It is with great pleasure that I can today announce the expansion of the Crossfire Challenge series with the addition of the Crossfire Intel Challenge Malaysian edition. Running on the same dates as CIC7 in Enschede the Malaysian edition will feature CoD4, CS & Quakelive as its primary games.

The event will be held in the city of Petaling Jaya, Selangor at the Blitzone Cyber Cafe with over 140 Gaming specification PC's across the 5th to the 7th of March. The event is expecting to draw in over 50 teams across its various game titles and will be the first Crossfire Challenge to take place outside of The Netherlands. Over the coming weeks you can expect to see more integration of the event into Crossfire.

We have partnered with experienced Malaysian event organisers (Electronic Sport Professionals, ESP), responsible for a number of successful events in the past including WCG & ESWC Qualifiers who will be charged with what could be the beginning of a regular event in Malaysia. The expansion of the Crossfire Challenge to include Intel as a title sponsor has brought with it renewed expansion opportunities for the future and the option to run the Malaysian Challenge was one that I couldn’t turn down. Though it should be stated that the operation of the Malaysian edition has no standing on the operation of the Dutch event nor the budget for it.

I grabbed a statement from Brian Chan, event organiser of the new CIC7 Malaysian Edition:
I hope that the Crossfire Community will see this an exciting opportunity and demonstrates the continued potential of the Challenge brand and will see this as a sign of even bigger things to come! There will be 3 more CIC7 announcements this week all related to additional prizing for the Dutch event!