ROG Stars Invite 2011 At DigiExpo, Helsinki, Finland
ROG Stars Invite 2011 was the second ROG Stars eSports event this year. With eight of the worlds top eSports players dueling it out over StarCraft II in this invite-only, Single Elimination BO5/BO7 event, battling for a part of the $10,000 prize pool.
The eSports players included:
Samuli "elfi" Sihvonen
Protoss | Team Acer
Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi
Terran | Team Dignitas
Dmytro "DIMAGA" Filipchuk
Zerg | mTw Mindfactory
Aleksey "White-Ra" Krupnyk
Protoss | Tt eSPORTS
Jos "ret" de Kroon
Zerg | Team Liquid
Chris "HuK" Loranger
Protoss | Evil geniuses
Kyung Hyun "SeleCT" Ryoo
Terran | Team Dignitas
Greg "IdrA" Fields
Zerg | Evil Geniuses
In cooperation and with sponsorship from Nvidia, ASUS ROG Finland setup an eSports stage with event that was watched by over half a million online, world-wide.
Taking place on November 4th-6th at the biggest consumer electronics event in the Nordic Countries, at Helsinki's Exhibition & Convention Centre, the Expo received a record 68,500+ visitors. If you were one of the 35% that hit the ASUS stand during this, give us a shout out in the forums!
Event shoutcasting was done by world-famous professional commentator, TotalBiscuit, with his co-caster, Apollo. You can check TotalBiscuits YouTube channel for the replays of all the events: http://www.youtube.com/totalbiscuit
The eventual winner was USA/Evil Geniuses, IrdA, taking home the $6,000 first prize, with South Korea/Dignitas SeleCT in second place and Finland/Acer elfi in third.
For more information check Team Liquid's ROG portal
