Garena kicks off The Malaysia Heroes of Newerth National Championship 2012 with RM500,000 Cash Prize

Kuala Lumpur, 9 March 2012 - Garena is proud to present the biggest official Malaysian e-Sports tournament this year, the Malaysia Heroes of Newerth National Championship 2012, featuring over RM500,000 in cash prizes. This tournament, exclusively for Malaysians, will kick off in April 2012, setting a definite milestone in Malaysian gaming history as it will be staking the highest cash pool thus far.

“We see a great deal of potential for growth in the Malaysian gaming community, and would like to build the e-Sports scene by creating more opportunities for players to compete at a global scale,” said, Forrest Li, Chief Executive Officer of Garena.

Garena continues to support a variety of gaming communities with increasing effort to make competitions more fun and rewarding for players. In this spirit, registration for the event will be made open to players of every league. This will see The Malaysia Heroes of Newerth National Championship 2012 having a wide array of different teams proving their worth in a quest for the coveted prize money. As the victors of each qualifier tournament are blocked from participating in subsequent events, even the vanquished stand a chance to make a comeback in later qualifiers.

Qualifiers will be played over the course of eight months where events will be hosted in six different states in Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Penang, Perak, Johor and Sarawak. In conjunction with these events, an online tournament will also be held to accommodate the various participating teams that will be competing for a RM160,000 cash pool, rounding up a total of 16 different qualifiers with a RM10,000 winner-takes-all final, with the weakest links being eliminated with each passing stage.

In collaboration with the highly anticipated and successful Garena Malaysia Carnival, the grand finals will be held in December, where the finalists will meet in ultimate combat for the total grand prize money of RM340,000. The crowned champion will be taking home RM300,000 in cash and glory, not forgetting the 2nd and 3rd placing who will be presented with RM30,000 and 10,000 respectively.