We are excited to announce that our very own Counter-Strike 1.6 team will attend the ESEA-Invite LAN Tournament Finals in Dallas, Texas from March 12^th to the 14^th. For the past 3 years, ESEA has sponsored a LAN finals for the top teams in Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source. This year, they are also featuring top competitive teams from the game Team Fortress 2. This LAN, held at the Intel LAN Fest Dallas, will be another huge step forward for both the competitive Counter-Strike scene and the gaming community as a whole. Since the collapse of CGS, ESEA has been trying their hardest to bring back the Counter-Strike community and this is just one way they have been doing it.

Craig "Torbull" Levine has this to say about the event:
"Space is limited for this event and we hope to host larger LAN events with Intel LAN Fest for Season 6 and 7 with more lead time, but we really hope the CS, CS: Source, TF2, and entire ESEA community attends the event and supports the rebirth of North American competitive e-sports!"

Our Loaded team is seeded 6th for the LAN, finishing up the regular season with a record of 10 wins and 6 loses. They will be booting camping at LG in Texas for 2 days prior to the event and hope to bring home a win.

Team leader Anthony "djibouti" Manosca had this to say about the up coming LAN:

With your team soon heading into ESEA-i playoffs, do you have any predictions about how Loaded will place? And are there any teams you are really looking forward to competing against?

"Of course I'm going to predict us to do really well :P. I mainly want to play against EG, Excello and Complexity. Get some revenge on coL from last seasons finals, XLO because they're on a winning streak currently fighting for the #1 spot and of course EG because they're top contenders in the world."

Without further ado, here are the 5 players from Loaded to attend the event:
ADRENALINE
Here are the 6 teams attending the event:

1.	Evil Geniuses
2.	Excello
3.	9StorM_ZOWIE
4.	compLexity
5.	Team Damage Inc
6.	Loaded_CS

Good luck to all the teams going to the event!