Singapore, World Cyber Games Grand Finals, 16 November 2005 - Razer, the world's leading brand in high-end computer gaming peripherals, announces an unprecedented one million dollar sponsorship fund for computer gaming teams and individual gamers for the year 2006.
Razer, who has been active since 1999 in the sponsoring of computer gaming tournaments, teams and individual players, will spend up to one million
dollars to sponsor top amateur and professional gamers for the calendar year of 2006.
The sponsorships will be made under Razer's For Gamers By Gamers Sponsorship Fund and will cover the entire globe from the Americas to Europe to
Asia-Pacific. The typical sponsorship will range from receiving Razer's cutting edge gaming peripherals, to being awarded full financial support for travel expenses to global gaming events, to even providing full time salaries for professional gamers. Team Managers and individual gamers are encouraged to contact Razer for full details, timing and qualifying criteria.
Razer's President, Robert "Razerguy" Krakoff says "Our sponsorships are a way of saying thank you to all the gamers who have supported our products
and made competitive gaming a way of life", he continues "Razer has been sponsoring top computer gamers since the late 90s with names like Fatal1ty, Sujoy, Hakeem, Xenon and teams like SK, Team EYE and Team Fnatic, etc and its time to recognize the achievements of gamers by supporting them in the right way."
Team and individual gamers are encouraged to submit backgrounds and biographies beginning the week following Thanksgiving (November 28, 2005).
Razer crowns a series of world's firsts in the e-sports arena with the one million dollars For Gamers By Gamers Sponsorship Fund, following other
events such as the world's first $100,000.00 USD Razer/CPL Tournament and sponsorships of other leading leagues and tournaments such as the World Cyber Games and the World Electronic Games.
About the Razer Group
Razer is the world's leading brand in high-end computer gaming peripherals. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Razer enjoys an extensive
distribution worldwide in all major countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Razer designs, manufactures and markets cutting-edge gaming
peripherals that provide professional computer gamers with the competitive edge through a combination of technology, innovation and design. Razer's
research and development team collaborates with leading professional gamers to develop proprietary technology for next generation gaming peripherals. Razer's superiority in gaming peripherals stems from its ability to understand and conceptualize peripherals that gamers need and thereafter bring the product from drawing board to retail shelves.
Each Razer peripheral bears the invisible signature of hundreds of professional gamers, gaming enthusiasts and engineers and each Razer gaming
product is built from single components; pieced and assembled with care and precision to optimize game play for all professional gamers worldwide.
Engineered to near perfection, Razer's reputation of being the leaders in gaming technology is embodied in every single Razer product.