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Think you're a R2 hot shot? Well, now's the time to prove your worth. Major League gaming and PlayStation have teamed up to present a $50,000 R2 Ladder. Some of the best players from all over the country will face off online, and the top 64 teams (256 players total) will win cash and prizes. The first place team will win $9,000 -- not a bad chunk of change for playing a video game, right?

Registration opens next week, on December 22nd. The competition is only open to US residents 17 years of age or older. To find out more, visit GameBattles.

The first official Eye of Judgment tournament will begin in just over a week. The competition, which is global, will last from August 14th to the 21st. During this time you can participate in as many matches as you want in order to get higher on the leaderboard. In order to participate, simply log in to play the game as normal and select "Online Tournament" from the Online Mode select screen. You'll be potentially playing against people from all over the world.

The prizes are pretting intriguing. The overall winner will receive a custom digital card for their deck builder, which will include their name, face and a comment. Useless in game, perhaps, but pretty cool to throw out there to confuse your opponent. They, and nine runners up, will receive unique in-game titles "for eternal glory!" If you want to participate, there are no specific rules regarding deck building. Just jump in with your favorite and see how far you get. For more information, check out the PlayStation Blog.

Finally, America is getting its own Eye of Judgment tournament. "Children of Juno" will begin next Thursday on July 17th, and will run for one week. Participating in the tournament is easy: you just boot up Eye of Judgment and select "Online Tournament" from the menu. You can play as much as you want during this time, as you vouch for the top spot on the leaderboards.

There won't be any prizes, other than bragging rights, but for those whose card collections have been gathering dust, this is as good an excuse as any to finally bust out those decks. For complete rules and details, visit the PlayStation.Blog.

Warhawk isn't the only PS3 exclusive to get its own official tournament. Thanks to a partnership between GGL and Ubisoft, Haze will be getting the same treatment. The 4v4 tournament will start properly on June 4th, prior to which a practice ladder will be running for people to get to grips with the game. Again, if you need help finding team mates, a forum has been set up on the GGL website for just that purpose.

The top 64 squads on the ladder when it closes on July 13th will be put forward to the elimination bracket and will compete to win the $5000 Grand Prize. If you fancy signing up, or finding out more, check out the GGL website.

Online tournament organizer GGL has partnered with Sony to deliver an official Warhawk tournament with some exciting prizes. Unfortunately, the prizes are only available to US citizens, but "Warhawk players from anywhere in the world are welcome to join open competition ladders on GGL's Warhawk Game Group" There's a practice ladder running right now, which will be reset when the official ladder opens on May 27th. This will give those of you who are a bit rusty the chance to shake off the cobwebs and get back to grips with the game.

The tournament is team based and is therefore probably better to play with people who you work well with. However, if you don't have any Warhawk playing friends, or need to bolster your team numbers a bit, you can find new team mates in GGL's "Find/Form a Squad" forum.

On the 29th of June the top 32 teams in the ladder will go on to the Elimination Bracket, where they will whittled down to a single winning team. That team will take home Limited Edition Warhawk statues (worth about $50) as well as an exclusive in-game item -- the Champion's Blade. This "replaces the knife weapon in game and looks completely different so that everyone you encounter will know you won the tournament."

Check out the website for more details and to sign up. Good luck!

Think you're good at Resistance: Fall of Man? Brush up your skills as Insomniac's FPS game is featured in a brand new GameStop tournament. Winners of the tournament will get a Star Wars Battlefront PSP, jacket and more. You must be 17 years of age or older to register. Make us proud, PS3 Fanboys.

Gamespot's MotorStorm tournament is wrapping up today, with the top 10 racers competing in one last competition of their off-road racing skills. The event is starting at 7:00 PM EST, with the top player pulling in $1,000 worth of prizes and a whole lotta geek cred.

Personally, I'll be watching and taking notes. I need some help clearing those last tickets in MotorStorm - the AI is just plain evil!