Maumelle, Arkansas – April 17, 2007 – TeamPandemic, LLC., one of North America's hottest professional gaming teams, has confirmed that its World of Warcraft: Arena division will be making its debut at the World Series of Video Games China. The WSVG kick-off event will be held in the city of Wuhan during the country's traditional "Golden Week" holiday May 1-3. In addition to boasting more than $60,000 in cash prizes, the stop will feature the launch of Blizzard's long-awaited offline competitive template making it the first major World of Warcraft LAN tournament in the world.

Team Pandemic's World of Warcraft division consists of seven individuals from the legendary "Notorious" guild from the Tichondrius server. The team is currently competing in the official Blizzard 5v5 Arena tournament under the name "Power Trip." They recently finished in first place playing within BattleGroup 9 (Bloodlust), and will be advancing to the second stage of qualification which is set to begin on April 22.

Official Team Pandemic World of Warcraft Roster:
Joseph "Noktyn" Romano
Jared "Iamvhell" Coulston
Greg "Ecilam" Risselada
Nathan "Kintt" Quinn

As the one of the top-ranked teams in the United States, Pandemic.WoW felt obligated to provide its country with a presence in this strong international field. Along with the responsibility of carrying the Pandemic banner, the team has taken on this out-of-budget expense to become the lone American squad in attendance. In help to alleviate a small portion this unpredicted expense, Team Pandemic is selling limited-run official T-Shirts at www.teampandemic.net. Fans are encouraged to support the team if at all possible.

Team Pandemic will begin their journey to China on Friday, April 27th by all meeting up in Los Angeles. Here the team will get some last minute preparation before the trans-pacific journey. Throughout the week, coverage will be provided on TeamPandemic.net with exclusive player blogs, photo galleries, and interviews as well as match results and videos as they become available. The team will be in China until Saturday, May 5th and will be chronicling their whole trip. Support the team as they progress through not only the WSVG China event, but also as they compete in Blizzard's online official 5v5 Arena Tournament.

About Team Pandemic:
Team Pandemic is a three year old professional gaming organization that has currently has divisions in Counter-Strike, Call of Duty 2, Warcraft 3: DotA and World of Warcraft. In 2006, the team competed in various tournaments and won over $40,000 in cash and prizes. In 2007, the team will be again competing in all of the major professional gaming events including, but not limited to the World Series of Video Games, Electronic Sports World Cup, World Cyber Games and the CyberAthlete Professional League World Tour. Team Pandemic is currently supported by its corporate partners Plantronics, SUBWAY, NationVoice.com and GoDaddy.com. The team is currently incorporated as TeamPandemic, LLC under the laws of the State of Arkansas.

Official Site: http://www.teampandemic.net
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/pandemicteam

About The World Series of Video Games:
The World Series of Video Games is the world's premier video game tournament circuit, which recently completed its first season. In 2006, the World Series of Video Games attracted over 90,000 attendees, produced 250 hours of broadband video, and 20 hours of programming on CBS, MTV, CSTV and GamePlay HD. Additional information including 2007 intro videos are available at www.thewsvg.com.