Seeing as our North American office is located in Chicago, where the city river is colored green every year on St. Patrick’s Day, we thought that it would be kinda fun to do some “greenifying” ourselves.

Therefore we’re putting up a SteelSeries Siberia Full-size Headphones to the SteelSeries Facebook fan, who posts the best greenified IRL or in-game photo in our fan album section. Our judges will pick from the five most “liked” entries, and the winners will be picked on the 22nd of March - so you got the weekend to go crazy with your camera and photo editing app. ;)

Check the SteelSeries Facebook fan page for more info. Below is a few of the entries so far:

Have a great Paddy’s Day!

/Casper

In cooperation with the Australia and New Zealand based QuakeLive community, 4Seasons Gaming, we’ve kicked off a partnership offering SteelSeries products in the prize pool for their different varieties of QuakeLive tournaments and contests.

Whether it’s duel, CTF or FFA competitions, 4Seasons are definitely set to push QuakeLive forward down-under, and we’re happy to be supporting the organizers and the involved QL gamers.

Head on over to the 4Seasons Gaming website to read more about the upcoming tournaments - which are of course free to enter. :-)

/Casper

In cooperation with eSport Open and the Cop3nHag3nRobot expo taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark from April 30th to May 2nd 2010, we’re happy to announce the SteelSeries eSport Challenge CoD4 tournament.

Now, this is a serious one to consider for the CoD4 teams in Europe who believe they are on top of their game, as we are pulling out a whooping €10.000 total cash purse for the top8 finishers. Oh yeah - and as the icing on the cake, all €10.000 will paid out in cash to the winning teams at the event.

The prize breakdown is as follows:

1st - €5.000
2nd - €2.500
3rd - €1.250
4th - €500
5th-8th - €250

Read more about the SteelSeries eSport Challenge over on the event website. Ticket sales start on the 17th of March. :-)

/Casper

WoodTV and Elite Bastards published each of their SteelSeries product reviews today, which both turned out to be too good not to mention. Check below for a few snippets of the reviews and direct links. :)

/Casper

As done with Grubby last month, Xfire is hosting another Pro Event on the 23rd of March - this time with European top CoD4 and Counter-Strike team eSuba.

A wide selection of SteelSeries prizes (as seen below) will be given away throughout the event, where you’ll have the chance chat and play with the professional players from the different eSuba teams.

Read more about the event over on Xfire and don’t forget to hook up with us over on the SteelSeries Xfire community.

/Casper

In cooperation with Fnatic and MSI, we’re supporting an upcoming female Counter-Strike tournament over on Fnatic PLAY, boasting an awesome $500 1st place cash prize as well as SteelSeries iron.lady Siberia Full-size Headsets, SteelSeries Kinzu mice and SteelSeries iron.lady QcK’s for the top3 finishers.

The tournament is happening on the 21st of March and signups are still open - you can add your team by contacting the tournament organizer at street@fnatic.com.

zAAz and her Pink Zinic will be attending the tournament.

Read more about the tournament over on the Fnatic PLAY event page. Good luck to the attending teams. :-)

/Casper

We’re kicking up the pace down-under, as we’ve just announced SteelSeries product availability across all 120 JB Hi-Fi stores in Australia and New Zealand.

Here’s a quick snippet from the press release:

“The ability to offer SteelSeries professional gaming gear at a distribution level this broad, with a quality partner like JB Hi-Fi, is a huge step forward for SteelSeries in Australia,” commented Flemming Gyldenhammer, Regional Sales Manager for SteelSeries. “This partnership strongly underlines the demand for professional gaming peripherals in the Australian market; a demand that we look forward to fulfilling with the help of JB Hi-Fi.”

The full press release can be read here. :)

/Casper

Last weeks grand slam events were nothing but an incredible ride for the SteelSeries teams.

First off, at the Intel Extreme Masters World Championships in Germany, Team EG grabbed the World of Warcraft PvP trophy, followed up by SK Gaming’s Shane “Rapha” Hendrixson taking home gold in the QuakeLive tournament and finally Fnatic and SK Gaming grabbed 2nd and 3rd place in the Counter-Strike tournament.

Rapha used the first SteelSeries 7H Headset prototype to win the EM World Championships.

Additionally, at this years’ largest Call of Duty 4 grand slam event, the Crossfire Challenge 7 in the Netherlands, Fnatic managed to take 1st place and Power Gaming 3rd.

Fnatics CoD4 team on their way to 1st place at the Crossfire Challenge 7.

Check out final standings for the World Championships at ESL World and for Crossfire Challenge at TeK-9. Galleries are available at Cadred, SK Gaming and HLTV.org.

/Casper

On the 18th of February, Fnatic kicked off their StarCraft II Rookie Draft and I wanted to make sure you guys are aware of this project. :)

Basically, the Rookie Draft opens up the possibility of 4 amateur StarCraft II players to become professional players in the Fnatic organization. The draft initially went through a 10-day phase of public ladder games to identify the top32 players, who where then announced yesterday in 8 different groups. Top2 of every group will eventually move on into playoffs where the final 4 players of the new Fnatic StarCraft II team will be found.

This way of recruiting players is extremely exciting and I’m eagerly following the progress. Check the Fnatic news posts below for more information on the draft.

SteelSeries helping to power the FnaticMSI Rookie Draft!
FnaticMSI Rookie Draft - top32 and Group Stage

/Casper

Team EG’s American World of Warcraft team took a flawless road to the top of the podium this week in Hannover, as they swept the board completely at the Extreme Masters World Championships and went home with the $25,000 check.

Still to go is the Counter-Strike finals, where SK Gaming, Team EG and Fnatic represent 3/4 in the play-offs as well as the QuakeLive tournament where Rapha (SK Gaming) and DahanG (Team EG) are moving

Congratulations EG, and good luck to the rest of the teams - today will be an exciting day. :)

/Casper