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AGP Player Representatives and Site (157 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 23:41 CST, 5 January 2010 - iMsg
The AGP has just announced the North America and Europe Duel Representatives. The Europe region of the AGP had a private vote among the members. The North America region had 5 Pro member volunteers to run for the position. With each branch needing 5 members, they were elected automatically, without need of a vote. This position will be held for all of 2010. For more details of what an AGP player representative is and does, read about it on the AGP Legislation and Representation page.


AGPTour.com has also released some big changes and additions to the official site. This includes new updated Rankings (layout, functionality, and regions), AGPTOUR.TV, new Association information and sections, drop downs, and much more.


The AGP has just begun. Thanks to all of you and your support. In the next month we will be launching new regions, new AGP Sanctioned competitions, and new game mode branches of the AGP. Stay tuned!

PS: As a New year's gift, I've added Socrates POV for the AGP Classics Match of the Week posted earlier on ESR. Check it out!

Source: AGP Tour mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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One of the Best T4 Games of All Time! * (126 comments)
( Major Movie: Q3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 22:37 CST, 4 January 2010 - iMsg



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The AGP Classics Match of the Week presents the 2002 World Cyber Games: This is 2nd round of the losers bracket. One game to move on, one game to go home. Decided in Overtime! Considered one of the better games of all time on T4.

Russia Anton "Cooller" Singov vs United States of America Jason "Socrates" Sylka
The map: T4: Vertical Vengeance II.

* Added Socrates POV*
Links: AGP Tour mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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CZM vs Z4muZ - ESWC 2004 Final (72 comments)
( Major Movie: Q3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 11:31 CST, 31 December 2009 - iMsg



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The AGP Classics Match of the Week presents the 2004 ESWC USA vs Sweden Final. The structure of this tournament grouped players of the same country against other countries. They would play a best of three set, one player per game. The winner of the finals won $10,000, to be split amongst the team. *note: the timer is off in this demo*

This is game 2 of the final and was shoutcasted by iTG'Trillian.

United States of America Paul "CZM" Nelson vs Sweden Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors
The Arena: ZTNTourney1: Bloodrun. Game 2.


Links: AGP Tour mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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Nomadic's Story Magazine Cover Feature (141 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:14 CST, 22 December 2009 - iMsg
The San Diego Reader, a magazine based out of southern California, just released their newest publication with a cover story right up our alley.

I Had the Rocket Launcher, He Had the Chain Gun by United States of America Evan "Nomadic" Bradshaw, is a well written first person article about the yields of professional FPS gaming that not only have come from the gaming itself but as a result from the path of competitive gaming.


Source: San Diego Reader
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Q3Test 1999: CPL Ground Zero Final (181 comments)
( Major Movie: Q3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 22:37 CST, 14 December 2009 - iMsg



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1999 Ground Zero Q3Test tourney hosted by CPL
Following QuakeCon 1999, CPL held their classic Ground Zero event featuring the beta version of Quake 3, called Q3Test. You will notice some differences in this version, mainly in lightning gun and font colors as well as strafe jumping. Note that this is almost as early as it gets for Quake 3. Only one map was available. 1st place won $10,000 and 2nd got $4,000.

Final: United States of America Mark "Wombat" Larsen vs United States of America Alex "Gemini"Garcia
The Arena: T2: The Proving Grounds


Links: AGP Tour mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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Cooller vs Zero4: Sudden Death OT! (60 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 09:40 CST, 8 December 2009 - iMsg
This AGP Classics Match of the Week features a nation vs nation game from ESWC 2004.

Russia vs USA: The structure of this tournament grouped players of the same country against other countries. They would play a best of three set, one player per game. The winner of the finals won $10,000, to be split amongst the team.

This game contains two of the best players of all time, the winner decided in the final seconds, SUDDEN DEATH OT!

Russia vs USA: Russia Anton "Cooller" Singov vs United States of America John "Zero4" Hill
The map: DM6: The Campgrounds.


Links: AGP Tour mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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Wombat vs Lakerman AWESOME old school Q3 (112 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 18:51 CST, 30 November 2009 - iMsg
The AGP Classics Match of the Week goes back to Quake 3 this week. 2000 XS Reality Invitational: Sujoy Roy said at the time that it was "one of the most exciting matches I've ever seen" and he is right. This great oldie takes place in the tournaments loser bracket semi-finals. Being the first mainly international tournament in Quake 3, held in Sweden and being invite only, the tournament had no prize money although most players were paid sponsorship money by Razer following in addition to travel.

Loser Bracket Semi: United States of America Mark "Wombat" Larsen vs Sweden Oskar "LakermaN" Ljungstroem
Maps: Vertical Vengeance (T4) and the Proving Grounds (T2)


And just in case you want a HD Quality version of the Dreamhack FInals without casting, I threw them up below.


Links: AGP Tour mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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Doom 3 Gopher vs Rocketboy $25,000 (69 comments)
( Major News: D3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 22:02 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg
The AGP Classics Match of the Week presents Doom 3! During QuakeCon 2005, Sweden Fredrik "gopher" Quick faces off against China Yang "RocketBoy" Meng, the CPL Winter Doom 3 champion. Gopher is from the famous TDM Quake 3 team iCE cLIMBERs. This is the consolation finals after Gopher won the first map on DM4, coming from the losers bracket. This game is on DM2, also known as Delta Labs.


Links: AGP Tour mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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Europe Duel Player Election (151 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 23:26 CST, 23 November 2009 - iMsg
The AGP has begun it's player legislation process. We are starting with the European Duel representation. 5 AGP player representatives will be elected by vote of official AGP members (free members and Pro members) in that region. Each member has volunteered for this position.


The vote will be held for two weeks, with a final tally taken on the 24th of November. We will allow a one week grace period for new potential candidates. Contact us via IRC listed below if you would like to be part of this election. In the event of new candidates, AGP Members that have already voted can change their vote only once. All members in Europe, please vote by that time. Next week we will start the North American Duel Branch regional representation.

Details: Voting, Player Representation
Links: mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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Pros vote Dreamhack to be AGP Sanctioned (176 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 08:12 CST, 23 November 2009 - iMsg
Event: DHW09
The Association of Gaming Professionals recently held a vote with its Pro Members on whether Dreamhack should be approved or not for AGP Sanctioning. The vote was based on the very late details released of the tournament like prizemoney, if it is to be LAN or server based (Quake Live), and monitors and computers used. All these things are factored into decision making of if a LAN tournament is to be AGP Sanctioned or not because it is not fair to those players traveling to book the travel details for such a tournament early only to find out the prize money is very low or doesn’t exist, instead giving hardware, for an example. Dreamhack has a stellar record of paying prize money on time and holding very well ran tournaments that are consistent, which plays an important role in this vote as well.

The vote required a majority vote and was elected to be AGP Sanctioned. The point breakdown is listed below. Usually the penalty in AGP Ranking points for such a late detail release would put this tournament at 500 points for 1st. However, because it is a 32 player, non invite tournament, and that most North American players are attending, it will be treated at 1000. Look for their streaming schedule very soon.


Tomorrow the AGP will be releasing details on the election for European player representation.

Links: AGPTour - mIRC #agptour, Facebook, Twitter
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Thresh wins Ferrari in Red Annihilation! (143 comments)
( Major News: Q1)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 09:34 CST, 17 November 2009 - iMsg
The AGP Classics Match of the Week presents Quake 1!

The infamous 1997 Red Annihilation tournament: John Carmack, legendary id Software Programmer, gives his 328 GTS Cabriolet to the winner of this tournament. The tournament was held on Mpaths networks with over 2000 participants. The top 16 were flown to Atlanta, Georgia for the final tournament at the World Congress Center during E3 of that year.

The final: Tom "Entropy" Kizmey vs Dennis "Thresh" Fong
The map: E1M2: Castle of the Damned. Part 1.


Presented here by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals).
mIRC #agptour
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Doom 2: 1996 - Ronbob vs Sslasher (114 comments)
( Major News: Gaming)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 08:19 CST, 11 November 2009 - iMsg
In presenting the history of Deathmatch as well as Id Software's release of Doom Classic on the iPhone, the AGP is proud to present Doom 2 in the AGP Classics Match of the Week!

This tournament took place in 1996 and is called DMcon1. They had 2 tournaments at this LAN, one for Map1, and one for map Dwango5. Map1 was played much slower and more protective than Dwango5, as you will see. Also, watch the special use of the BFG; there was a special 'hidden' ability it possessed that was utilized.


This is the semi-final of the Dwango5 tourney. Ronbob (pov) vs Sslasher (not to be confused with Slasher (Rod Breslau).

We also posted the Final of the Map1 tournament, where Sslasher plays Galiu.


Presented by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals).
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ESL Dubai Bloopers Video (94 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:02 CDT, 30 October 2009 - iMsg
Event: IEM4
The AGP presents a blooper video from the ESL Quake Live Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge in Dubai. The tournament was great but also had some funny moments. Hope you all enjoy.


We posted an additional AGP Classic match this week as well: Fatal1ty vs Zero4 at QuakeCon 2002. You all might remember when the defending champion of QuakeCon got shut out on DM6. Well, this is it.


Stay tuned next week for a special treat.

Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support!
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The AGP Duel Rankings Released (95 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 23:12 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg
The AGP has officially released it’s international Quake Live Duel Rankings. Based on a points system used by many professional sports and tailored to Quake Live, the AGP hopes to sustain an accurate system for all competitions to use by the players. This will create accurate seedings as well as proper skill separation for lower skilled tournaments.


Beginning with the 2009 QuakeCon Masters and Open tourneys and the recent IEM4 Global Challenge Dubai, the AGP Rankings awarded points based on progression to all participants. QuakeCon, having the most prize money and tournament spots this year (32+), receives more points between the two. In the future, online tournaments will be awarded the third most, following last by Ladders.

AGP Rankings will also be awarded in other game modes in competitions sanctioned by the AGP. Those will be posted soon. If you are an organizer of a competition and want it approved by the players, as well as be put into our points system, email us for review (contact).

Expect complete point breakdown of competitions involved in the next few weeks as well as regional and national rankings based on this same point system.
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ESL Dubai QL Highlights Video by the AGP (84 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:33 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg
Event: IEM4
The AGP presents a complete highlight video from the entire ESL Quake Live Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge in Dubai. The tournament was intense some amazing highlights. Hope you all enjoy.

Featuring:
United States of America Shane "SK|rapha" Hendrixson
Belarus Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky
Austria Richard "vtL/noctis" Gansterer
Sweden Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson
Sweden Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira
Italy Alessandro "fnaticstermy" Avallone
Russia Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov
United States of America Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty
China Zhibo "RazerJibo" Fan
France Pierre-Emeric "fnatic\l1nkje" Portier
United States of America Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
Sweden Pelle "xlo-fazz" Söderman
Germany Felix "mTw|smoke" Pafel
United Arab Emirates Anas "spammah" Llyas
France Kévin "fnatic\strenx" Baeza
Sweden Michael "xlo-madix" Hindersson


Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches!
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ZTN Destruction starring Fox (64 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 09:13 CDT, 21 October 2009 - iMsg
This week the AGP Classic's Match of the Week is a more recent Quake Live match, from the 2009 ESL-TV Invitational, featuring one of Sweden's best players, Magnus "fox" Olsson. He goes against Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad. It wasn't a close match, but fox really shows amazing aim and control. From spawn killing to item management.


Also posted this week is another QuakeCon 2002 match on a map not seen too often called the Chastity Belt featuring Paul "CZM" Nelson and Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel.


Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches! For match requests of any game mode, visit agptour.com.
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Quake LIFE Blogs Site Re-Release (34 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 11:18 CDT, 15 October 2009 - iMsg
This is the announcement of the re-RELEASE of Quake Life, with a new name and look: Quake LIFE Blogs - www.quakelifeblogs.com from gameriot.

The reason for the change is to make it more clear what this site is about, and that is blogging. You don't need to set up your own blog site on a server, you can use this one.

Everyone and anyone that is part of the Quake scene has a voice and opinion. They have the potential of being creative, sharing information of any sort and any type, and posting news if they would like. This site will feature this alone. For the entire Quake community.

Each person can have their own blog that others subscribe to and follow individually. Just sign up and in and create and name a new blog. Then start. Blogs can be made to express opinions, post the best videos on the web, follow events; basically anything can be done on here. You can form discussions, create sub communities, create a travel blog, it doesn't matter. Every blog will automatically go on the front page when submitted. Enjoy!

Source: QuakeLIFEblogs @ gameriot.com
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AGP Classics Fatal1ty OT Comeback (92 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 15:43 CDT, 13 October 2009 - iMsg
AGP Classics Match of the Week Returns! On suggestion of many, this week will feature one of South America's best players of the past, from Brazil, named Thomaz "Fist1" Fortes. He goes against Fatal1ty Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. The match was during QuakeCon 2002 and is on Campgrounds. The game goes into overtime.


QuakeCon 2002 had many great matches as well as many Fatal1ty comebacks including the infamous Aim FULL game that we posted earlier this week as well in HD.


Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches! For match requests of any game mode, visit agptour.com.
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The AGP has been voted to be FREE! (21 comments)
( Major News: ESR)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 10:34 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg
The AGP’s first Community vote has now closed. The AGP was voted to be both free to all AND have a paid membership with benefits. See the results here.

The AGP will now offer a basic AGP Membership for free. Members will have vote in everything as well as be entered into the international and regional AGP Rankings.

Additionally, we now offer a Pro Membership, for the more serious player. A Pro Membership will now cover both 2009 and all of 2010. So, 15 months. Pro Members will be 60% of the AGP vote and have the ability to propose new rules and laws as well as be able to be voted as Representative of their regions and be a part of the AGP Council.

Read the entire announcement at www.agptour.com
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Community Vote: Should the AGP be Free? (38 comments)
( Major News: Gaming)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 07:14 CDT, 3 October 2009 - iMsg
The AGP has just posted an announcement regarding the state of the AGP. In response to all concerns pertaining to the membership fee’s of the AGP and tournaments, we as a community have a decision to make.

The vote is whether the AGP should begin free to anyone, or keep its current charge for memberships. If it is voted to be free to everyone, we as an association, will still try and get sponsors for tournaments online and off, but we will not be sponsoring any ourselves for now. We also have the option of having pay per tournaments, but that would be the next vote for the AGP. This vote is for the entire community. If it is voted to be free, we will open up all registration to everyone to join shortly after.
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The AGP has Launched: 24 Tourneys in 09 (313 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:06 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg
Today the Association of Gaming Professionals, the first ever international players association in E-Sports and in Quake Live, has launched.

The AGP will unite the players to expand and sustain the sport themselves through player legislation, international and regional rankings, and tournament sponsoring and sanctioning.
The AGP is the next step in establishing Quake Live and first person shooters as a true professional sport.” said Jarod Reisin, President of VIDA. “The potential of a united players association is bigger than anything we have seen before in professional gaming. It’s proving that progress is happening and that a self sustaining sport is right here in front of us, going nowhere but up.
The AGP will be sponsoring 24 online tournaments in 2009 in Duel, CTF, and CA.

Source: AGPtour.com
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EUQL Interviews Hell (225 comments)
( Major News: ESR)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 11:47 CDT, 19 April 2009 - iMsg
Over at EUQL, they have release a new interview with United Kingdom Aaron-Anton “HELL” Jones. In it, he talks of his past in MANY games as well as the end of Quake 4. With future of QuakeLive and the likes/ dislikes of the game q's and a's, this is a good interview with one of UK's famed professional players.
HELL: Over the years I’ve played everything at some point, but the ones (Game Modes) that are more enjoyable than others for the fun factor that I’d like to see introduced would be FreezeTag and CaptureStrike, those I enjoy playing, well I did in Quake3 and I’m sure I would again in QuakeLive.
Source: EUQL
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EUQL Interview with Garpy (25 comments)
( Major News: Q3 QL)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:16 CDT, 15 April 2009 - iMsg
Over at EUQL there is an interview with the professional FPS player United Kingdom Gareth "GaRpY" Marshall from the Multiplay i36 tournament in the UK. They talk about Quake Live and switching from Painkiller, among many other things!
EUQL: A number of people are asking for certain weapon damage to be altered, namely the LG and the RG, is there anything you would personally like to see changed in respect to weapon balance or do you think things are working well as it stands?
GaRpY: I actually like how the weapons are balanced at the moment; I have recently just started playing quake3 and omg!! the LG and Rail are like quad all the time… so powerful! I actually think Quakelive has got a nice balance to it as it stands.
Source: euql.org
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The best fps duels of all time? (22 comments)
( Forum: Gaming)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 19:30 CST, 2 March 2008 - iMsg
Hey peeps. I am looking for what you think are the best professional tourney duels of all time are. Can be any fps 1v1 game. If you could not only list your favorite top 5, but also links to demos or streams, would be great!

Also, any discussion as to why you believe they are so good would be nice as well. Thanks!

ST
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Pro Gam3r.com Website Launch (69 comments)
( Major Column: Gaming)
Posted by Streetrunner @ 15:14 CST, 5 February 2008 - iMsg
Because of your support we are able to bring something very important to professional video gaming’s growth: a magazine that provides legitimacy to the sport. It is something very special to us and we consider it our contribution to the growing popularity of this sport.

With our third issue releasing in days, we truly hope you feel the excitement we do bringing you the next Pro Gam3r Magazine and our new site, ProGam3r.com. You, the community, have shown us such patience and faith we owe you our thanks for keeping us alive. And because of your overwhelming support we are now able to bring you what we have wanted to do for a long time: a website focused on pro gaming content and providing a unifying message for gaming.

Progam3r.com brings you original and diverse content covering all aspects of pro gaming. We are providing high quality articles, game strategies, in depth interviews, monthly columns, and dynamic league and tournament coverage. We also combine our own content with links to interesting articles and news from all of the major pro league and tournament covering sites. There’s a lot of quality tournament, gaming, and league news out there, and it shouldn't be ignored. We hope to make things convenient for you by putting all that content at your fingertips.

The “Pro Gam3r Magazine” section will give you a chance to get a glimpse into our magazine. This section will have updated news about the magazine, promotions, and contests. As a launch bonus, we are also releasing a majority of Issue One and Issue Two articles in an internet friendly version and also a PDF you can download. Check back often as we will be posting them every few days for all of you who have missed them in our inaugural and sophomore issue. This is our gift to you so you can preview a little of what this magazine is all about. If you like what you see remember to show your support by subscribing and spreading the word.

One of our major goals is to get the gaming community involved more as a whole, instead of focusing on our common divisions of genre, game, gaming platform of choice, and even website preference. We are going to schedule weekly discussions regarding pro gaming on our IRC channel: #ProGam3r on Gamesurge. We will announce the date and time and everyone is invited to join in. Each week we will vote on a new topic to discuss related to pro gaming. We’re going to have guests from the industry as well as professional players contributing to our open panel discussions. Just follow the “Chat” link on the home page for IRC instructions and how you can join us. For those already familiar with IRC, we will have a quick launch app right there as well soon. You can also join us on Myspace and Facebook. We will have exclusive blogs on gaming by us and sometimes from professional gamers on our MySpace page. You’ll find contests, pop quizzes on your knowledge of pro gaming, a full RSS stream of our exclusive articles, and much more on our Facebook page.

As we continue to grow, Pro Gam3r Magazine hopes to be able to provide bi-monthly (6 issues a year). We are here to give you and this sport what it needs in a high quality publication. We are no strangers to the sport. We have writers from all parts of the world that have experience and are dedicated to the sport of gaming and providing you with all they know. We believe that every player, tournament, league, and website are all part of the same invisible banner called professional video gaming. With the continual growth in the video game industry and shared unified efforts of all leagues, teams, and gamers to establish pro gaming as a professional sport and not just a form of entertainment, our sport is on the verge of a professional boom. We here at Pro Gam3r Magazine and ProGam3r.com are dedicated to that same goal and we hope you share the journey with us.

Pro Gam3r Magazine Staff

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