Hi-Rez Studio has revealed the first details of the Tribes: Ascend Tournament Series

May 11, 2012 11:02 ( F2P News ) 0

Hi-Rez Studios has presented the details of the Tribes: Ascend Tournament Series.

This summer the players of Tribes: Ascend can win $30,000 in cash and prizes that will reward the best of the best between May and August 2012.
Tribes: Ascend, considered the fastest shooter in the world, will be featured by leagues and tournament providers as the Cyber Sports Network (CSN), North American Star League (NASL), European Game Series (EGS), Electronic Sports League (ESL), Curse Networks and FPS General.

The final stages of the first event are taking place this Saturday, May 12, in partnership with Cyber ​​Sports Network and with over $2,500 in prizing. The top prize for the summer will be $10,000 prize pool for NASL Season 3. The NASL Tribes: Ascend semi-finals will be broadcast from E3 and the grand-finals will be a live LAN event in Toronto, Canada.

Hi-Rez has also announced its plans to stream the tournament games within the game client Tribes: Ascend. The next update of Tribes: Ascend thus incorporate the live viewing of these games thanks to Twitch TV.

“We enjoy working with developers like Hi-Rez Studios who harness live video to support their game community,” says Kevin Lin, TwitchTV Chief Operating Officer. “At Twitch we’ve seen a phenomenal rise in eSports, and it is exciting to see the growing popularity of a fast-action FPS like Tribes: Ascend.”

“Given that we just released Tribes: Ascend mid April, we’re pleased with how quickly the e-Sports community is growing,” says Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios COO. “Our team believes that Tribes can be a premier spectator event and we’re thrilled to have partners who share this vision and support the community with great broadcast content as well as prizing". Todd Harris continues, “The community is already using TwitchTV to stream Tribes: Ascend game activity. With the next update we’ll feature certain streams as viewable within the game itself so those become broadcast events.”

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