Hi

I wanted to toss a thread on here to introduce myself and my company to the Brink community, as we will be around quite a bit in the months to come. My name is Mike 'Sobione' Wiston, CMO of Borderland Gaming (BLGaming - www.blgaming.com). We are a competitive PC and Console gaming company focused on bridging the gap between competitive gaming communities and bringing eSports into the mainstream. "Play to Win, or Don't Play at All"

So like most of you, we have been following the hype about Brink for some time now, and we are extremely excited about the (PC) eSport potential for the game! Be sure to check out our site for weekly tournaments, sponsored championships, and league registrations - as well as a Launch Cup with some exciting prizes from our partners! The Brink section of BLGaming.com will launch in about two weeks with some contests, interviews, forums, and exclusive interviews.... so we hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Mike 'Sobione' Wiston
CMO/Partner
Borderland Gaming
http://www.blgaming.com
http://www.twitter.com/blgamingcom



For PUGs looking to find or build a team, please feel free to use the BLG Public Ventrilo server at 64.237.62.226:4274 - We currently cap at 75, and will happily raise that to 200 when necessary (average users around 30 now).

A little about us (BLGaming at a glance - we are new to hosting FPS tournaments and leagues - so this is our bio - give it a read if you are interested ):

• BLGaming's mission statement: "To bridge the gap between competitive gaming communities and bring competitive gaming into the mainstream"
  
• Two Partners and 3 Sr. Managers - http://www.blgaming.com/staff/management
  
• We host all major tournaments for Bloodline Champions (Stunlock Studios and Funcom: www.bloodlinechampions.com) - PC
  
  • Every Saturday and Sunday for the past nine months
    
    • Currently averaging 2.5k viewers per stream
    
    
  • Streams are shoutcasted by our professional commentators (www.blgaming.com/staff/casters - www.own3d.tv/blgaming for past tournaments)
  
  
  • BLGaming will be admining, streaming, and shoutcasting a $10,000 Bloodline Champions tournament at Dreamhack Summer in Sweden
    
  • 3 additional streamed qualifier tournaments remain prior to Dreamhack Summer

• BLGaming is currently streaming and shoutcasting ESL events in Bloodline Champions (not exclusive)

• All BLGaming official streams are channeled through www.blgtv.net (www.blgaming.com/blgtv)

• BLGaming host's a 24/7 Bloodline Champions stream. Stream can be viewed here: http://www.blgaming.com/blcforever
  
• We manage two very successful competitive gaming teams (www.blgaming.com/staff/teams)
  
  • Super Street Fighter IV (SSFIV) - console
    
    • Ryan 'Filipino Champ' Ramirez (currently best in the world after defeating Daigo Umehara from Japan)
      
    • Eric 'Juicebox' Albino (top 16 player)
      
    • Vance 'Vangief' Wu (top 8 player, currently the best Zangief player in the world)
  
  
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops (CoD: BO) - PC
    
    • Jordan 'jordanR' Rysedorph (Team leader to 5 additional members)
      
    • Top 3 team in the country
      
    • Currently in the semi-finals for Alienware Arena's cup
  
  
• We recruited some of the best players from World of Warcraft (Team Pandemic, Premonition) to our Rift division
  
  • Active Rift forums and section will be live on www.blgaming.com within the next two weeks
    
  • Events, interviews, and competitive coverage

• BLGaming is planning to move into Brink (http://brinkthegame.com/) upon release to establish ourselves as the premier source for tournaments and leagues
  
• We are a Connecticut based company, however we have employees in six countries.

Welcome to the forums! It's kind of odd though, because this seems more like a clan recruitment post then a "Hi, I'm New" thread...

We aren't a clan So just a hello since we are new to throwing FPS tournaments and leagues (we have been throwing MOBA style tournaments for the past year). :toughninja:

We don't allow site advertising on the open forums, there is a http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1112398-brink-fansites-clans-and-forums-announced-here/ for Brink related sites at the top of this forum.

If you want more integration with the community I suggest you contact http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/user/365941-gstaff/ who is the Community Manager admin. Thanks,