That’s right: introducing the StarCraft II Spring Season Pass!

This digital bundle is the ultimate experience that will fulfill any competitive SC2 enthusiast’s needs. Not only would one have access to this weekend’s SCII Arena 2 event, but that person would also have access to the Spring Championship being held in Anaheim, California the weekend on June 8th, and in glorious 1080p HD!

And are you worried about the first SCII Arena and the Invite-Only Online Qualifier tournaments? Forget about it! Once you order the Spring Season Pass, the Videos On Demand (VODs) will become available to you, again in its pristine HD quality, at no additional cost!

So what’s in store for you guys this weekend at the StarCraft II Arena 2 competition?

• 11 Streams to watch from featuring player cams, stage stream cameras, and replays of the most expertly played matches from Arena II, analyzed by only the best casters available.
• $26,400 guaranteed prize pot spread out to the Top 8 placings at this event.
• 32 Qualified Players, from top placings in the Arena I tournament to top-qualified players from North America, Korea, and Europe

Event Schedule

Friday
12:00 PM – 4:45 PM  Check-In
1:30 PM – 4:45 PM  Warm-Up
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM  Winners R1
8:30 PM – 11:00 PM  Winners R2

Saturday
9:00 AM – 11:45 AM  Warm-Up
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM  Losers R1
1:30 PM – 4:00 PM  Losers R2
3:30 PM – 6:00 PM  Winners R3 / Losers R3
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM  Losers R4
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM  Winners R4 / Losers R5

Sunday
9:00 AM – 11:45 AM  Warm-Up
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  Losers R6
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM  Losers R7
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  Winners Finals
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM  Losers Finals
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM  Finals

And this is all leading up to the grand stage of the Spring Season: The Spring Championhips inAnaheim, CA!

Who wouldn’t want to witness a plethora of competitive StarCraft II media at their fingertips?  Also, we at Dominion Method Gaming are certainly taking a step forward as a sort of medium between eSports and out very own fighting game community by supporting Major League Gaming 100%! You can help join us organization the by purchasing your Spring Season Pass with DMG as your referral!

All you’d have to do is follow this link right HERE! And tell em Dominion Method Gaming sent you!

This three-day event (which will be taking place July 13-15, the weekend after EVO) is jam-packed with 10 tournament games (plus side tournaments) that will appeal to people who prefer their respective genres. That’s right, this isn’t just your normal fighting game community major; this event includes fighting, sports, and the age-old first person shooters! With a guaranteed $1000 prize pot for the major games, this is sure to attract the best of the best from not only the Caribbean, but from around the world!

List of major tournament games are as follows:

Fighting Genre:

Street Fighter X Tekken

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition

Mortal Kombat 9

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Tekken 6

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Shooting Genre:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Halo: Reach

Sports:

NBA 2K12

FIFA 2012

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL GAMES WILL BE PLAYED ON THE PLAYSTATION®3 ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH THE EXEMPTIONS OF ‘HALO:REACH’ AND ‘SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL’.

A lot of heavy-hitters will be coming out to enjoy and compete in this event, especially those from North America. Members from Dominion Method Gaming, Complexity.CrossCounter, and Empire Arcadia will be in attendance in the battle to determine which brand is the greatest and most well-represented.  The “Battle Royale” trailer gives a rundown of the announced players, but I’ll reiterate below.

Three Teams. Nine Men, Three Women.

• Dominion Method Gaming (DMG)

1. DMG|MCZ iPeru
2. DMG|MCZ Kor
3. DMG|MCZ Juicebox Abel
4. w/ DMG|MCZ Burnurbra

(*Yet to be determined. Will update as soon as details arrive.)

For more information, be sure to follow The Video X Games!

http://www.thevideoxgames.com/

http://www.twitter.com/thevideoxgames

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caribbean-Video-X-Games-St-Maarten/307598609284674

With GVN’s Eric Small setting an example in hosting events that would ultimately be the example set for people in the fighting game community who would want to give back to their respective charities, many soon followed. Of those many was the west coast’s own Clockw0rk whose Fight For Youth tournament charity event turned out to be a huge success.

So what Dominion Method Gaming and Delta Red Squad plan to do is organize a Charity Challenge event, which will take place at Alex Jebailey’s CEO 2012 tournament, that will have the community involved in a number of ways! Competing in this event will be not just DMG and DRS, but any fighting game team/brand that wants to compete (pointing the fingers at you, FNEX, EG, CoCo, etc.)!

The game that the teams will be competing in will be Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012. 

·         Round Robin Style (one person stays on, win or lose, until he/she have played all of the Team Leaders. Once that has played everyone, the next Team Leader sits in)

·         Default settings

·         No substituting (Team Leaders cannot substitute their place with one of their players or any player)

·         Team Leaders with the most points wins.

The members of the Fighting Game Community can all pitch in to the pot for more money towards charity and, as always, more hype. The winning team of this event will receive the money to give to a charity or cause of their choice!

San Diego – May 07, 2012 – Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (“Mad Catz”) (AMEX/TSX: MCZ) announced today the sponsorship of the Western Wolvesprofessional gaming team, a top tier gaming organization made up of several of the gaming worlds most elite gaming stars.

“The Western Wolves gamers will make a great addition to Team Mad Catz, providing an ideal platform to showcase our complete range of professional gaming products.” said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. “Working with elite teams allows us to educate the mainstream gamer on the benefits of using professional gaming product.”

Western Wolves will represent Team Mad Catz at major international eSports events and compete using the Mad Catz range of pro-gaming equipment including the MLG Pro Circuit Controller, Tournament Edition FightSticks and TRITTON headsets.

If you’ve never heard of this team before last weekend, you might have recognized them now as players Laugh and Infiltration took Season’s Beatings: Summer Slam by storm after winning the Street Fighter x Tekken doubles tournament as a team, and having Infiltration win the Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012 tournament with Laugh placing a tight top 5.

So let’s welcome them to the Mad Catz family!

They touch on who will be attending events happening this weekend in MLG, Civil War and Chou Tougeki!

Team Mad Catz

It’s official, ladies and gentlemen: The premier US Fighting Game Team Dominion Method Gaming, will be partnering with VxG and is sending a team of 4 top players to VxG as special invited guests!

When the event was first mentioned, we knew we wanted to be a small part of it. This event demonstrates of how deep the FGC goes by coming together and competing in the games we love.

Rolando continues:

Their roster consists of a wide variety of gaming personalities and success stories. DMG, sponsored by Madcatz, will be at VxG with 4 of their gamers as well as CEO Jose Rodriguez. “We’re really happy to have finally made the biggest Caribbean-American gaming Connecticut our region has ever seen,” said Chief Coordinator of VxG Rolando Brison, “With a total of 8 high tier professional gamers now coming to VxG as our special invited guests, we are confident that the world will know about ourevent this summer, as well as our beautiful island St. Maarten. We have to thank the Tourist Board of St. Maarten for making this possible, and having the foresight to seethe exposure our events give to the island and the region.

Dominion Method Gaming will be sending a few of our best to be part of this monumental event:

Kor, BurnYourBra, JuiceBox Abel, and IPeru

Once again, we are looking forward to be attending VxG and we will be bringing some hype along with us!For more information regarding this event, please stop by the VxG site and check out how awesome this event is going to be.

Here is a teaser trailer for VxG:

Be sure to follow VxG on Twitter and Facebook for updates!

It is no longer acceptable of me to do so as I now represent my team “DMG” and most importantly our sponsors through my twitter account. If I offended anyone in any way, I apologize to you and I ensure you it won’t happen again.

Picture by Michael Yu.

Now he’s back, and he has more than a few surprises up his sleeve that’ll keep his opponents guessing!

The games will be played on the PS3 and each game has a $16.700.00 prize pool.

Slowly but surely fighting games are making their way into Esports and the FGC should be very excited about this and can only open more doors in the near future!

]]> http://dominionmethodgaming.com/2012/03/02/mlg-picks-up-soul-calibur-v-and-the-king-of-fighters-xiii/feed/ 0 http://dominionmethodgaming.com/2012/03/01/the-current-state-of-the-fgc-and-how-to-improve-it/ http://dominionmethodgaming.com/2012/03/01/the-current-state-of-the-fgc-and-how-to-improve-it/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:18:37 +0000 Jason24cf http://dominionmethodgaming.com/?p=4411 A lot has gone down in the past week. All this drama started due to the SFxT Cross Assault reality show. The show was meant to help with the growth process for the FGC but it ended up doing just the opposite. Now many gaming sites that have never covered the FGC are jumping on board and attacking the FGC for this “old guard” or “juvenile” behavior. Well, here is the cold hard truth.

Why is it that you think there aren’t many corporate sponsors? Corporate sponsors already knew about all our dirt. I see both sides of the FGC as I conduct a lot of the business for DMG. When it comes to contacting companies seeking sponsorship or donations, only my fellow team members are made aware as to why we were “turned down” for sponsorship. When we were the first USA team to be sponsored by Mad Catz last year, I figured many corporate doors would open. I was wrong.

I will now make public a few of the reasons why corporate sponsors have turned us down, mind you this is when we were gathering a lot of momentum last year with Inthul’s success at ECT 2, WB5, PR Balrog’s all around play and our great showing at EVO.

1. Our behavior during live streams:

Yes we enjoy it and understand it but corporate America doesn’t. Remember how bad EVO was when corporate Amaerica added Adam Sessler to go along with Seth Killian on the mic? Seth Killian did his best to carry Adam Sessler but it was the worst EVO ever.

2. Players’ lack of professionalism:

While it’s not every player, all it takes for a few bad seeds in the community to bring it all down. I hate when I was asked “the player that cursed during the live stream after he beat Daigo and said F#* the rest of the event and F#*k Daigo.” Is he on your team? Are you serious? You’re going to take one person actions and label it for the entire community let alone my team?

3. Players lack of respect for your sponsors:

Again another question asked to me “will your players out of anger or frustration curse out any their sponsors? Again because of a few players airing out their issues with their sponsors while on stream or during an interview was noticed. It affects us all. If you’re sponsored and that company pays your travel and room you should show them more respect. They are investing in you to market their company to gain new customers from your fan base.

4. Lack of respect for other players:

I had an interview with Burnyourbra and the racist comments she received while attending events. I felt I had to do and say something because as a minority growing up in the “hood” I didn’t see color. My black friends in my neighborhood were my brothers and sisters. Same goes for Mexicans, Asians and any other ethnicity. So I took offense to hear that my teammate was disrespected and I wanted to address it as I wanted it to end. If I was near her and heard someone call her a “black bitch” I would lose it and start fighting. Would that help?…NO but again she is my teammate and my sister. I will go to war for her.

5. Stealing from sponsors:

If a sponsor gives you/your team money to attend an event and such, then do so! Many players and Team Leaders have burned their sponsors by spending the money on something else.

6. Extra:

Many companies also do not believe in supporting the FGC because our “appearance isn’t marketable”. I laugh at that because offensive lineman in football aren’t GQ models or tattoed up basketball players who drive drunk and are arrested for other crimes aren’t really the most credible as well. But again they market the team most of the time.

There is only so much that Mad Catz and the few other companies can continue to do to keep the FGC alive. They see the all the good in the FGC as they are present at all these events. They don’t let the few mistakes stop them from supporting the FGC. I have only been involved in the FGC for a little over a year and I’ve seen all the glory in participating in such a team.

I was a jock prior to joining the FGC. I played semipro baseball and football and I was scouted by 2 MLB teams. During that time I looked down on gamers as lazy and all other kinds of hurtful things. I don’t see it that way anymore. I see the FGC as a wonderful community where you can be yourself and not have to worry about how you look and such. Playing a fighting game is as mentally challenging as any sport I’ve ever played at any level.

In the end we need to clean up our acts and mature somewhat. If we want to see the FGC grow and become what we would all hope, it can become and allow for larger payouts to players for example:

“Every tournament pays out to the top 8” instead of the “top 3,” then we need to start looking at ways to help this community grow.

Soon this drama will die down and things will be at a constant but do we really want it to go back to normal? The reason I say that is because, going back to what it always was or normal, means just a handful of sponsors and very little payouts. We all play a part in this community and we all are driving force behind its success so let’s all take responsibility for our actions and stop blaming it on again some “old guard” or “boys will be boys”.