Amped to start nationwide gaming preliminaries

By Alexander Villafania INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines -- Amped Games, the gaming division of ABS-CBN Multimedia, has announced the Road to Amped Fest, a series of gaming events that will lead to the Amped Fest in November. In an interview, Amped Events Supervisor Aimee Rabago said the regional events will lead to qualifying contests for Visayas and Mindanao players. Winners from the regional qualifying events will also be brought to Manila to compete in the finals, which will happen in November. Half a million pesos in prizes are at stake for the series, which will feature all of Amped's published games, such as Tantra Online, GetAmped, N-Age, and WarRock. The month-long event will start on September 27 in Bacolod then it moves on to Cebu on October 4. The event will then be held in Cagayan De Oro on October 11, in Davao on October 18, and Quezon City on October 25. The series will end on November 8 in Baguio City. Rabago said that for WarRock, eight teams of five players will compete in the finals. Three are from Metro Manila, one each from Northen Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, and two from online contests. For GetAmped, there will be seven team slots. Two of these have already been taking by the winners of recent GetAmped competitions. The rest will come from Northern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Two more team slots will be open for online players. There will be eight individual players for N-Age; four from Metro Manila, one each from Northern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and online. Tantra Online will have six teams of three; four from Metro Manila, one each from Northern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and online. Rabago said the top winning team from WarRock will get P50,000 while the GetAmped winning team will have P50,000. For N-Age, the winning individual will get P20,000 while the winning team for Tantra will get P25,000.