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.