Corsair Announces the Vengeance Cup Online PC Gaming Tournament

A couple of days ago, we announced Corsair’s new Vengeance Gaming Series product line, featuring the maker’s first entries in the gaming peripheral market. To kick this off with a bang, Corsair has also announced an Online PC Gaming Tournament to promote the launch, and a Grand Prize of $10,000, this ought to be interesting.

In partnership with Esports Heaven, part of the Heaven Media Group and one of Europe’s premier epsorts tournament websites, Corsair has created an online tournament that will be based on the FPS game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

“We are very excited to launch our first online tournament, and the Vengeance Cup is the ideal way to celebrate our new Vengeance line of PC gaming peripherals,” said Ruben Mookerjee, VP and General Manager of the Components Business Unit at Corsair. “I am sure that our new FPS-optimized Vengeance K60 gaming keyboard and Vengeance K60 laser gaming mouse will become the weapons of choice for PC gamers who are serious about winning — especially at the professional level — and they are an ideal match for the intensity of Call of Duty 4.”

Registration has begun yesterday, so you shouldn’t wait and hurry to sign up if you want in as they’re expecting more than 128 teams to take part on the action. The cash purse of $10,000 will be split between the top three teams, with $6,000 going to the first, $3,000 going to the second and $1,000 going to the third. For registration, informations, rules, details or just to watch the action, please visit the Vengeance Cup official website.

Full coverage will be in place by Esports Heaven’s partner sites TEK-9.org and cadred.org to provide the spectators with all they need including live fixture, score updates and more. Every participant and spectator will also be granted to opportunity to win Corsair products during random drawings that will be held during the entirety of the tournament.

“With one of the biggest prize purses we’ve ever offered, we’re certain the Vengeance Cup will be one of the premier tournaments this year,” said Esports Heaven’s Steven Leunens. “We’re proud to partner with a great company like Corsair to offer such an exciting competition. We’ve long been fans of their memory, power supplies, cases, CPU coolers, SSDs and other components, and we’re sure to be fans of their new Vengeance PC gaming peripherals too.”

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