BenQ sponsors gaming tournaments to tap MidEast’s growing online gaming industry

Que Club, Tahadi Games partner with BenQ to bring top online gamers in the region

Dubai, UAE, 25th March 2013 – Capitalising on the growing online gaming industry in the Middle East, BenQ, an internationally renowned provider of digital lifestyle innovations, launched a series of gaming competitions in Dubai to showcase its award-winning flagship gaming monitors in the region.

With the Middle East accounting more than US$100 million in revenues from online gaming1, the UAE especially Dubai serves as a major hub for online and video gaming industry in the region. BenQ, together with Que Club Network Games, organised the 5v5 Eu-West League of Legends (LoL) Gaming Tournament with 15 teams of five members participating across the GCC region from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other emirates from the UAE among others.

Winning teams of the LoL tournament were given cash prizes. Among the winning teams were Undefined from Sharjah, UAE, taking the first prize; Om9achma from Kuwait for second place; and Chaotic Gaming and DumHolics from UAE for third and fourth places respectively.

“The UAE has a big share in the online gaming industry as it was ranked 5th largest in the Middle East for internet usage according to experts at last year’s Dubai World Game Expo,” said Manish Bakshi, Managing Director, BenQ Middle East and Africa. “With the online gaming market in the region witnessing a phenomenal growth and is considered among the fastest growing markets in the world, BenQ ensures that we cater to the needs of our gaming enthusiasts with our top-of-the-line gaming monitors providing the best performance and experience.”

Bakshi added that BenQ’s range of gaming monitors, which are the leading choice of top gamers worldwide, signifies the company’s commitment to develop cutting-edge pro gaming monitors with exquisite features that bring pro gamers’ performance to the next level. “The League of Legends online gaming have had huge followers in the region and we collaborated with Que Club to bring together the leading gamers in the region and battle out one another using the award-winning XL2420T monitor, co-developed with the expertise of prominent Counter-Strike legends worldwide,” said Bakshi.

The LoL tournament was a huge success drawing online gamers from around the Middle East particularly in the GCC region. The League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows, inspired by the popular Defense of the Ancients map for Warcraft III. LoL has a huge following with over 32 million registrations and averages 12 million players worldwide per day.

Meanwhile, BenQ, in association with Tahadi Games, also organised Café Tours across the UAE for top point blank (PB) players in the country. The top PB players were able to compete and play in these leading cafes across different emirates such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, and Al Ain.

Tahadi Games, with operations in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, brings the best massively multiplayer online and browser-based games to Arabic customers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The company currently operates four free-to-play games namely Runes of Might, Heroes of Gaia (Abtal Gaia), Arabic Ragnarok Online, and Crazy Kart.

About BenQ Corporation
BenQ Corporation, a leading provider of networked digital lifestyle devices, is a multi-faceted company with strengths in product design, visual technology and mobile technology. BenQ offers unrivalled breadth and depth of products and integrated technologies across platforms through the brand promise of “Bringing Enjoyment ‘NQuality to Life”, including digital projectors, LCD monitors, LCD TVs, digital cameras, eBook readers and others.

About BenQ Group
The BenQ Group is currently comprised of companies that operate independently while sharing resources and leveraging synergies among them. The BenQ Group companies include BenQ Corp., AU Optronics Corp. (world’s top 3 manufacturer of large-size TFT-LCD panels), Qisda Corporation, Darfon Electronics Corp., BenQ Materials Corp., BenQ Guru Corp., BenQ Medical Centers, BenQ Medical Technology Corp., BriView Corp., Daxin Materials Corp., Dazzo Technology Corp., Forhouse Corp., SiPix ImagingInc, Lextar Electronics Corp., Raydium Semiconductor Corp. and Wellypower Corp.