Charlotte Van Brabander in the media

Charlotte Van Brabander, our very own gamebabe has been featured in several media the past couple of weeks. Some big Belgian media has reported on what she is doing for Belgian gaming and requested an interview with her. Among the media to feature her in the past few weeks are:

Magazine
Humo

Newspaper
Gazet Van Antwerpen
Belang Van Limburg
Nieuwsblad

Online
Chief
Humo

To find out more about Charlotte and her adventures we suggest you visit her fan page on Facebook.

The Antwerp eSports Festival 2010 almost sold out

With still nearly two months to go the tickets for the Antwerp eSports Festival have been flying out the door. With the Call of Duty 4 and Enemy Territory tournaments almost completely sold out and the Counter-Strike Source tournament not far behind the Antwerp eSports Festival 2010 edition will once more be one of the most competitive gaming tournament in the Benelux. Boosting a prize purse of nearly €20,000 and also host to the European Nations Championship exhibition in cooperation with presenting partners ASUS and Microsoft, the Antwerp eSports Festival will be an event to remember.

Make sure you mark 30-31 July and 1 August 2010 in your calendar as you will be expected at Stuurboord in Antwerp for the Antwerp eSports Festival!

Shootout at FATLAN13

The past weekend Gamevibes was present at the Belgian LAN event FATLAN, which had its 13th edition. Both Camille and Charlotte Van Brabander, our gaming sisters, were present to represent Kingston and GIGABYTE in a duo-shootout concept at the main stage. Besides fragging away against various competitors, the most famous gaming sisters of the Benelux also conducted several interviews with national and online media.

Included in the interview list were JIM TV, Canvas (Phara), Kaos TV and NCC Gaming. A fruitful event for sure. Gamevibes has several other shootouts planned in the upcoming weeks but unfortunately both Camille and Charlotte won't be available for those but they will happily be replaced by other Antwerp Aces players.

22/05/2010: Shootout open day Alternate Aartselaar (Antwerp) in cooperation with Kingston

29/05/2010: Shootout during the Saturn Game Event in the Stadsfeestzaal Antwerpen in cooperation with HP, Acer, Asus, Packard Bell, Steelseries and obviously Saturn.

Antwerp Aces.CS touring Europe

The Antwerp Aces Counter-Strike 1.6 team has been extremely succesful lately and has managed to qualify for the IOL finals in Stockholm, Sweden. Here they will compete with the best teams of Sweden as well as some international powerhouses. After this trip they have planned another trip to the biggest offline gaming event in the world: Dreamhack. The team won the Benelux qualifier and will be packing their bags to Jonnkoping to compete together with nearly 10,000 other gamers in the world's largest LAN party. But their tour of Europe doesn't end here as they will also travel down to Bilbao in Spain for the Gamegune event, arguably one of the most competitive Counter-Strike 1.6 tournaments in the world.

We would like to wish the team the best of luck at these events and expect some live updates from these events soon.

www.antwerpaces.be

Shootout at Frag-O-Matic

Gamevibes was present at the Frag-O-Matic event in Wieze on Valentine's weekend to run the PRO competitions on behalf of the organisation. With a total cash prize purse of €2,000 for Counter-Strike Source and Counter-Strike 1.6, Gamevibes was brought in to ensure that these competitions were run in a professional manner with the right admins, rulesets and promotion. With over 60 teams participating in total, a vast majority of the Frag-O-Matic participants took part in one of both competitions and we are happy to report that everything went smoothy.

Furthermore participants could rent a Gamevibes PC for the weekend and in cooperation with Gigabyte and Kingston a shootout with Charlotte was also held on the main stage during Saturday. Participants were rewarded with Kingston and Gigabyte goodies and the winner walked away with a brand new motherboard.

Gamevibes launches the GamerX Series

Gamevibes is very proud to announce the latest of it's projects, the GamerX Series in cooperation with Tech Data Belgium. The GamerX Series are the ultimate gaming machines and have been tested extensively by some of Belgium's best players to make sure that the performance with the latest games is excellent. There are three different GamerX PC's available, the GamerX60, the GamerX70 and the GamerX80.

They all come with the latest Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processors and exclusive Gigabyte graphics cards. It uses DDR3 technology, Windows 7 and comes with a two year pick up and return warranty so that you can always enjoy the maximum gaming experience and the perfect service.

Find out more about the GamerX Series at www.gamerx.be or become a fan on our Facebook page by clicking here. You can also follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/gamerxseries)

Gamevibes BVBA welcomes Elke to the team

Gamevibes BVBA proudly announces the addition of 22-year old Elke Mahy to the Gamevibes management team. She has a degree in graphics design and coding and a strong interest in media, photography and competitive gaming. Her past experiences include work for the world renown SK Gaming team and she has travelled the world to attend gaming event small and big.

She will be working alongside Koen Engels on the Antwerp Aces project, as well as enhancing and improving the media content for all other Gamevibes projects.

Welcome to the team Elke!

From now on you can reach Elke on the following email: elke[a-t]gamevibes.be

Gamevibes At Tech Data Partner Event

Together with Gigabyte and Kingston, Gamevibes was present at the Tech Data Partner event in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands to display the famous Gamevibes shootout concept. Antwerp Aces player Thomas "ed" Stellingwerf was in the spotlight on the stage to showcase his skills and the latest Kingston and Gigabyte products and challenged everyone to a 1vs1 duel in the game Counter-Strike Source. With over 100 challengers throughout the day, Thomas managed to beat them all and didn't lose a single game. Quite the feat for the Antwerp Aces player who played some experienced and less experienced players.

The Tech Data Partner Event is an annual show organized by one of the largest IT distribution chains in the Netherlands: Tech Data. It shows the latest products from their vendors to retailers across the country.










We are looking forward to the next event!

Shootout at HME

Together with our partner Gigabyte, Gamevibes held a three day shootout in Utrecht, The Netherlands during the trade fair called HME, which is short for Het Multimedia Event. All visitors could participate in a 1vs1 against Charlotte "Sjlot" Van Brabander as she took them on in the game Counter-Strike Source on our Gigabyte stage.

With many top players from the Benelux visiting the event it proved to be a daunting challenge for Charlotte to keep beating the boys but she managed to do so in style as participant after participant was beaten back and defeated. In the end however, the best participants walked away with a cool prize. We handed out two graphics cards and a wonderful Gigabyte case as well during these three days.

Gigabyte website
HME website

Gamevibes present at Firstlook, CS Cup and Meet IT

Together with several partners, Gamevibes was invited to host their famous shootout concept in several locations across the country in various events.

With Tech Data we were present at Meet-IT, their most important reseller event of the year. Held at Tour & Taxi in Brussels, over 3000 people visited the event Gamevibes hosted a shootout with Belgian's finest: Charlotte Van Brabander. During the shootout, which was held in cooperation with Kingston, Gigabyte, Nvidia, Thermaltake and Intel, participants could challenge Charlotte for a 1vs1 in Counter-Strike Source, the popular Valve shooter.

Together with Kingston, not a week after Meet-IT, Charlotte was invited to CS Cup, a smaller but rather popular LAN party where the attending players could have the opportunity to challenge her and win some Kingston prizes.

Finally, together with gaming magazine CHIEF and shootout partner Gigabyte, Gamevibes attended the two day event Firstlook. This games fair presents all the latest games to the Dutch audience and is hosted by Gamekings and Blammo events, two household names in the Dutch gaming industry. At the CHIEF booth, which was designed and built by Gamevibes, people could find out more about the magazine and challenge Charlotte in a 1vs1. The winner of the weekend also walked away with a beautiful grand prize as he took home a brand new Gigabyte motherboard and some Gigabyte goodies.

All in all very busy weeks for Gamevibes with undoubtfully more to come.

Outpost on Fire COD2 also finished

This weekend we saw the finals of the Outpost on Fire for Call of Duty 2 with several international teams in attendance. Gamevibes put up € 1,500 for grabs and thus the action could begin!

Here are the final standing of the event:

   1. Serious Gaming (€ 750)
   2. eMpathy| (€ 500)
   3. team-mamut.si (€ 250)
   4. Rodcad
   5. iNFINITE

Congratulations to all the participating teams and see you next time!

Interview on Gamer01

Gamevibes CEO Steven Leunens was interviewed on a Dutch television show called Gamer01. Check out the interview right here!

Outpost on Fire a success!

Last week we saw the conclusion of the Outpost on Fire 3 event held by Gamevibes BVBA in Antwerp, Belgium. 10,000 € was up for grabs divided over two games: Counter-Strike Source and Call of Duty 4. Some of the best teams in the world travelled down to Outpost Antwerp to compete for the grand prize and now the winners are known.

Team Dignitas crowned themselves champions of Call of Duty 4 and took home the grand prize and for Counter-Strike Source 4 Kings won the battle. Here are the final standings:

Call of Duty 4

1st  Dignitas - 3,000 €      
2nd  fnatic - 1,500 €     
3rd  Reason Gaming -1,000 €      
4th  ButtonBashers - 500 €       
Next (winners lucky losers competition) - 200 €

Counter-Strike Source

1st   4Kings - 2,250 €
2nd   redLine - 1,000 €
3rd   Shockwave - 500 €
4th   MoD - 250 €

See you all next year!

www.outpostonfire.com

Rent A Gamevibes PC at Frag-O-Matic

Earlier this week Frag-O-Matic had announced the prize purses of their next event. These included cash and hardware prizes for several competitions, most notably their "pro" events which include Call of Duty 4, Counter-Strike Source and Counter-Strike 1.6. More info on these tournaments can be found below.Today we announce that Gamevibes will work together with the FOM crew on a succesful edition of this event. The Gamevibes PC's will be made available for rental by anyone interested in coming to the event but not interested in dragging their PC along!

Gamevibes will set up one of our high end gaming rigs for you at your seat during FOM, with nearly 15 game titles, all required software and more pre-installed!

Here is the setup the Gamevibes PC's use:


    Intel Q9450 Quad Core
    Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB
    OCZ - 2x2 GB 1066 Mhz Reaper DDR2
    Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P
    Antec Nine Hundred Gaming Case
    OCZ GameXstream 600W
    OCZ Vindicator CPU Cooler
    Windows Vista Home Premium
    Samsung 500 GB HDD
    Samsung T220 22" monitor


The PC's are available at a rate of 80 € for a monitor and a desktop or 50 € for a desktop alone and 30 € for the monitor. If you need 5 PC's and screens a discount of 50 € will apply so you only need to pay 350 € instead of 400 €. No extra warranty will be needed at the event! For more information or reservations contact rentapc@fom.be.

Frag-O-Matic information

Location: Wieze, Belgium
Date: 11/09 - 13/09
Website: www.fom.be

    Call of Duty 4: €2 250

    1. €1 500
    2. €500
    3. €250

    Counter-Strike: Source: €1 500

    1. €1 000
    2. €350
    3. €150

    Counter-Strike 1.6: €1 250

    1. €850
    2. €250
    3. €150

Gamevibes might also be pulled in at a later stage to actually help run some of the competitions (if enough teams sign up) but more information on this later. TEK9 will also be present to provide extensive coverage at the event!

TEK9 Becomes part of the Heaven Media Group

For immediate release

23rd June 2009 (Huntingdon, UK): Today we are very proud to announce that TEK9 will become part of  the Heaven Media Group. TEK9 has slowly but steadily been expanding over the years to become the number one portal for Call of Duty related gaming news and has, over time, become the largest worldwide community with over 38,000 registered members and well over 100,000 unique visitors each month. With that in mind the plans for our teams and players did not really fit the plans we had for the website anymore and a solution had to be found. With Heaven Media as our new partner we will be able to take huge steps forward for this community and website.

Heaven Media will purchase the TEK9 website and together we will set out a plan for the future.  Investments into the site will be made so that we can further expand the quality and quantity of our news, coverage and content offered to our visitors. Further investments also include better backing for the site backend and for the staff working on the site every single day. Apart from some minor changes to the design of the website, the core of TEK9 will remain absolutely intact with the only difference being that we will offer more at a better quality!

Statement Steven Leunens, CEO Gamevibes BVBA and new eSport Specialist within Heaven Media: “I’m very excited about this deal and so is the rest of the TEK9 staff and management. Heaven Media will guarantee us the stability and security we need and the resources required to further expand the quality of our site. I can see only great things coming from this partnership both with the renewed strength of the TEK9 community and the new team we will start, the Antwerp Aces. A part of me is sad because this also means we will not see another TEK9 team fight it out on the battlefields but that sadness is quickly put aside when I know a different team will be fighting an entirely different battle to bring you the best eSports website possible. I am also looking forward to working together with everyone in Heaven Media as I feel we are completely on the same page with our future goals and plans.”

Statement Adam Godfrey, Business Development Manager Heaven Media Ltd.:  “After the addition of both Cadred and Crossfire to Heaven Media in the last 18 months TEK9 was a clear decision for us. TEK9 has a great reputation and a growing audience, there is a great deal of synergy and it will fit well within our portfolio.  TEK9 readers can expect to see increased coverage, new content and further investment in the expansion of the TEK9 brand. Steven's addition to our team provides us with a great deal of specialised expertise and he will be working closely with us to deliver many exciting products in the future”
Whilst TEK9 as a team will be no longer, Gamevibes are announcing a new project today to fill the gap. The Antwerp Aces have been launched and you can find more information on www.antwerpaces.be .

About HeavenMedia
Heaven Media Group is a publisher of leading websites for enthusiast PC hardware, gaming and eSports. Heaven Media's portfolio consists of some of the biggest names in the industry including Driverheaven.net, Gamingheaven.net, Cadred.org, QuadV.com and Crossfire.nu. Combined, Heaven Media presents one of the world's largest online communities based around PC and console gaming.

Over 1.6 million unique users and 20 million page views per month currently contribute to Heaven Media's success. More than a quarter of a million registered users contribute regularly to a collection of vibrant online communities. Heaven Media is one of the only publishers to cover all major eSport events live and regularly provides expertise to Sky and Eurosport.

The Antwerp Aces are born

For immediate release

23rd June 2009 (Geel, Belgium) With the growth of the website of TEK9 into one of the largest portals for Call of Duty related news and coverage, the orientation for the teams and players didn’t fit the overall profile of TEK9 anymore. With this in mind we decided to take the whole team into a completely new direction and with this new direction also comes a new name. TEK9 will continue onwards as your number one Call of Duty and eSports portal and signs a deal with Heaven Media. The teams and players will now be housed in the ANTWERP ACES organization founded by Gamevibes BVBA.

The concept of the Antwerp Aces is very simple. Go local! Antwerp will be the obvious home of the Antwerp Aces and we will have a club house in the centre of Antwerp as part of Outpost Antwerp, the LAN centre mostly known internationally for the Outpost on Fire events held there. Outpost will also become a title sponsor of the Antwerp Aces. From this club house, we will organize monthly events at which everyone is welcome: fans, local supporters and gaming enthusiasts alike. These monthly events will be a celebration of gaming, both competitive and casual. Small competitions will be accompanied by beers and food and the release of the latest CHIEF magazine before it even hits the shelves. You will be able to see unreleased footage of new games and the events will also feature a new game release each month, you might even be able to play unreleased games in exclusive preview. All this will be taken care of by our second title sponsor CHIEF gaming magazine. Expect the first events somewhere in September!

But besides the events the focus is also on the players and the teams representing the Antwerp Aces. We have taken a decision to pick only those players who fit the team perfectly. The players we select to play for the Antwerp Aces are a mix of talented Benelux gamers and good personalities. Although these gamers are considered to be the top of the Benelux, talent alone does not get you selected for the Antwerp Aces. In the weeks before the release of this news the teams, players and management have already become friends and regular meeting in Antwerp will be seen quite often. It’s quite clear that we have gone for local instead of international. All teams and players from TEK9 have come across with us and we also see the addition of a Counter-Strike Source team, a DOTA team and a Trackmania and Quakelive player.

The players and teams will be supported to all Benelux LAN events and we will see them in action for the first time at the EPS Finals in Utrecht. Counter-Strike Source, Counter-Strike 1.6 and FIFA will battle it out to be crowned the best of the Benelux in their discipline.

Statement Sam Janssens, Manager of the Antwerp Aces: “ It’s been a while since we’ve had any good gaming related initiatives in Belgium, but today I present you the Antwerp Aces gaming club. Another gaming team you’ll think, but the Antwerp Aces club is more than that! We will bring you a lot of action starting the fourth quarter of 2009 but more news about that will be published later on. Besides the action you will see the presence of our teams at events across the Benelux and regularly in our clubhouse Outpost  in Antwerp where a lot of the action will take place. We will announce regular get-togethers and everyone is welcome to join us in some gaming fun! Besides that we will be backed up by our long time partner and gaming magazine CHIEF to take this new project to the next level. “

For more information on the teams and players of the Antwerp Aces please visit the website www.antwerpaces.be

Registrations for Outpost on Fire 3 are going well

With the entire community buzzing about the new event we are doing, signups are filling up nicely. In fact, the Call of Duty 4 tournament is nearly sold out. Already we can say that both tournaments will have the top European teams attending and we have over 15 different nationalities confirmed to come.

With this news we can also confirm the first two bronze partners of the event. These are:

Gamegear - www.gamegear.be
Antec - www.antec.com

Furthermore we would also like to remind people of our deal with the Hilton hotel. This amazing 4 star hotel is located just one minute away of the event.

You can only book using one of the following methods:

• Via reservations on the number 0032 / 3 204 12 02
• Via email to  reservations.antwerp@hilton.com or Magda.janssen@hilton.com
• Via Fax to 0032/ 3 204 86 88

Special booking code = gamevibes
We also have a special booking form that people can use when booking via fax. Message me on IRC or bug me via mail to get this booking form. For those of you who forgot, here are the special deals with the Hilton again:

1 person room     89 €
2 person room     89 €
3 person room     129 €

Breakfast buffet + 25 € pp. For those of you who need assistance with the booking of hotel rooms in the Hilton or with the payment of their Outpost on Fire attendance, please let me know so we can help out wherever needed!

See you all in Antwerp!

For more information visit the Outpost on Fire website:
www.outpostonfire.com

Gamevibes announces Outpost on Fire 3

Gamevibes has announced the organisation of Outpost on Fire 3, the third in the Outpost on Fire series. This non-BYOC tournament, set to take place in Antwerp, Belgium, will be host to a Counter-Strike Source tournament and a Call of Duty 4 tournament.

Both tournaments will have a starting prize purse of 4,000 €, given the fact that 16 teams participate. The prize purse can be increased to 6,000 or even 8,000 € if the amount of teams increases to 24 or 32.

The official website has also been launched and can be found on www.outpostonfire.com!

Frag-O-Matic is over, Verygames and Geneens win

This weekend the crew of Gamevibes ran the Counter-Strike Source and FIFA competitions at the Frag-O-Matic LAN party in Wieze, Belgium. The signups were a success and for the CSS competition over 40 teams entered and competed for a piece of the cash prize purse of 2000 €. In the end, nearly 1600 people watched as the French team of Verygames beat the Dutchies from LowLandLions in a close fight.

In the FIFA finals, Danish player JonasL, lost to the talented Belgian player Geneens which meant that the Belgian player took home the 1000 € cash.

Overall the standings looked like this:

CSS:

1. Verygames (fr) - 1500 €
2. LowLandLions (nl) - 500 €
3. Team Coolermaster (uk) - hardware

FIFA '09:

1. Geneens (be) - 1000 €
2. JonasL (dk) - hardware
3. Ackkie (be) - hardware

See you all next time!

Gamevibes to host the FOM CSS and FIFA competitions

FOM, which stand for Frag-O-Matic, is Belgian's largest LAN party, gunning for 800 participants for their February 2009 (20-22nd) edition. FOM has chosen two competitions to be their pro competitions with a boosted prize purse, and Gamevibes has the honours to run these events in the most professional manner possible.

These competitions are:

Counter-Strike Source
Prize purse : 2000 € CASH
Max. teams : 32
Registration fee (total per team): 150 €
Tournament structure: group stages and single elimination (b03)
BYOC with option to rent PC's and finals on tournament PC's on stage

FIFA 2009
Prize purse : 1000 € CASH
Max. players : 64
Registration fee (per player) : 30 €
 Tournament structure: group stages and TBD
BYOC with option to rent PC's and finals on tournament PC's on stage

With interest from international participants being high, we decided to arrange for a possibility to rent PC's at a cheap price for the weekend. The price is 65 € per person for a new shuttle PC (3 months old) with great specifications and possibly a multitude of games already installed. These PC's will be available on your spot with no setup required anymore at day one and you can simply leave your pc when you go home.

We wish for a succesful Frag-O-Matic event and hope to see you all there!

More info: www.fom.be

Happy New Year

Although we are a couple of days late in posting this on the website, the entire staff, management and everyone involved would like to wish everyone the best of luck in the new year and that it may bring everything you dreamed of. 

For Gamevibes, 2009 will prove to be a interesting year with many things already in the pipelines and several projects beginning to shape up a little bit. For those interested in finding out what the new year will bring to Gamevibes I would sugges you keep checking back here for the latest news and updates on our brands and the new projects we are working on.

New Gamevibes website launched !

Welcome to the new Gamevibes website. We felt it was time for a change and that is why we started the development of a new Gamevibes website, so we could cater even better to the needs of the companies interested in venturing into the gaming industry. With a more detailed list of services, case studies (more to come), contact information, company information and much more we hope this website will also help promote gaming and eSports and bring new companies into the wonderful world of gaming.

With 2009 fast approaching, we are certain a lot of new doors will be opened in the gaming industry, and with that being said, we would also like to wish every gamer our there a Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with lots of frags, games and wonderful events!

CHIEF/OPM and Gamevibes present at HME 2008

Just a couple of weeks before the event we received an invitation from the organizers of "Het Multimedie Event" (HME) to be present with CHIEF and Officieel Playstation Magazine at the largest games and multimedia event in the Benelux area during 28-29 and 30 November 2008. Another challenge presented us because unlike a couple of weeks before, we did not have the time and space to build an extensive booth. With only 60m² available, and a good two weeks to go from scratch to the event itself, time was indeed an issue.

Chosing again for the proven worth of the shootout concept, we added an information section and a promowall where people could have their picture taken with any of our 5 lovely hostesses. These pictures will be uploaded to the website of CHIEF and OPM afterwards so people can relive the moment!

The success of the shootout was proven once again as players flocked to the booth to challenge the TEK9 FIFA and Counter-Strike players for a quick duel. With this success behind us the intention is already there to continue with an intensified shootout series in 2009 together with CHIEF.

Gamevibes and CHIEF partner up for NEXT 2008

With the success of the Gamepower EXPO in 2007, Belgium was bound to have a successor for this great event. 2008 saw the birth of the NEXT Expo, a gaming, electronics and IT fair where people from all over Belgium flock to if they want the latest news, gadgets and games.

Also present were gaming magazines CHIEF and Officieel Playstation Magazine and they came to us to create a little buzz during the fair. With multinationals such as Nintendo, Sony, Samsung and more present, there was going to be a fierce competition on which booth would be the nicest so a tough challenge lied ahead.

Gamevibes created an interactive booth with the following aspects:

The CHIEF booth (300m²)

* 8 gaming stations with a daily Trackmania competition
* a gaming vault with 1500 € worth of prizes to be won each day
* a shootout against Davy Sysmans of the TEK9 team
* a relax area to watch the shootout, the big screen or just rest a little bit
* a large screen with a livestream from the World Cyber Games finals in Cologne, gaming movies and much more
* an information centre to get a subscription for the magazine
* 6 lovely hostesses to guide you around

The Officieel Playstation Magazine booth (100m²)

* 4 Playstation 3's with EXCLUSIVE releases (European or World premieres)
* an information desk to subscribe
* 4 lovely hostesses to guide you around

The XL gaming area (800m² - courtesy of NEXT)

* a HUGE screen to play games on 1vs1
* a large spectator area

With nearly 20,000 spectators the event was a success and Davy was undefeated in the shootout. You will find a more detailed recap online shortly.

The Razer.badGirls project is now officially a Gamevibes project

Who says that gaming is just for Nerds? With the rise of female gaming we decided it was time to venture into the world of female gaming. With the launch of the Razer.badGirls project we now have a fully operationel female team. The Spanish ladies of Razer.badGirls are not only amongst the worlds finest players, they are also keen on promoting professional gaming to a wider audience.

The project is run by Steven Leunens and the ladies have the following line up:

• Irene
• Anouc
• iZee
• Bady
• Lena

The girls recently finished 5th at the World Championship in San Jose and will be competing at the Ciberline event in Spain, as well as doing a promotional tour through Belgium (Antwerp) and Russia (Moscow).

If you want to find out more just visit www.badgirlsgaming.com for more information.

Gamevibes to select the Belgian iPower games participants

Gamevibes BVBA will select the participants for Belgium in the much anticipated Packard Bell iPower games. These players will head down to Paris for the iPower games during the ESWC Masters.

Battling it out against some of the world's best players, the Belgian attendees will try to come back with the gold!

Gamevibes announces the Antwerp eSports Festival

Gamevibes is launching the Antwerp eSports Festival, a new and exciting
50,000 € tournament in the heart of Belgium, Antwerp. Set to take place in the prestigious Hilton hotel, this is the first large competitive gaming event in the Benelux area. To further aid the success of the event, a massive mediaplan will assist in getting the word out to the mainstream audience.

Partners for this event are Packard Bell, Intel, Forcom, Steelseries and the Hilton hotel and media partners include JIM TV, P-Magazine, Clint, Chief, Studio Brussel, Gazet van Antwerpen, Belang van Limburg, Xfire.com, Clanbase, Gameparty, Gamelux and more!

For more information please visit www.esportsfestival.com

Gamevibes and Fucapo partner up

Today we announce the addition of candy manufacturer Fucapo as one of our new partners. First of all, Fucapo will become a new partner of the highly succesful TEK9 Gaming team, supporting them both financially and with their Fucapo Blue Energy tabs to boost the enery levels of our players at all times!

Furthermore, Gamevibes has signed a cooperation deal with Fucapo making us the marketing and promotion partner for Belgium. Together with Gamegear, who will handle distribution and shipping, Gamevibes will be promoting and expanding the Fucapo brand in Belgium. We will be present at several of Belgium's largest LAN's, such as OCC and FOM and not to forget our very own Antwerp eSports Festival. Furthermore we will also be handling all sponsorship deals made in Belgium.

This means that if you have a LAN party, team or Belgian based gaming or review website, you could be getting your very own Fucapo sponsorship very soon! Applications are welcome at steven[a-t]gamevibes.be but no applications from outside Belgium (or perhaps the Benelux) will be considered. Anyone else is free to send an email stating why they should be sponsored by Fucapo and we will review it accordingly! Anyone interested in selling the Fucapo products can also send me an email!

You can also expect some Fucapo competitions over the next couple of weeks/months on the TEK9 website and also an extensive review of the Fucapo Blue Energy tabs!