IGN Pro League, Ubisoft, and Nadeo are giving away thousands of ShootMania beta keys in preparation for the $100,000 live Elite tournament at IPL5 at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas!
If you're interested in some competitive play for a chance at some huge prize money, watch the video above to see how to go from not having a beta key to playing Elite and destroying people online!
IGN Pro League, Ubisoft, and Nadeo teamed up at PAX Prime to bring you the first taste of ShootMania as a competitive title with a $1,000 Elite showmatch between esp and Area 51 Gaming, as well as a fans and pros tournament that let PAX attendees show their skills for a $500 prize!
The video above shows some of the crazy plays made by our qualifying team, esp, as well as some of the PAX attendees and their awesome, climactic attacking and defending rounds in Elite mode. For much, much more of the PAX Prime VODs and a taste of some of the other game modes, check out http://www.youtube.com/iplshootmania
There are games up from the fan tournament, like this set between EG.n0thing (Jordan Gilbert, current Counter Strike player for Evil Geniuses) and esp.gillz (Bryan Gilbert, former Quake and Unreal Tournament pro):
You can also see the entirety of the best of 7 showmatch between esp and Area 51 Gaming, beginning right here with Game 1:
There are also some VODs up from other game modes besides Elite, including this one from our Siege showmatch:
For dozens more Elite matches and exhibitions of the other game modes ShootMania has to offer, check out http://www.youtube.com/IPLShootMania and subscribe now so that you don't miss any of the future action!
The IGN ProLeague was at PAX in Seattle, Washington all last weekend showing off Nadeo and Ubisoft's newest competitive first person shooter title: ShootMania. The weekend was packed with a ton of FPS eSports action. We had North America's best ShootMania team, ESP, along with SK.Rapha, EG.nOthing, and Chance in attendance to compete against each other all weekend. Check out our recap below!
Friday
Everything got started early on Friday morning with fans signing up to play with a Joes and Pros Elite mode tournament. After a couple of fun showmatches in SpeedBall and Siege, the Round of 8 in this tournament began. Chance, a former Quake professional player, seemed to pick up the game extremely quickly, knocking out SK.Rapha's team in the Round of 8. In a team kill situaion, we had ESP.Xp3's team advance past ESP.Godson's team in quick fashion. Also advancing to the next round were Area51.PineKone and ESP.Gillz.
Saturday
Saturday contained a lot of demos of different game modes, but the main event was a Best of 7 showdown between ESP, our qualified team, vs Area 51 Gaming. ESP again showed their complete dominance as they won the $750 top prize with an easy 4-0 map score. Area 51 didn't have a lot of time as a team going in to the event, and while they picked up a decent aim with the Laser as the match went along, their coordination was a little too weak to compete with ESP.
Sunday
The true draw of the event happened on Sunday, though, as the event came to a close. After a series of show matches in the Heroes game mode, the Round of 4 and Finals of the Joes and Pros Elite mode tournament were played out. The first match was played out between ESP.Xp3's team and Chance's team, and, despite being a 2-0 in map score for Xp3's team, proved to be incredibly exciting as maps were very close in score. The second match was had ESP.Gillz' team handily defeated Area51.PineKone's team when PineKone was unable to make the match and had to be substituted in for eLe.DarkRabbi. The final score was 2-0 in maps. The finals, though, were outstanding. It was a great setup as teammates Gillz and Xp3 from ESP matched their teams against each other. It went down to the final map, but ESP.Xp3's team was crowned the champion.
