Ladies and Gentlemen, after 3 months of fierce competition on the Command & Conquer 3 1v1 Ranked Ladder, and over 50,000 online competitors world-wide, the first ladder season for Command & Conquer 3 is coming to a close as we begin Round 1 of the Grand Championship Tournament, this Saturday January 12th, live starting at 10:00AM Pacific Standard Time on our official website, www.commandandconquer.com.

The Grand Champion of the tournament will win $5,000 U.S dollars and the distinction as one of the best C&C players in the world. This is going to be quite an epic showdown which will contain a number of top C&C players from the 2007 World Cyber Games as well. If you want to see some of the best C&C 3 matches ever, then you must tune in and watch these matches live at our official website www.commandandconquer.com using our BattleCast system.

The top 32 competitors from the regular 3 month season have been ranked and put in to 4 group brackets. All matchups are a "Best of 3" and single elimination.