The fourth season of the Professional Gamers League ended last weekend at the XS New York gaming arena in New York City. Sixteen players vied for more than US$100,000 worth of cash and prizes in two independent tournaments, one for Quake II and the other Starcraft.
Two Canadians earned first place in both events, Boniface "Kuin" Danan in Quake II and Guillaume "Grrrr" Patry in Starcraft. This is the second trip to the PGL tournaments for both winners as well.
The finalists and their final rankings are:
Quake II:
1) Boniface "Kuin" Danan2) Erik "Vorador" Spoor3) Sebastian "Sybek" Lenart4) Kurt "Immortal" Shimada5) Alex "bad-habit" Pogozelski and Gordon "K9-Gloucester" Luk (tie)6) Jason "Jmaster" Siquig7) Eric "DH-SaboTaJ" Manfredi
Starcraft:
1) Guillaume "Grrrr" Patry2) Wayne "Soso" Chiang3) Dave "BOO!" Howell4) Christopher "Pillars" Page5) Patrick "Kain-the-Feared" Chapelsky and Stephen "taurus" Chan6) David "DeepBlue" Magro7) Dennis "~WarAngel~" Lee
The two-day live Webcast and other PGL information is available on the PGL web site.