This Week in Gaming - January 17th -January 23rd
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23 Jan 2012, 19:10
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News
Each week I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news & headlines and notable games releases and updates.
Gaming News
After a SOPA overload in the past few weeks, it seems that there have been a series of mini-victories in a war that is still ongoing. US Congress shelved SOPA due to the huge public opposition and lack of support from US President Barack Obama - however, Congress has continued to try and push similar bills through. ACTA is the latest in the seemingly growing list of bills aimed at censoring the internet. The supposed threat of ACTA has been debated, with certain sources claiming that the bill is much stricter, more outrageous and frankly, far worse. Do your bit, read up on it and sign petitions.
Major League Gaming announced the first details of the upcoming 2012 Pro Circuit. There are some major changes to the scheduling, but as a casual viewer you probably won't notice much has changed. In short, they have moved away from their previous format and will now be running a new championship each season - starting with the Winter 2012 season on January 31st. StarCraft II will remain as the flagship competition for the upcoming year. Full details can be found on the MLG site.eSports
The latest installment of the Electronic Sports League LAN event series was held this past weekend - the Intel Extreme Masters: 
Kiev. The three major tournaments and their respective results:
StarCraft II[/u]
MMA
DIMAGA
KasCompared to some of the larger scale international events in recent months, IEM Kiev had a relatively weaker player pool, but take nothing away from
MMA who overcame the home-field advantage Ukrainian DIMAGA in the Grand Final. Fan favourite White-Ra had an early exit at the hands of Kas and the ever-improving 
NaNiwa was dumped out 3-1 by Zenio. 
CounterStrike 1.6[/u] Na'Vi SK-Gaming 
Moscow Five Na'Vi are the IEM VI Kiev champions after they emphatically beat SK-Gaming in the Grand Final. After dominating the CounterStrike scene in 2010, the Ukrainian's were without a major international win over 11 months. They came up against a red hot Swedish side, in what could have been seen as a dream CS final. As it turned out, Na'Vi absolutely dominated SK-Gaming in all but the pistol rounds.Are
Na'Vi the best CS 1.6 team of all time?
League of Legends[/u] Moscow Five 
Team SoloMid Dignitas Moscow Five came through a highly competitive League of Legends field to take the gold at IEM VI Kiev. Their opponents, Team SoloMid were one of the pre-tournament favourites, but they were thoroughly outclassed by the impressive Russian team. Diamondprox of Moscow Five was named tournament MVP for his outstanding contribution towards his side's success.
Based on most wins.
Can't wait for the first MLG event of 2012 :)