Taipei, Taiwan, 18th Sept, 2011 – GIGABYTE Technology, a world leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is pleased to announce their first and very own GIGABYTE Cup eSport tournament series has came to an end on August 29th. More than 2,000 unique participants took apart for the twelve Monday’s GIGABYTE Cup. Everybody had the chance to participate in the weekly tournament. During the whole time, live broadcasting was given in five different languages.

Eight Zergs, four Terrans and four Protoss fought their way to GIGABYTE Cup Season Grand Final and start the battle for the ultimate showdown. In the end, it was the famous Ukrainian Zerg player Dmytro “DIMAGA” Filipchuk, who was able to beat Ilyes “Stephano” Satouri on five exciting maps in the final. The top 3 winners have won a total prize money of 750 Euro and GIGABYTE premium gaming products – GTX 560 Ti OC Edition Graphics Cards (GV-N560OC-1GI), Aivia K8100 Macro Gaming Keyboard and Aivia M8600 Macro Gaming Mouse!

Thanks for all the gamers who participated the GIGABYTE Cup Season I Tournaments. GIGABYTE did a huge progress on holding a brand-owned eSport and is excited to congratulate “DIMAGA” from Ukraine, “Stephano” from France, and “Satiini” from Finland who are the Top 3 of the grand final!

Screenshot taken on August, 29th 20:32 CEST
2,275 viewers saw this scene on the German stream!

GIGABYTE Grand Season Final Winners:
1st Place: DIMAGA from Ukraine
2nd Place: Stephano from France
3rd Place: Satiini from Finland

For this great success of GIGABYTE eSport event in Europe, GIGABYTE decides to increase their support of eSports again and the details of the good news will be soon released. Gamers! Come to join and get ready for battle again!

For more details of GIGABYTE Cup eSport tournament series, please visit the website at: http://www.gigabyte-cup.com
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