Written by Profi | 06 April 2012
Posted in Articles - Reviews

CM Storm is the gaming division of popular PC hardware manufacturer Cooler Master. CM Storm is not operating for a long time, but already became popular among gamers by their cases, mouses, keyboard and pads. 

Today we will review their new keyboard CM Storm Trigger with MX Cherry Switches.


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Written by Profi | 07 March 2012
Posted in Articles - Reviews

I heard a lot of good feedbacks related to Sennheiser PC 360 such as “King of the Hill», «Still on throne for 2 years», «Best headset ever» etc. It's a dedicated headset for gamers created in cooperation with esport organization  Mortal Teamwork. I'm not a hardcore gamer and in this article I'll review PC 360 from caster's point of view. For casting purposes an excellent headset is just necessary. Certainly after such recommendations from friends, pro-players and other streamers, I decided to test this headset by myself. Big thanks to Sennheiser Middle East for providing me Sennheiser PC 360 for the review.

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Written by Victor | 19 January 2012
Posted in Articles - Starcraft 2

Ok so less than two hours depart us from the next big SC2 event, and as we all know it's  IEM Global Challenge Kiev. Not long ago the groups were drawn, but since than, few changes have been made.

First change was the replacement of  Beastyqt with  NightEnD, well by no means i have something against Beastyqt, i think he is a great terran player, but lately, NightEnD has shown an impressive form, so from my point of view, puting NightEnD there is better. Yeah i know these two players are different races, but the play-style is the same, both beeing very macro orientated players. Next change was  Strelok for  Diestar, another great change, as Strelok is one level above Diestar. And the last and most recent replacement was  White-RA for  KiLLer, the peruan chillian player could not make it to Kiev, so organizers decided to bring White-Ra, the grandpa toss himself. Now as much as i consider KiLLer one of the best and most inteligent terran player out there, you cannot comare him to White-RA, when it comes to "special tactics".

I trully expect carriers from White-RA, or archon toilets, seeing his last streams, i know he has trained hard laddering all day and playing practice matches against  TLO. His tactics were macro orientated, and also he wanted to bring in some "special tactics", mass carriers or void-ray's or zealots. Grandpa toss deserves to be in this tournament, and we deserve to see more from him.

OK that was a sort of introduction into this article., now lets dissect each group.

Group A, after the last changes has three tosses and one terran in it. The match-up i see as beeing the most interesting are White-Ra vs NaNiwa, White-Ra vs. Strelok and NaNiwa vs. Strelok. The scores well this is the difficult part, i think that White-Ra in the current shape he can overcome NaNiwa, evn though nani has practiced much in Korea, and also Strelok, depends on what tactic grandpa toss decides to adopt. Now the NaNi vs. Strelok match should be the decider of the second player to advance, since from my point of view TiTaN, is good but not shure good enough to take on the other three players.

My group prediction:

White-RA 
NaNiwa 
Strelok
TiTaN 

Group B, another group of death, Zenio is the main favorite there, as well he is Korean, playing with foreigners, so i think he will advance from first place, but not with all wins, but by score difference. Kas is the next player to advance, as much as would like to see NightEnD make it to the playoffs, i think his group is kind of hard, he might be good, but not good enough, he could take Grubby down, but the others two should manage to win over him. Grubby, well from what i've seen from him at the last event he is in good shape, but his menthal state is not that good, so i think he will come last in the group.

Final Standings:

Zenio 
Kas 
NIghtEnD 
Grubby  

 

Group C, well group C is kind of easy to predict, it has a cler favorie in the Korean player MMA, with his impressive micro, his out of the charts macro, and his basic strats, he should take first place in easymode, with all wins. The second place is the tricky one as it goes between HasuOBS and Pomi, TargA has little experience and i don't think he will impress us much, finishing in the last place. The second place match should be won by HasuOBS judgeing by the amount of experience he has, and by the games I saw from him at the  HomeStory CUP #4.

So final standings should be

MMA
HasuOBS 
PoMi 
TargA

Group D is also quite easy, as HerO is the clear favorite in there, and should have nor problems with two of the players from there, only Dimaga might surprise him and take a win from him, but i don't think this time it will be the case, HerO has shown impressive form lately, the second place should go to Dimaga, by defeating Feast, and the last place from my point of view will go to qxc, whom i do not know that much, but from what i've seen in his matches so far, is good but not at the level of the others.

Final standings:

HerO 
Dimaga 
Feast 
qxc

Surprises might come, but from what i've seen in the last matches of each player, those are my predictions, it is based entirely on what i've seen. But i might be off by a huge margin here, so bare with me.

What is most important is that you guys have fun at this event, and enjoy the games.

Written by Profi | 10 November 2011
Posted in Articles - Reviews

In this article we are going to review Roccat Isku gaming keyboard. I have used this keyboard for more than one month and ready to share my impressions. For beginning, let's watch official commercial movie:



Is really Roccat Isku so unique and great? What about cons? Are there any benefits if you're not hardcore gamer? You will find answers to these and to a lot of other questions in this review.

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Written by benDover! | 27 June 2011
Posted in Articles - Counter-Strike

Another LAN has passed upon us, and this time it was a first as Adepto BH Open had it's debut few days ago. Today we here at GreatFrag bring you the story of this tournament.

The tourney was settled to have two group stages, and boosted 27 teams spread out in 8 groups, among these teams big names such as NaVi and  fnatic. The start was a slow one, as the games were postponed up to 3 hours due to some internet problems in the venue where the tournament took place. Another thing worth beeing mentioned about the first day it was the arresting of NaVi team at the airport in Sarajevo for more than 6 hours due to some visa issues. Other than that, the teams expected to advance from this first group stage did so, no surprises in the first day.

Second day, second group stage, out of the total 27 teams 16 advanced and were paired in 4 groups of 4 teams each, with the first two teams set to advance in the playoffs. NaVi whom were saved from their situation by the Ukraine consul in Sarajevo managed to top esily it's group same as fnatic,  HSBG and  BGDonLINE. In the playoffs as it was expected the 4 non domestic teams managed to win their games with ease.

Advancing into the semi-finals, the bracket lookd as follow: NaVi had to face Bulgaria's top team HSBG, while fnatic had to face BGDonLINE. Although it seemed a easy game for NaVi it proved to be otherwise, as on first map at the half the bulgarians managed to win a respectable 5 rounds as terrorists on inferno, but this did not ensure the map for them as they lost inferno with the score [16-6]. Moving on dust2, the bulgarians were demolished by the ukrainean giants as the half score showed a [14-1] lead for NaVi. But than HSBG struck back in the second half bringing the score to another respectable one of [16-9] in favour of NaVi. In the other semi-final fnatic faced BGDonLINE, and the swedish giants were the clear favorite team in this duel, they managed to win with the same score as NaVi and were set to meet the ukrainean team in the grand final.

Moving on to the finals, the teams started on dust2, fnatic had the advantage as they started T-side, and they took that advantage and managed to put a 4-0 lead with Richard 'Xizt' Landström wining the 4'th round for them with an insane ace. But the game did not end up to be as easy as fnatic hoped, first half ending in a [10-5] lead in favor of the swedes. Switching sides the eastern team, managed to pick up round after round, and close the deal with dust2 at [16-13]. Second map tuscan was a blast for NaVi, starting up as terrorist, they won pistol round, and the bonus 2 rounds that usually goes with that round, but than in the fourth round, NaVi showed us that they have done messing around and extended thir lead to a 4-0 score. From there on nothing worked for fnatic, and they saw themselves being lead with a winning  score of [15-0] at half. The teams switched sides, and fnatic looked to put up a fight for the gold, but NaVi slammed the door right in their noses, and Sergey 'starix' Ischuk stuck the last nail in fnatic's coffin with a knife frag on to Faruk 'pita' Pita and the map ended in a [16-0 ]score. In the third place decider, HSBG proved to be the better team and won the match picking up bronze and €1.500.

Finals standings are as follow:
#1. NaVi: €6.000
#2. fnatic: €3.000
#3. HeadShotBG: €1.500
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Written by benDover! | 22 June 2011
Posted in Articles - Counter-Strike

S

o DreamHack Summer 2011 has passed upon us, crazy days, with lots of streams, lots of great matches, and a 3in1 tournament, as DreamHack Summer also contained the IOL Final and WCG Sweden Final.

The excitement regarding this tournament was at it's peak, seeing that the best of the best in each eSports was there. The LOL final boosted a wooping audience, the Starcraft 2 and Quake Live did the same, the Counter-Strike did not let the guard down and boosted at around 35000 viewers, and it was something CS fans will remember as one team managed to win 3 champion titles in 2 days.

What you are about to read is the story of the DH summer 2011

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