View Coverage: Sapphire EC
Organiser: Esports Heaven
Website: http://www.esportsheaven.net
Location: online
Duration: 7 Aug 2010 to 11 Sep 2010

Sapphire Euro Challenge is a online tournament where 4 cups will be played in 4 different games, sponsored by Sapphire. The coming weeks gamers from Counter-Strike:Source, Quake live, Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare will battle it out on the virtual battleground for a whooping £2,000.

This coverage will focus on Quake Live only and its 4 qualifiers in the next month and the 16-slot playoff brackets that will be played 11 September 2010.

View Coverage: ASum'10
Location: Kiev

The ASUS Summer 2010 will be the 30th edition of the ASUS cups and will take place in Kiev from the 28-29th of August.

Announcement

View Coverage: CB SC 2010
Organiser: Clanbase
Website: http://clanbase.ggl.com
Duration: 12 Jul 2010 to 6 Sep 2010

Clanbase Summer Cup 2010 will consist of Duel and 2v2 cups. It will run from 12 July 2010 till 06 September 2010.
QL Duel Summer Cup 2010 will be played with 4 qualifiers and then big finals played with 16 players, while QL 2v2 Summer Cup will be standard cup with regular group-stage and the playoffs.

View Coverage: ESH QL: AC
Organiser: Esports Heaven
Website: www.esportsheaven.net
Duration: 10 Jun 2010 to 15 Jul 2010

Top 4 players from each of the 4 free tournaments will qualify themselves for Amateur Cup which will be 16-players playoff bracket with prizes included (prizes will be announced in the weeks to follow).

Pro`s once again won`t be allowed, not even under different nick, and all players who wish to participate will have to enter their PlayerIDs before they will be allowed to participate in any of these cups.

Best of luck to all participants !

View Coverage: Beat it
Organiser: MSI, fnatic PLAY
Website: http://play.fnatic.com
Duration: 19 Jun 2010 to 4 Sep 2010

Multigaming-clan fnatic announced that in cooperation with MSI and fnatic PLAY they will be hosting a European series of tournaments for Quake Live Duel, Counter-Strike 1.6, Call of Duty 4 and Heroes of Newerth for prizes worth 65,000$.

QL and CS players will have the chance to qualify for the LAN finals in Beijing on the 4th of September, with a $45,000 prize purse.

QuakeLive schedule:

Qualifier #1 - June 19th
Qualifier #2 - June 20th
Qualifier #3 - June 26th
Qualifier #4 - June 27th

Finals - July 16-18th

LAN Finals - September 4th

Official website -

View Coverage: IEM5
Organiser: ESL
Website: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/
Date: 29 Jul 2010

The IEM5 will kick off at ChinaJoy, the 8th China Digital Entertainment Expo in Shanghai, with its first Global Challenge (Announcement).

IEM5 Events:

- July, 29-01: Global Challenge Shanghai ( )
- August, 19-22: Global Challenge Gamescom ( ) - Coverage
- October, 8-10: American Championship Finals
- ???

View Coverage: AOD
Organiser: 4seasonsgaming.com
Website: http://www.4seasonsgaming.com/archaicmsi.php
Location: Online
Duration: 4 May 2010 to 27 Jun 2010

Thanks to 4Seasons Gaming and ArchaicMSI, Oceania will be sending it's first sponsored QuakeLive player overseas to Quakecon this year in August. Instead of just choosing a player to send over, we have turned the opportunity into a "draft" or "qualifier" to determine once and for all who is the real 2010 Oceanic QuakeLive Dueling Champion.

See 4seasonsgaming.com for more informations.

View Coverage: Go4SC2
Organiser: ESL
Website: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/go4sc2/
Location: Online
Duration: 30 Nov 1999 to 30 Nov 1999

Every month you can win €900 in prize money by playing StarCraft 2 on the ESL.

Every week €100 is up for grabs for the winner of the Saturday cup. The top players of our cups on Saturdays and Wednesdays earn points towards qualifying for the monthly final with €500 for the winner.

Links: Rankings, Replays

View Coverage: HDH1
Organiser: HD & Husky
Website: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=118
Location: Online
Duration: 21 Apr 2010 to 31 May 2010

The HDH Invitational is a new StarCraft 2 beta Duel tournament organized by HD and Husky. This competition will see 16 invited players compete for dollars starting on April 21st. The event is sponsored by iRip! and will feature $2,450 in cash prize for the top3 players.


Links: Teamliquid's thread, HuskyStarcraft, HDstarcraft

View Coverage: ESWC'10
Organiser: Games Solution
Website: http://www.eswc.com
Location: Coupvray, France
Duration: 30 Jun 2010 to 4 Jul 2010

The ESWC Grand Final 2010 will be held in Disneyland Paris, the famous entertainment park in the Paris neighborhood. ESWC 2010 competitors will vie for $213,500 in prize money divided between the World Champions and their challengers in several tournaments:

Counter Strike
Counter Strike Women
DotA
Quake Live
Trackmania ESWC
Warcraft 3: Frozen throne

Fifa 2010
Guitar Hero
Need for speed Shift
Street Fighter 4

View Coverage: EC21
Organiser: ClanBase
Website: http://clanbase.ggl.com/
Location: Online
Duration: 4 Apr 2010 to 31 May 2010

The 21th edition of the ClanBase EuroCup takes place during Spring 2010.

The Spring 2010 Season features 7 EuroCups and 65 OpenCups spanning a total of 25 games.

Link: Announcement

View Coverage: RAZER SC2
Organiser: gamesports.net
Website: http://www.RAZER-DOMINATION.com
Location: online
Date: 12 Apr 2010

GameSports.de & RAZER bring you this StarCraft 2 Beta Invitational. 16 of the best European players will be competing for the prizemoney of 250€ for the winner, 100€ for the 2nd place and 50€ for the 3rd place.

View Coverage: DHS10
Organiser: DreamHack
Website: http://www.dreamhack.se/dhs10/
Location: Sweden, Jönköping
Duration: 19 Jun 2010 to 22 Jun 2010

DreamHack Summer 2010 will take place in Jönköping, June 19-22.

Tournaments

Counter-Strike 1.6 - 200 000 SEK
Quakelive 1v1 - 50 000 SEK
Street Fighter IV - 50 000 SEK

Links: Announcement and details

View Coverage: ESL NightCup
Organiser: ESL Europe
Website: http://www.esl.eu/eu/quakelive/
Location: Online - #esl.quakelive on IRC Quakenet

Since the 27th of March, ESL Europe is holding QuakeLive Nightcups with several gametypes. Join #esl.quakelive on IRC Quakenet.

View Coverage: Zotac SC2
Organiser: Gamesports.net
Website: http://sc2.cups.gamesports.net
Location: Online
Duration: 30 Nov 1999 to 30 Nov 1999

ZOTAC has been organizing weekly tournaments for WC3, FIFA, DOTA, SC:BW and QL with a prize money of 100€ for a long time now.

Since the 28th of February, Starcraft 2 Beta is also supported with 100€ for the winner of each cup on Sundays afternoon!