It has been recently announced that BenQ was the official tournament partner and gaming monitor sponsor of the recently concluded Intel Extreme Masters Season 2012/2013, a global eSports gaming tour. The event was organized by Electronic Sports League, and BenQ supplied over 200 professional gaming monitors, along with an on-site professional tournament monitor crew.
It was also stated that Top gamers from around the world will compete for their titles using BenQ's XL2420T tournament-grade professional gaming monitors, which are co-designed with legendary gamers and gaming professionals from ZOWIE GEAR.
"This is certainly an exciting year for us all. We are very proud to see how our strong belief of ‘Gaming Is in the Details’ has contributed positively to the unrivalled performance of our professional gaming monitors, as well as the steady increase in our monitor sales growth. An impressive 200% unit sales growth for the XL Series in 2012 1H, as compared to 2011 1H, shows that demands are quite high. By introducing the RL Series into the market in 2011 2H, we were able to fulfil the viewing demands of more types of gamers while expanding our market coverage,” Peter Chen, EVP & General Manager, Technology Product Center, BenQ.
Moreover, BenQ has also announced two team sponsorships for the new Intel Extreme Masters season: M5.BenQ from Russia, the LoL world champions of Intel Extreme Masters Season 6 and ESC from Poland, the Counter-Strike world champions of Intel Extreme Masters Season 6. Also, Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen, BenQ’s first Intel Extreme Masters Ambassador was present at the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne, to share with gamers his preference for gaming display.
