SteelSeries New Main Sponsor For CS-Manager
Copenhagen, Denmark -- March 17, 2006 -- SteelSeries, a market leader in professional gaming gear, owned and operated by Soft Trading, today announced a new sponsorship deal with CS-Manager. With the new sponsorship SteelSeries will become the main sponsor for CS-Manager for the rest of 2006.
CS-Manager is a web-based Counter-Strike manager game, where the player is responsible for a Counter-Strike team, including staff members, weekly expenses and income. It is free to register an account, and there are optional services such as VIP-package (2D-Live etc) and cups available for a small fee. CS-Manager has more than 42000 registered players in Europe.
The sponsorship will kick-off by introducing the SteelSeries Spring Cup 2006, the first in a series of regular cups in 2006, where players will compete for gaming gear from SteelSeries, including the new multi-layered mouse pads SteelPad 5L and SteelSound 5H USB headsets.
"Everyone who plays CSM is interested in computers and games," said Constantinos Alexandrou, CS-Manager Founder. "Therefore we are very excited to announce a partnership with SteelSeries in order for us to be able to provide our users with the latest gaming-products on the market!"
"The eSport-scene continues to expand rapidly and that makes room for new young companies with interesting ideas," said Danny N. Ramkvist, Gaming Marketing Manager for SteelSeries. "We are delighted to assist innovators like CS-Manager, by bringing added value to their premium users."
CS-Manager is currently available in number of countries including Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Portugal, France, Russia, Israel, Estonia, Greece & Latvia. For more information about CS-Manager please visit www.cs-manager.com.
About SteelSeries
SteelSeries is a leading manufacturer of gaming accessories, including headsets, mouse pads and mouse accessories. SteelSeries have been on the forefront of professional gaming gear for 5 years, thanks to continued innovation and product development in cooperation with leading professional gamers. SteelSeries is constantly engaged in development and design, based on inspirational input from gamers across the globe. SteelSeries supports the growth of eSport through aggressive sponsoring of teams, organizations, news-sites, communities, tournaments and LAN-events all over the world. For more information please visit http://www.steelseries.com.