Birmingham Salvo Is The New Championship Gaming Series World Champion

August 4, 2008 by Chapree

Birmingham Salvo - CGS 2008 World Champion
Image Credit: TheCGS.com

The second season of Championship Gaming Series that concluded last week saw the crowning of a new world champion at the CGS 2008 World Finals in California, USA. Birmingham Salvo from UK, steamrolled all their opponent that included CGS Latin America champion and also CGS Season 1 World #2 to bring home the Mountain Dew World Champion trophy plus USD $ 500,000 prize money.

Salvo’s path, as mentioned, was quite hellish. Mexico City Furia (the current Latin America champ) and Carolina Core (last season’s World #2) were drew against them but Salvo managed to defeat them with epically tight score, 22 - 19 and 21 - 20 respectively.

Meanwhile, San Fransisco Optx came into the World Finals through a playoff and won against Dallas Venom and Berlin Allianz to book a place in the Grand Finals against Salvo. But their run towards World Champion title were stopped by the UK team’s superiority with the final score of 22 - 15.

While we can several sign of downsizing towards our own CGS franchise - KL Taufan, it seems that the World Finals were also facing the same thing. You can see that there are lesser teams ~~and there were no Individual Championships as well~~ (UPDATE: There is Individual Championship! Thanks nitroN for correcting me!). Will this format stays next year? All I can say is since CGS might change again the format again even after two relatively successful season.

Words on the air said that the new season could come sooner than you expect. Whether it’s true or not, see you next season!

Final Standing - Prize Money (USD)
Champion: Birmingham Salvo (UK) - $500,000
2nd Runner Up: San Francisco Optx (USA) - $150,000
3/4th Place: Carolina Core (USA) - $70,000
3/4th Place: Berlin Allianz (Germany) - $70,000
5/8th Place: Dallas Venom (USA) - $30,000
5/8th Place: Mexico City Furia (Mexico) - $30,000
5/8th Place: Sydney Underground (Australia) - $30,000
5/8th Place: Wuhan Dragon (China) - $30,000

CGS 2008 World Finals
Image Credit: TheCGS.com

CGS 2008 World Finals MVP
Dean “Picaso” Sutton and David “Daveyskills” Kelly - Forza Motorsports 2, Birmingham Salvo (UK)

CGS 2008 World Finals Individual Championship Champions
Counter-Strike Source: Dallas Venom (USA)
Dead or Alive 4 Female: Vanessa “Vanessa” Arteaga - San Francisco Optx (USA)
Dead or Alive 4 Male: Emmanuel “Master” Rodriguez - Dallas Venom (USA)
FIFA’08: Yfran “eafra” Garcia - Chicago Chimera (USA)
Forza Motorsports 2: Erno “FinPro” Kuronen / Philippe “YggdrasiL” Vaillant - Berlin Allianz (Germany)