December 17, 2011 David Bryant
The EA SPORTS Pro Player Challenge series has finally come to a head and the champion of FIFA 12 champions has finally been crowned at the home of world cover star Wayne Rooney. The tournament included the winners from previous Pro Player Challenges and a few other guests, namely Olly Murs. This is a quite [...]
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Tags ea sports, fifa 12, pro player tournament, tournament, video, wayne rooney
December 9, 2011 David Bryant
Well, well, well in terms of competitive FIFA 12 gaming the PS3 user base certainly have the best of the action as EA SPORTS have launched in collaboration with VirginGaming.com the FIFA 12 Challenge Series where you could win a share of $400,000 and a trip to New York City. “The EA SPORTS FIFA 12 Challenge is [...]
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December 1, 2011 David Bryant
It’s December 1st and that means only one thing for pro FIFA gamers, the FIWC 2012 (PS3) first online qualifier opens today! We’re expecting the tournament to be live between 9:00am and 10:00am GMT so keep a close eye on those consoles this morning. The prize on offer once again is a cool 20,000 USD and the [...]
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Tags 2012, fiwc, online, ps3, tournament
November 14, 2011 David Bryant
If you missed the first FIFA 12 Pro Player Tournament featuring Man City make sure you get yourself acquainted on YouTube. Today’s tournament features ex Premier League champions Chelsea who’s array of stars including David Luiz, Daniel Sturridge and Romelu Lukaku went toe to toe to find out who is the best FIFA 12 player. And the winner is… [...]
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November 5, 2011 Tom Mills
This past weekend the Emirates played host to EGL4, so I went along to have a nose around. It was massive, much bigger than I expected. Spread over various rooms were Gears 3, Black Ops, Street Fighter and FIFA events, as well as some old school Halo LAN play, complete with 14″ SD tvs. Beautiful [...]
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August 2, 2011 David Bryant
Aston Villa are currently on their pre-season tour competing in the Barclay’s Asia Trophy but that didn’t stop some of the lads getting hands-on time with FIFA 12 in Hong Kong recently. Gary Gardner, Eric Lichaj, Ciaran Clark and mega FIFA fan Darren Bent played out a tournament where sadly Darren was beaten in the final [...]
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Tags aston villa, ea sports, fifa 12, playtest, tournament
July 6, 2011 David Bryant
The FIWC has done it again. This time smashing its own Guinness World Record (picked up last year) becoming the largest Computer Games Tournament in the world. A massive FIFASoccerBlog congratulations to everyone who’s been involved in the planning and organising of the FIWC 2011, in all honesty it was the most competitive FIWC tournament we’ve ever [...]
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June 16, 2011 David Bryant
As promised over the weekend we have an exclusive FIWC Grand Final gallery for you showing how things went down in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. Francisco Cruz was the eventual winner cruzing past (sorry) the hundreds of thousands of original entrants who played online on the PS3 throughout the year. Asim Tanvir was [...]
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June 10, 2011 David Bryant
That was a terrible headline pun, moving on. Francisco Cruz is the new FIWC Champion after a thrilling final in Los Angeles. After a stunning semi-final win against favourite Mark Azzi, Cruz went on to beat Javier Munoz in the final to net the cool 20,000USD grand prize and a ticket to the next Ballon [...]
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May 5, 2011 David Bryant
The UK FIWC Live Final was a couple of weeks ago now up in Liverpool and the only thing missing really since then has been a swish, funky camera angle video showing us coverage of the event. That is until now… As most of you will know Adam Winster was victorious beating Rob Brewster 2-1 [...]
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