PGS announces €5,000 CS:GO tourney

17/9/2012 - 16:37

The ProGamerSeries (PGS) organisers have announced that they will also be running a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament with €5,000 up for grabs.

The Portuguese event has caught the eye of the 1.6 community as it may be one of the last opportunities to see the top teams lock horns in this game before they switch to CS:GO.

Natus Vincere, fnatic and Anexis are some of the teams who will be in attendance in the 1.6 tournament, which will hand out a whopping €15,000.

Following the announcement that the prize purse for the Starcraft II competition had been decreased due to the fact that it fell on the same days as other events, the PGS organisation has now put together €5,000 for a CS:GO tournament.

The competition, called PGS MSI CS:GO, will be limited to eight teams, with the prize distribution as follows:

1. €3,000
2. €1,350
3. €650

Teams who wish to attend this event can contact the organisers here. Stay tuned to HLTV.org for all the information about PGS, which will take place from October 11-14 at Exponor, in the city of Oporto.

Kewl.

2012-09-17 16:38

thats nice

2012-09-17 16:40

so many Go tournys lol some team is gona cleap up

2012-09-17 16:42

can a team join both the 1.6 and csgo competition ?

2012-09-17 16:43

would be nice if fnatic could attend both tournaments(i think it is impossible,becuase probably the matches will be in same time) anyway good luck to the teams that will atend

2012-09-17 16:46

nice

2012-09-17 16:48

2012-09-17 16:51

thumbs up for portugal..again!

2012-09-17 16:58

dates of this event? and is it a byoc or non byoc? / location, the website has hardly information on there and isn't finished being made ;e

2012-09-17 17:03

3 replies

11-4 October / NON BYOC / Porto, Portugal

2012-09-17 17:07

2 replies

thanks - will look into it, any idea on the entry fee?

2012-09-17 17:09

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11-14 * progamerseries.net/pages.php?page_id=20

2012-09-17 17:10

nice.. enjoy porto's night, its freaking amazing..

I like how Portugal is making all this tourneys now, they should do it more times, i twould be better for the competition and the PT teams itself.

2012-09-17 17:15

Fnatic, what you gonna do now?!

2012-09-17 17:40

attend the 1.6 tourney obviously

2012-09-17 17:43

Pentagram G-Shock

lol they should have raised the cs 1.6 prizes

Great news :) CS:GO getting picked up everywhere atm.

2012-09-17 17:51

Good News!! GL

2012-09-17 17:57

damn niceee ! PGS <3

2012-09-17 18:54

Nice!

2012-09-17 19:24

1-6 have more prize pool than cs go

u're stupid or what?

2012-09-17 19:33

where does the money come from? sounds shady.

2012-09-17 20:01

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thats what i think of your mom's money.

2012-09-17 20:38

was that the best you could come up with? i hope you didnt think too long on that one.

2012-09-17 22:02

PGS "MSI" CS:GO Oh wait...

2012-09-17 21:14

you play cs go on pubs ... topzao

2012-09-17 23:24

They have sponsors listed on their site, I dont see why it would be shady.

2012-09-17 22:06

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hltv logic bro, dont argue with it...

2012-09-17 23:14

True that.

i havent bothered to locate their site or anything like that. not really sure why im flamed. i asked a simple question and i motivated my question with my last sentence. that was all. im happy to be proven wrong. its just that there is (or was, more like) events out there offering $$$ and then never paying it out, even big ones that on the outside have presented big sponsors etc. i think it's just healthy to be sceptical when it comes to a new event (this might be an old portuguese event but they've never hosted a big european tournament like this as far as i know)

2012-09-18 00:33

so did that india gaming festival

2012-09-18 01:18

But PGS has held events before, not on a european level, but in local level. So they deserve a bit more of trust. Also, IGF offered way more money lol.

2012-09-18 14:27

ye .. AMAZING:: the comunity on portugal of csgo is BIGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

9 replies

n1 kid, you already know how to use the caps lock, semxorah or u get k1cked from website

2012-09-18 01:59

8 replies

+1 ahahah

2012-09-18 11:23

AHAHAHAHAHAH

2012-09-18 11:48

no... delta is better... lose two maps and K1CKED from GG ..

2012-09-18 17:47

Delta is not from Brazil, so the logic in your answer. Your nick demonstrates your maturity, childish. Grow up

2012-09-18 18:29

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*so... no logic in your answer*

2012-09-18 18:31

brazil only have one team? you forget the old mibr? the champions! k1ck win something? one dreamhack with noob teams! and my nick is for people like you!

2012-09-18 21:30

and what? I fkin hate kids like you always spaming with no sense ps: Portuguese people discovered your fkin country and I don't remember anyone so stupid and childish like you, kid!

2012-09-19 10:32

yes.. and now need money.. losers

2012-09-19 13:39

cs go -is not cs

2012-09-18 11:33

ez money for NiP if they attend

2012-09-18 21:35