By Brian Crecente, 5:00 PM on Mon Apr 17 2006, 1,072 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Major League Gaming announced today a deal with the USA Network to air seven one-hour video gaming competitions, according to the Associated Press.

Now here's the weird thing, according to the story the televised gaming will feature top players from Halo 2 on the Xbox and Super Smash Bros. Melee on the GameCube. What? Can that be right?

Why not some PC, PS2 and Xbox 360 competition? Very odd indeed.

I know SSBM is a crazy popular game, but I think for first impressions the MLG should have stuck to shooters and RTS.

Professional video gaming set for TV debut [AP]