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2016 Taiwan ESport Top Gear Awards announced Gear of the Year on January 29th
Date: 2016/01/29
To encourage the upgrading and transformation of information industry and extol the efforts devoted to e-sports products and peripheral equipment by firms in the business, the hosting party of the event specifically invited Ming-Ji Wu, Director General, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs(the 6th from the right)to hand out 2016 Taiwan ESPort Top Gear Awards and take pictures with representatives of the winning companies after the ceremony.
In order to enhance the international image of Taiwan E-sports products and extol the efforts devoted to the research and development as well as the design and quality control of e-sports products and peripheral equipment by firms in the business, supported by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, III collaborated with Taipei Computer Association and companies like ESR, and LIVEhouse.in etc. hosting the popularity vote event for 2016 Taiwan ESPort Top Gear Awards. On 29th January, Ming-Ji Wu, Director General, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, was invited to hand out 19 Yearly awards in 7 categories such as "Best E-Sport Desktop Award", "Best E-sport Laptop Award", "Best E-Sport Motherboard Award", "Best E-Sport Keyboard Award", "Best E-Sport Mouse Award ", "Best E-Sport Earphone Award", and "E-Sport Innovative Application Special Award". The spirit of the awards is to promote industry transformation and upgrading and to encourage companies in product development related to the fields with high efficiency, high added value, and high innovative applicability. By this approach, it is expected that the international competitive capability of Taiwanese firms can be increased so as to grasp new business opportunities in the blue ocean.
The ceremony of 2016 Taiwan E-Sport Top Gear Awards was held simultaneously with the opening of Taiwan excellent game area in 2016 Taipei Game Show at Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1. The event was conducted through the official website. At the first stage, all products in various categories were open for public nomination and voting. At the second stage, experts from E-Sport Clubs of more than 30 domestic colleges were invited to provide their remarks and select the yearly awards for the best E-Sport product as well as peripheral equipment in each category. This year, 19 products won the distinguished honor and 5 big names in the E-Sport business shared the glory including ASUS, msi, and GIGABYTE etc. Moreover, "THERON PLUS E-Sport Mouse" of Thermaltake won the Innovative Application Special Award, which extolled the two basic elements "innovation" and "application" that are essential for E-Sport product developers in their R&D processes covering hardware, software, platform, and service domains. With the help of products developed according to these two principles, professionals in e-sports can increase their ability. Further, the new technologies and methods created to solve problems, invented for real world application or being applicable to E-sport domain can be applied to other industries for the development of new products which are capable of driving a whole industry or stimulating market expansion.
By hosting the Top Gear Award, III expected to bring more companies in the information industry into the domains related to innovative information application and development. Further, III will add value to domestic products and solution packages starting from core industries like information industry and efficiently integrate the strength of the other related industries to facilitate the development of cross-industry and cross-domain application services. With the excellent quality of Taiwan E-Sport products exhibited at Taipei Game Show, III is confident to assist these companies continuously expand industry influence and consolidate brand development.
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