ASUS launches AGA gaming league in 10 cities

Mumbai, Apr 19 (UNI) After the runaway success of the World GameMaster Tournament held last year, the world's leading hardware manufacturer ASUS Technology has now announced its next venture in the series of PC Gaming competitions, titled the AGA League 2007.

Starting in the third week of April, a series of gaming competitions will begin at various gaming cafes across ten cities in India. Initiated by ASUS India, this event will be co-sponsored by the major chipset and graphics chip vendor NVIDIA. All events will be executed by Live2own.net who will be the official gaming partners for the league, a release issued here today stated.

The AGA League 2007 will kick-start in the third week of April in Mumbai followed by other major cities. It will be held between April and October 2007 in all the top game cafes in the cities. Amateurs as well as pro gamers will compete for cash prizes ranging between Rs 4000 to Rs 13,000 per competition.

Two well known games, ''Counter Strike'' which is an FPS game and ''DoTa'' which is an upcoming strategy game have been selected as official games for the league. The event schedule and participation details will be available on the official AGA website www.asusgamers.com and also on the ASUS India website www.asus.in.

This ten city event includes major cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Jalandhar, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Cochin, the release further added.

In each competition, gamers will get to score points for each match played. The scores will be updated after every competition in the scoreboard integrated in the AGA website. Teams will be ranked as per their scores listing the best team performed till date from each city.

The objective of the event is not just to promote gaming as a respectable sport, but also to increase the awareness of today's technology among enthusiastic gamers.

Amit Jaokar, Technical Promotion Manager, ASUS India was quoted as saying in the release, ''The AGA League 2007 isn't merely about gaming and winning money, it's about technology at its best. A professional gamer, if given the right technology knowledge can become a very successful hardware consultant in the future to suggest you the perfect PC configuration according to your requirements. At ASUS we believe in not just selling products, but educating people about the latest technology as well.'' UNI