GIGABYTE would like to announce their GIGABYTE E-Sports Championships 2011 Starcraft 2 Invitational tournament. The tournament will see thirty-two of the best Australian Starcraft 2 players, from across the country, invited to compete for over $6,500 in cash prizes.

The cash prize ($5,000) break down is as follows:
1st place - $2,500
2nd place - $1,500
3rd place - $750
4th place - $250

The tournament will be double-elimination, with each match played out as best-of-three, and held in Melbourne at Respawn LAN on the 24th of September. This will be the second GESC event of 2011 and will be the first Starcraft 2 event by the team behind GESC.

Invited players will have the pleasure of playing all matches out on over $30,000 worth of Gigabyte, Intel and GeIL powered gaming machines featuring Intel Core i7 processors, Gigabyte Motherboards and GeIL DDR3 Memory.

The team behind GESC hope to make this Starcraft 2 tournament one of the best for 2011 with a great prize pool and environment for the players to compete in.

To stay tuned for updates and announcements and for further information on the tournament, along with the finalised rule set visit the GESC website at: http://esc.gigabyte.com.au/

We hope to see the community tune in for what will be some amazing matches!

Edited twice, last edited 12/9/11 - 10:17pm.

Sounds great, i might pop in for a watch

Big news

Aww, would go down to watch but sadly in brisbane

Great to see some aussie aussie aussie tourneys happening for the starcraft scene, looking forward to see who's playing and the matches!

yeah, nice to see this stuff happening

This is huge!

This will make the Respawn scene bigger, and hopefully get some more sponsors along and produce more prizes.