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Skyzo Cup #8 Announcement

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We are excited to announce we have partnered up with Le Skyzo LAN center to broadcast the Skyzo Cup #8 on June 15th. Skyzo Cup #8 will feature a double elimination Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm open bracket tournament with a prize pool of $480 on the line.

The tournament will feature notable French Canadian players such as AlexCMoi, Jig, and desRow.

The stream will go live starting at 5 PM EST from www.eschamp.com or on Twitch and it will be casted by Tanag and GZSwanson.

Brackets:

Masa dominates Elite Series Finals to become champion

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On May 25th, eight players came to Anime North to decide who would take the 2013 ELITE Series: Season 1 Finals. The players had gone through six weeks of rank stage to earn the right to play at the finals, and by the end of the night only one player was left standing: Masa from team Root Gaming. Masa didn’t drop a game sweeping the feeder round, blasting through the semi finals 3-1, and finally dominating the grand finals against Hendralisk from Team Complexity.

It was a spectacular season, and we want to thank you for watching and following our event!

We will see you for the 2013 ELITE Series: Season 2 coming soon.

- VODs

- Pictures


2013 ELITE Series: Season 1 Results

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1st Place - Root.Masa Grand Prize $300
2nd Place - CoL.Hendralisk Second Prize $125
3rd Place - LAG.Believe Third Prize $75

Elite Series Finals


It's been a long road, but we are at the finals! 8 players from Season 1 have been promoted to a single elimination bracket to see who will be this season's champion. To help you follow along, we have put together a little package of info about the finals happening on May 25th starting at 10 am. 


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2013 Elite Series Season 1 Finals Brackets

We are ecstatic to announce that the Finals Bracket for Season 1 of the 2013 Elite Series is ready to go. If you have been following along, you’ll know that this will be the epic conclusion to our invitational. In the past few months, some of the top Eastern Canadian players have played in a swiss format rank stage,and the top eight have moved on to the Finals: a single elimination Championship Bracket.

On May 25th, the finals will be broadcast Live from the Anime North convention floor. Matches start at 10 AM EST.

2013 Elite series s1 bracket

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Battle of the Elites

ShootMania in Toronto

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CHEESEWERKS, in collaboration with ESChamp, and Interceptor Group is proud to announce that it will hold the launch of the long-awaited game "Shootmania" on the night of April 10th! Come try the FPS by Nadeo published by Ubisoft! There will be prizes to be won, including Tshirts, bags, sunglasses and a whole lot more!

Be sure to come down and watch live or participate from home on our live stream

You can download the Open Beta game for free on MediaPlanet.

NADEO: Nadeo is the developer of ShootMania. Nadeo is well known for its TrackMania series.

Ubisoft: Ubisoft is the publisher of ShootMania. Ubisoft sponsors the ShootMania 4 All global launch party!

My Intent Joins the Elite Series with a secret 4th

The action just doesn't stop at ESChamp! We are proud to announce our partnership with team My Intent to bring their line up of Starcraft 2 heavy hitters to the ELITE Series competition.

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Bringing you My Intent’s Grape, Baz, Guitarcheese, and - drumroll please! - an unannounced player! We would Love to be the ones to tell you who it is, but we promised that we would leave it a surprise for My Intent to reveal. All we will say is that we’re incredibly excited about it!

Be sure to keep casting your votes on our facebook page for the match ups you want to see, and let us know in the comments who you think My Intent’s mystery player might be.

Team Killing Spree joins the Elite Series

With the first matches of the Elite Series about to come under way, we are proud to announce our partnership with team Killing Spree to bring their players to the competition. Killing Spree was a dominating force at Canada’s largest LAN, LAN ETS, where Zerg player Jig placed second.

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Alongside Zeruph, AlexCmoi, and new player crBox, it’s a great pleasure to have Killing Spree aboard for this season. You can read more about team killing spree from the their website.

You can watch team KS players face off against other heavy hitters every Friday starting April 5th on twitch.tv

Also remember you will be able to weight in on different match ups via our Facebook page.

Announcement: 2013 Elite Series

The ESChamp team is excited to present the 2013 ELITE Series, featuring 16 invited players from the Greater Toronto Area and Montreal to compete for Starcraft supremacy.

The event will be streamed live from the Microsoft store in Yorkdale Mall. The series will start with a rank stage happening between April 5th and May 10th at 6:30 pm -8:30 pm EST . It will culminate with a finals at the 2013 Anime North convention happening May 24-26th.

The rank stage will use a Swiss Tournament System and will allow fans to help with the match selection process through our Facebook page. In the upcoming days we will reveal the player roster and kick off the season which will run live every Friday until the finals in May.

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Be sure to follow us on Facebook & Twitter to hear how to weight in on the Rank Stage Match ups

Subscribe on Twitch watch the live stream!

Release Party Aftermath

Thanks to everyone who helped make the Heart of the Swarm Toronto Launch Event such a sweeping success. There were contests, cake and show matches and we couldn't of made it such an amazing event without your support. The night went with open community matches and ended with a show match of Root.Masa vs CoL.Ryze ending 4-0 for Masa.

Be sure to check out the line-up of awesome things that happened:

Drawing Contest

Show Match VODs

The making of a Kerrigan Cake

Pictures from the event

It was a great time for everyone involve and look forward to see everyone again on April 5th for the Elite series kick off!