Play with the CGS pros Friday night on Xbox Live

by Dustin Burg { Aug 13th 2008 at 4:45PM }

Heads up competitive gamers. Every other Friday on Xbox Live, the Championship Gaming Series (and their $40,000 Pro-Am Division) are sponsoring a special Play with Pros event where gamers across the globe will be able to challenge the best CGS has to offer. And kicking off the competitive funnery are Phoenix and Master from the Dallas Venom who will be taking on challengers in the Dead or Alive 4 ring this Friday, August 15th from 9:00PM to midnight eastern. If you're up for the challenge, circle every other Friday night on your calendar for some CGS Play with Pros competition. Presser after the break.

FREE REGISTRATION OPENS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP GAMING SERIES PRO-AM DIVISION

PC and Xbox gamers can play against the CGS pros for bragging rights and a chance at $40,000 in cash prizing

LOS ANGELES – August 12, 2008 – Championship Gaming SeriesTM (CGS), the only worldwide professional gaming league, opened free registration for the inaugural CGS Pro-Am Division, greatly expanding the opportunity for aspiring professional gamers to take on the CGS pros and see if they have what it takes to compete alongside the best of CGS, perhaps winning some cold hard cash in the process.

First announced earlier this summer, amateur and professional gamers from North America will have the chance to showcase their talent against CGS' most elite gaming stars for a share of a prize purse totaling US$40,000 during the Pro-Am division's inaugural season.

The CGS Pro-Am division features one official PC league title – Valve's Counter-Strike®: Source® (CS:S), along with two other popular Valve games, Counter-Strike®: 1.6 and Team Fortress 2 (TF2). CS:S, CS 1.6 and TF2 represent three of the most popular and successful eSports PC titles of all time and now gamers throughout North America can step up to prove they have what it takes to challenge the CGS pros.

Xbox 360 gamers will also have a chance to compete against CGS stars on Xbox LIVE via the league's official Xbox titles, Tecmo's Dead or Alive® 4 and Forza Motorsport® 2 from Microsoft Game Studios, as well as on other popular Xbox 360 games that will be featured in upcoming Xbox LIVE matches. Competitions will take place every other Friday featuring CGS pros, kicking off this Friday, August 15, when Xbox LIVE gamers from around the globe can take on Dallas Venom players Michelle "Phoenix" Pleet and Manny "Master" Rodriguez in DOA4. For more info, visit

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/playthepros/2008/0815-dallasvenom.htm

PC gamers interested in testing their skills against the pros should register at http://pro-am.thecgs.com/ now through September 3, 2008. The first season of the Pro-Am Division kicks off September 10.

About Championship Gaming Series Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, the Championship Gaming Series ® (CGS) is the only worldwide professional video gaming league. Launched in 2007, and a joint venture among BSkyB, DIRECTV and STAR, CGS features teams of the world's best gamers from North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. The league distributes entertainment content to more than 400 million viewers worldwide via DIRECTV in North America and Latin America, BSkyB in the UK, Eurosport in Europe, ESPN-STAR and STAR in Asia and STAR in Australia. CGS sponsors include Mountain Dew, Creative, Xbox 360 and Dell XPS. For more information, please visit thecgs.com.

Tags: cgs, championship-gaming-series, play-the-pros, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dragod @ Aug 13th 2008 5:24PM

Watched CGS on G4 once... Won't watch it again. Most boring gaming competition I've ever seen. It doesn't help that I wasn't impressed by the pros either.

I'll stick to my MLG, because they treat it like an event, not a spectator's sport.

Brendan @ Aug 13th 2008 5:45PM

Yeah, I wasn't impressed either. The pros didn't even seem very good, especially at CS:S. That whole part of the tournament thing was every player toting an AWP around and camping. I thought it was very disappointing.

Dragod @ Aug 13th 2008 6:19PM

You gotta remember: DirecTV started this... Do you think they were trying to get an amazing competitive environment and let the best play, or do you think they made it as flashy as possible to sell PPV passes?

I remember seeing the commercials when I had DirecTV about a year and a half ago, and thought it would be cool to watch. Then I discovered MLG, and I've been happy ever since.

offday @ Aug 13th 2008 6:01PM

Dead or Alive 4? People still play that?

Sentox6 @ Aug 13th 2008 6:38PM

I don't know what the posters above me were watching, but each squad has 1 awper, 2 riflemen, a strat-caller, and flex. That's hardly the definition of everyone camping out with an AWP.

Hell, there's people like Ksharp and fRoD in the league. These guys are obviously amongst the best at CS.

Anyway, if these pros suck so much, here's your guys chance to prove that :P

nintendo fanboy hater @ Aug 13th 2008 9:06PM

i want to play them in battlefield bad company

SupaYoYoMan @ Aug 13th 2008 11:11PM

there is something about CGS that i don't like

mostly its DoA4. But I also don't like the way its set up like a football league. I guess maybe if they had more/better games..

Anticrawl @ Aug 14th 2008 2:15AM

Pro Gaming.......... There is no way to make that into any more of a joke than it already is.

I love playing the "I'm MLG pro dawgzzzzzzzzzz, you's idiots aren't ranked 20th like me in the MLG pro leaderboards. Pro, pro pro mlg pro" and casually out scoring them in ever section of the game, then waiting for the inevitable "Oh oh oh, you're not MLG pro, you think you are grooods? One veee one me! One veee one me pussy!"

Haha, good times, good times indeed.

Cutty @ Aug 18th 2008 9:48PM

very true.......as far as i'm concerned, gamebattles is a joke too... all the top ranked teams cheat, maybe not all, but most do.....and gamebattles does nothing.....i've beaten top ranked people, and then they just dispute and edit video......and then i just laugh in there face for caring so much about their rank.......