It’s been a long and exciting journey and after seven weeks of travelling, blogging and crossing Europe we have reached the conclusion of the Alienware Backpacking Challenge. The time has come to announce the winner. Who will walk away with $5,000 and an Alienware M11x?

MEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so fucking happy!
But to …

While at the ESWC tournament in Paris for the Alienware Backpacking Challenge, I have managed to very quickly interview some of the players there. If you like my adventures there and the content I give, please be so kind as to vote for me.
Without further ado, here are the interviews.
Fazz:

Justin …

It seems like April is the “air all the dirty laundry” month, as early this morning I woke to the news of the illegal gambling going on in the Korean StarCraft scene. A few days ago, American StarCraft player Dan ‘Rekrul’ Schreiber started to blow the whistle on illegal betting …

So last week they finally released the details for those of you who are interested in auditioning to be WCG’s next ultimate gamer.
The official WCG Ultimate Gamer casting dates and locations are as follows:
• April 7– Los Angeles
Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Westside, 6161 West Centinela Ave., Culver City
9:00 am– …

Although it’s been known for a long time that the CPL has been somewhat of a shady organization, finally the eSports community has proof.
Tonya Welch has been a part of many huge professional gaming organizations such as the CPL, CGS and WSVG. Finally, out of eSports, she has decided …

For those of you who have perhaps made some sick frags in whatever game you play, Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel gives you a chance to win something for it! Check out the video below:

To enter all you have to do is upload your frag to youtube and post it as a …

The final playday of the ESL Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Quake Live tournament was just awesome. Great games, great atmosphere and a really nice live production.
Something which did strike me as a little bit strange however was the presentation of the sportsmanship award to the fan-favourite Anton “Cooller” Singov. The …

Kevin (Nathan) “Strenx” Baeza is a 19 year old student from France and has made quite the name for himself over a short amount of time in the Quake Live European scene. Many Quake fans got their first impressions of Strenx in the now-infamous interview after his match with Russian …

Quake 3 personality Sajruz “Prozac” Malekani has entertained the gaming community for years, making ESWC history by serenading the audience with his rendition of “Hit me baby one more time”.
Aside from being a top Quake TDMer, he also is a huge Street Fighter fan. I thought this video was lost …

Drama has struck the usually calm and mature Quake 2 community. Top Finnish player Thaigo has been banned from the Quake 2 European Duel League. Thaigo was a Finnish national team representative and was the founder of one of the top teams, Wzzrds. He has been on the scene for …