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After only 2 seasons, Championship Gaming Series has now gone to dust as BSkyB, STAR and DirecTV decided to close the league down. The organization cited profitability hardship due to current economic condition as the main reason behind the closure.
CGS has now joined the ranks of World Series of Video Games [...]

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Birmingham Salvo - CGS 2008 World ChampionImage 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 [...]

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After overcoming Singapore Sword earlier today, there is only one step left between KL Taufan, pro gaming contract and the CGS World Final - win the Semi Finals against Sydney Underground. Unfortunately, the Aussies were too strong for Taufan and the match ended as the worst defeat for Taufan in their Pan-Asian 2008 campaign.
I wonder [...]

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Day 4 saw the last match in CGS Pan-Asian 2008 round robin stage. 4 teams will proceed to the Semi-Finals with the winner of these Semi-Finals will receive the lucrative pro gaming contracts and also representing Region 5 at CGS World Finals later this year.
Taufaaaannnn!!!Credit: TheCGS.com Photo Gallery
For Malaysian CGS franchise - KL Taufan, today [...]

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It’s another sad day for KL Taufan who are didn’t get the much needed points advantage against other bottom feeders at the CGS Pan-Asian 2008. Wuhan Dragon who got home ground advantage and also superb form, took down our FM2, DoA4 Male and even FIFA’08 (4 - 1, woah!) player with their stunning performance.
Woah, that’s [...]

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The second day of CGS Pan-Asian 2008 has comes to an end, with less than impressive results for KL Taufan and also some unexpected rumors.
Si_Jali getting ready to rumble.
KL Taufan today was scheduled to meet two teams for today: Sydney Underground and Seoul Jinhwa. Unfortunately, both of their opponent pretty much teared Taufan away in [...]

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The first day of CGS Pan-Asian 2008 has ended with positive results for Kuala Lumpur Taufan. The lack of online coverage during the event was quite apparent since the full results was made available only when the team got back to their hotels. Here there are, courtesy of G-Din, one of Taufan’s FM2 player:
KL Taufan [...]

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After months of waiting, the CGS Pan-Asian 2008 is finally here. Throughout this week, six teams from all over Asia will be battling for two spots to compete at the CGS World Final and also, a lucrative pro-gaming contract. Our country will be represented by the members of Kuala Lumpur Taufan, which has departed to [...]

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That is where Wuhan is located, folks.
Championship Gaming Series recently announced that they are going to opened up a full-blown eSports center at Wuhan, China. The facility, which will be called Wuhan Optical Valley Electronic Sports Stadium was created together with some help from the government of Wuhan and the Wuhan Hi Tech Group.
The main [...]

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With CGS Malaysian Qualifier is coming nearer (as hinted by Auricom in our forum), I guess it is about time to check how much reward there is in CGS system. GotFrag recently got ahold of CGS’s 2008 North American Player Combine and Draft Player Packet and did an excellent analysis on how much North American [...]

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Championship Gaming Series today announced their schedule for Pan-Asian Championship. A total of six teams - Seoul Jinhwa, Wuhan Dragon, Singapore Sword, Sydney Underground, Dubai Mirage and of course, our own Kuala Lumpur Taufan will compete for spots to represent Asia at CGS World Final.
According to the announcement, the Pan-Asian Championship Finals will be held [...]

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Championship Gaming Series today announced four main official games for their 2008 season, which are as below:

Counter-Strike:Source
Dead or Alive 4
FIFA’08
Forza Motorsports 2

Overall, three titles were brought over from last season but for racing category, the previous title - Project Gotham Racing, have been replaced with a tougher, simulation-like racing game. They will still carry the [...]

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Recently, the Championship Gaming Series announced the official schedule of 2008 North American season. That is a very big sign that the new season - previously rumored to start around March/April, is on track and CGS are determined to repeat their 2007 success.
The Region 1 2008 season will be kicked off with North American Combine [...]

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Chicago Chimera, the 1st CGS World Champion celebrated their victory. Image: TheCGS.com
After a throngs of qualifiers in several countries across five regions for the past few months which included our own country, this season’s Championship Series Gaming have finally came to an end. The inaugural 2007 Championship Gaming Series World Finals is finally over at [...]

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CGS World Championship contender, Wuhan Dragon were forced to forfeit their place at the event after been denied visa by the US Consulate in Beijing.
CGS Commissioner Andy Reif commented, “We’ve been working tirelessly with the State Department, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing repeatedly, and all other contacts in our extensive network to rectify this [...]

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