BenQ專業電競顯示器品質深獲肯定，再獲2012-2013年第七屆IEM電競聯賽(Intel Extreme Masters)指定電競顯示器使用品牌。2012-2013年第七屆IEM電競聯賽邁入第七賽季，從今年8月15到19號所舉辦的德國科隆分區賽開跑，到明年2013年的德國CeBIT大展中舉辦總決賽。自2006年IEM電競聯賽開賽起，BenQ是有史以來首家IEM電競聯賽指定使用的顯示設備品牌。繼2012第六屆IEM電競聯賽賽事中，BenQ提供全球電競選手專業的電競顯示器後品質深獲肯定，今年BenQ再度以官方指定之姿，贊助超過600台的專業電競顯示器，提供來自歐、亞、美洲各地的電競隊伍在電競聯賽中一決高下，引領全球專業電競液晶顯示器市場潮流，享受快樂科技。
Recently BenQ announced the renewel of its sponsorship for the Intel Extreme Masters 2012/2013. BenQ serves as the official gaming monitor sponsor for the elite global professional gaming tour organized by Electronic Sports League, which will take place in Europe, Asia and South America. And now we showed ourselves off at gamescom 2012 in Cologne, Germany. Gamescom is Europe's largest fair and event highlight for interactive games and entertainment. The fourth edition of gamescom, held from August 15th until 19th, ended on that Sunday with a great result. More than 275,000 visitors, including around 24,500 trade visitors from 83 countries, were excited to watch the IEM gaming tournament and also wanted to check out and experience the newest game releases, the hottest hardware peripherals and latest developments from more than 600 exhibitors.
At gamescom in Cologne, BenQ dominated in showing off more than 240 gaming monitors, of which 140 pieces at the IEM area and another 100 pcs at the ESL area. At the Intel Extreme Masters on gamescom, eight teams were competing with each other in League of Legends Season 2 in order to win first prize but also to secure themselves for the LoL Season 2 World Championships. The BenQ sponsored LoL team: M5.BenQ (well known as Moscow 5) was the true champion! And hopefully they can reclaim their IEM championship title of last year. In the finals at gamescom, M5.BenQ dominated over SK Gaming with a 2-0 victory score, the team dominated the tournament completely, terrorizing and destroying their opponents. SK Gaming surrendered quickly with a 15-1 kill deficit.
Also on gamescom, the gamers Daisy and GoOdy of BenQ’s sponsored SCII team ESC ICYBOX participated in 3 different tournaments for StarCraft II; ESL Pro Series Summer Season 2012 Cup, ESET Summer Masters 2012 and WCG 2012 Germany. Both Daisy and GoOdy performed well and made it to the finals to compete against each other in ESL Pro Series Summer Season 2012 Cup #6 with overall domination by Daisy. In the ESET Summer Masters 2012, Daisy managed to get the runner up place in the finals with an unfortunate loss against Tarra from team AI. While GoOdy also had to take his loss against DarKFoRcE from team Alternate with the 2nd place in the WCG 2012 Germany finals and therefore regretfully not able to get the qualification for the WCG.
And of course, BenQ’s first Intel Extreme Masters Ambassador of StarCraft II, Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen was present at gamescom while he qualified through Open Bracket and Top 16 at IEM, but unfortunately did not make if further than the group matches. Still being a true ambassador, he promoted BenQ actively at gamescom with some PR related activities. But also could be followed more closer and personal via Facebook; www.facebook.com/FollowGrubby and Twitch TV; http://zh-tw.twitch.tv/followgrubby with his own live video streaming with 2 webcams on himself on his peripherals, like our BenQ gaming monitor.
For those true autograph seekers, BenQ held an autograph session at the Intel Extreme Masters trophy corners with the famous members of BenQ’s sponsored teams; ESC ICYBOX and M5.BenQ. The BenQ signing cards with details about our ultimate gaming monitor XL2420T were handed by some promo girls of BenQ. It was crowded with autograph seekers wanted to close to their most favorite players! On each event day, BenQ also organised a raffle at the IEM stage in order for the match spectators to win some cool prizes and nice give aways gadgets, like BenQ’s ultimate gaming monitor XL2420T and signed caps, lion cuddly toys, signed autograph cards and other gadgets. The raffle leaflets were spreaded by BenQ’s promo girls and M5.BenQ and Grubby warmed up the public and took the lucky draws.
Our BenQ Techie; Chris Lin, TPC Product Manager, was also present at gamescom 2012 as begin BenQ’s very own vanguard to make sure that all BenQ gaming monitors were set in optimal gaming conditions and also to collect immediate useful feedback for the next generation of BenQ gaming monitors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbuqTLQxnE And we had our own BenQ Channel to broadcast the hottest and latest gaming news to the world via youtube.
Day 1 at gamescom 2012 http://gaming.benq.com/media/videos/benqchannel-IEM7-gamescom2012-day1/ The professional League of Legends caster from ESL TV; Jason Kaplan brought on BenQ Channel the full recap of the first day on gamescom 2012.
Day 2 at gamescom 2012 http://gaming.benq.com/media/videos/benqchannel-IEM7-gamescom2012-day2/ More highlights of the second day, like game play, crowd antics, random interviews of gaming enthusiasts were shared by the professional League of Legends caster; Jason Kaplan.
Day 3 at gamescom 2012 http://gaming.benq.com/media/videos/benqchannel-IEM7-gamescom2012-day3-carmac/ BenQ Channel brought to you an interview with Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz, the director of Turtle Entertainment and Product Manager of IEM. Carmac has worked in the eSports scene for more than 5 years now before joining ESL back in 2009. Being the first writer to win the eSports Journalist Award in two consecutive years, Michal not only created a number of popular formats in eSports coverage, but is also one of eSports loudest voices.
Day 4 at gamescom 2012 http://gaming.benq.com/media/videos/benqchannel-IEM7-gamescom2012-day4-m5/ M5.BenQ were interviewed just before their finals by BenQ Channel and after they won the finals M5.BenQ was the champion of League of Legends in IEM Season 2012/2013. M5.BenQ was the real favorite and expected winners of this final game.
Day 5 at gamescom 2012 http://gaming.benq.com/media/videos/benqchannel-IEM7-gamescom2012-day5-grubby/ Also BenQ’s first Intel Extreme Masters Ambassador of StarCraft II, Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen was interviewed by BenQ Channel on the last day of gamescom 2012 tournament.
RTL 2 Television http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrer2d1I1I
The German national TV channel, RTL 2 television also broadcasted an episode about gamescom 2012. Soe, a well known gaming personality in German eSports scene, reported about the best gaming gear for ultimate gaming, like our BenQ gaming monitor XL2420T.
