2007 Championship Gaming Series draft

The Region 1 2007 CGS Draft was held on June 12, 2007, at The Playboy Mansion in Bel Air, California. This was the first ever draft for professional gaming, with Vanessa "Vanessa" Arteaga, being the first ever draft pick in the Championship Gaming Series. The draft had 6 rounds with each team picking one gamer or a Counter Strike: Source team, the draft was in "snake" order meaning the team that had the first pick in the previous round will get the last pick in the next round, and vice versa. Lottery The lottery was held during the Combine on June 11, 2007. The draft order is as follows: Pick Team 1 San Francisco Optx 2 Complexity LA 3 Dallas Venom 4 New York 3D 5 Chicago Chimera 6 Carolina Core Region 1 Round One Pick Nationality(s) Gamer(s) Game CGS Franchise 1 USA Vanessa "Vanessa" Arteaga Dead or Alive 4 San Francisco Optx 2 USA Sweden Team Complexity: (Warden, Rambo, fRoD, zet, Storm) Counter Strike: Source Complexity LA 3 USA Manny "Master" Rodriguez Dead or Alive 4 Dallas Venom 4 USA Canada Team 3D: (KSharp, LiN, Volcano, Method, Rector) Counter Strike:Source New York 3D 5USA Wesley "ch0mpr" Cwiklo Project Gotham Racing 3 Chicago Chimera 6 Canada Ryan "OffbeatNinja" Ward Dead or Alive 4 Carolina Core Round Two Pick Nationality(s) Gamer(s) Game CGS Franchise 7 USA Joe "Phantom" Tackett Project Gotham Racing 3 Carolina Core 8 USA Jason "Jason X" Exelby Project Gotham Racing 3 Chicago Chimera 9 USA Chris "BadAXX" Bjorkman Project Gotham Racing 3 New York 3D 10 USA Jax Money Crew: (Dominator, kaM, exodus, zid, aZn) Counter Strike:Source Dallas Venom 11 USA CJ "GeeTeeOhh" Nelson Project Gotham Racing 3 Complexity LA 12 USA Nolsen "beisbol" Perez Project Gotham Racing 3 San Francisco Optx Round Three Pick Nationality(s) Gamer(s) Game CGS Franchise 13 ITA Alessandro "stermy" Avallone FIFA 07 San Francisco Optx 14 USA Adande "sWooZie" Thorne Dead or Alive 4 Complexity LA 15 USA Kevin "chaos" Parrish Project Gotham Racing 3 Dallas Venom 16 Canada Matt "Wizakor" Wood FIFA 07 New York 3D 17 USACanada Evil Geniuses: (Lari, Stevenson, tr1p, sunman, da bears) Counter Strike:Source Chicago Chimera 18 USA Katherine "Mystik" Gunn Dead or Alive 4 Carolina Core Round Four Pick Nationality(s) Gamer(s) Game CGS Franchise 19 USA Brent "Rex" Dimapilis Project Gotham Racing 3 Carolina Core 20 USA Marjorie "Kasumi Chan" Bartell Dead or Alive 4 Chicago Chimera 21 USA Barry "DoubleB" Brady Project Gotham Racing 3 New York 3D 22 USA Cynthia "Raspberry Tea" Escamilla Dead or Alive 4 Dallas Venom 23 USA Javier "chavisan" Gutierrez Project Gotham Racing 3 Complexity LA 24 USA Cardell "Dave Chapelle" Thomas Dead or Alive 4 San Francisco Optx Round Five Pick Nationality(s) Gamer(s) Game CGS Franchise 25 USA Erika "skitt1es" Galegor Project Gotham Racing 3 San Francisco Optx 26 Bulgaria Phillipe "KreeganBG" Stoyne FIFA 07 Complexity LA 27 USA Isidro "Novusnaim" Sifuentes FIFA 07 Dallas Venom 28 USA Jared "cali jared" Singer Dead or Alive 4 New York 3D 29 USA Jeremy "Black Mamba" Florence Dead or Alive 4 Chicago Chimera 30 USA Nick "peekay" DePalmer FIFA 07 Carolina Core Round Six Pick Nationality(s) Gamer(s) Game CGS Franchise 31 USA Team Pandemic: (masternook, s0nNy, Devour, DAFF, elusive) Counter Strike: Source Carolina Core 32 Canada Andrew "anomaly" Brock FIFA 07 Chicago Chimera 33 USA Tanya "coolsvilla" Underwood Dead or Alive 4 New York 3D 34 USA Patrick "Indigo Ferret" Wyrick Project Gotham Racing 3 Dallas Venom 35 USA Megan "Belle" Ceder Dead or Alive 4 Complexity LA 36 USA EFGaming: (clowN, mOE, Warmach1ne, p0s, phamtastik) Counter Strike: Source San Francisco Optx External links http://www.gotfrag.com/portal/story/38066/ GotFrag eSports - All Games News Story - The CGS Draft Round by Round 2007-07-29 gotfrag.com https://web.archive.org/web/20070717094239/http://www.gotfrag.com/portal/story/38066/ 17 July 2007 dead dmy-all Category:Championship Gaming Series Category:2007 in esports