ZOWIE by BenQ Monitors Take Center Stage at Major League Gaming Call of Duty® Anaheim Open
North American eSports Teams from the Call of Duty World League to Compete on the Professional RL2460HT Monitor
COSTA MESA, Calif. — June 10, 2016 — ZOWIE, BenQ’s eSports brand, announced today it will supply the RL2460HT as the official monitor for the Major League Gaming (MLG) Anaheim Open. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center on June 10-12, in collaboration with the Call of Duty® World League (CWL), presented by PlayStation®4, the event will host 12 North American CWL teams competing head-to-head in Call of Duty: Black Ops III on PlayStation4 for a $100,000 prize pool and 10,000 CWL Pro Points. The Anaheim Open will be one of the key events where players can earn CWL Pro Points for a chance to qualify for this year’s Call of Duty Championship.
North American eSports teams competing include: OpTic Gaming, Rise Nation, FaZe Clan, Luminosity Gaming, Team eLevate, Team EnVyUs, compLexity Gaming, Team SoloMid, H2k-Gaming, Dream Team, Cloud9 and Hundred Thieves.
Every detail of the RL2460HT is fine-tuned to provide an exceptional console eSports experience. RL-series monitors arm gamers in FPS, fighting or sports games with lag-free technology to respond in real time.
“We’ve designed our RL series monitors to provide the ultimate eSports experience for competitive gamers, and we look forward to the top COD teams battling it out on our RL2460HT monitor at the MLG Anaheim Open,” said Ronald Kim, eSports marketing at BenQ America Corp.
Catch the action live at the Anaheim Convention Center, tickets are on-sale now, or through the live broadcast on MLG.tv, twitch.com/callofduty, and in-game (BO3 PS4) via the Live Event Viewer.
For more information on the MLG Anaheim Open, follow @MLG on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
More information on the ZOWIE line by BenQ is available at http://info.benq.us/ZOWIE.
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About ZOWIE
Introduced in late 2008, ZOWIE is a brand dedicated to the development of the best competitive gaming products to improve eSports athletes’ combat performance. In 2015, the ZOWIE brand was acquired by BenQ Corp. to aggressively lead the company’s eSports product line with products that deliver true competitive advantages. More information is available at ZOWIE.BenQ.com.
About BenQ America Corp.
The BenQ digital lifestyle brand stands for "Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life," fusing lifestyle with technology, enjoyment with productivity and aesthetic design with purpose-built engineering. It is this mantra that has made BenQ the No. 1-selling projector brand powered by TI DLP® technology in The Americas(1). BenQ America Corp. offers an extensive line of visual display and presentation solutions that incorporate the very latest technologies. The company delivers a broad range of Colorific™ projectors, ZOWIE eSports monitors and gear, monitors featuring Eye-Care technologies, interactive large-format displays, mobile audio products, cloud consumer products and lifestyle lighting for any application and market — home, gaming, eSports, education, enterprise, government, house of worship, digital signage, A/V and IT — with cutting-edge models that lead the industry in performance, reliability, environmental sustainability and aesthetics. Whether it's interactive projectors or flat panels for classrooms, full HD 3D projectors for home theaters, short-throw projectors for boardrooms, digital signage in retail spaces or LED backlit monitors for eSports, BenQ continues to defy the limits of digital displays. The company's products are available across North America through leading value-added distributors, resellers and retailers. More information is available at www.BenQ.us.
(1) Based upon 2016Q1 data from the Quarterly Projector Shipment and Forecast Report from PMA Research
About BenQ Corporation
Founded on the corporate vision of "Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life," BenQ Corporation is a world-leading human technology and solutions provider aiming to elevate and enrich every aspect of consumers' lives. To realize this vision, the company focuses on the aspects that matter most to people today — lifestyle, business, healthcare and education — with the hope of providing people with the means to live better, increase efficiency, feel healthier and enhance learning. Such means include a delightful broad portfolio of people-driven products and embedded technologies spanning digital projectors, monitors, interactive large-format displays, audio products, cloud consumer products, mobile communications and lifestyle lighting. Because it matters.
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