Online Rumors Confirmed – eSports
Powerhouse OpTic Gaming has Partnered
with Turtle Beach to use the Elite Pro as
OpTic’s Official Gaming Audio Gear of Choice
San
Diego, CA – May 3, 2016 – A decade ago Turtle
Beach Corporation
(NASDAQ: HEAR), a leading audio technology company for over 40 years,
pioneered the console gaming headset category and is set to do so again in 2016
with its revolutionary Turtle
Beach® Elite Pro Tournament Gaming Headset, Elite Pro Tactical Audio Controller (T.A.C.)
and Elite Pro accessories designed for competitive gamers, which
establishes a new standard for eSports gaming audio performance and comfort. Turtle
Beach’s “Elite” series products
represent the highest level in audio and build quality, and the all-new Elite
Pro Headset, T.A.C. and Elite Pro accessories are
the Company’s all-new line of competitive gaming audio gear created to meet the
demands of today’s professional and aspiring pro teams and players.
The Elite
Pro Headset’s journey began in 2013. Seeing the consistent growth and
popularity of eSports, Turtle Beach launched a comprehensive scientific
research program to deeply examine the needs of professional and hardcore
gamers as it pertained to game audio, communicating with teammates, and overall
comfort. The result is the all-new Elite Pro Tournament Gaming Headset
– a ground-up redesign of the competitive gaming headset that brings to market multiple
first-and-only innovations in the core mechanics of headset design, weight and
fit. Not only does the Elite Pro Headset provide Turtle
Beach’s best-in-class game audio and chat performance, but also delivers groundbreaking
comfort-driven technologies, including the ComforTec™
Fit System with multiple adjustment points for a truly personalized headset
fit and feel, Aerofit™ Ear Cushions that
stay cool in the heat of battle, and Turtle Beach’s all-new patented ProSpecs™ Glasses Relief System that
finally makes wearing a gaming headset comfortable for players who wear
glasses.
Additionally,
the Elite
Pro T.A.C. is the most powerful audio controller ever designed for
eSports, combining cutting-edge audio technology like DTS™ Headphone:X 7.1 Surround Sound and Superhuman Hearing™ with incredibly powerful chat and microphone
tuning tools, giving eSports athletes everything they need to win. The Elite
Pro Headset, T.A.C. and accessories are planned to launch globally this
summer, and are currently available for pre-order starting today at participating
retail outlets worldwide.
“Part
of Turtle Beach’s core DNA is driving innovation that benefits gamers. Given
that we invented the console gaming headset space many years ago, we felt it
was only natural for us to reinvent the gaming headset for the current era of
eSports to meet the expectations of today’s competitive gamers,” said Juergen
Stark, CEO, Turtle Beach Corporation.
Stark
continued, “There are plenty of great gaming headsets and audio gear out there,
but we saw the need to drive fundamental innovation to make it better for
eSports. We spent the past three years developing the Elite Pro Headset, T.A.C.
and accessories, working with industry experts and eSports aficionados to
ensure we thought of everything. And once we felt like we had it right, we
spent months refining every detail to make it perfect. The fact that OpTic
Gaming – one of the best pro gaming organizations in the world – chose to
partner with us because of the Elite Pro just goes to show this is another
game-changing line of products from #TeamTurtleBeach that brings true
innovation to the market.”
Fully
supporting this step-change in competitive gaming audio accessories, OpTic
Gaming – one of the
most prolific eSports organizations in the world – selected Turtle Beach and
the all-new Elite Pro line as their official gaming audio gear of choice. Through
this new partnership, OpTic’s Championship Call
of Duty, Halo and Counter Strike: Global Offensive teams
will begin using the Elite Pro Headset, T.A.C. and other
accessories as they continue to dominate the competitive gaming circuit. OpTic
Gaming’s first event using the new Elite Pro setup will be as the
defending Call of Duty champions at
this year’s eSports World Convention which takes place later this week, May 6-8, 2016 in
Paris, France.
Hector
Rodriguez, Team Manager for OpTic Gaming commented, “Everybody knows Turtle
Beach. They’ve been around forever and have some great gaming headsets, so they
definitely piqued our curiosity when they told us they were working on a
top-secret eSports headset we’d be interested in seeing. So we invited Turtle
Beach to the OpTic Gaming house here in Chicago to see what they had in store
for us, and the moment they brought out the Elite Pro Headset, T.A.C.
and other gear we knew simply by looking at everything that this was a vast
departure from what we were expecting. The more we explored and played with the
Elite
Pro Headset’s features – like the cooling ear cushions, the adjustment
you can make to the ear-cups for players who wear glasses, or how you can
adjust the overall fit on your head – the more we knew it was revolutionary, and
something that the OpTic teams would absolutely want to use. Turtle Beach
brought their A-game with the Elite Pro, no questions asked.”
Turtle
Beach’s all-new Elite Pro line defines the future of eSports gaming audio
equipment, delivering best-in-class audio performance for game sound and team
chat, plus innovative comfort-driven technologies to ensure players stay
comfortable and cool under fire.
The Elite
Pro Tournament Gaming Headset’s all-new 50mm Nanoclear™ speakers deliver more efficient, crisper audio with less
distortion for a game-changing sound experience, while the Pro Gaming Microphone with TruSpeak™ Technology provides crystal
clear chat to ensure team communication is always heard loud and clear. Comfort-wise,
the Elite
Pro Headset debuts Turtle Beach’s latest groundbreaking gaming headset
innovations:
– ComforTec Fit System – A revolutionary adjustment system
allowing players to truly personalize the fit of the headset to their
preference. This includes unique tension controls to adjust the tightness of
the headset, plus a floating headband that perfectly distributes the Elite
Pro Headset’s weight across the head, and a separate head-size
adjustment – all combined to allow gamers independent control of the ear-cup
position and headband tension for the first time ever.
– Aerofit Ear Cushions – Where groundbreaking material
technologies combine to provide the best of both worlds when it comes to
competitive gaming and comfort. The ear pads are wrapped in smooth Asahi
spandex fabric combined with unique cooling gel-infused memory foam that keeps players
cooler for longer. Additionally, separate internal and external leather
sidewalls on the ear-cups isolate the acoustic chambers for better sound while
blocking out external noise like the roar of the crowd.
– ProSpecs Glasses Relief System – Turtle Beach’s patented system that
provides an easy adjustment built into the ear-cups to create a small channel
in the ear cushion allowing gamers who wear glasses to finally play in comfort.
Additionally,
the Elite
Pro Headset comes with Customizable
Speaker Plates that attach magnetically to the outside of the ear-cups, and
includes the Circuit Pro™ Cable System
that allows for quick and easy connections to all Elite Pro accessories
through one easy, universal connection.
Further,
the Elite
Pro Tactical Audio Controller offers much more beyond DTS Headphone:X 7.1 Surround Sound and Superhuman Hearing. The T.A.C. has an all-new fingertip slide system that
brings the power of a robust tournament grade gaming audio mixer under instant
control, and includes breakthrough features such as the Background Noise Limiter on your microphone and the Outbound Mic Boost control, both built
specifically for team play at eSports events. The T.A.C.’s Background Noise Limiter helps eliminate
distractions via providing tunable mic levels, while the Outbound Mic Boost feature is there to ensure every word is heard loud
and clear by teammates, even over the roar of the crowd during those crucial
last-minute encounters that lead to victory. The Elite Pro T.A.C. can also
be used as a full, external USB 7.1 Surround Sound card on your PC, and multiple
T.A.C.s
can quickly and easily be daisy-chained together using standard Ethernet cables
to form a LAN chat network anywhere.
And
when combined with the optional Elite Pro accessories (each sold
separately), gamers will have in their possession the absolute ultimate pro
gaming audio setup designed to help them win. Additional Elite Pro accessories
include:
– Elite Pro Tournament Noise-Cancelling
Microphone – A
breakthrough active noise-cancelling microphone built for eSports. Add the Elite Pro Tournament Noise-Cancelling
Microphone to the Elite Pro Headset and T.A.C.
for game-changing chat performance that isolates the high-sensitivity
microphone from the roar of the crowd.
– Elite Pro Tactical Audio Adapter for
Xbox One – Turtle
Beach’s Elite Pro Tactical Audio Adapter for Xbox One offers players features
including Superhuman Hearing, Dynamic Chat Boost™, Bass Boost, Mic
Monitoring and Turtle Beach’s signature audio presets.
– Elite Pro A.M.P. for PlayStation®4 – The Elite Pro A.M.P. for PlayStation
4 is the perfect home gaming companion to the Turtle Beach Elite Headset,
adding powerful amplified audio from your PS4™ or PS3™ console, plus Microphone
Monitoring so you can hear your own voice in the headset to avoid shouting.
For
more information on the Turtle Beach Elite Pro Tournament Gaming Headset,
Elite
Pro Tactical Audio Controller and Elite Pro accessories,
visit http://www.turtlebeach.com/elite-pro-headsets. For more information on the latest
Turtle Beach gaming headsets and accessories, visit www.turtlebeach.com and be sure to follow Turtle Beach on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Ultimate
eSports performance, ultimate comfort, and the ultimate eSports audio setup
designed to help you dominate the competition…this is Elite Pro!
About OpTic Gaming
OpTic
Gaming is a premier eSports organization and competitive gaming team. Founded
in 2006, OpTic is based in the metro Chicago area and is owned by Hector
Rodriguez. With millions of followers across various social channels, OpTic is
among the most popular and successful eSports teams on the planet which
currently consists of rosters that compete professionally in Call of Duty, Halo, and Counter Strike:
Global Offensive. Learn more at http://www.optic.tv and on
Twitter @OpTicGaming.
About Turtle Beach Corporation
Turtle
Beach Corporation (http://corp.turtlebeach.com) designs innovative, market-leading
audio products for the consumer, healthcare and commercial sectors. Under
its award-winning Turtle Beach brand (www.turtlebeach.com), the Company has been the clear
market share leader for the past five-plus years with its wide selection of
acclaimed gaming headsets for use with Xbox One and PlayStation 4,
as well as personal computers and mobile/tablet devices. Under the HyperSound brand (www.hypersound.com), the Company markets pioneering directed
audio solutions that have applications in hearing healthcare, digital signage
and kiosks and consumer electronics. The Company’s shares are traded on the
NASDAQ Exchange under the symbol: HEAR.
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