Chiefs Esports will represent Australia at IEM Sydney 2017

11 Apr 2017

Steve Wright

Australia will be represented by Chiefs Esports at IEM Sydney 2017 after a victory in Australian qualifiers last night.

The Chiefs took top place against 7 other top Oceanic teams, eventually besting Tainted Minds 2-0 last night. They, alongside Vici Gaming from the Chinese qualifier, will take on six other top international teams at the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Sydney over 6-7 May at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena.

A prize pool of $260,000 AUD is up for grabs at the CO:GO-centric event.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.