Month: December 2016

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2GGaming Announces the 2GG Championship Series for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Complete with $100,000 Prize Pool

After yet another historic Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Saga put on by Champ and the 2GG team, the fun is not going to stop there. In a special announcement from Champ following the conclusion of ZeRo Saga, he announced that 2GG, in association with the Esports Arena, will be holding a Smash 4 tournament circuit in the new year: the 2GG Championship Series.

With 12 Sagas over 12 months, players will fight for 20 qualifying spots at the 2GG Championship Finals to be held at the end of 2017. Players can qualify for the Finals by either winning a Saga event and gaining an automatic spot, or by getting there via points gained from top 16 placings. To add a little more of an incentive to attend certain Sagas, each fourth Saga will be a season finale, where players will earn double points for placing within that top 16. These season finales will be two to three day events, similar to ZeRo Saga while normal Sagas will be one-day events.

If this isn’t exciting enough, 2GG are putting up a $100,000 prize pool, with $50,000 going across the 11 qualifying Sagas and the other $50,000 going directly to the Championship Finals. This is the largest prize pot in Super Smash Bros. history, so you can bet your bottom dollar the world will be coming to compete.

As sort of a stealth reveal in between this massive announcement, 2GG confirmed that January’s Saga will be titled Genesis Saga, being held the weekend before Genesis 4 on January 14th and that Civil War Saga will be the spring season finale. Civil War Saga will have its own special $30,000 pot bonus, independent of the 2GG Championship Series pool, and a special $10,000 10v10 crew battle between Team Ally and Team ZeRo.

I don’t know what sort of black magic Champ and the 2GG crew have pulled off to make this thing happen, but they are catapulting Smash 4 forward in terms of production values–so congratulations must go to them for putting this whole circuit together. For details on all of the upcoming Sagas, keep your eyes trained on the 2GG Championship Series smash.gg page for continuous updates throughout the year.

Sources: 2GGaming; smash.gg

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Guild Wars 2 – The European Guild Versus Guild Tournament

Currently, the game is in the midst of one of the most highly anticipated PvP seasons to date, coupled with a rehashed Wintersday that still has not failed to bring joy and love to all the players (and orphans). Amongst all these big updates, it would be pretty easy to have missed the end of the European Guild versus Guild tournament that took place, especially considering that this project was 100% community run and funded.

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EverQuest II – Chaos within Kunark

Kunark Ascending, EverQuest II’s 13th expansion, continues two major storylines of Norrath: the Greenmist and the rise of Lanys T’Vyl. The northern reaches of Kunark has been opened up, introducing one new overland zone (Obulus Frontier) as well as several dungeons–including iconic EverQuest zones such as the Crypt of Dalnir, Kaesora, and the City of Mist.