Video: Meet the ‘Check-Six’ pro gaming team
At the Intel Extreme Masters in Edmonton, a professional gaming tournament that awards more than $50,000 in cash and prizes, I chat with thre three members of the Microsoft SideWinder-sponsored Check-Six pro gaming team (World of Warcraft), how they got started and what advice they can give on starting out.
Donned in SideWinder t-shirts and black hoodies, Sync chats with the three members of the victorious Check-Six professional gaming team (with the ESL league) – Huy Nguyen (Flexx), Mike Edwards (Toes) and Mike Shane (Twixz) — about what it’s like being a pro gamer and how you can get started, too.
Other shots from the Intel Extreme Masters tourney in Edmonton:
[...] The official Microsoft Sync blog has posted a video interview (which you can see above) with Check Six, one of the high level World of Warcraft Arena teams showing up in tournaments lately. The video is kind of promotional (Microsoft sponsors the team, so they’re basically hyping up their own players), but that actually works in its favor — this high-level Arena play can be complicated and hard to follow, and so simplifying it a little bit actually makes it more palatable. You high level Arena players won’t get to hear their opinions on the latest builds or balance tweaks, unfortunately (for that, you can check out our Coliseum column), but the rest of us can at least put some faces to one of these team names floating around, and hear a little bit more about how these guys run these tournaments. [...]
[...] The official Microsoft Sync blog has posted a video interview (which you can see above) with Check Six, one of the high level World of Warcraft Arena teams showing up in tournaments lately. The video is kind of promotional (Microsoft sponsors the team, so they’re basically hyping up their own players), but that actually works in its favor — this high-level Arena play can be complicated and hard to follow, and so simplifying it a little bit actually makes it more palatable. You high level Arena players won’t get to hear their opinions on the latest builds or balance tweaks, unfortunately (for that, you can check out our Coliseum column), but the rest of us can at least put some faces to one of these team names floating around, and hear a little bit more about how these guys run these tournaments. [...]
[...] by on December 15, 2009 – 10:00 pm Filed under Blizzard Games The official Microsoft Sync blog has posted a video interview (which you can see above) with Check Six, one of the high level World [...]
[...] The official Microsoft Sync blog (apparently the blog isn’t official — they fooled me) has posted a video interview (which you can see above) with Check Six, one of the high level World of Warcraft Arena teams showing up in tournaments lately. The video is somewhat tame, but that actually works in its favor — this high-level Arena play can be complicated and hard to follow, and so simplifying it a little bit actually makes it more palatable. You high level Arena players won’t get to hear their opinions on the latest builds or balance tweaks, unfortunately (for that, you can check out our Coliseum column), but the rest of us can at least put some faces to one of these team names floating around, and hear a little bit more about how these guys run these tournaments. [...]