- Hosted at the Electronic Arts LA Campus
- Monday, June 2-Friday, June 13, 2008
- Airing nightly on thecgs.com Mon-Fri at 6 p.m. PDT / 9 p.m. EDT

Championship Gaming Series (CGS) will be launching its 2008 regular season at EA’s Los Angeles development studio, beginning Monday, June 2, 2008 and running through Friday, June 13.

EA’s Los Angeles studios will be hosting the first matches of the season to be played between Los Angeles Complexity, New York 3D, Dallas Venom, San Francisco Optx, Carolina Core and defending world champion Chicago Chimera.

Coming off hugely successful competitions in Europe and Asia, where 80,000 spectators witnessed the Pan Asian Final over three days in Wuhan, China at the world’s first eSports arena, CGS heats up in North America with the kick off of regular season next week. The opening match will be a classic showdown between Chicago and Carolina in a rematch of both the 2007 North American final and the 2007 World Final. A full schedule for the online segment of the season appears below.

Official games for the CGS 2008 season are played on both the PC and Xbox 360 game platforms and include EA’s FIFA 2008 (PC), Valve’s Counter-Strike®: Source® (PC), Tecmo’s Dead or Alive®4 (“DOA4”) (Xbox 360) and Microsoft Game Studios’ Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360).   

 
The CGS regular season will then continue with its groundbreaking live TV coverage, exclusively on DIRECTV’s The 101 beginning June 16, 2008. Free tickets are available to every night the CGS will be broadcasting. Free tickets are available to fans here: http://www.hollywoodtickets.com/ShowPAges/ChampionshipGamingSeries.asp#TV-Show-Tickets

 
The 2008 CGS World Championship will take place on Monday, July 28. During the course of the next two months, gamers from eight teams across the globe will convene in Los Angeles to battle over US$1,000,000 in prize money and the winning team will receive a payout of US$500,000. Players will live in CGS-supplied apartments in Los Angeles and practice with their team players every day in preparation for the World Final, which begin with quarterfinal matches on Monday, July 14 and Wednesday, July 16.

Online Schedule for CGS Season Two:

 June 2, 2008

#101 Chi v Car
6:00 PM Pacific

#102 NY v Dallas
8:00 PM Pacific

#103 LA v SF
10:00 PM Pacific

June 3, 2008

#104 LA v NY
6:00 PM Pacific

#105 SF v Dallas
8:00 PM Pacific

June 4, 2008

#106 Chi v SF
6:00 PM Pacific

#107 Car v LA
8:00 PM Pacific

June 5, 2008

#108 NY v Car
6:00 PM Pacific

#109 Dal v Chi
8:00 PM Pacific

June 6, 2008

#110 LA v Dal
6:00 PM Pacific

#111 SF v NY
8:00 PM Pacific

June 9, 2008

#112 Chi v LA
6:00 PM Pacific

#113 Car v SF
8:00 PM Pacific

June 10, 2008

#114 Dal v Car
6:00 PM Pacific

#115 NY v Chi
8:00 PM Pacific

June 11, 2008

#116 LA v Dal
6:00 PM Pacific

#117  NY v Car
8:00 PM Pacific

June 12, 2008

#118 Chi v NY
6:00 PM Pacific

#119 LA v SF
8:00 PM Pacific

June 13, 2008

#120 SF v Dal
6:00 PM Pacific

#121 Chi v Car
8:00 PM Pacific