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

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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

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Round One

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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