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
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