ASUS World GameMaster Tournament has officially kicked off in Ngee Ann Poly from July 26th to July 28th where gamers compete in three hottest games of the year: Counter Strike: Half Life, DOTA All Stars and Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. VR-Zone has set up 2 demo rigs at ASUS booth running on the latest Core 2 Extreme X6800 and ASUS P5B Deluxe so do remember to check them out.

Here's the press release :

Whether you yearn for the “Frozen Throne”, want to launch a massive “Counter Strike” or have a shoot out with the stars of “DOTA All Stars”, the World GamerMaster Tournament (WGT) has something for your game cravings. The WGT will take place in 26 nations in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America through out the second half of 2006 to find out who are the elite players in each of these countries.

The WGT, one of the largest gaming competitions in 2006, has selected ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), the leading motherboard and graphics card company, as its official PC hardware supplier, and Intel and ATI as computing and video acceleration platform providers, respectively.

For the first time in the history of gaming, the very best gamers can finally battle it out on the best hardware solutions from ASUS, Intel and ATi, and through the three hottest games of the year: Counter Strike: Half Life, DOTA All Stars and Warcraft III: Frozen Throne.

ASUS will also be lending its support to WGT for the World’s First Notebook Gaming Competition featuring ASUS Gaming Notebook Series.

“’Let’s Game’ is the theme of this year’s WGT. It’s a nice and simple way to declare that the gaming community is now a force to be reckoned with me,” Te-Hsang Han, spokesperson for the WGT. “Whether it’s online, PCs or consoles, gaming has become a serious trend among children, young adults and even the elders. We need more events such as the WGT to let the world know that it’s time to relax and play.”

WGT Singapore would be conducted in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Management University and Funan DigitaLife Mall from 26~28 Jul, 22~24 Aug and 4~10 Sep respectively.

For more information, please visit http://sg.worldgamemaster.org. Be part of WGT today.