I am proud to announce Xeria Gaming (www.xeriagaming.com), a new Professional Esports team in the Australia and New Zealand region. The team is sponsored by Kingston Technology and City Hunter Cyber Cafe. More information on the sponsors below.

The Team:
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Xeria currently has 5 player slots for Starcraft 2 and 1 Manager position. They are:

Manager:
Benji
One of the leading Commentators in the SEA region. Benji has a passion for growing the Starcraft 2 scene and esports in general in Australia and New Zealand and will Manage Xeria Gaming.

Players:
Mafia - Zerg
Recent winner of City Hunter's Starcraft 2 Anniversary tournament as well as finishing third in the Sydney WCG qualifier, securing his spot in the finals. Mafia is a very heavy macro zerg player that has honed his skills by playing a significant amount of games and is known as a mass gamer. Mafia has always been a very good and active Zerg player, and we are proud to have him on the team.

Jazbas - Zerg
Jazbas is a very strong New Zealand based Zerg, placing highly in various local LAN events as well as maintaining very high ladder records finishing in the top 10 on SEA and top 35 on the NA ladder for season 2. Jazbas hopes to continue his success in the future on NA as well as the SEA server. We are proud to have him represent Xeria.

Iaguz - Terran
One of the most consistent SEA Terran players, Finishing Second in the Sydney WCG Qualifier securing a spot for the WCG Australia Finals as well as Third at NRG earlier in the year. Iaguz also finished very strongly in various other LAN and Online tournaments. Iaguz is one of the more colourful players in SEA, known as the 'Gimli Terran' for his resemblance to the Dwarf and is a fan favourite of local players.

Light - Protoss
Light is arguably the best Protoss in the SEA region at the moment, with a Second place at NRG earlier in the year behind ST_ACE, as well as Second in City Hunter's Anniversary Tournament behind teammate Mafia. Light started as a very allin player but eventually developed into a macro gamer, giving him an all round toolset which makes him a very unpredictable player. We look forward to seeing Light continue to perform well in Online and Offline events.

Our 5th slot is currently open, we will announce this player at a later date.


Thanks to our sponsors, we will be sending these players to events all over Australia and New Zealand!


The Sponsors:
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Kingston: www.Kingston.com

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world's independent memory leader.

Founded in 1987 with a single product offering, Kingston® now offers more than 2,000 memory products that support nearly every device that uses memory, from computers, servers and printers to MP3 players, digital cameras and mobile phones. In 2010, the company's sales reached $6.5 billion.


City Hunter Cyber Cafe: www.cityhunter.com.au

City Hunter are one of the largest Internet Cafe Chains in Australia, with 4 stores across Sydney (Chinatown, Haymarket, Burwood and Chatswood) and have been supporting Esports and Starcraft 2 by hosting several events for the community since the game has launched.


We are very proud to be representing both companies and thank them for supporting our team, as well as esports in the region in general.



"I am very excited for this team, I love esports with a passion and would give anything to see it grow in this region to what we are seeing elsewhere. This is a giant step in the right direction, and I am so thankful to Kingston and City Hunter for sharing my passion in supporting us."

Ben "Benji" de Ridder
Manager and Founder of Xeria Gaming


"We're Happy to be working with Team Xeria to help develop the Starcraft II scene in Australia and New Zealand, We have big things planned and are extremely excited for the future ahead"

Chris "Arnor" Grima
Marketing Coordinator
City Hunter


What is there for you?
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With the launch of the team, we also want to contribute to the community to help it grow as well as our team.

Something I found when I started casting and playing is that it can be difficult to find replays to cast or analyse, so to help out new players every 2 weeks our players will play in a mini tournament, of which the replays will be released on our website (www.xeriagaming.com) for download, so you can study your favourite player and copy some of their builds, or use a few replays to practice your casting, or even just to enjoy some very good players playing each other.

LiveStreams

A few of our players have and will continue to Live Stream their ladder games, and as always Benji will continue his SEA tournament coverage. Links for the streams are as follows:

Benji (Event Commentary): www.twitch.tv/benjisc2
Light (Grandmaster Protoss): www.twitch.tv/ngenbluelight
Mafia (Grandmaster Zerg): www.twitch.tv/xeriamafia


Content

We also wish to release other content, from event write-ups, Interviews and anything else you guys are interested in. Content will be posted at www.xeriagaming.com and will also be posted on various websites such as Teamliquid.net and sc2sea.com.

We look forward to representing our sponsors at online and offline events, as well as build the scene here in Australia and New Zealand.


If you have any questions, please post them below and we will do our best to answer them.

- Arnor, Marketing Coordinator, City Hunter

Good luck! Love SC2, so smart to get behind it!

good luck boys
expand your teams to other games aswell!

Best of luck guys.

wow massive team.
GL

Amazing line-up. Best of luck, i will definately follow your team to see how they do! Now glade isn't the only sc2 pro from Australia/New Zealand

Great Lineup, will be big for Sc2 Scene. Best Of Luck to the team.

massive gl

Actually he is, because noone in SEA is close to his level

goodluck with this, hope he doesn't fail ^_^

BoL guys

In Recent months Iaguz has beaten Glade on numerous occasions, there are atleast a dozen players in SEA who are extremely close to his level and if they were able to dedicate more practice time to SCII (they're all students or full time working) then theyd catch glade in no time imo

Not to bring it completely off-topic but, where is glade these days? havn't seen him compete lately or stream etc :S

Also it would be very great to see a whole team at a high level all together

Glade just competed in the IEM Germany Tournament (where he made the top 8) he's been taking a little break these last couple months but he's back and looking in really good touch I recommend watching his games vs HuK and Tarson (from IEM) he got stomped by Nerchio (but he's ZvZ is insanely good). but still good matches to watch.

here's an interview he did a few days ago

Sorry chris i disagree, on internationally i believe glade is way above SEA and i know your a bit biased because you guys sponsor these guys or whatever but yeah, just what i believe

DrSayus > AusSC2