Electronic Sports World Cup

QPAD, the Swedish company world-renowned for it’s premium gaming gear, today announced their official sponsorship of the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC), held from June 30th to July 4th at Disneyworld Paris Resort in Paris, France.

Introduced for the first time in 2003, the ESWC has established itself as the leading event in the world of video games. The only one of its kind, this event is an annual electronic sports celebration that gathers the best teams in the world for competing on video games specially designed and adapted to player confrontation.

"We are very happy to announce QPAD as an official partner, since it is one of the oldest and most respected gaming gear companies in the world. We hope that this partnership will be the beginning of a long term relationship between our two companies". Stephane Cosse, CEO ESWC

QPAD brings HeatoN to the ESWC finals.

QPAD will be the official mouse pad supplier of ESWC and will produce a new unique premium pad specifically for ESWC. To even further extend the media coverage of ESWC QPAD will also bring a professional grade TV production team down to the event, to create media content that will be distributed globally. To not just stop there QPAD also will bring the world’s most famous player, Emil “HeatoN” Christensen, down to the grand final to host the TV-shows.

“It is a great honor for QPAD to be the sponsor of the ESWC in Paris, France. This is the first year QPAD sponsor ESWC on a global level and it brings great opportunities for the future. We feel that the partnership is great on several levels, especially since QPAD and ESWC shares the same vision in building a great future for E-Sports" Said Christer Körnbäck, president of QPAD.

About QPAD:

QPAD is a world-renowned premium brand working exclusively with lifestyle products and peripherals for computer gaming. QPAD have been sponsoring electronic sports for over 10 years, and beyond that been used by gamers for over 16 years. QPAD brings a no nonsense approach to gaming peripherals where quality and feeling always have been the lead words during development. QPAD takes no short cuts and makes no compromises when it comes to producing the best gaming products the world has seen. The Q in QPAD stands for quality. For more information on QPAD, visit the official website: www.qpad.com

About ESWC:

Games-Solution handles the Electronic Sports World Cup. The ESWC is an international video games competition gathering 500 gamers coming from the 5 continents after 6 month of preliminaries in 40 countries. The ESWC touch more than 100,000 gamers that dream to compete for the world title and the $213,500 prizes celebrating it. The next Electronic Sports World Cup will be hosted in Paris from June 30th to July 4th. The competitors will have the privilege to battle inside a prestigious arena: the Disneyworld Paris Resort. Games-Solution will provide to all gamers accommodation inside the park and permit to the champions to live a unique experience for their journey in France attempting to bring their national flag on the top of the video games nations ranking. The players will play on different discipline with several games and platform from console top sale to PC games best classics. For more information visit: www.ESWC.com

Press Contact QPAD

Christer Körnbäck, President QPAD christer@qpad.se +46 8 29 00 70

Press Contact ESWC

Agence VPCOM : Mathilde Daures & Clotilde Chang md@vpcom.fr / cc@vpcom.fr – +331 41 14 34 32 / +331 78 16 48 70

Christer Körnbäck

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