CEVO S9 with $125,000 purse

9/2/2016 - 00:55

CEVO has announced that it will pay out $125,000 to the teams competing in its professional division in Season 9.

Based on the feedback of top teams in Europe and North America, CEVO has revealed a major overhaul to the system used at its highest tier of Counter-Strike.

Instead of having a traditional league format, CEVO will host four 16-team single-elimination brackets in Europe and in North America to determine the four sides who will represent each region at the season finals.

CEVO-P heading to the Gfinity Arena

A total of $125,000 will be on offer at the event, which represents a considerable boost from the $100,000 prize pool from last season's finals.

For the first time in the history of CEVO-P, the season finals will take place outside of North America, more specifically at the Gfinity Arena from April 28 to May 1, through a partnership with the British company.

"We couldn’t be more excited to be joining forces with our friends at Gfinity to improve upon our longstanding CS:GO seasonal event tradition," CEVO VP of Operations Chris Pipher said in a statement.

"With Gfinity’s state of the art arena and live event production expertise, I can say with confidence that this will be our best CS:GO season to date."

The CEVO finals will kick off with a double-elimination, best-of-three group stage, followed by a single-elimination, best-of-five bracket with the top teams from each group. More information about the event will be released soon on Gfinity's website.

Cool

2016-02-08 23:43

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I don't know if it is 'Cool' Consider that there are this year 4 Pro league seasons with Esl / Eleague which offer a lot more money + 3 Major Tournaments + a shit ton of Dh opens which offer each 200k + quite a few Esl Championships

2016-02-09 04:29

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Still cool that CEVO has managed to up their prizepool and got together with gfinity. And that the cevo-finals appears to be played with bo3 groups and bo5 playoffs :) Its not all about how big the prizepools are. It will be fun to watch, unless the CEVO + gfinity combo will make the event super delayed. And i hope that they'll skip the cancerous mlg.tv to stream it.

2016-02-09 04:37

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Well the question is do the Top10 Team play in a Season with "only" 125k in Prize Pool while there are so many other big events - If they play they won't prepare

2016-02-09 16:30

$$$$$$$$$$

izi money

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wow

2016-02-08 23:44

LOL so many comments already deleted xd hope mine isn't one

2016-02-08 23:45

Amen for you brother

2016-02-09 00:10

why they delete comments? wtf

2016-02-09 07:55

just ban anyone with short comment and edited ones

y not in colombus i wanted to go again major is booty

2016-02-08 23:46

Kicked out of MLG

2016-02-09 04:35

lol 30th

sick

While any amount of money is good for the scene, they need to step it up. Their prize pools are lagging behind harder than any other event organizer.

It's a vey interesting format, you should probably talk more about it in the article hltv

2016-02-08 23:47

Teams? Looks like CEVO is trying to make the schedule lighter because many teams were contemplating pulling out altogether.

2016-02-08 23:48

125k lol even this fucking wannabe gaming paradise shit event had 200k

2016-02-08 23:50

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yep and gaming paradise didnt even paid this 200k so stfu

2016-02-08 23:53

i was talking about Game Show Global eSports Cup 2016 learn english fucking toilet cleaner

2016-02-08 23:54

u should learn english if u cant tell the diffrence between gaming paradise and game show global esport........

2016-02-08 23:56

boring bo2 fixed (because teams dont wanna play whole season for 125k?) what about endless delays and 360p stream quality?

Bo5 bracket rofl But good they got rid of that league

2016-02-08 23:52

Dustin Mouret to the desk please

2016-02-09 00:01

I hope so!

2016-02-09 01:07

125K seem so cheap these days lol

2016-02-09 00:08

for tier3 NA teams ? its fine

2016-02-09 07:08

no more mlg stream boys, we twitchers, no mlg arena no mlg stream, feelsgoodman

2016-02-09 00:14

Hope lurppis gets invited to this one since it's in London.

2016-02-09 00:33

indeed.

2016-02-09 11:36

free money for mouz

2016-02-09 00:41

does this mean the games will finally be on twitch? no more mlg sponsor?

2016-02-09 01:00

Damn, that's an expensive purse. Must be covered in diamonds and gold. Better hold items well!

2016-02-09 01:01

xdddddddddd

2016-02-09 01:21

Whoa no MLG mentioned? Is the CEVO-MLG relationship dead? I hope they never use MLG streaming again.

2016-02-09 01:47

MLG is dead. It'll be Overwatch and Hearthstone only thing.

2016-02-09 02:59

MLG is not dead, Especially since the next major will be hosted by them. I also believe E-LEAGUE signed up with them to host their games.

2016-02-09 03:30

I think he was just referring to the MLG streaming service. I agree with you.

2016-02-09 04:05

Those are existing contracts which Activision-Blizzard had to respect. It's unlikely they will stream non-1st party games in the future.

2016-02-09 11:05

Anyone know when season 10 signups are open?

2016-02-09 01:48

Are mouz & VP still invited?

2016-02-09 01:55

Damn no more MLG streams, best streaming site. Lol @ people blaming MLG for their shit internet.

2016-02-09 06:16

Nice!

2016-02-09 08:51

Even if the prize pool is skinny, I love CEVO analytics and casting. It was a disgrace that the audience was able to get up into the players faces to disturb them though. I guess that is taken care of by going to Gfinity. Good luck CEVO :-)

2016-02-09 08:55

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2016-02-09 09:23

wtf is "gifinity arena"?! do they mean copperbox arena or that shitty cinema in Fulham?

2016-02-09 13:52

Ez For shitnitas

2016-02-09 16:19

shit league

2016-02-09 18:02