light and also the Thermaltake league, with news of the thermaltake comp expanding id say Auz CSS is slowly going up. As always Cybergamer is still pumping out comp after comp and i for one cannot wait till the next big reinstallment of CybergamerMSI LAN/ONLINE comp to come out.


Perspari - Qlimax - WD Black Invite Division 2

Q: Q: New to the Qlimax name and sitting in a nice spot in the WD Black Division2 league how does your team feel they will fare in the upcoming season?

A: Withe the addition of mech as our caller i believe we shall...

September is going to be an exciting and highly anticipated month for Team Immunity. They will be attending both the MSI BEAT IT competition and the World Cyber Games. On top of this, as part of Team Immunity’s intense preparation schedule, they will be spending thirteen days in Sweden preparing for the World Cyber Games in Los Angeles.

They will be flying straight from Beijing after the MSI BEAT IT competition wraps up on the 7th of September to begin their boot-camp. Settling in at Inferno Online in Stockholm the team will have access to one of the world’s largest LAN cafes with some of the fastest internet in the world. This combined with LAN practise against ‘SK Gaming’ and ‘H2K’ will provide a significant arena for focused practise.

Over the thirteen day boot-camp the team has laid out a list of goals and objectives that they aim to achieve and hope to take from this great learning experience. Humbled and motivated by the fact that they will be again representing Australia at the World Cyber Games the team is hoping to harness the experience and develop into an even more formidable opponent on the international scene.

The team will be leaving Sweden on the 19th of September and heading home for couple of days to rest and recuperate. After this quick pit-stop the team will then fly directly to Los Angeles over a week early in order to practise North American teams and begin final preparations for the Global Finals of the World Cyber Games.

Team Immunity 1.6 Roster

Gareth "gazR" Lynn (C)
Justin "Kurandus" Evans
Yaman "Yaman" Ergenekon
Otis "pupajoN" Duncan
Miles "rizE" O'Connor

Be sure to stay tuned to their Website:
.team-immunity.com.com, Facebook (Team Immunity | Facebook:
.facebook.com/teamimmunity) and soon to be launched YouTube channel. Here you will be able to catch daily video blogs, photographs and updates on the team as they compete and travel to China, Sweden and the United States.

Hello and welcome fellow gamers and gamerettes. Michael 'mickzerofive' Jenkins here from Aus/NZ Quake Live:
community 4Seasons Gaming:


This September dawns a new partnership for ourselves and well known gaming brand Logitech:
Through-out all the struggle and the efforts of my own and my teams:
we are extremely glad to see everything starting to pay off for us.

In Celebration! And of our love for games of all types we have chosen to run a Play of the Year competition to spruce things up amongst the global communities and therefor will be running video entries via the well known medium, YouTube:



Entries Open: September the 1st.
Entries Close: September the 30th.

What to include
* Your Gamer Nickname/Alias
* Your Country of birth and/or residencey
* Your bad ass Play
Optional: First/Last name

Important things to remember
* "Play" does not just mean Frag, my Panel range from experience in all game types and ofcourse all situations, cluthes, team downs, flag caps so give us something special to watch
* No Frag Reels/Movies/Production pieces, let's keep things real and short guys/girls one play per video
* You don't have to include fancy slow mo or different angles, but you can
* You don't have to include dramatic or interesting sound tracks, but you can (just remember to credit original artists or youtube might remove your video)
* Keep your video under 5 minutes

Gaming Panel Voting Commences: October
** note: there will no longer be public voting due to smart cookies attacking polls easily. Instead the Gaming Panel will pick the final 10 and then pick 3 from that**

My Selected Gaming Panel
Stewart "Ej:
Brumm. CEO Gamestah:
valk from ozfortress.com:
Dan Cheer from Gameplanet.co.nz:
Michael Woodz Writer and studio host Woodztown:

Well the time has come that we moved beyond just a simple open ladder to give you 1.6 junkies something to play and fired up some invite leagues. The way CyberGamer Invite leagues work is that their is 3 skill divisions, invite, main, and amateur. Naturally we will only run with the leagues that are filled depending on registrations.

Teams line up in 8 team skill groups and battle it out playing each of the other teams in their group on set nights over 7 weeks with the top4 teams advancing to the semifinals and grand final where they battle it out in best of 3 encounters. The leagues are pay to play and will be introduced futher down.

Easy Anti Cheat the known and commonplace anticheat on both CyberGamer and CSCOMP/IPGN servers will be used for the season. Players are still required to record demos of all of their matches and hold them for 2 weeks and be able to provide them on request from league administrators.

With the leagues kicking off we would ask that all teams make use of the CS1.6 Results forum and post match writeups of the game, this can be done be either the winning or losing side. We also ask that teams treat eachother with respect and good sportsmanship throughout the season.



The invite league is for the cream of the crop in Australian CounterStrike. These teams have demonstrated time and time again the players and skillsets to compete at the highest levels of competition. This league comes with a $50 per team entry fee which can be paid via CyberGamers Pay to Play event management system.
Payment Portal:



The main league is for teams that are really emerging in the community and showing the poise and depth to bring top level gaming to their matches. This is the battleground where teams go head to head fighting for the right to be promoted to the invite league. This league comes with a $25 per team entry fee which can be paid via CyberGamers Pay to Play event management system.
Payment Portal:



The amateur league is for teams that have been together for a while or have newly formed and want to pit their skills against fellow motivated organised teams. The amateur teams are out there to prove that they are worthy to advance to the main league to stake their claim amongst the emerging professional teams. This league...

We’re proud to announce today that Team Immunity’s Counter-Strike 1.6 team have been officially invited to compete in the Finals of the MSI ‘BEAT IT’ competition in Beijing this September.

Banner Done By None Other Then Sno.

Hello peoples of CyberGamer,

Im proud to annouce our first p2p competition for the hon community. The purpose of this competition is to injekt some fierce competition and create a more fair seeding for our hon cybergamer invitational league. The ladder is expected to consist of 12 minimum, consisting of several brackets depending on the amount of interest given. The ladder format is not double elimination but a round robin (you will vs everyone). Once you have got 5 signed up and paid you will be moved from the waiting pool.

Cost: $30

Winners Recieve:

1st 65% Of Bracket Prize Pool
2nd 35% Of Bracket Prize Pool

Registration Begins Tonight (11th of August) and will end on 22nd of August.

Australia/NZ + International:
International teams are entitled to participate in this ladder Providing there is at least two
Australian/New Zealand players in your roster. We have access to I.P address's so please don't try and swindle your way around this rule as your team will be removed. Games are to be played by default on the USWest server.

Match Related:
Teams will have one week to play each match, Teams will organise with there oposition the match day and time using the Chat Box between teams. teams can choose to play on any day during the week between the times of 6pm - 10pm AEDT. If you cannot decide admins will make the match on the 7th day for 9pm.

General ladder Rules:

*It is now compulsory to add your HoN username to your profile.
*The teams have to contact each other before the match time, after this you have 15 minutes to get your team in the hosted game. You may deviate from this if the other team agrees.
*A maximum with of 10 players per team with at least 2 members being of Australian/New Zealand nationality.
*If a team is not able to gather 4 players for a scheduled match they will be automatically forfeited.
*Breaking rules results in a punishment by the tournament administration, depending on the severity of the rule break.
*If a single rule violates the terms of fair competition the administration is free to override this rule in order to keep the basics of fair play.


Helpful Links:

* Registration:Click Here:

* Rules:Click Here:

* Entering Your Hon Name:[...

Sydney, Australia: August 11, 2010 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the release of HyperX ‘H2O’ water-cooled DDR3 dual- and triple-channel memory kits. With frequencies up to 2133 MHz and capacities up to 6GB, H2O is the newest addition to the HyperX product family and supports the needs of enthusiasts building with water-cooled systems.

The Hunter - CyberGamer
________________________________________________________________________

About The Hunter:
The Hunter is a free to play hunting simulator. The Hunter is the most realistic hunting game you will ever play. Immerse yourself in a realistic world and use your skills to track down and hunt a variety of real world animals. The Hunter gives you the oppurtunity to hunt Mule Deer, Blacktail Deer, Whitetail Deer, Elk, Coyotes, Turkey's and feral hogs using a variety weapons such as rifles, shotguns and a compound bow.
The Hunter currently does not support multiplayer or co-op modes due to limitations in the game engine, although this feature will be added in the future.
Free to play members can enjoy using the .243 bolt action rifle and hunting the legendary Mule Deer.





The 3v3 Deer Count ladder is now open for sign ups, if you are interested and would like to sign up a team, navigate to:

Ladder/Team Signup:


Please make sure you read the ladder rules:

Ladder Rules:


To sign up for free to play theHunter, navigate to:

and create an account today.

Tutorials - Check these out before you play.

Tutorials:


Questions? Ask below.

Happy hunting, and good luck!

CyberGamer proudly present to you the CG-Live Ladder. This event is a 10 week ladder played from participating Gaming Centers around Australia on the CyberGamer Ladder system. Players will battle it out working their way to the top of the Ladder to for a chance to claim their stake of the crazy $10'000. Unlike many events however this one has a ridiculous amount of prizes all in cold hard cash; not store credit, not hardware, just eighty-one solid cash prizes!



If you live in or close by any of the venues listed below you have access to this awesome CG-Live Ladder and a chance to win up to 3 different prizes!

*Albury - The LAN Mine
*Ballarat - Guf
*Brisbane - Elysium Internet and Gaming
*Canberra - The Barracks
*Dandenong - LAB G-14
*Geelong - Guf
*Melbourne - Cydus
*Shepparton - CyberBunker
*Sydney - Beyond Internet and Gaming




81 Cash prizes totaling $10'000
*1st place: $2000+
*2nd place: $1000+
*3rd place: $500+
*Runner up: $200+
*5th - 16th: $50 each

But thats not the end of it! If you were ranked the highest on the ladder at the end of the event when compared to the other local players from your particular gaming center, then you also win!

Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney
*1st ranked in each location $150
*2nd ranked in each location $100
*3rd ranked in each location $100
*4th ranked in each location $100
*5th - 10th ranked in each location $50
Ballarat, Canberra, Dandenong, Geelong, and Shepparton:
*1st r...

My gamers review of the 600gb WD Velociraptor!

CyberGamer is proud to announce the Western Digital PSI STORM 2010 StarCraft II Tournament, with $5000 in CASH prizes thanks to Western Digital's VelociRaptor:
CyberGamer and Western Digital are striving to bring the ultimate StarCraft community experience to everyone in the Oceania and Southeast Asia regions. A large part of this is providing everyone with the chance to participate in the largest and most influential tournaments available to Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asian players. What better way to show our support for the Oceania community than by teaming up with Western Digital to present to you the premier SC2 event for the SEA sever.

The WD Psi Storm 2010 event not only boasts a whopping AUD $5000 prizepool but it's also open to EVERYONE native to the SEA server - Australians, New Zealanders and Southeast Asians can all participate. There's no limit to the number of players, no limits on skill or league, no special invites, and prizes go all the way down to the top 16 players meaning almost everyone has a shot at a prize. How can you be a part of the largest community tournament for the Oceania region? Read on...

Find Out More
LIVE broadcast of the best games!


In addition to the completely open tournament registration you can get your dose of Psi Storm 2010 action each week with broadcasts, VODs, showmatches, replays, weekly shows by Gamestah, and more! Dedicated staff will be more than willing to answer questions you may have about participating in or spectating the event, and anything else you care to bring up!

Note that throughout the tournament the full CyberGamer StarCraft II Ruleset:
will be in full effect and breaking one or more of the rules at the attending admin's discretion may incur heavy penalties. Foul play and cheating will immediately disqualify you from the tournament.

Get Involved
Open registration! Unlimited players!


Any Australian, New Zealand or Southeast Asian resident playing on their own SEA server Battle.net account may participate in this tournament. Registration for the four qualifier events[/...

With the season about to go live i took a few minutes (quite a few) to go hunt down some teams and ask them 3 questions about the season, here are what the guys had to say about their team and the season in general.


GameKILLER - Sequential Gaming - WD Black Invite Division 1

Q: Post MSI Championships which SQL gaming did come away victorious the source community has been relatively idle, what are your thoughts about the teams in your division now the community is back into full swing? Do you feel there is a good depth in the teams this season and how well does it compare to previous seasons?

A: I think the community is back into full swing, with all the new comps coming up from Cybergamer and Thermaltake things have never been better. I think the teams picked this season couldnt have been done any better. This season we will see new teams looking to prove themselves on the big stage. I think this season will be more exciting to watch as the challenge for the number one spot will be a lot harder to take out.

Q: New lineups new additions to the invite league, of all the teams in your division who do you think will be a quiet achiever this season and why?

A: I think the dark horse will be Team Exile 5 NZ alot of people at the start of the season have criticized the selection of this team but i think that they will pove everyone wrong with there hard work and determination, and they have alot of very talented players in their line-up.


Q: With the closure of the CEVO season with no announced resumption coming, do you feel the source community still has as many options on the table? Are you excited for the future of CSS in Australia or do you see it slowly declining from here on in?

A: With the closing of one door it only opens another, we have seen the sublimecomp come to light and also the Thermaltake league, with news of the thermaltake comp expanding id say Auz CSS is slowly going up. As always Cybergamer is still pumping out comp after comp and i for one cannot wait till the next big reinstallment of CybergamerMSI LAN/ONLINE comp to come out.


Perspari - Qlimax - WD Black Invite Division 2

Q: Q: New to the Qlimax name and sitting in a nice spot in the WD Black Division2 league how does your team feel they will fare in the upcoming season?

A: Withe the addition of mech as our caller i believe we shall...

September is going to be an exciting and highly anticipated month for Team Immunity. They will be attending both the MSI BEAT IT competition and the World Cyber Games. On top of this, as part of Team Immunity’s intense preparation schedule, they will be spending thirteen days in Sweden preparing for the World Cyber Games in Los Angeles.

They will be flying straight from Beijing after the MSI BEAT IT competition wraps up on the 7th of September to begin their boot-camp. Settling in at Inferno Online in Stockholm the team will have access to one of the world’s largest LAN cafes with some of the fastest internet in the world. This combined with LAN practise against ‘SK Gaming’ and ‘H2K’ will provide a significant arena for focused practise.

Over the thirteen day boot-camp the team has laid out a list of goals and objectives that they aim to achieve and hope to take from this great learning experience. Humbled and motivated by the fact that they will be again representing Australia at the World Cyber Games the team is hoping to harness the experience and develop into an even more formidable opponent on the international scene.

The team will be leaving Sweden on the 19th of September and heading home for couple of days to rest and recuperate. After this quick pit-stop the team will then fly directly to Los Angeles over a week early in order to practise North American teams and begin final preparations for the Global Finals of the World Cyber Games.

Team Immunity 1.6 Roster

Gareth "gazR" Lynn (C)
Justin "Kurandus" Evans
Yaman "Yaman" Ergenekon
Otis "pupajoN" Duncan
Miles "rizE" O'Connor

Be sure to stay tuned to their Website:
.team-immunity.com.com, Facebook (Team Immunity | Facebook:
.facebook.com/teamimmunity) and soon to be launched YouTube channel. Here you will be able to catch daily video blogs, photographs and updates on the team as they compete and travel to China, Sweden and the United States.

Hello and welcome fellow gamers and gamerettes. Michael 'mickzerofive' Jenkins here from Aus/NZ Quake Live:
community 4Seasons Gaming:


This September dawns a new partnership for ourselves and well known gaming brand Logitech:
Through-out all the struggle and the efforts of my own and my teams:
we are extremely glad to see everything starting to pay off for us.

In Celebration! And of our love for games of all types we have chosen to run a Play of the Year competition to spruce things up amongst the global communities and therefor will be running video entries via the well known medium, YouTube:



Entries Open: September the 1st.
Entries Close: September the 30th.

What to include
* Your Gamer Nickname/Alias
* Your Country of birth and/or residencey
* Your bad ass Play
Optional: First/Last name

Important things to remember
* "Play" does not just mean Frag, my Panel range from experience in all game types and ofcourse all situations, cluthes, team downs, flag caps so give us something special to watch
* No Frag Reels/Movies/Production pieces, let's keep things real and short guys/girls one play per video
* You don't have to include fancy slow mo or different angles, but you can
* You don't have to include dramatic or interesting sound tracks, but you can (just remember to credit original artists or youtube might remove your video)
* Keep your video under 5 minutes

Gaming Panel Voting Commences: October
** note: there will no longer be public voting due to smart cookies attacking polls easily. Instead the Gaming Panel will pick the final 10 and then pick 3 from that**

My Selected Gaming Panel
Stewart "Ej:
Brumm. CEO Gamestah:
valk from ozfortress.com:
Dan Cheer from Gameplanet.co.nz:
Michael Woodz Writer and studio host Woodztown:

Well the time has come that we moved beyond just a simple open ladder to give you 1.6 junkies something to play and fired up some invite leagues. The way CyberGamer Invite leagues work is that their is 3 skill divisions, invite, main, and amateur. Naturally we will only run with the leagues that are filled depending on registrations.

Teams line up in 8 team skill groups and battle it out playing each of the other teams in their group on set nights over 7 weeks with the top4 teams advancing to the semifinals and grand final where they battle it out in best of 3 encounters. The leagues are pay to play and will be introduced futher down.

Easy Anti Cheat the known and commonplace anticheat on both CyberGamer and CSCOMP/IPGN servers will be used for the season. Players are still required to record demos of all of their matches and hold them for 2 weeks and be able to provide them on request from league administrators.

With the leagues kicking off we would ask that all teams make use of the CS1.6 Results forum and post match writeups of the game, this can be done be either the winning or losing side. We also ask that teams treat eachother with respect and good sportsmanship throughout the season.



The invite league is for the cream of the crop in Australian CounterStrike. These teams have demonstrated time and time again the players and skillsets to compete at the highest levels of competition. This league comes with a $50 per team entry fee which can be paid via CyberGamers Pay to Play event management system.
Payment Portal:



The main league is for teams that are really emerging in the community and showing the poise and depth to bring top level gaming to their matches. This is the battleground where teams go head to head fighting for the right to be promoted to the invite league. This league comes with a $25 per team entry fee which can be paid via CyberGamers Pay to Play event management system.
Payment Portal:



The amateur league is for teams that have been together for a while or have newly formed and want to pit their skills against fellow motivated organised teams. The amateur teams are out there to prove that they are worthy to advance to the main league to stake their claim amongst the emerging professional teams. This league...

We’re proud to announce today that Team Immunity’s Counter-Strike 1.6 team have been officially invited to compete in the Finals of the MSI ‘BEAT IT’ competition in Beijing this September.

Banner Done By None Other Then Sno.

Hello peoples of CyberGamer,

Im proud to annouce our first p2p competition for the hon community. The purpose of this competition is to injekt some fierce competition and create a more fair seeding for our hon cybergamer invitational league. The ladder is expected to consist of 12 minimum, consisting of several brackets depending on the amount of interest given. The ladder format is not double elimination but a round robin (you will vs everyone). Once you have got 5 signed up and paid you will be moved from the waiting pool.

Cost: $30

Winners Recieve:

1st 65% Of Bracket Prize Pool
2nd 35% Of Bracket Prize Pool

Registration Begins Tonight (11th of August) and will end on 22nd of August.

Australia/NZ + International:
International teams are entitled to participate in this ladder Providing there is at least two
Australian/New Zealand players in your roster. We have access to I.P address's so please don't try and swindle your way around this rule as your team will be removed. Games are to be played by default on the USWest server.

Match Related:
Teams will have one week to play each match, Teams will organise with there oposition the match day and time using the Chat Box between teams. teams can choose to play on any day during the week between the times of 6pm - 10pm AEDT. If you cannot decide admins will make the match on the 7th day for 9pm.

General ladder Rules:

*It is now compulsory to add your HoN username to your profile.
*The teams have to contact each other before the match time, after this you have 15 minutes to get your team in the hosted game. You may deviate from this if the other team agrees.
*A maximum with of 10 players per team with at least 2 members being of Australian/New Zealand nationality.
*If a team is not able to gather 4 players for a scheduled match they will be automatically forfeited.
*Breaking rules results in a punishment by the tournament administration, depending on the severity of the rule break.
*If a single rule violates the terms of fair competition the administration is free to override this rule in order to keep the basics of fair play.


Helpful Links:

* Registration:Click Here:

* Rules:Click Here:

* Entering Your Hon Name:[...

The Hunter - CyberGamer
________________________________________________________________________

About The Hunter:
The Hunter is a free to play hunting simulator. The Hunter is the most realistic hunting game you will ever play. Immerse yourself in a realistic world and use your skills to track down and hunt a variety of real world animals. The Hunter gives you the oppurtunity to hunt Mule Deer, Blacktail Deer, Whitetail Deer, Elk, Coyotes, Turkey's and feral hogs using a variety weapons such as rifles, shotguns and a compound bow.
The Hunter currently does not support multiplayer or co-op modes due to limitations in the game engine, although this feature will be added in the future.
Free to play members can enjoy using the .243 bolt action rifle and hunting the legendary Mule Deer.





The 3v3 Deer Count ladder is now open for sign ups, if you are interested and would like to sign up a team, navigate to:

Ladder/Team Signup:


Please make sure you read the ladder rules:

Ladder Rules:


To sign up for free to play theHunter, navigate to:

and create an account today.

Tutorials - Check these out before you play.

Tutorials:


Questions? Ask below.

Happy hunting, and good luck!

CyberGamer proudly present to you the CG-Live Ladder. This event is a 10 week ladder played from participating Gaming Centers around Australia on the CyberGamer Ladder system. Players will battle it out working their way to the top of the Ladder to for a chance to claim their stake of the crazy $10'000. Unlike many events however this one has a ridiculous amount of prizes all in cold hard cash; not store credit, not hardware, just eighty-one solid cash prizes!



If you live in or close by any of the venues listed below you have access to this awesome CG-Live Ladder and a chance to win up to 3 different prizes!

*Albury - The LAN Mine
*Ballarat - Guf
*Brisbane - Elysium Internet and Gaming
*Canberra - The Barracks
*Dandenong - LAB G-14
*Geelong - Guf
*Melbourne - Cydus
*Shepparton - CyberBunker
*Sydney - Beyond Internet and Gaming




81 Cash prizes totaling $10'000
*1st place: $2000+
*2nd place: $1000+
*3rd place: $500+
*Runner up: $200+
*5th - 16th: $50 each

But thats not the end of it! If you were ranked the highest on the ladder at the end of the event when compared to the other local players from your particular gaming center, then you also win!

Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney
*1st ranked in each location $150
*2nd ranked in each location $100
*3rd ranked in each location $100
*4th ranked in each location $100
*5th - 10th ranked in each location $50
Ballarat, Canberra, Dandenong, Geelong, and Shepparton:
*1st r...

Starcraft 2 has arrived, with enough sound and fury to signify the apocalypse. The Beta has been in full swing for a while now and the competitive scene that made the original Starcraft so famous has been ramping up with an unprecedented amount of tournaments being played for a pre-release game. But I'm here to announce the biggest Starcraft 2 tournament to date, a hulking behemoth of a tournament to be played on the 28th and 29th of August. What's going to make it so huge? You're invited. That's right, this tournament will be open to anyone who wants to take part. And with an unlimited number of places available, you won't miss out either. But who is hosting this absolutely ridiculous tournament I hear you ask. None other than the leading eSports hub for Starcraft 2 in Australia and New Zealand; CyberGamer.com.au. For any of you that don't know CyberGamer, it was set up in 2007 as home for the Australian Call of Duty competitive scene and since then has exploded in popularity to become the center for all Australian eSports. It encompasses everything from casual gaming ladders to the epitome of competitive gaming, with events such as the recent MSI CG Counter Strike Source Championships, which had a whopping $3,000 worth of prizes. But even that pales in comparison to this tournament. It doesn't matter whether you think that Counter Strike Source is somehow better entertainment than Starcraft 2, or that you'd do better in that tournament. What matters is that you're invited to this one.

And playing is dead easy. Once you have registered for the tournament at CyberGamer, you will be placed in a bracket with 127 other players. From there you will play against randomly picked opponents in a best of 3 format, where the first person to win twice moves on, and the loser is eliminated. Win enough games and you'll reach the end of the bracket, and the finals bracket! If you lose, well, you're out. But that's by no means the end of the road. Oh no. CyberGamer loves Starcraft 2 almost as much as you do, and so they already have ladders running for you to join right now! These ladders, which include both 1v1 and 2v2 play, run for 3 month periods, during which you challenge other local players, guaranteeing you entertaining games as well as a way to get to know the Starcraft 2 community. End those 3 months close to the top, and you'll get to play in the finals for the ladder too. On top of the ladders there will be similar events to Psi Storm 2010, professional leagues, other tournaments and much, much more. Oh and prizes. Did I mention prizes? There's those...

Ok the boys at dice sent this over as its CEST you would wanna be keen but if you were:

"If there was an opportunity for you to knife the developers of Bad Company 2, you wouldn't resist right? Imagine having DICE dogtags in your collection. At least five of them.

Well, now is your chance. Go ahead and make it happen. The Game with Dev event is now coming to PC and we are bringing five DICE -players with us. Always wanted to knife Demize99? How about blowing Bazajaytee up with a Carl Gustav? Epic roadkill on zh1nt0?
Other players are Romeo DICE (special guest) and Stormonster.
The time of this event will be Wednesday the 28th of July 18:00 - 22:00 CEST.

Servers will be announced as soon as the event starts. This is to make sure everyone has a chance to jump on the servers as soon as we start.
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So, take some time off work, leave the children with someone else, say goodbye to your significant other because this Wednesday is going to be awesome."

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Today's review is on the long awaited Razer Imperator Laser gaming mouse!

Due to popular demand - SteelSeries Ikari [Laser Version] Review.

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2010 has already seen the unexpected resurgence of Call of Duty 4. Whilst the previous year held no competition of notable worth for the game, 2010 has already seen the One Day Competition and MSi Summer Comp played out where both competitions saw the rise of newly formed teams unexpectedly take out these events and the prizes included. In the One Day Comp, Frenetic Array comfortably secured 1st placed whilst auRa, a previously unheard of team upset the seasoned Qlimax-Crew to take out 2nd position. The MSi Summer Comp presented an interesting complexity, not only did it include these newer sides in terms of both the age of the teams and the point from where the players had started to play the game, it also saw the return of the veterans and in most instances retired CoD4 teams in the form of Team Immunity, [0utKasT], Sequential Gaming & clicK!.It was the results of the MSi Summer Cup that have re-defined which teams and which individuals are perceived as the best. The Grand Final of the Summer Cup saw Archaic Esports accomplish a milestone that no other team had been able to do in three seasons of CGi, and that was to defeat Team Immunity at an online level. In the same competition, Archaic Esports managed to also take down the team most thought to be their main competition, Frenetic Array, and it is for this reason that Archaic Esports are undoubtedly the team to beat, and for their successes in the MSi Summer Cup they are described by many as the best in Australia.Whilst each member of Archaic had played CoD4 actively at some point in the past year, Team Immunity were only given a few weeks to firstly find a 5th player and then attempt to achieve a level of playing ability that can match that of their past. The upcoming CyberGamer Draft Competition provides Team Immunity with a chance for redemption if they are both active and committed.
This is however by no means a two team competition, by the time the competitions start 32 teams will have payed up $50, and especially for the newer mid-range teams they will all be scrimming and practicing hard in an attempt to regain and make on their money. Besides the two favorites, the competitions roster contains very capable teams in the form of GGunit, dEMiZE & resistaNce , all of whom have the capability to push the top teams. I have also conducted basic interviews with 2-3 of the top teams from each group which will be presented over the next few pages which have allowed the team captains to introduce themselves, their teams and discuss how they think the competition will pan out.
It is as always quite important, specifically with this particular competition to recognize the contributions of the Admins and Organizers. In this instance, Sensuki is effectively running all aspects of the competition single handedly (with a minor amount of technical assistance from Asterix) so the success and communal participation that will be found in the competition should be accredited to Sensuki and his administration team.

Dallas is 23 and lives outside of Brisbane. He has taken the reigns of AU Xbox shoutcasting and brought it to another level of entertainment and professionalism for the community. Acid's been active for around 6 months on CG, but has given a lot over this time, and advanced through the staff ranks. He has some great plans and ideas to improve the competitive scene, which we will get to.

Riley is 21 and lives in Kensington, Victoria. He is the founder of Xbox on CyberGamer, and has been the driving force that made this site a success and the best it can be for the community. As a result, the professionalism and exposure of AU Xbox gaming has gone through the roof in a short time. He is one smart cookie and his passion for games, dedication, decision making skills and intuitive ideas will continue to make CG the pinnacle of E-Sports for us.

Today on taking it to the streets I requested a challenge from the community, who did they want to see an interview from? Not to leave our Call of Duty guys out I went with the request for an interview with Pandemic, when I managed to track the team down I made my first port of call Joe "Nabore" Amorosa, Pandemics ingame leader for the Call of Duty 4 team. Joe "Nabore" Amorosa is a 23 year old who's hometown is Staten Island New York and he has been with Team Pandemic since September 2006.

Ryan is 21, live's in the ACT, and recently graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Commerce. Now he is settling into working full time, but has been apart of the Xbox scene since the beginning and competed in our best competitions. Ryan has also had a lot to do behind the scenes and is developing and promoting the community all the time. He is one of our Xbox moderators and is a ladder Admin for GRID also.

Tell us about your gaming history?

I have a pretty shoddy console history actually. I started with a Sega Mega Drive (16 bit!) for Christmas when I was about six, and could never beat the second level on Sonic 2 (the one with the water rising). Didn’t really like it after that. After that, I had a big break until I was given a Nintendo 64 (for Christmas again), with Super Mario Kart and Rush, introducing me to racing games. Rush is probably the precursor to the Burnout, and was my favourite game for a long time – hidden stunt parks and so on. I had a family computer over the years, but it was always a bit slow, and could never run anything well. Over the ages, games played included Age of Empires, GTA3 series, and the Need for Speed series. From there on, I had a huge break until I bought an Xbox360 two years ago.

So you’ve been on the box for a while now, how long on live and what games have you played?

On live since launch actually – I’ve always had gold membership, but wasn’t an active member. I played heaps of PGR, but not online. Same with Perfect Dark, all of the Burnout Series, Forza, Need for Speed, and Guitar Hero.  I guess Halo 3 was the first game I actually played online – got together with a few uni mates (tags Applzor and turbo619pants) and hit up the 2v2 ranked matchmaking. It was also the first FPS I’d ever played on the Xbox.

From there, I hit up some parties with uni friends, and we had heaps of fun with Halo. Eventually, we all bought COD and had some awesome LAN sessions with about a million beers, and had some pretty crazy times. 5v5 COD4 LANs are unbeatable – so much more intense than you’d think – and no lag too.

I only started to play online after a few invites from a guy called RyanMc1979, who ended up being Db4D Rhyno (not me!) into Call of Duty online. Over time, I’ve made a few friends and had a heap of fun – although I think the COD scene is getting a little tired, as I am of CoD4.

So what clans have you been apart of in CoD4?

The first clan I joined was called Death Before Dishonour (Db4D) – I joined through one of my first friends on XBL, Db4D RHYNO. I then got to know the group – you’ll know most of them today; The Duke, Kritikal Motion, Alucard, Pyrotech, RJ Aus, Darkness, Hitman, Kalamity, Aimless, and a bunch of others. Unfortunately, the clan started to splinter just after I started, and was never as good as it was (they beat Malice at one stage – I don’t think they were expecting to play a hard team, but still). The leader, Db4D Darkness, who turned out to be a mate from uni, pretty much hated Xbox after that, so Duke ran the show.

So what happened after Db4D split up?

Some joined NXS and some other teams; I joined “The Pookebabs” and hit up some AXB magic.  We had a fairly good line-up in retrospect – Pookebab, Superior, AussieRich, AussieBlake, AussieDYNAMITE, and some others. Perhaps the only team to have strats for Shipment on HCS&D, we had a bit of fun.

After that, Pookebab changed the team, and we became Velocity B (for a hard earned thirst). I started to get serious after this, and made good friends with the Dallas, Pooks, and heaps of the VeL guys. The only thing that’s changed since then is our name. We’ve moved from vB, to pR, to apX in about a year and a half – all reflecting a move away from a Velocity B team and into something more professional.

How do you fit into that current team now?

I’m the first to admit that I’m not the best player, which is why you’ll only see me play a few matches a season for our team. Most of my work is done behind the scenes – I’ve been pushing quite hard to get some sponsorships or endorsements for our squad at the moment, which seems will hopefully be bearing some results soon.

For now though, it’s apX on standby until MW2 comes out. Most of us are sick of CoD4, and CoD5 isn’t really as “sharp” in my opinion.

What success have you had?

As a team, we’ve won and lost a few grand finals. The CyberGamer intermediate grand final was perhaps the most intense thing I’ve ever seen/listened to. A good win by the team. We also came runners up to iMLC in the GotGames Intermediate grand final by one round – we had a few clutch chances, but it was a fairly epic game. <br />We’ve made the semi-finals of the CyberGamer S2 Pro league. Although the whole thing was a bit mucked up – a grand final win by forfeit was never a great idea. Uprising should have won it – we got completely rolled by them. To quote Arctiqe (Dylan) on the day, “They are the undisputed kings of Xbox”.

You mention sponsorship before, care to elaborate?

I think sponsorship for CG is the way forward - it means that competitions can have prizes, and that the entire site has a higher visibility. Anything that's good for the community goes.

In terms of sponsorship for apeX, we're focusing on two main ideas right now. Firstly, we're looking at endorsements from particular suppliers who we've all bought products from i.e. headphones. Secondly, we're looking at joining with a multi-gaming organisation such as Exile5 or vVv who can provide us with some credibility and stability in the long run. Our team's been around in a very similar state for over two years - pretty rare in Xbox land! Hopefully when MW2 launches, we can step up a notch in terms of professional standards.

Your focus is off the CoD series for the time being, and playing and managing GRID on the new ladders.

Yeah, racing is probably my favourite genre, so I’m a big fan of GRID. I think it balances arcade action (with Drift and Derby) with some really good tight racing areas (Open Wheel, GT1, and my favourite, Touring Cars). I really hope it goes well. A lot of the community, like myself, is completely sick of CoD (ProMod tournament aside), and wants something different.

You are one of the admin’s for those ladders now, what do you want to achieve?

I’d like to achieve a community with the ladder – in the same way that the CoD ladders are now a community. I think the Xbox scene could do with a home at CyberGamer, and think the way to do that is to establish credibility in games other than CoD. The other thing, of course, is to have a little fun!

If I can recommend one thing, it’s that people with GRID sign up to this ladder – Pro isn’t massively challenging and competitive, and Casual is going to be a heap of fun. Classic and I had a few awesome ideas for the finals, we’re going get the top eight teams (two players each), and have two 2v2v2v2 (eight player) races for the finals entry – same for the grand final. Should be absolutely awesome.

And what about your admin partner iClassic?

He used to be Unknown Creator – after a few chats about GRID, he realised that we’d known each other for about a year. He’s a good guy, and has been with COD4 since the AXB days (since I’d been in Db4D!). I think he understands the GRID game really well, and knows which tracks should go into the ladders – without his technical knowledge; I’d be in trouble.

The other thing I’d like to say about GRID is that we’re always open to new ideas – send us a message or PM and we’ll fix or change things. It may not be immediate, but we’re definitely experimenting. One change we’re thinking about is making the ladders 3v3.

What do you think about CyberGamer?

It’s refreshing to see a site in which the owner and designer (Asterix and sn@p) are always asking how they can improve things – if we see an issue, we mention it in the admin forums, and it’s fixed that day. It’s also good to see a growing community, and a whole new bunch of people taking ownership of the Xbox community – RJ, Kritikal, Butler, Classic, Ciizan, Rohizle and a lot more are making it more than just a game. There’s a lot of work behind the scenes that most people don’t see – discussions about competitions, if we should ban the STG, sponsorship. It’s definitely an exciting place to work right now!

You were one of the first moderators instated by RJ Aus, how did it happen?

It all started pretty badly actually. I knew Kritikal pretty well, and I knew RJ from Db4D days, but my team (pR) had seen a few bad calls made against us in the competition, so I abused the refs in the dispute one week. I then thought – maybe I can help out here. So I got on to Kritikal, put in the word that I was interested, and apologised for the outbreak. It probably took me a month of talks with RJ to get a forum mod position. As soon as I saw the admin forums, I realised just how hard these guys had worked to get the site running well.

From there on in, it was just a matter of helping the site to grow. I’ve had about a million talks with RJ in terms of Sponsorship for the site, and we’re all looking out for opportunities. The progression to admin took a while from there – it only really came when I had a few ideas for the GRID ladders,and helped Classic out.

What do you think about our gaming scene in Australia?

PC gaming is huge in Australia, which is not a bad thing. However, Xbox gaming is viewed as a bit casual, and not as good – which is simply not true. The Xbox scene is pretty much centred around CoD, which makes it simple to organise. However, it’s split between CyberGamer and GotGames – a rivalry that goes back a long way. Not many people know about it, but Asterix came and made CyberGamer after the owner of GotGames screwed him over in a deal for a CoD ladder.

For the future, I think we need to get some sponsorship down – which should happen with CoD6. In addition, we need a separation of the leagues – a Casual League with a higher team limit and more casual focus, and a Pro invitational league which could even be pay to play. I’m fairly sure something like that is in the works – it all depends on the response to CoD6.

That sounds really good, so what are some of the problems, things we could fix?

CG has a reputation as being an easier ladder because it’s not pay-to-play like GotGames. I think we could fix that pretty easily – almost everyone on GotGames, including myself hates CEVO and how it all works. We can make an invitational or pay-to-play league to fix that. We also need a community that isn’t entirely CoD based. There have been a few really good moves with Skate, GoW, and Halo Wars ladders, but the numbers still say 95% of people love CoD.

What other games do you enjoy now?

Braid is my favourite game of this year by far – if you haven’t played it, go buy it. Made by this one guy over about four years, it completely bends the mechanics of what a game should and will do. Best game I have ever played. Period.

What’s some things coming that you are looking forward to?

The National Broadband Network, and thus bloody Internet that works! Most people that’ve played with me will know that my Internet is pretty much constantly red dot on CoD. It’s got to do with Telstra – they’ve put 30,000 people on ONE single exchange and refuse to upgrade it. Despite this, we pay over $100 a month for download speeds of 5-15kb/s during peak hours with Internode too. Sorry, rant over.

Ok, and games wise?

MW2 is going to be the make or break of this community, so I’m looking forward to seeing what happens. I hope the multiplayer is as great as we all hope it will be – another CoD5 will kill all off any chances of a professional competition. Perhaps the weirdest thing to do with gaming that I’m looking forward to is within our clan. Earlier this year, we all arranged to meet up somewhere and have a few beers. Hopefully that’ll happen later this year. For the record, I’ve only met Thinkscope so far.

Will you be playing video games forever, and how about competitive?

Hopefully – I’m finding that with work with Deloitte getting busier and busier, the time I have for gaming is diminishing. Having said that, I’ll make the effort at 10 or 11pm to jump on the box and catch up with all the guys. All of the guys – the NXS guys, the apX fags, and Big Bad Bunnyy are heaps of fun to catch up with. It’s not about the gaming right now – it’s about the friends.I think there’ll always be a place for games in my life. My boss at work is a confessed gamer, and owns probably every console invented by mankind, so it’s definitely possible to work and play.I think playing competitively is an extension of the normal experience – if you really love a game, you’ll try and be the best. So to answer your question, I’ll definitely play competitively for the games I love! If MW2 is as great as we all hope it will be, then I’ll be there. For now though, it’s GRID all the way.

What do you do outside of the gaming?

I do a fair bit outside of gaming, which is why I’ve had a hard time getting on the Xbox lately. I play field hockey with a team in Canberra, and so far we’re undefeated – although we shouldn’t be playing that grade. We’ve won the comp four years in a row. It’s like the old, good MLC playing CG Inter =) Aside from work and hockey, friends and my girlfriend Flick take up a lot of my time. Tuesday Tempura nights with the boys, Friday night drinks with everyone, or whatever. I try and keep myself busy!

Tell us a bit about you job?

Work with Deloitte is becoming a big part of my life – now that I’ve graduated from uni, the days where I could go home at 2pm and chill out just don’t happen. 8-5pm is pretty normal – having said that, I love the work.

Deloitte is huge (4,500 in Aus)– they do everything to do with business, helping business, and finding really innovative solutions. Despite the financial crisis that’s happening, the company is doing really well through a lot of hard work, and hasn’t had to lay-off anyone like the other big four (KPMG, Ernst and Young, and PriceWaterhouse Coopers). I work in Audit, which is about 20% of the company.

My job involves the financial statements that companies put out each year. The team I work with checks all the accounts behind the scenes, and makes sure that there aren’t any problems with them. It’s been a bit challenging so far because I’ve had to learn about four or five accounting software packages in order to understand what’s happening (Finance One, IBA Health, MYOB, etc.).

Hopefully you go far, What are some memorable moments from gaming?

So much funny shit has happened on the Xbox. Some of the best times include:

~Pookebab Oz-Rap battling over XBL – and then winning convincingly!
~Anchorman and Fitzy continuously making gagging noises during clan matches.
~Dylan making people wait so he could get his lucky hat!
~Bunny’s sick, twisted messages, and the ones I sent back. http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss326/RyanoAU/Picture1-8.png
~Bloody Rumbos – I have never laughed so hard at one man.
~Playing AXB with Velocity and winning a match 30-0 (TDM, first to 1000) by camping spawn. Actually, mucking around in AXB in general – ninja planting, ninja defusing, ninja claymoring!
~NSX Alucard’s filthy messages to everyone.
~Duke being drunk as a skunk a few nights!
~Hearing RAGE KING J rage again and again – **** OFF, I SHOT HIM!
~Prank calls from the guys at 3am in the morning – Swanny and SJ.

As for memorable, playing with Db4D was awesome – I remember how scared I was of Hitman when he had a scope or ACOG .50 Cal – I got owned every time.
Also coming on COD4 during our competitive days and Anchorman popping up and saying “I’ve made this new strat” – complete with brand new nades, etc. We managed to get a nade behind the dumpster in the courtyard in Strike consistently – pretty much a genius!

All right Ryan, Thanks for your time, good luck at work and good luck with the GRID section.

Thank you Rohi, If I can make a few shoutouts, I’d love to say hi to Pookebab, Fitzy, JJ Dalla, Baldhound, Anchorhax, Rapture, Arctic, Thinkscope, Duke, Alucard, Kritikal, and Big Bad Bunnyy!

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Ok to kick this off Patrik tell us a little about the fnatic CS1.6 team. Have you guys been together for a while now or have you rotated a few guys in and out as you have built yourselves up to the team you have now?

Jake is 17, and his final year at school in Manly NSW is flying by. He's a skilled casual gamer with an amazing natural talent and relaxed attitude, something that wouldn't seem to match in this evolving game environment. He's apart of a competitive community where many players rely on technological assists and exploiting every avenue to make them great. Players like Jake are rare; he keeps it simple, just playing games as a source of fun like most of us used to. Maybe that's the key to his success, and maybe we could all take it a little less serious sometimes.

Nikolai is 17, and in his final year of school in the quiet town of Busselton, WA. You may think he is new to the Xbox scene, but he actually made the swap from PC a few years ago. If you didnt know now, you will after reading that he is quite passionate about making the competitive XBL scene better. He is currently active in CoD 4 and 5 teams, and has been helping out with Moderation duties on CyberGamer. Nikolai is also one of the recently appointed ladder admin's.

Frank is 20 and lives in the picturesque surf town of Torquay, in Victoria. From simple origins, he quickly rose to be a consistent overachiever in some the worlds top clans, with much success over the last few years. He's a humble champion, who just wants to see the XBL community get bigger and better.

Steve is 21 and lives with his lovely girlfriend in Bunbury. He is currently highly active on Xbox playing Call of Duty 4 on CyberGamer, contributing to the scene and helping out as a Moderator.