CEVO has officially announced the CEVO-Professional Season 9 Playoffs. America’s best teams will compete for their shot of the $10,000 CASH Purse and a chance to be crowned CEVO champions. Team X3O is entering the playoffs with the #1 seed and are favored to win the event. They are the first team to win two back to back seasons of CEVO-Professional (Season 7 & 8) and have a shot at making history and becoming the first team to win 3. Read on for more details and the release from CEVO.com.

Baltimore, Maryland - September 11, 2008 – CEVO, LLC is pleased to announce the dates for the Counter-Strike 1.6 Professional playoffs. The playoffs will take place from Saturday, September 27th through Sunday, September 28th. All weekend long North America's finest teams battle it out for a total prize purse of $10,000. You can follow all of the action via the CEVO website and with our coverage partners QuadV and GotFrag. QuadV will be providing the LIVE streaming coverage for the two day event with expert in depth commentary from Corey Dunn and Griffin “Shaguar” Bengar. So tune in live on cevo.com from 4 PM CST until 9 PM CST each day of the playoffs.

To celebrate this weekend our event sponsors AMD / ATI and SAPPHIRE Technologies in conjuction with CEVO will be running several promotions where we will be giving away SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 High Definition Graphics Cards.

You can view the full press release here.

X3O will be providing coverage including Scorebots, Shoutcasting, and HLTV for all of the matches. Check back here at www.x3o-gaming.com/teamx3o for the latest updates.