Serious Gaming at ESWC Masters
Serious Gaming will be represented by seven players in four competition at the ESWC Masters which are taking place this weekend in 
Paris. This prestigious event gathers the best players from around the world in various games at the Palais Omnisports of Paris Bercy. At stake is $65.000 in prize money and various auto-berths to the global ESWC finals in 
San Jose, California.
Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski vs. Quake III Masters - 3rd place
2-0 Mateusz 'matr0x' Ozga - groupstage
2-0 
Dongkin 'Dongjin' Suh - groupstage
0-2 
Magnus 'fox' Olsson - groupstage
2-1 Shane 'Rapha' Hendrixson - groupstage
2-0 Chance 'Chance' Lacina - groupstage
2-1 John 'Zero4' Hill - quarter finals
0-2 
Alexei 'Cypher' Yanushevsky - semi finals
2-0 
Fan 'Jibo' Zhibo - match for third place
Serious Gaming Defense of the Ancients vs. DotA Masters - 5th place
1-0 
Reborn - groupstage
0-1 
MeetYourMakers - groupstage
1-0 Plus 46 - groupstage
0-1 Team EG - groupstage
Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi vs. Warcraft III Masters 13th place
0-2 Grubby - groupstage
2-0 Demigod - groupstage
0-2 Lyn - groupstage
0-2 Wolf - groupstage
Serious Gaming Defense of the Ancients vs. DotA ESWC.fr - 1st place
1-0 Ganglol - groupstage
1-0 World of Darkness - groupstage
1-0 WOS - groupstage
1-0 POWN - semi finals
1-0 WOS - grand finals
ESWC Masters groups
From 4-6 July Serious Gaming will be competing in various tournaments at the ESWC Masters in Paris for $65.000 in prizes as well as auto-berths to this year's global ESWC finals in San Jose, California.
Reigning Quake world champion Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski will be representing the team in the Quake III competition where he has been drawn in group D. There the 17-year old will face ESWC 2004 champion and QuakeCon 2007 runner-up Magnus 'fox' Olsson, USA national champion Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson as well as the following other champion players: Dongkin 'Dongjin' Suh, Chance 'Chance' Lacina and ESWC Poland winner Mateusz 'matr0x' Ozga.
As defending champion av3k's berth to the global finals is already secured. This will nevertheless be a important tournament as he makes his debute in Quake III competition after a succesful Quake IV career; in more than 2+ years of Quake IV competition only five players managed to beat av3k in competition.
Our French Defense of the Ancients squad will be competing in their national ESWC qualifier as well as the Masters. We will be represented in these events by the following players:
Olivier 'darkarax4' Barrière - 22 years old
Marko 'Silentcat' Kovacevic - 19
Loic 'Kiram' Renoullin - 20
Thomas 'Jester' Wolff - 21
Clement 'Soycd' Rodmacq - 25
They face a tough group A in the Masters which includes both the team considered the strongest in the USA in Evil Geniuses as the team considered the strongest in Europe MeetYourMakers. Iranian champion team Reborn and the recently very succesful plusfortysix are also part of the group.
This is the biggest DotA competition in history and will show us how our team ranks on a global scale.
Finally we are represented in the Warcraft III competition by Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi who will face some of the world's most well known professional gamers in his group. His group B includes former ESWC and WCG champion Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen, Extreme Masters champion June 'Lyn' Park, reigning French ESWC champion Christophe ''Wolf' Laporte and the strongest player present outside the Europe/Asia regio: Shahriar 'DemiGod' Shaki.
All in all we face some tough competition at the event. Stay tuned for a live coverage of the event and updates of how our players fare at their respective tournaments.
Serious back in NGL One
Last sunday Serious played its last match of season 4 in the 
NGL Two league versus 
incredible Panic (iP). Going into this last round Serious was ranked second in the general rank (top 2 promote into NGL One). To at least consolidate this position the team not only needed a good victory, but also depended on the result between 
Australia United (AU) and chinese giants wisdom Nerve victory (wNv).
Serious did its duty by winning with a score of 4-2 versus iP. After a shaky start, Kowi lost versus BeckS on Terenas Stand, our American human player SonKiE managed to to beat BeckS (Lost Temple) and Blade (Twisted Meadows). iP brought in nightelf player Roll who picked Gnoll Wood and finished the game victorious. Serious came back with orc player RotterdaM, who then sealed the end victory for Serious by beating Roll on Gnoll Wood and after that KOT on Turtle Rock.
With the 4-2 victory over iP it was a matter of waiting for the result of wNv's last match result. Fortunately for Serious AU did its duty and scored three points versus the chinese team, losing 3-4 though. This result was good enough for Serious to already clinch a top 2 spot in the end rankings, and therefor return into NGL One for next season.
19.00 CET: Serious 4-2 iP
Kowi 0-1 
BeckS (TS)
SonKiE 1-1 BeckS (LT)
SonKiE 2-1 Blade (TM)
SonKiE 2-2 Roll (GW)
RotterdaM 3-2 Roll (GW)
RotterdaM 4-2 KOT (TR)
Coverage: Waaaghtv , GG-TV
Match URL: srs vs iP
Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy at WCG Pan-American
Currently the World Cyber Games Pan-American competition is underway in 
Monterry, Mexico and Serious Gaming is represented at the event by Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy; winner of the World Cyber Games USA Open in New York, USA.
Six national champions from the Americas are competing at the tournament to decide who the region's number one player is.
* Final standings *
1. Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy - $700
2. 
Martin 'apm' Sanfacon - $400
3. 
Olmo
4. Raspot
5/6. Kursed
5/6. Adan Virgen Ruvalcaba
Congratulations to SonKiE for winning World Cyber Games Pan-American!
The tournament started with a group competition which included all players and in which SonKiE had the following results:
srs.SonKiE vs. WCG Pan-American
1-0 
DeltaBenQ.apm
1-0 Adan Virgen Ruvalcaba
1-0 Raspot
1-0 Olmo
1-0 Kursed
A double elimination bracket is now underway with the top four finishers in the group with the following results so far:
grand final
srs.SonKiE [3:2] DeltaBenQ.apm
DowaQ & RotterdaM at Dreamhack Summer 2008
This past weekend the Dreamhack Summer event took place in Jönköping and Serious Gaming's Hjalmar 'DowaQ' Högberg and Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi were present.
DowaQ competed in his national ESWC qualifier and succesfully qualified for the global finals in San Jose, California by beating a number of Swedish's finest players.
These were his results in the event:
srs.DowaQ vs. ESWC Sweden
2-0 Whooly
2-1 PGS.LilLD.C
1-2 SaSe
2-0 EfFeCt
1-2 SaSe
ESWC SWE tournament site
Meaning he took 2nd place behind Kim 'SaSe' Hammar and will be joining SonKiE, av3k (Q4) and RotterdaM as the team's delegation to the $250.000 tournament. KiWiKaKi as well as our DotA division will be competing at their national finals for a chance to compete in the tournament as well.
Next to the qualifiers a Warcraft III competition also took place at the event in which DowaQ and RotterdaM competed. Some of the world's strongest Warcraft III players competed for the 20.000 sek first place prize money including MYM]Ciara, FuRy, PGS.LiLD.C & SaSe.
Our players finished 4th and 5th,
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