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For Immediate Release
BenQ All-Star Showmatch Online Gaming Competition Takes
Off in North America
Live Streaming of Matches Allow World-Class eSports Teams to Compete for Cash Prizes
While Viewers Get a Chance to Win BenQ Gaming Monitors
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Dec. 18, 2014 — BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned digital
lifestyle solutions provider and professional gaming monitor pioneer, today announced the North
American tournament of the BenQ All-Star Showmatch online gaming competition. The online matchups
allow top gamers to compete for cash prizes while giving viewers a shot at winning a BenQ professional
gaming monitor. Streamed live via twitch.tv, gamers will be competing in Counter Strike®: Global
Offensive, League of Legends®, and Dota® 2. The first round of battles takes place on December 22 at
11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST where two of the most promising American teams will battle it out in a
round of Dota 2.
“The BenQ All-Star Showmatch represents our latest initiative to support today’s competitive gaming
community,” said Bob Wudeck, Associate Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at BenQ
America Corp. “Already the official console monitor sponsor for the 2015 UMG season, our newly
branded event brings together today’s top gamers to create a head-to-head online platform where
viewers can watch all the action live from the comfort of their own PC. To raise the stakes, we’re offering
cash to winning teams and the chance for viewers to get their hands on a brand-new RL2460HT gaming
monitor.”
The upcoming BenQ All-Star Showmatch will set Sneaky Nyx Assassins versus compLexity in a winnertakes-all best-of-3 showdown. As an added bonus for fans of both teams watching the Dota 2 matchup,
BenQ will give away one RL2460HT monitor as part of a contest. Any fan that correctly predicts the
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Showmatch winner will be automatically entered for a chance to win. Taking place once per month,
Showmatch will let new professional teams duke it out online while renewing the chance for viewers to
win BenQ prizes. All matches are casted by world-renowned commentators and will rotate to different
time zones across the U.S.
Designed specifically for real-time strategy (RTS) and first-person shooter (FPS) console games, BenQ’s
RL2460HT gaming monitor features BenQ’s exclusive RevolutionEyes™ technology to eliminate
traditional LED flicker issues — bringing more comfort to eSports enthusiasts during competitive action
and long gaming sessions. In addition to BenQ’s Black eQualizer, which enables total gaming visibility by
revealing critical combat details, the monitor also features an HDMI® Out port, enabling live streaming of
gaming content without the risk of lag or delay for the player. As a result, audiences are able to watch live
action via direct feed from the monitor while preserving monitor speed and performance regardless of
the streaming system used.
Viewers can catch the BenQ All-Star Showmatch live on http://gaming.benq.com/benq-in-gaming. More
information on the full line of BenQ gaming monitors is available at www.BenQ.us.
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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 largeformat displays, 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 cuttingedge 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 Q3‘14 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
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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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