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		Vanessa "Vanessa" Arteaga	Dead or Alive 4	San Francisco Optx
2		Team Complexity: (Warden, Rambo, fRoD, zet, Storm)	Counter Strike: Source	Complexity LA
3		Manny "Master" Rodriguez	Dead or Alive 4	Dallas Venom
4		Team 3D: (KSharp, LiN, Volcano, Method, Rector)	Counter Strike:Source	New York 3D
5		Wesley "ch0mpr" Cwiklo	Project Gotham Racing 3	Chicago Chimera
6		Ryan "OffbeatNinja" Ward	Dead or Alive 4	Carolina Core

Round Two

Pick	Nationality(s)	Gamer(s)	Game	CGS Franchise
7		Joe "Phantom" Tackett	Project Gotham Racing 3	Carolina Core
8		Jason "Jason X" Exelby	Project Gotham Racing 3	Chicago Chimera
9		Chris "BadAXX" Bjorkman	Project Gotham Racing 3	New York 3D
10		Jax Money Crew: (Dominator, kaM, exodus, zid, aZn)	Counter Strike:Source	Dallas Venom
11		CJ "GeeTeeOhh" Nelson	Project Gotham Racing 3	Complexity LA
12		Nolsen "beisbol" Perez	Project Gotham Racing 3	San Francisco Optx

Round Three

Pick	Nationality(s)	Gamer(s)	Game	CGS Franchise
13		Alessandro "stermy" Avallone	FIFA 07	San Francisco Optx
14		Adande "sWooZie" Thorne	Dead or Alive 4	Complexity LA
15		Kevin "chaos" Parrish	Project Gotham Racing 3	Dallas Venom
16		Matt "Wizakor" Wood	FIFA 07	New York 3D
17		Evil Geniuses: (Lari, Stevenson, tr1p, sunman, da bears)	Counter Strike:Source	Chicago Chimera
18		Katherine "Mystik" Gunn	Dead or Alive 4	Carolina Core

Round Four

Pick	Nationality(s)	Gamer(s)	Game	CGS Franchise
19		Brent "Rex" Dimapilis	Project Gotham Racing 3	Carolina Core
20		Marjorie "Kasumi Chan" Bartell	Dead or Alive 4	Chicago Chimera
21		Barry "DoubleB" Brady	Project Gotham Racing 3	New York 3D
22		Cynthia "Raspberry Tea" Escamilla	Dead or Alive 4	Dallas Venom
23		Javier "chavisan" Gutierrez	Project Gotham Racing 3	Complexity LA
24		Cardell "Dave Chapelle" Thomas	Dead or Alive 4	San Francisco Optx

Round Five

Pick	Nationality(s)	Gamer(s)	Game	CGS Franchise
25		Erika "skitt1es" Galegor	Project Gotham Racing 3	San Francisco Optx
26		Phillipe "KreeganBG" Stoyne	FIFA 07	Complexity LA
27		Isidro "Novusnaim" Sifuentes	FIFA 07	Dallas Venom
28		Jared "cali jared" Singer	Dead or Alive 4	New York 3D
29		Jeremy "Black Mamba" Florence	Dead or Alive 4	Chicago Chimera
30		Nick "peekay" DePalmer	FIFA 07	Carolina Core

Round Six

Pick	Nationality(s)	Gamer(s)	Game	CGS Franchise
31		Team Pandemic: (masternook, s0nNy, Devour, DAFF, elusive)	Counter Strike: Source	Carolina Core
32		Andrew "anomaly" Brock	FIFA 07	Chicago Chimera
33		Tanya "coolsvilla" Underwood	Dead or Alive 4	New York 3D
34		Patrick "Indigo Ferret" Wyrick	Project Gotham Racing 3	Dallas Venom
35		Megan "Belle" Ceder	Dead or Alive 4	Complexity LA
36		EFGaming: (clowN, mOE, Warmach1ne, p0s, phamtastik)	Counter Strike: Source	San Francisco Optx

External links

• "GotFrag eSports - All Games News Story - The CGS Draft Round by Round". gotfrag.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-29.