BenQ Lands Legendary Gamers by Sponsoring Evil Geniuses,
Cloud9, and Flash Wolves eSports Teams
Company Reinforces Support of Gaming Community at PAX Prime in Seattle
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Aug. 28, 2015 — BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned
professional gaming monitor pioneer and official gaming monitor sponsor for the 2015 Major League
Gaming (MLG) Pro Circuit Season, today announced that it has extended its sponsorship of Evil
Geniuses — professional gaming’s leading competitive force. Recent winners of over $6 million at “The
International 2015,” the eSports team is one of the most dominating groups in professional gaming,
winning multiple championships around the globe. BenQ is also pleased to announce new sponsorship
deals with two additional rising star teams — Cloud9 and Flash Wolves — rounding off the company’s
commitment to providing the ultimate gaming experience via direct collaboration with the pros.
“Named ‘The Yankees of professional gaming’ by the New York Times, Evil Geniuses has quickly grown
into the world’s most legendary gaming franchise,” said J.Y. Hu, Vice President, Business Line
Management at BenQ America Corp. “By also adding Cloud9 and Flash Wolves to our roster, BenQ is
sending a strong message about our dedication to developing technology designed for the speed, stakes,
and high-performance standards of today’s gaming tournaments. We look forward to seeing some
exciting showdowns this season and supporting our teams by continuing to create the best gaming
monitors on the planet.”
“Evil Geniuses is very enthusiastic about continuing our relationship with BenQ,” said Kelby May, VP of
Accounts and Talent at GoodGame. “We choose to align ourselves with partners who are also at the
top of their industry, and there’s a reason more eSports tournaments and teams use BenQ than any
other brand. Last year we worked with their engineers and our professional fighting game players, Justin
Wong and PR Balrog, to develop the first LCD monitor capable of meeting rigorous fighting game
tournament standards. We hope to continue partnering on similar projects to push the industry
forward.”
Since being founded in 1999, Evil Geniuses has won championship honors in nearly every major
competitive gaming circuit. The North American team has also featured some of the most successful and
influential personalities in the professional gaming industry, including Clinton “Fear” Loomis, Justin
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“JWong” Wong, and Lee “Jaedong” Jae Dong. Cloud9, created in 2012, has already racked up numerous
first-places in tournaments such as League of Legends, Dota 2, Heroes of the Storm, Counter-Strike:
GO, Hearthstone, Smite, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. Flash Wolves have also gained international
recognition as one of Taiwan’s most promising eSports teams. Recent winners of League of Legends
championship at the Intel Extreme Masters Taipei, the team has secured entry into the GWorld
Championships of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 9, quickly establishing itself as a force across the
gaming community.
BenQ is committed to creating high-performance gaming experiences by engineering monitors that
provide unrivaled levels of quality and performance. Using direct input from professional gamers, the
company has developed acclaimed devices such as the award-winning XL and RL lines of gaming
monitors — which introduce features such as Gaming Refresh Rate Optimization Management,
RevolutionEyes™ technology, Black Equalizer mode, 144Hz refresh rates, Motion Blur Reduction, 1ms
GTG response times, streaming capabilities, and much more.
The company also announced it is supporting a number of vendor partners at PAX Prime 2015 by
supplying its RL and XL professional gaming monitors to tournament exhibitors. The sold-out gaming
event is being held in Seattle from Aug 28-31. The annual convention attracts more than 65,000
attendees and brings together vendors, gaming pros, developers, celebrities, and enthusiasts from all over
the world to experience the latest in tabletop and video games as well as gaming technology. BenQ will
be interviewing Cloud9 and Flash Wolves team members on the show floor, as well as sponsoring the
MSI Masters Gaming Arena Grand Finals, and serving as monitor sponsor for Ubisoft’s Next Level
tournament.
Attendees can experience BenQ’s RL2460HT and RL2455HM console gaming monitors live at various
partner booths including GIGABYTE, Turtle Beach, and Due Process, while the award winning XL2420G
G-Sync monitor will be on display and available for sale at NVIDIA’s booth.
For more information on PAX, please go to http://prime.paxsite.com/. More information on BenQ’s
gaming displays is available at http://gaming.benq.com.
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About BenQ America Corp.
The BenQ digital lifestyle brand stands for “Bringing Enjoyment ‘N’ 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, RevolutionEyes™ monitors, interactive large-format
displays, mobile audio products, cloud consumer products, and lifestyle lighting for any application and market —
education, home, gaming, 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 digital whiteboards for classrooms, full HD 3D projectors for home theaters, short-throw projectors for
boardrooms, interactive flat-panel displays for digital signage, or LED backlight monitors for professional gaming,
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.
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Based upon Q1’15 Quarterly Projector Shipment and Forecast Report from PMA Research
About BenQ Corporation
Founded on the corporate vision of “Bringing Enjoyment ‘N’ 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.
About BenQ Group
The BenQ Group is a $22+ billion powerhouse comprised of nearly 20 independent companies operating in over
30 countries across numerous industries with a combined workforce of over 100,000 employees. Each Group
member is a recognized leader in its own field, contributing to the BenQ Group’s vast resources, broad R&D, and
distinct strategic strengths. By leveraging each company’s vertical specialization to create true scale across
horizontal markets, the BenQ Group controls a highly efficient value chain with the unrivaled ability to deliver
critical components and world-class solutions in the following industries: TFT-LCD, green energy, fine chemicals and
advanced materials, lighting, IC design, precision components, system integration, branded business, and service. The
Group is committed to profitable and sustainable businesses that share its long-standing vision of Bringing
Enjoyment ‘N’ Quality to Life. The BenQ Group companies are: BenQ Corporation, AU Optronics Corporation
(world’s top manufacturer of large-size TFT-LCD panels), Qisda Corporation, Darfon Electronics Corporation,
BenQ ESCO Corp., BenQ Materials Corp., BenQ Guru Corp., BenQ Medical Center, BenQ Medical Technology
Corp., BenQ AB DentCare Corp., Daxin Materials Corp., Dazzo Technology Corp., Forhouse Corp., Lextar
Electronics Corp., LILY Medical Corp., and Raydium Semiconductor Corp.
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