Back from Germany, football & beer... and with a bang! Code-Seven.org reports:

Pressrelease regarding codeseven gaming - Immediate release

It is a pleasure to announce that codeseven will participate in two major events during the upcoming month.

° The first one is a online event hosted by Xfire, Wednesday 12th of July, in which codeseven will battle against teams of public players, and have an awesome time.

° The second event is a truly groundbreaking development in the gaming community, the DirecTV Championship Gaming Invitational, which takes place in San Francisco, USA, between July 19th and July 23rd. At this tournament codeseven will compete against the top 3 US teams, HOT, 20ID and Warchild, to gain fame, and bring back the grand prize of 20 000 US Dollars.

The DirecTV Championship Gaming Invitational has aims to introduce gaming to a wider crowd, and to get gaming the acknowledgement it needs. During this event, the gamers will be treated as professional athletes.

The event will be broadcast on DirecTV, an American TV channel with over 15 million subscribers. Backing the event is giants such as IGN Entertainment, Microsoft’s Xbox, Mountain Dew, Fox Interactive Media (FIM) and Best Buy.

There is no doubt that this event is a huge leap forward in the development of professional gaming.

Codeseven will bring 9 people to San Francisco, 8 players and 1 coach.

This event is of course amazing. It has always been a dream of many European battlefield topteams to fly over to the US to compete with the best clans over there and see how they measure up against the north american aces. Now finally, it is possible. No ping issues or lag festivals just happy fragging. Prizes are 20.000$ for the best team and 10.000$ for the runners-up.

The San Francisco tournament is an invite-only tournament and has invited 1 European and 3 NA clans: Code7, the highly rated BF2 World Tournament champions will take on Team HOT, 20ID and Team Warchild. Three teams, Code7 has in fact beaten all to win the online World Tournament. Will history repeat itself and will Code7 once again dominate the American teams? Can Code7 handle the pressure of an all important offline tournament? Or will the Americans take over? Re-check soon for more information and team interviews regarding this shock-event.

GotFrag.com will cover this event to the detail.