Tech Shout!

ASUS has announced that the World GameMaster Tournament (WGT), a PC gaming competition will take place on December 15, 2007 at Mumbai, India.

Every year, this PC gaming initiative is supported primarily by ASUS. Major gaming hardware and chipset vendors such as Kingston, Razer and AGEIA are some of the sponsors. WGT also takes place as an annual event in other countries like Australia, Singapore, UK, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and China amongst others.

The WGT preliminaries were held in Indian states of Chandigarh, Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore. Now, the Mumbai preliminaries are slated to take place on December 13 and 14, 2007.

The five qualifying teams from each Indian city will then compete against each other at the National Grand Finale to be held in Mumbai at the Earth Castle mall on December 15 this year. The winners will take home some of the best gaming graphics cards courtesy ASUS.

The official games in the WGT this year include actiona dn strategy games like Counter Strike, Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R and DOTA All Stars.

Mr. Andrew Tsui, Managing Director, ASUS India said, “ASUS believes in allowing the gamers to experience for themselves the best technology for gaming. That’s the reason why the WGT is not just a competition but also a learning experience for gamers as well as others to learn how to choose the right components for your PC system for optimum performance.”

All of the WGT gaming machines are powered by the EN8800GT TOP 512 MB special overclocked edition graphics cards. SmartDoctor an intelligent hardware protection and over clocking tool helps in easy manual overclocking with an ease of a slide bar. Thus, all true participating gamers will be able to exploit the maximum potential out of their PCs.

Besides the tournament, the World Gaming Tournament will also showcase the latest innovations and technologies in gaming hardware.

Says Amit Jaokar, Technical Promotion Manager & WGT Project Leader, ASUS India, “WGT will create a thrilling environment for gamers to compete in. It will also allow them to experience the cutting edge performance of powerful gaming hardware. He further adds, “To run any high – end game, the gaming hardware should be sturdy and must be equipped with the latest in technology, which is exactly what ASUS products offer to gamers.”

Click here to head to the WGT web site which enables gamers to login for tournament details about the event.