CMU Leadership Safari 2K11

Jet Set Studio mixed it up at Central Michigan University for the second year in a row. Leadership Safari 2K11 was yet another great video game event for incoming CMU freshman! With 16+ gaming stations, attendees enjoyed 4v4 Call of Duty: Black Ops, 2v2 Halo: Reach, NCAA Football 12, Super Street Fighter 4, Rockband, Dance Central on Kinect, NBA Jam, and more!

JSS event managers BEN & derno

Kinect Dancing Machine

DJ Reese's Peanut Butter

BEN Rocks CMU Gear

WHO'S NEXT?

Gamers For Giving 2011

Gamers For Giving 2011 is a non-profit video game event that supports the Gamers Outreach Foundation. This organization supplies donated video games to military troops and also works within area hospitals to supply mobile gaming units for patients in need.

This was the second year Jet Set Studio attended the Michigan event to help manage this neat tournament that supports such a great cause. We connected with our affiliates, Focus Fire, who brought the noise with more gaming stations and a professional live stream.

Beautiful View at GFG2011 Venue

MLG Pros in Attendance

Walshy Hard at Work Playing SC2

Combo Breaker 2011

Two weeks after The Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge, we again connected with Focus Fire at Combo Breaker 2011. This video game event was hosted by Games N Go in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With multiple divisions for the fighting game genre and two divisions for Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops, this was an action packed event!

The shooter's live stream set.

Combo Breaker 2011 was a decent video game tournament, but the big story was how we took the Focus Fire Justin.TV Channel, which was initially blown up at TIPGC 2011 (134,000+ viewers), to a staggering 836,000+ viewers! MLG Dallas was happening at the same time, but during this two day video game event in Minnesota, these traffic numbers solidified our team's streaming capabilities. It was amazing to see 6,000+ viewers watching the stream at a single time, which also really added to the excitement for players who were competing for such a large online audience!

One of the younger competitors, who was a team leader!

Having fun with the live stream's green screen

BEN commentated both shooter game divisions

BONUS FEATURE: The night before Combo Breaker 2011, BEN experienced the FRONT ROW of DJ Tiesto in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Although this isn't of the normal video gaming flavor, we had to share!

"The Most Dangerous Drink In The World"

DJ TIESTO HIGHLIGHT VIDEO

TIPGC 2011 Highlight Video

The 2011 Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge

The 2nd Annual Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge went big.

Jet Set Studio, who is the unique company behind this event, captured and has shared tons of tournament highlights on www.TIPGC.com. Here are a few of the favorites.

View From The TIPGC Main Stage

Official TIPGC 2011 Poster

32 Black Ops Teams & 16 Halo Reach Teams

BEN Welcomes TIPGC Participants

TIPGC Live Stream Commentators

Twitter exploded with TIPGC participants, live stream viewers, and fans using the dedicated hashtag #TIPGC. This hashtag continues to be used and has been seen in over 3,000 individual tweets from users all around the country!

Im Marksman Models The TIPGC Shirts From Kiaeneto

Kona & BEN

Des Moines Register Coverage

BEN, Ethan, & Smashley

TIPGC Championship Trophies by Envy Controllers

4v4 CoD: Black Ops Champions - Juked

4v4 Halo: Reach Champions - UoR Invictus

Absolutely Sick Prize Table

TIPGC 2011 Staff

The Big Surprise

This video game event, hosted in Des Moines, Iowa on 3.19.2011, was amazing. More than 45 teams competed in 4v4 Halo: Reach and 4v4 Call of Duty: Black Ops, for $7,500+ in cash and prizes. 400+ attendees represented more than 15 different states, but the biggest number is how many viewers we shared this gaming event with on the popular live streaming website, Justin.TV.

Our internal goal was 5,000 viewers for this professional live stream broadcast. We ended up with over 134,000+ viewers, who enjoyed this single day video game event from all around the world!

A special thanks goes out to the 14 sponsors who allowed us to make this event so great. Check out a bunch more information and highlights on this event's dedicated website:

www.IowaProGamingChallenge.com