COSTA MESA, Calif. — July 14, 2016 — ZOWIE, BenQ's eSports brand, announced today the RL2460HT as the official monitor for the Evolution (EVO) 2016 Championship Series, held July 15-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Mandalay Bay Events Center. Designed for console gaming, BenQ’s RL2460HT eSports monitor is built to manage the demands of world-class tournaments by empowering the best eSports athletes with tested and true competition technology.
“We are happy to provide EVO, the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, with our RL2460HT monitor,” said Ronald Kim, eSports marketing specialist at BenQ America Corp. “With the model’s head-to-head feature, competitors can play on their own individual screen without any added lag or delay.”
EVO is the largest and longest-running fighting game tournament in the world. Open to anyone, the event features competitions between established gaming champions and newcomers as well as gaming stations for amateurs to match up against one another. This year’s game lineup includes Street Fighter V, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Killer Instinct, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Guilty Gear Xrd, Mortal Kombat X and more.
More information on the ZOWIE line by BenQ is available at ZOWIE.BenQ.com.
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About ZOWIE
Introduced in late 2008, ZOWIE is a brand dedicated to the development of the best competitive gaming products to improve eSports athletes’ performance. In 2015, the ZOWIE brand was acquired by BenQ Corp. to aggressively lead the company’s eSports product line with products that deliver true competitive advantages. More information is available at ZOWIE.BenQ.com.
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 monitors and gear, monitors featuring Eye-Care technologies, interactive large-format displays, mobile audio products, cloud consumer products and lifestyle lighting for any application and market — home, gaming, eSports, education, 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 projectors or flat panels for classrooms, full HD 3D projectors for home theaters, short-throw projectors for boardrooms, digital signage in retail spaces or LED backlit monitors for eSports, 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 2016Q1 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.
ZOWIE Contact: Jan Spence, Associate Vice President of Marketing Communications and Branding Tel: +1 (214) 299-7900 Email: jan.spence@BenQ.com Web: www.BenQ.us | Media Contact: Veronica Esbona InGear Tel: +1 (954) 392-6990 Email: veronica@ingearpr.com |
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