News Brief
International video-gaming tournament in Sydney dishes out $12 000 in cash.
Sydney’s video gaming community was dominated in an international video-gaming tournament last weekend.
Players competed in the real-time strategy game Starcaft II for more than $12 000 worth of prizes and a chance to represent the South East Asian Region in a world-championship late in the year.
The Grand prize of $5000, plane tickets and entrance to the world championship was handed to proud Melbournian Andrew Pender who goes by the name MoonGlade while Sydney local Tim Le Hei came in at third.
The tournament was sponsored by multi-national Blizzard and featured players from New Zealand and South East Asia.
Software Engineer and E-sports enthusiast Derek Reball said this year has been a significant marker for professional video gaming in Australia and the community will only grow from here.
Police are investigating stun gun robbery in Camperdown
Police are searching for four men who robbed two women, aged 32 and 28, with a stun gun early on Saturday morning.
The two women were sitting at a bus stop around 3:30am when a white care with four men pulled up in front of them.
Two men got out of the car and demanded money and struck one of the women with an inactivated stun gun.
The two men returned to the car empty handed and were last seen driving down Pyrmont Bridge Road.
The police are investigating the link between this crime and others involving a stun gun committed earlier this week.
Council gives $30,000 to establish a Sydney Film Centre
The City of Sydney has donated $30 000 dollars towards the Sydney Film Festival in order to investigate the feasibility of Sydney Film Centre.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP was approached by Sydney Film luminaries such as Gillian Armstrong, Margaret Pomeranz with an initial proposal to set up the centre that would provide major film events, films on demand, educational programs and encouragement for the local film industry.
The feasibility study will research the economic, cultural and touristic outcomes of the centre as well as looking for an appropriate site to house the film hub.
The idea has received praise by famous screen names and institutions alike with the likes of Cate Blanchett, Bryan Brown and The National Film and Sound Archive throwing their support behind the proposal.
The National Film and Sound Archive said their recently acquired Film Australia archive has no effective means of exhibition established a Sydney Film Centre could in part solve this.
