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HANOVER – March 2, 2010 – SteelSeries, the leading manufacturer of gaming peripherals and accessories, today, during CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, introduced the SteelSeries 6Gv2 keyboard. Designed with 18-karat gold-plated mechanical switches, the keyboard offers quicker reaction times and advanced key combinations for more Actions Per Minute and a lifetime more than 10 times that of conventional keyboards.

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Like the SteelSeries 7G, the new keyboard utilizes a powerful buffer-system created specifically for gaming, supporting as many simultaneous key presses as there are keys on the keyboard. The “anti-ghosting” feature allows users in first person shooter games to move, crouch, aim, fire and even check the scoreboard, simultaneously. The SteelSeries G product line is the only series of keyboards on the market that allows this type of functionality all at once.

“We’ve been watching professional teams such as Fnatic, SK Gaming, Evil Geniuses and others win grand slam tournaments with the 7G as their weapon of choice and have seen it recognized as one of the most impressive performance keyboards on the gaming market. Keeping that rockstar mentality, we designed the slimmed down SteelSeries 6Gv2 to pack the same punch without compromising response time, durability or performance.” said Bruce Hawver, SteelSeries CEO.

The new keyboard will incorporate SteelSeries’ Media Controls allowing quick access to volume, mute and other audio controls. Features not present in the keyboard, compared to the SteelSeries 7G, are the audio ports for headphone-in and microphone-out, the two USB ports as well as the removable plastic handrest.

The mechanical tactile system is ergonomically designed to ensure ease-of-use, while the no-click switches and iron-infused plastic makes SteelSeries G Series of keyboards both comfortable and durable. The SteelSeries 6Gv2 also has a switch lifetime of 50 million operations, which is more than 10 times the lifespan of a typical “membrane” keyboard known for a maximum of only 1-5 million total keystrokes in a lifetime.

The SteelSeries 6Gv2 keyboard retails for EUR 79.99 and will be available in Q2 2010.

HANOVER – March 2, 2010 – Kicking off CeBIT 2010 in Hanover Germany, SteelSeries, the leading manufacturer of gaming peripherals and accessories, introduced the new high-end SteelSeries 7H headset. Designed and built for competitive gamers, the SteelSeries 7H presents a superior soundscape in an exclusive design that travels well and offers two ear-cup choices, hear-through cloth and noise dampening leather.

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The SteelSeries 7H headset features 50mm drivers in the ear-cups which fully cover the ear and delivers a clean soundscape of high, low and mid tones from background, mood setting sounds in MMO games to 3D positional alerts in FPS games. The closed-type headset features superior passive noise reduction, specifically developed in cooperation with competitive gamers for use at loud tournaments and LAN-events. The SteelSeries 7H additionally comes with two interchangeable ear-cushions that offer the option of leather cushions with noise dampening foam or hear-through cloth covered foam.

“We’re introducing the SteelSeries 7H as our high-end headset for gamers who want choices in the type of comfort and sound they need to experience,” said Bruce Hawver, SteelSeries CEO.

“The 7H features were developed based on direct feedback from our sponsored Counter-Strike and QuakeLive players, who need to hear their teammates while practicing at home and need to eliminate external noise while competing at loud tournament venues.”

The new SteelSeries 7H all black stealth design features subdued chrome elements around each ear-cup and at the base of either side of the headband. Easily dismantled into four pieces, at the headband, the right and left ear-cup, and at the cord, the SteelSeries 7H is ideal for tournament players who travel often. Its left ear-cup features a retractable, uni-directional microphone that can be hidden when not in use. The durable braided cord is detachable, offering both safety and travel convenience and features a built-in volume and microphone control. An additional 2m extension cord is included for extra convenience.

Specifications for SteelSeries 7H:

Headphones

• Frequency response: 18 – 28.000 Hz
• Impedance: 32 Ohm
• SPL@ 1kHz, 1 Vrms: 112 dB
• Cable length: 1,0 + 2,0 = 3,0 m (9,8 ft.)
• Jacks: 3,5 mm

Microphone

• Frequency response: 50 – 16.000 Hz
• Pick up pattern: Uni-directional
• Sensitivity: -38 dB

A USB version of the SteelSeries 7H headset is also available, offering optimized sound profiles for first person shooter (FPS), massively multiplayer online (MMO), and real-time strategy (RTS) players as well as customizable environmental settings. The USB version provides 7.1 virtual surround and ensures gamers the exact same sound and settings no matter where they are in the world or at what computer they are playing.

The SteelSeries 7H headset retails for EUR 99.99 and will be available in Q2 2010.
The SteelSeries 7H USB will also be available in Q2 2010, with an MSRP of EUR 129.99.

As announced our counter-strike source & warcraft3 team attended FOM12. With FisT added last minute to our warcraft3 line up we were confident of having a good result for both of our squads. After a rather easy groupstage everyone passed withouth any real difficulties towards the play off’s, there the counter-strike source squad and FisT both had an easy run, with only a minority of the opponents giving us a hard time we managed to place our both squads on the number 1 spot. Only Kopitz didn’t nreally manage to get a 100% in his game due to a busy shedule before the event, causing a minimum of training before FOM12 but still ending in the 5 th spot.

Counter-strike: Source: 1st place

janssen - fuzzz- dahood- bil & Ex6TenZ

Statement by janssen:
We were pretty confident before this lan cause of our players. Ex6TenZ was a great last but I think boon has the same power on LAN, so that was our almost ideal lineup.
Our preparation wasn’t so good cause Kevin had to play with VERYGAMES and my computer has a hardware crash 1 week before the event. We were ready on only 1 map, de_nuke, which we never played in the winner bracket so that wasn’t so easy as the scores shows. The final was hard cause an admin gave a default win to our opponant ( Sprookjeland ) in the quart-final so we had to proove that we were better than them,  so we had a little pressure  during the match, but we won the map they chose so that was a great moment for all of us. We had incredible moment together, i think we have the prefect line up for the furure with boon and we ‘ll be able to do the same result at the next Frag-O-Matic and the best we can for the Smacklan next month.

Road to victory:

666-Gaming 22-8 (de_train) groupstage
Team-varityg 28-2 (de_dust2) groupstage
Rotate 29-1 (de_inferno) groupstage
inDEFINABLE 16-1 (de_nuke) play off’s
Sprookjesland 1-0 (de_train) play off’s
MCA. tweak 16-10 (de_inferno) play off’s
Believe 16-9 (de_inferno) play off’s
Sprookjesland 19-17 (de_inferno) Grand final

Warcraft3: 1st – & 5th place
FisT & Kopitz 

Statement by FisT:
First of all I am very happy to have won this LAN, although the level was lower compared to EPS.benelux final, I had some trouble beating Sasuke in the first bo3 but the rest went fine. I am also pleased to have this result as my first lan for Sypher and  meetin fwiet and part of the CSS team. Otherwise the atmosphere was very good, very mannerd opponents, so basically a good lan and a good weekend!

Statement by Kopitz:
I decided a little late to attend FOM 12 and  thinking not having too many problems getting a good result. This overconfidence played tricks on me because the other attending players were very well prepared unlike me. I finished 5th, which  is a rather bad place. For this I can not hide my disappointment, but good.. unlike my bad place I had a good lan with a good organization. From now on I will train and prepare for upcoming events as i have been doing before.

FisT’s Road to victory:

1st guy 2-0 groupstage
2nd guy 2-0 groupstage
3rd guy 2-0 groupstage
Lanowar 2-0 play off’s
Harstem 2-0 play off’s
KoD.Sasuke2-0 play off’s
KoD.Sasuke 2-0 Grand final

Kopitz’s Road:

OSi 2-0 groupstage
Harstem 1-2 groupstage
BYE 2-0 groupstage
KoD.Sasuke 0-2 play off’s
Doomie 2-0 play off’s
Na4rus 0-2 play off’s

It’s that time of the year again where Belgium’s biggest lan takes place. Frag-O-Matic  is only few days away and already at it’s 27th edition. This edition will again be epic with more competition, more activities and 4000 euro cash prize to be divided over the traditional 3 main competitions.

Team Sypher attends this event with the Counter-Strike:Source team making their first LAN appearance for sypher after their comeback and SR.KOPITZ will be travelling down as well to win the WC3 compo.
Unfortunately the CS team won’t be present due to all players having private commitments the upcoming weekend.

Coverage Index

Page 1: General Information
Page 2: TEAMS / PLAYERS
Page 3: Groupstages
Page 4: Playoffs
Page 5: Final Standings
Page 6: Interviews & Media

General information
Date: February 12-14,  2009
Location: Wieze, Belgium
Attendees: 600
More information: website

Prizes

Counter-strike Source (1500 EURO)

• 1st place: 1000 EURO
• 2nd place: 350 EURO
• 3rd place: 150 EURO

Warcraft 3 (hardware)

• 1st place:
  Tritton AX 720
  Gigabyte P55A-UD3R motherboard
• 2nd place:
  Tritton XB200
  Sandberg USB Soundbox 7.1
• 3rd place: 150 EURO
  Sandberg Street Blaster

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