ZOWIE by Benqsupplies Esports Monitors for MLG Counter Strike: Global Offensive Events

ZOWIE by BenQ Supplies eSports Monitors for MLG Counter Strike: Global Offensive Events

XL Series Displays Take Center Stage for CS:GO Major LAN Qualifiers and Championship Battles

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Feb 26, 2016 — BenQ America Corp., a globally renowned LED and gaming monitor expert, today announced that ZOWIE, the company’s new eSports brand, will supply the blazing-fast XL2411Z professional eSports gaming monitor for the Major League Gaming (MLG) Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major LAN Qualifier and Major Championship. Masterfully crafted for the ultimate gaming performance, the company’s XL displays provide first-person shooter (FPS) players with more of the tools they need — speed, accuracy and onscreen visibility — to conquer the opposition.

The XL2411Z PC gaming monitor will be put to the test at the CS:GO Major LAN Qualifier on Feb. 26-28 at the MLG Arena, in addition to the matches at the CS:GO Major Championship on March 29-April 3 at both the MLG and Nationwide Arenas in Columbus, Ohio. The Major LAN Qualifier will determine the eight challengers who will then take on the Cluj-Napoca Legends at the Major Championship, with legendary teams including Cloud9, Team Liquid and more slated to compete. The Major Championship marks the first time a Major will be held in North America with the best eSports pro teams from around the world competing for a $1,000,000 prize pool.

“The CS:GO Major Championship is a huge event for MLG and ZOWIE being that it is the first Major held in North America,” said Ronald Kim, eSports marketing at BenQ America Corp. “With our XL series 144hz PC eSports monitors featuring BenQ’s exclusive innovations, we can ensure teams will be able to compete at their fullest potential. The competition will be fierce, featuring some of the world’s greatest eSports pros, and we’re confident our displays will make the action shine.”

The XL2411Z widescreen full-HD display is packed with enhancements such as Black eQualizer, Display Mode, Smart Scaling, Motion Blur Reduction, Low Blue Light, gaming refresh rate optimization management (GROM) and a 1-ms GTG response time. The XL series is

More… purpose-built to provide FPS players with an ultra-smooth experience via improved resolutions, faster response times and 144hz refresh rate — so gamers can focus on the details that matter most.

Event information is available at www.majorleaguegaming.com/events. More information on the ZOWIE line by BenQ is available at http://info.BenQ.us/ZOWIE.

About ZOWIE Introduced in late 2008, ZOWIE is a brand dedicated to the development of the best competitive gaming products to improve eSports athletes’ combat performance. In 2015, the ZOWIE brand was acquired by BenQ Corp. to aggressively lead the company’s eSports product line with gaming products that deliver true competitive advantages.

About BenQ America Corp. The BenQ digital lifestyle brand stands for “Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life,” fusing lifestyle with technology, enjoyment with productivity and aesthetic design with purpose-built engineering. It is this mantra that has made BenQ the No. 1-selling projector brand powered by TI DLP® technology in The Americas(1). BenQ America Corp. offers an extensive line of visual display and presentation solutions that incorporate the very latest technologies. The company delivers a broad range of Colorific™ projectors, ZOWIE eSports gear and monitors, interactive large-format displays, mobile audio products, cloud consumer products and lifestyle lighting for any application and market — education, home, gaming, enterprise, government, house of worship, digital signage, A/V and IT — with cutting-edge models that lead the industry in performance, reliability, environmental sustainability and aesthetics. Whether it’s interactive digital whiteboards for classrooms, full HD 3D projectors for home theaters, short-throw projectors for boardrooms, interactive flat-panel displays for digital signage or LED backlight monitors for professional gaming, BenQ continues to defy the limits of digital displays. The company’s products are available across North America through leading value-added distributors, resellers and retailers.

More information is available at www.BenQ.us.

(1) Based upon Q1’15 - Q3'15 data from the Quarterly Projector Shipment and Forecast Report from PMA Research

About BenQ Corporation Founded on the corporate vision of “Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life,” BenQ Corporation is a world-leading human technology and solutions provider aiming to elevate and enrich every aspect of consumers’ lives. To realize this vision, the company focuses on the aspects that matter most to people today — lifestyle, business, healthcare and education — with the hope of providing people with the means to live better, increase efficiency, feel healthier and enhance learning. Such means include a delightful broad portfolio of people-driven products and embedded technologies spanning digital projectors, monitors, interactive large-format displays, audio products, cloud consumer products, mobile communications and lifestyle lighting. Because it matters.

About BenQ Group The BenQ Group is a $22+ billion powerhouse comprised of nearly 20 independent companies operating in over 30 countries across numerous industries with a combined workforce of over 100,000 employees. Each Group member is a recognized leader in its own field, contributing to the BenQ Group’s vast

More… resources, broad R&D and distinct strategic strengths. By leveraging each company’s vertical specialization to create true scale across horizontal markets, the BenQ Group controls a highly efficient value chain with the unrivaled ability to deliver critical components and world-class solutions in the following industries: TFT-LCD, green energy, fine chemicals and advanced materials, lighting, IC design, precision components, system integration, branded business and service. The Group is committed to profitable and sustainable businesses that share its long-standing vision of Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life. The BenQ Group companies are: BenQ Corporation, AU Optronics Corporation (world’s top manufacturer of large-size TFT-LCD panels), Qisda Corporation, Darfon Electronics Corporation, BenQ ESCO Corp., BenQ Materials Corp., BenQ Guru Corp., BenQ Medical Center, BenQ Medical Technology Corp., BenQ AB DentCare Corp., Daxin Materials Corp., Dazzo Technology Corp., Forhouse Corp., Lextar Electronics Corp., LILY Medical Corp. and Raydium Semiconductor Corp.

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