By Kyung Hyang Games
On 8th of April, the first pro-league adopting Korean title, ‘SF 2 Pro-league’; ended with great success. Especially, All eyes would be on the pro-league which was held at the first time after the title’;s change from Special Force to Special Force 2.The league has left behind remarkable achievements: 8 game teams joined the league as the league was launched and the league grew rapidly on a large scale with lots of entertaining factors. We’;re expecting the next ‘;SF 2 Pro-league 2012’; to be updated soon.It is the most remarkable that sponsorships from gaming device company in addition to SK Telecom are officially considered available. Sponsors held a special round with their name and gave players cash prizes by holding another award ceremony.[Extend official sponsorships into devices]On 6th of January, a worldwide gaming device company ‘;Steel Series’; and KeSPA (Korea e-Sports Association) signed a contract on devices for e-sports competitions. Steel Series which used to support last season also supports high-tech devices for this season like gaming mouses, headsets and mouse pads, etc. Gaming devices of Still Series are not only well-known for FPS gamers but alsocompetitive in terms of media control, super speed tying support, etc. Sensei, a gaming mouse, has become popular since pro-gamers made it by themselves. Steel Series is officially backing up the other e-sports titles besides Special Force 2 as well.[Holding a special event of sponsor]To differentiate the sponsorships, they held special events to choose ‘;Steel Series MVP’; among 4 sections each round of SF2 pro-league: the highest number of kills, assistance, save and special prize. A player who sets the record the most such as highest number of kills, the number of assistance, the highest points would be awarded per round.Players of KT Rolester took three of four sections’; prizes. Junghun of KT set 144kills in the highest number of kills section and won double prizes with the highest number of kills and save MVP. There is much to see in the events thatMinsu Do of KT won the first MVP with outstanding performance and there are more special cash prizes.
