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Katowice25012 Posts
Today ESL announced on their site that Roccat would be providing hardware for  WCS Europe Season 3, which began this week.
The German based manufacturer of innovative gaming products, sponsors the new season of Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft II WCS Europe. ROCCAT™ is the new provider of professional gaming gear for WCS Europe's Season 3, which started this week. Join us for today's Premier League group B at 18:00 CEST live on ESL TV and welcome ROCCAT as provider of the latest technology. ROCCAT is going to host a huge sweepstake with awesome hardware prizes to celebrate the new sponsorship of WCS Europe. Visit them on www.facebook.com/ROCCAT where you can enter the contest and win big.
about Roccat:
Founded in 2007, ROCCAT™ develops high quality and innovative accessories in Germany for ambitious computer gamers. In close collaboration with the gaming community, outstanding input devices and headsets, which excel through their first-class precision, high level of ease-of-use and unique design, are designed at ROCCAT™ Studios in Hamburg. A host of international awards confirm the first-class quality and outstanding range of functions of ROCCAT™ products.
The post also has some more stuff about how WCS works which you can read there but it's more than likely all information you know.
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Europe continue to do good in every front, nice to see.
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I love Roccat! Using the XTD myself  WCS fighting!
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And it begins. Super pumped they got this going. Now we need someone to sponsor WCS NA. I am voting for some sort of Ice cream company, because everyone likes Ice cream.
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Nice, Roccat seems doing really well, happy for them !
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neat free computers for ESL !
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Roccat is a very good brand of gaming peripherals and their gear almost never disappoints. The players are lucky to be able to use their hardware when playing, and the prizes should be quite big.
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Great news! I havent had the oppurtunity to try their stuff but Im planning to change that in the future.
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Woot thx Roccat! :D always good seeing those kind of sponsorship!
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
Nice! More incentive to try their mouses once my Deathadder dies
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
Nice that the WCS is getting sponsored by other companies other than Blizzard makes it more sustainable
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Lol, if it's for hardware, i wonder what it would be? Mouse/keyboard/pad? If it is it, then all progamers would prefer their own gears
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On September 05 2013 01:12 MasterDrone wrote:
Lol, if it's for hardware, i wonder what it would be? Mouse/keyboard/pad? If it is it, then all progamers would prefer their own gears
I don't think they are going to force players to use different gear. Its a sponsorship, which likely just involves ads being run and the casters using the equipment.
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And this is why i'm gonna get a Roccat mouse and keyboard for this christmas! :D
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The only Roccat product worth buying is their mouse bungee
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Russian Federation7 Posts
The post only mentions Roccat providing gear for the event, basically this means that the casters get new stuff to use (they used gear from Roccat at the ESL studio for ever, so nothing new here). Pretty sure no participating player will use any of it, mainly because Roccat is bulky and not really high in quality and pros bring their own gear which they have to use because of sponsorship contracts and such. That's like Qpad sponsoring the ESWC some years ago by providing a set of ESWC-themed mousepads to them, except for Qpad actually throwing in a good amount of money for the prize-pool which Roccat (from the announcement) doesn't seem to have done for the WCS. Interesting what exactly should we get excited about in this sponsorship (unless they actually are giving the ESL/WCS money but they just want to keep quiet about that).
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When ROCCAT appearead personally I tought it won't do well but I am really happy that they are on the right track. This is a really nice move from them, not only supporting players/teams but a whole tournament! Big up!
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I have it when sponsors are not really present in my home country!
I do support eSports, so I want to buy stuff from them, when the company has good product (as in the case of ROCCAT).
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Some fairly good SC2 news for a change. Lets hope this is a good fit for the two.
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Blizzard did feel alone 
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Nice for ESL, but damn, these Roccat ads are cheesy!
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On September 05 2013 02:31 TwilightRain wrote:Nice for ESL, but damn, these Roccat ads are cheesy!
let's be honest, that makes them even better
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On September 05 2013 01:47 WTFProoF wrote:
The post only mentions Roccat providing gear for the event, basically this means that the casters get new stuff to use (they used gear from Roccat at the ESL studio for ever, so nothing new here). Pretty sure no participating player will use any of it, mainly because Roccat is bulky and not really high in quality and pros bring their own gear which they have to use because of sponsorship contracts and such. That's like Qpad sponsoring the ESWC some years ago by providing a set of ESWC-themed mousepads to them, except for Qpad actually throwing in a good amount of money for the prize-pool which Roccat (from the announcement) doesn't seem to have done for the WCS. Interesting what exactly should we get excited about in this sponsorship (unless they actually are giving the ESL/WCS money but they just want to keep quiet about that).
I guess it could be a try out kinda deal which could become something bigger if Roccat feels satisfied with the response. But I'm certain that there is money involved already. Doesn't make much sense if not.
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Roccat is just sponsoring so much Esports, must buy their products now
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actually, trying roccat gear, is now an option huh?
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Will buy roccat keyboard now. :D
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On September 05 2013 00:52 Noocta wrote:
Europe continue to do good in every front, nice to see.
Europe holds!
Nice news, good to hear
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United Kingdom12056 Posts
I'm really happy for this but I do wish more "non gaming" sponsors would start sponsoring eSports outside of Korea (for example Samsung/KT/SKT in Korea) since it'd show it's getting bigger
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God I hope they found a new voiceover guy for their commercials
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On September 05 2013 20:35 reki- wrote:
God I hope they found a new voiceover guy for their commercials Yeah, i hope they realize in time that most people that watch WCS aren't 12 year olds that are impressed by that.
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Awesome!! Time to buy some Roccat mouse or keyboard now guises.
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Russian Federation604 Posts
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I watched WCS Eu last night... are people really falling for this shit anymore ?
The fucking recruitment adds from Starship troopers seem to be aimed at a smarter audience.
The whole: "99999 DPI, get headshot super kills with no latency and 6 billion colors IT'S EXTREME GAMING E SSSSSSSSSSPORTS GAMING" is bad at best and cringe worthy enough to stop taking a company seriously forever at worst.
There really are things that can make a mouse high quality and versatile, but those things are mainly it's weight, it's shape, the way extra buttons are placed so that they are still accessible while not forcing you to change the way you hold the mouse, the way it works on different surfaces, the durability of it, a more lag free wireless function than your usual wireless mouse... etc
All those things can be reasons why someone with money to spare that spends a lot of time on the computer might spend time browsing trough mouses and finding one that fits than spending 100-300$ on it, the "EXTREME 66666666666 DPI mmmmEGA colors in 6 million varieties for ssssssuper skill" will make a young kids want it ( maybe ) and for the rest of the audience that is above the mental age of 10 it will simply sink in the name "roccat", a thing which can also be done with a way less annoying add.
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Dude, it's 16,8 million colours. To put this in perspective: A Super Nintendo is capable of showing 32 768 colours.
That's like 513 SNES in your palm!. It's amazing.
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"ROCCAT™ is the new provider of professional gaming gear for WCS Europe's Season 3"
so does that mean they send a couple of headsets to the ESL studios or what?
pro players have their own gear they rely on afaik...
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EPT
