- Irish E-Sports
Infobox
title = Irish E-Sportsheader1 =
label1 = Location
data1 = flagicon|IrelandIreland
header2 =
label2 = Founded
data2 = 2006
header3 =
label3 = Founder
data3 = flagicon|Ireland Michael 'Jayzus' Devlin
header4 =
label4 = Website
data4 = [http://www.irish-esports.com Irish E-Sports Website]An Irish gaming clan that mainly plays
Call of Duty 4 ,Team Fortress 2 , and among other games.The clan was founded in mid 2006 by Michael "Jayzus" Devlin with the hope of becoming the best Irish battlefield 2142 team which it achieved by holding the top spot on the TWL EU 5v5 Infanrty ladder for months. The clan is actively seeking new members all the time, and in March 2007 another clan, Irish Fighting Force joined Irish E-Sports, which greatly added to the group.
Irish E-Sports is constantly active on the Irish LAN scene with members attending both Midlans summer 2007 and GameconXII in 2007. Member from Irish E-Sports have faired quite well individually in these events with Kev_ofla winning the Wii gaming competition in one and PolarIce winning the Unreal Tournament 2004 competition at another LAN event.
In September 2007 .:iE/ attended Gamecon - A LAN gaming event in Dublin, Ireland. The team entered the Cod2, CSS, CoH, and Supreme Commander competitions of which it won 2 of the 4 competitions. Twelve .:iE/ members attended the LAN in total.
In August 2008 members of the team attended both Midlans and SkyLan, which were both on the same weekend. In total the group took home €820 in cash, plus other sponsored prizes (total value in excess of €1000) which is the second largest weekends winnings by a computer gaming team in Ireland. The largest ever winning was made by csa, the team what won first place in the Counter-Strike: Source tournament at Midlans Spring 2007. [http://midlans.net/spring2008comps.html]
erver Hosting
Irish E-Sports is one of Ireland largest providers of games servers [http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?location=IE] hosting approximately 10% of the countries online gaming servers.
As of July 2008 all of the Irish E-Sports game servers are sponsored by [http://www.memoryc.com/ MemoryC] .
Notable Achievements
Offline
* 1st Call of Duty 4 - Midlans Summer 2008
* 3rd Counter-Strike: Source - Midlans Summer 2008
* 1st Call of Duty 2 - Midlans Summer 2008 - Aaron
* 2nd Call of Duty 2 - Midlans Summer 2008 - Phil
* 3rd Call of Duty 2 - Midlans Summer 2008 - Batman
* 1st Supreme Commander 2v2 - SkyLan2 2008 - PolarIce & Kaos
* 1st Wii Smash Brothers Brawl - SkyLan2 2008 - WinterBlizzard
* 3rd-4th Call of Duty 2 3v3 - Gamecon #12 2007
* 3rd-4th Counter-Strike: Source - Gamecon #12 2007
* 1st Supreme Commander - Gamecon #12 2007 - PolarIce
* 1st Company of Heroes - Gamecon #12 2007 - PolarIce
* 1stWii Bowling - Midlans Summer 2007 - kev_ofla
* 1stUT2004 - SkyLan 2005 - PolarIceOnline
* 9-16th Counter-Strike: Source - Be There Challenge Cup A Enemydown September 2008
* 1st Call of Duty 4 - Enemydown Sabotage Ladder July 2008
* 2nd Call of Duty 4 - EDCOD4 League July 2008
* 2nd EU Counter-Strike: Source- TWL 5v5 Ladder September 2007
* 1st EU Battlefield 2142 - TWL 5v5 Infantry ladder February 2007 - Till ladder closedNotes and references
External links
[http://www.irish-esports.com Irish E-Sports Website]
[http://www.xfire.com/clans/irishe/ Irish E-Sports page on xfire]
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