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Counter-Strike: PNY March Madness 2007 Melee

By: Brent Meeder - Published March 24, 2007 at 12:32 PM EST - Writer Archive
The Cyber Square Alliance (CSA) goes big with what is yet to be another weekend of great North-American LAN competition.
(GotFrag) - Teams from all over compete in what is yet to be another great LAN event. The Cyber Square Alliance is holding another national event this weekend as their six LAN centers from across the US and Canada will be holding a nationwide tournament. Up to sixteen teams will compete at each of these local LAN centre tournaments, with the winning team qualifying for day two where they will face the four other winners online (from the LAN centre) for additional cash prizes.

The west coast teams have been pretty dominant during the past CSA events, but that doesn't stop the hidden talent throughout the states. Pandemic, currently ranked #1 in CEVO Professional, will try to add a major LAN event for 2007 after their second place finish at the Intel $5k event.

The tournament structure will be either running a full double elimination bracket or group play followed by a double elimination stage. The Centre versus Centre challenge on day two will feature a group play format with all teams competing online from their respective LAN centers.

Unfortunately, due to firewall issues, Gamesense Live will not be available for day one local tournaments, but will be available for the day two centre vs centre portion. Gamesense stats from day one will be available shortly after the event.

Be sure to stay tuned to GotFrag, your number one source for full PNY March Madness 2007
coverage. Also, don't forget to set your Personal Timezone so that you don't miss out on any of the action.


Day 1 | LAN Qualifier
1st Place: Grand Final Auto-berth (Day 2) + 5x PNY XLR8™ 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2-6400) Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit
2nd Place: $250 + Sponsored Prizes (TBA)
3rd Place: $150 + Sponsored Prizes (TBA)
4th Place: Sponsored Prizes (TBA)

Day 2 | Center versus Center
1st Place: $ 2,000 + Sponsored Prizes (TBA)
2nd Place: $ 1,250
3rd Place: $ 1,000
4th Place: $ 750
5th Place: $ 500
6th Place: $ 500

There will also be a PNY 8800 GTS 320MB PCIe up for grabs during a raffle at each participating center.

Click the following links to view more information and scoreboards on each participating LAN:
web2zone (New York, NY)
Nekstlevel (Toronto, CA)
Net Heads (Indianapolis, IN)
MugNMouse (Frisco, TX)
CG Centre (Irvine, CA)
X3O (Rockville, MD)

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