BenQ sponsors Evil Geniuses

BenQ Announces Sponsorship of World-Leading Pro Gaming Team Evil Geniuses

Partnership Cements BenQ’s Commitment to the Gaming Community With XL and RL Series Monitors That Help the Pros ConQuer the Game

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Oct. 16, 2013 — BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned provider of digital lifestyle innovations, today announced a partnership with Evil Geniuses (EG), a world-leading pro gaming team and new media agency. The partnership will equip the pro gamers at EG with the latest display solutions from BenQ’s gaming-centric XL and RL series of monitors built specifically for eSports, and will further the team’s ability to travel the world competing in the most famed gaming tournaments.

Recently featured in The New York Times and considered the “Yankees of video games,” Evil Geniuses represents more than thirty internationally known pro gamers across five different gaming titles, including StarCraft® ll: Heart of the Swarm™, Marvel vs. Capcom 3™, Dota 2™, World of WarCraft®: Mists of Pandaria™, and League of Legends™. As part of the partnership, BenQ will work alongside famed pro gamers Clinton “Fear” Loomis, Stephen “Snoopeh” Ellis, Lee “Jaedong” Jae Dong, and others in furthering the development of the company’s award-winning line of gaming products.

Evil Geniuses’ Brandon Freytag commented: “We’re looking forward to our partnership with BenQ, which has become the leading pro gaming monitor brand worldwide. Having seen the monitors in action at the top global gaming tournaments, we’re impressed with the feature set they offer, delivering tremendous advantages for improving gameplay. Among the capabilities we really like are its Black eQualizer for greater visibility in dark areas, high contrast ratios that don’t strain the eyes, Smart Scaling to switch between screen sizes manually, and smooth refresh rates and fast response times, which greatly reduce the potential for error.”