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PSISTORM competes in #DCLAN at MONSTER PC WORLD

article by John Sung

DC LAN in Annandale started early with top members James “MygraiN” Horsey, Jake “NoRegreT” Umpleby, and team coach Erik “EndOfLine” Faden warming up to prepare for the onslaught they would bring on the unsuspecting competition.

With half the player bracket spread out across the dimly lit PC bang the chill atmosphere set the tone for the rest of the day. We were here to have fun, to meet and talk to our friends, and to enjoy a game we all love… even if it meant getting absolutely demolished by some of the best players in the country.It was obvious who was going to be amongst the finals of this Bo3 double elimination bracket for both Legacy of the Void and the Heart of the Swarm tourney. When MygraiN, sitting behind me, casually reached grandmasters with a proxy, I was prepared to type “gg” before my games even started.

But DC LAN isn’t just about winning a tournament. Richard “A9arnn” Ngo came all the way from New York to organize the event. Kerouac drove three hours to pick up Scion (who knocked MygraiN into the losers bracket- LotV) and even contributed $100 to the prize pool. Others who donated were Akasha ($20), A9arnn ($50), and KJ “Freeedom” G.($50). The passion for starcraft is still alive and the experience of meeting new people with that same passion is what keeps the community thriving. Events like DC LANis exactly what starcraft needs.

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The remaining slots in the brackets filled up as more players arrived throughout the day. PSISTORM Gaming team owner Freeedom and All-In’s Tyrant Junior, along with Tossim (all high masters) increased the already daunting skill gap between the casuals and the proficient. The final brackets concluded with NoRegreT and EndOfLine facing off in the semifinals of the losers bracket- HotS. NoRegreT would go on to take the tourney beating MygraiN in the finals and the grand finals with a score of 3-0.It was no surprise when NoRegreT would also take the LotV championship facing against Tyrant Junior in the semifinals and, again, MygraiN in the grand finals. Stating he beat David “Lilbow” Moschetto in a match who’s ranked #34 in the world, any local tournament at this point is child’s play for PSISTORM Gaming’s NoRegreT.

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CS GO new team

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With the old team disbanding, we have acquired an existing team that are solid players individually, as well as a team. Some of the guys go back to the CS 1.6 days/early CS source days. They have loads of experience on a couple of them. Also the team posseses a very impressive record in ESEA open as well.

Here is the ESEA team info.

The members are zephiK, Kal-El, Lights-, FLXD and Resookie. Manager is Blake Gillenwater.

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Name: William Ma
Handle (alias): zephiK
Biography: I first started competing at a very young age with CS 1.3 as my first game and moved to the Call of Duty series on the PC picking up various achievements in the scene. I’m now looking to make a huge stride in the CS:GO scene and to advance through the ESEA divisions.
Past Achievements:
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Call of Duty: Black Ops I
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1st Place: Mobility Gaming Black Ops Invitational – Lollards of Lancaster
3rd Place: March Mayhem S&D Tournament – eMazing Gaming
4th Place: Cooler Master May Massacre – eMazing Gaming
2nd Place: Summer’s End S&D Tournament – eMazing Gaming
1st Place: Black Ops S&D Placement Exam A – Lolards of Lancaster
3rd Place: National ESL S&D Open Cup #1 – Lollards of Lancaster
5th Place: Newegg Wanfest Black Ops – Lollards of Lancaster
3rd Place: National ESL Black Ops Season 1 – iDEMISE
7-1 Record CEVO Professional Black Ops Season 1 – iDEMISE
1st Place: Alienware NVIDIA CTF Black Ops Launch – iDEMISE
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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3rd Place: March Mayhem S&D – eMazing Gaming
4th Place: Cooler Master May Massacre – eMazing Gaming
2nd Place: Summer’s End S&D – eMazing Gaming
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
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1st/2nd Place: National ESL CS:GO Pre Release Beta Cup
Ro16: Alienware CS:GO Fall Season Battlegrounds
Role: In-game leader / entry
Favorite Map: Mirage
Favorite Weapon: AK-47
Twitter: http://twitter.com/zephiK0
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/zephik
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Name: Vicky Patel
Handle (alias): Kal-eL
Biography: I’ve been competing for 8 years. My first competitive game was Call of Duty 4. Since then I have competed in various Call of Duty series. After hearing about the new counter strike being launched. I decided to make my switch to CSGO and have been playing since the beta.
Achievements:
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
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1st/2nd Place: National ESL CS:GO Pre Release Beta Cup
Ro16: Alienware CS:GO Fall Season Battlegrounds
Role: Lurker
Favorite Map: Cache
Favorite Weapon: AK-47
Twitter: http://twitter.com/vickpatel_
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/ka1el
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Name: Anthony Semkiw
Handle: Lights-
Biography: Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Anthony “Lights-” Semkiw was raised both in Canada and in the United States. He often excelled in athletics and academics, and as he grew into his teens, Counter-Strike. Starting as a surfer in 1.6, he developed his passion for competitive play as some of his friends introduced him to scrimming and pugging. He quickly became a member of several notable 1.6 teams, such as dirtyMoves, SYOPS and theRIOT, and built his name in the community under the alias TyranT[n3]. He later changed his name to Lights- in order to further establish his individual identity in the community. He only recently started playing CS:GO competitively in 2015, after a three year break from gaming. He is still trying to improve every day to reach the level that he was once at in 1.6. He believes in Hard Work, Dedication, and Belief.
Past Achievements:
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Counter-Strike 1.6
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ESEA Main Season 9
ESEA Main Season 12
CEVO Main Season 13
CEVO Main Season 14
Role: Support
Favorite Map: Nuke
Favorite Weapon: AK-47
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TonyTheTigurrrr
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/tonythetigerrrrrr
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Name: Stanley Gong
Handle (alias): FLXD
Biography: Started playing FPS with Goldeneye for the N64 at a young age and always been interested in FPS games since. Started playing Counter-Strike 1.6 and have been hooked since. The transision from CS 1.6 to CS:GO was not too smooth, but was finally able to plant his foot with this current CS:GO team [insert team name]. He also plays Super Smash Bros. Melee competitively in a local and national scene.
Achievements: N/A
Role: Entry
Favorite Map: de_cache
Favorite Weapon: AK-47
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GongFactor
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/flxd_cs
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Name: Jeffrey Voss
Handle (alias): Resookie
Biography: I am a seasoned veteran in the FPS scene, with over 10 years of competitive experience. I got my start in a game called Americas Army, working my way up from the open ranks all the way to invite. Most of my accomplishments thus far have been in the Call of Duty competitive scene. I have won numerous tournaments at the professional/invite level and hope to transfer this experience to CS:GO, and continue to improve as a player.
Achievements:
Americas Army
unR.AA – NA CAL-M S10 2nd Place (10-1) Fall 08′ (v3 aka unRestricted)
unR.AA – 3rd Place NA TWL Intervites Fall 08′ (v3 aka unRestricted)
unR.AA – 2nd Place NA TWL Open Fall 08′ (10-2) (v3 aka unRestricted)
unR.AA – CEVO-NA Freedom Tourney 7th out of 32 Summer 08′ (v3 aka unRestricted)
unR.AA – FTK5 Champs Spring 08′ (v3 aka unRestricted)
unR.AA – 3rd Place NA AOTL Fall 07′ (v3 aka unRestricted)
unR.AA – 25 ECK tournament 1st place finishes
AA- XPL s1 1st [i9 gaming]
AA- UGL s3 1st [i9 gaming]

MW2 (unRestricted)
-2nd Place MW2T CoolerMaster P2P Tourny-
-1st Place, GACGL Alpha Divsion Winner & GACGL CHAMPS-
-1st Place TWL S2 2nd Place Regular Season
-2nd Place MW2T Independence Tourny-
-4th Place MW2T Summers End Tourny-
-Semi Finalist Black Ops MWT Exam A-
Final record of (44-4)

Lzuruha Gaming – Black Ops
-1st ESL S&D Placement Cup 1st

Team Notoriety – Black Ops
-2nd ESL S&D Final 3 Premier Placement
-2nd ESL Season 1 Premier
-2nd CEVO Professional Season 1
-4th PSG Barebones S&D Tournament
-4th PSG xkmod S&D Tournament

Team Notoriety – Modern Warfare 3
-4th Infamy Gaming Tournament
-1st ESL MW3 Go4MW3 #1
-2nd ESL MW3 Go4MW3 #3
-2nd ESL MW3 Go4MW3 #5
-4th PSG Barebones S&D Tournament
Role: Sniper
Favorite Map: Dust2
Favorite Weapon: AWP
Twitter:
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/resookie

memorable moments for our past and current players

A contest was set and participants tweeted their favorite moment involving PSISTORM Gaming players:

Ok guys, we have a lot to celebrate here at PSISTORM so we are going to be running a little contest!

In celebration of our team’s first birthday (ok a couple months ago), and our recent pickups of both TRUE and Arium we wanted to do something a little bit special.

So, we are going to be giving away 1 Legacy of the Void Collectors Edition (brand new in box, as soon as it comes out)!!!

What do you need to do?

Follow us at (http://www.twitter.com/psistormgaming) and tweet at us with your favorite moment from any of our players (bonus points if you have a VOD!). Tomorrow at 7pm Pacific Time, we will choose a lucky winner!

The winner is this tweet:

A few other good tweets:

Even one with FilthyRake!

Temp0 to head up PSISTORM creative team

from left to right, Temp0, EndOfLine, MygraiN, Freeedom, GoofyLG, BlakeHG, Wizecrax

Kwame “Temp0” Mensah, known for his Starcraft parody music, ever popular stream, and casting for ASL and many other tournaments have joined forces with PSISTORM Gaming.

He will be in one of the leadership positions for creative promotions and marketing.

“Joining a team is always a tough but exciting decision, especially since I’m no pro player by any means. It’s more about what you represent and take pride in being a part of and help grow. Damen and KJ are great people, and I really respect what they’re doing. The team and I had the chance to spend a lot of time together at Red Bull DC. KJ let me put my skateboard in his truck and the rest was history haha. That combined with the fact that some of my IVD family members are part of it make me extremely excited to become a part of PSISTORM”, said Temp0.

He had met many of the owners and players at RedBull last month and ended up getting into a music video featuring his song:

Korean powerhouse Zerg TRUE has joined our team!

Owner KJ “Freeedom” had met him 2 weeks before at RedBull Battlegrounds in DC and little did they know they would make a deal. In this infamous picture at the player lounge you can see TRUE along with Violet and DongRaeGu.

TRUE’s best result is being tied with Maru for 3rd place in 2014 GSL season 2, has joined PSISTORM Gaming. Bang Tae Soo, aka TRUE, will be competing in NA for the upcoming season and looks to make his mark in LOTV.

Less than half a day went by after leaving his European team Dead Pixels, that he was immediately scooped up.

He also joins Arium, which he faced a few months before in this entertaining matchup in Dreamhack. At the time they were on different teams, and now together at PSISTORM Gaming:

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Last Saturday, we had several of our team go to RedBull’s Pro Am invitational tournament, featuring Starcraft’s Legacy of The Void Archon mode.

On attendance was Arium, MygraiN, Freeedom, SEF and BlakeHG.

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The matchups were one Pro/Celebrity + 3 casuals, and were rotated throughout the day. The casuals who won the most get to go to this Saturday’s main RedBull tournament. So it’s a combination of skill, teamwork, and of course luck. At the end of the day, we had our group for the final match where it was:

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Arium, BlakeHG, MygraiN & EvilGenius.Huk

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ROOT.Masa, State, Tien Comlekoglu and Tong “AZAZ” Shen (aka CNProtoss).

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After a very close match they edged out our team to take the top spot.

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we got Arium

NA Protoss Samson “Arium” Nazaryan has signed with us. He has reached WCS Premier and top 16 in DreamHack Valencia, taking out Korean player Symbol while donning the American flag. He is known to be one of the best blink stalker executing players on the scene.

“I’m really excited to join an NA team with friends I already have and looking forward to competing with the upcoming Legacy Of The Void.”, says Arium.

Damen Knight, co-owner, said “I personally am incredibly excited to have such a high level Protoss player on the team. Arium is going to be a great addition to the PSISTORM family, and I have high hopes for him going forward.”

Major Sponsorship Package

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And shown during broadcasted matches, streams and social media:

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Our teams and players have competed in premier tournaments including IEM, RedBull, MSI and plan on attending DreamHack at worldwide locations like Cebu, Philippines, Taiwan, Maldives and of course many in the United States.

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IEM championship in 2014 from OneWorldSports

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pictures from RedBull Battlegrounds in DC 2014