$50,000 Intel Challenge Katowice 2018!

ESL Gaming

We are thrilled to announce that ESL has once again partnered with Intel and AnyKey to bring you the fourth edition of the Intel Challenge Katowice! Eight top women’s CS:GO teams will travel to Poland to compete for a prize pool of US$50,000 on February 23-24 at the IEM EXPO.… Read the rest

ELEAGUE Major: Boston to Crown Counter-Strike: Global Offensive World Champion

ELEAGUE

Turner and IMG’s ELEAGUE will host the thrilling conclusion to the first CS:GO Major Championship of 2018 –  The ELEAGUE Major: Boston – with live coverage from Boston’s Agganis Arena presented on Twitch, beginning Friday, Jan. 26, at 10 a.m. ET. Eight of the initial 24 teams remain in contention for the title of World Champion, and will face off in a single elimination bracket, playing best-of-three map matches until a victor emerges. … Read the rest

ELEAGUE Major: Boston Action Continues with The New Legends Stage

ELEAGUE

Turner and IMG’s ELEAGUE will continue live coverage of The ELEAGUE Major: Boston with The New Legends stage, Friday-Monday, Jan. 19-22, beginning daily at 10 a.m. ET on Twitch. This second stage of the three-week world championship, featuring a $1 million dollar prize pool, will showcase 16 teams competing for eight spots in The New Champions round, held Friday-Sunday, Jan.… Read the rest

FACEIT – ECS Challenger Cup with Open Qualifiers for ECS Season 5

CS:GO League

FACEIT’s Esports Championship Series (ECS), the first CS:GO league to offer players co-ownership and true collaboration in league activities, is shaking up the qualification format for ECS Season 5 by eliminating the ECS Development League and introducing the new ECS Challenger Cup. In previous seasons, teams would earn a place in ECS through the ECS Development League but with the busy CS:GO league and tournament schedule, the process is changed to allow more teams to participate.… Read the rest

100Thieves to be Replaced in The ELEAGUE Major: Boston

ELEAGUE

ELEAGUE has just confirmed that, unfortunately, 100Thieves has not been able to secure visas in time to be eligible to compete in The ELEAGUE Major: Boston. We will identify a replacement through the use of decider matches, formatted in collaboration with Valve, that will include the team(s) finishing The New Challenger stage with a 2-3 record who also faced the strongest performing opponents.… Read the rest

Details of the EU and NA CS:GO qualifiers for IEM World Championship Katowice

Intel® Extreme Masters

Intel® Extreme Masters returns to Katowice on March 2-4 with a US$500,000 CS:GO tournament featuring the world’s top teams. Eight out of 16 competing teams will be determined through regional qualifiers, where EU gets 4 slots, and NA gets 2 slots. Here’s how it’s going to happen.

All closed qualifiers invites have been sent out and will be announced next week.… Read the rest

FaZe Clan Takes Home The $250,000 Grand Prize At The Esports Championship Series Season 4 Final

The Esports Championship Series (ECS) has crowned FaZe Clan as the champions of Season 4 of the popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) competition. After three days of exciting matches between the world’s best CS:GO teams, FaZe Clan proved too much for the competition and took home the grand prize of $250,000 USD and the title of ECS Season 4 champions.… Read the rest

Dates and format of the IEM World Championship CS:GO qualifiers

IEM

Intel® Extreme Masters once again returns to Katowice, Poland, where thousands of passionate fans will fill the Spodek arena on March 2-4 to celebrate esports and conclude season 12 of the longest-running global pro gaming circuit in the world. IEM Katowice will host a CS:GO tournament consisting of the preliminary phase from February 27 to March 1 and the playoffs on March 2-4.… Read the rest

The ELEAGUE Major: Boston to Crown Next Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Champion

ELEAGUE

ELEAGUE, the premium esports tournament and content brand from Turner and IMG, today revealed the star-studded teams set to compete in The ELEAGUE Major: Boston, the 12th Major Championship in CS:GO history and the first to use newly-unveiled competition stage names from game publisher Valve.

The ELEAGUE Major: Boston will begin with Valve’s The New Challengers stage (formerly the “Major Qualifier”), Friday-Monday, Jan.… Read the rest