Here we go! In cooperation with Acer and Intel, we proudly announce our first official steps into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Our brand new CS:GO league will begin this month, featuring top teams from around the world fighting for a $40,000 prize pool. The league will consist of 12 teams who will compete online. The best eight teams will then make it to the offline final, which will take place in the brand new TaKeTV studio in Krefeld. There, they‘ll fight to become the very first champions of the Acer Predator Masters powered by Intel.
Teams 10 international teams will receive a direct invitation to the online stage. They will be joined by two teams who will secure their slot via online qualifiers.
These are the 10 invited teams who have already confirmed their participation:
Online Qualifier Two more teams will be given the chance to qualify for the Acer Predator Masters powered by Intel. The online qualifier will be hosted by our partner, the Electronic Sports League (ESL), who will use Wire Anti-Cheat to make sure everything proceeds fairly. The online qualifier takes place on Friday, April 24th 2015. → Sign up HERE.
Prize money distribution
1st $20,000 2nd $10,000 3rd $7,000 4th $3,000
Format The online stage begins on April 23rd 2015. Our league will feature 12 teams in a classic league format – each team plays each opponent once. Every league match will be a best of three (bo3). The top eight teams of the league secure themselves a slot for the offline LAN finals in Krefeld. The finals will be played in a double elimination bracket with best of three matches. The grand final will be a best of five. We will use the current Valve competitive map pool including de_train. Every team that makes it to the finals is automatically qualified for the next season. Current information and standings can be found on acer.TaKeTV.net.
Caster TaKeTV will be casting every match in German. Games will be brought to you by the recently added casting duo David “CHEF-KOCH” Nagel and Fabian “fabE” Logemann on our Twitch channel. There will be additional streams in the following languages, provided by ESL: English, Russian, Polish, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Turkish and Swedish.
Offline Finals The culmination of the Acer Predator Masters powered by Intel will be the offline finals in Krefeld. The finals will take place from July 30th to August 2nd in the brand new TakeTV location in Krefeld. The top 8 teams will fight for the full amount of $40,000.
Man, i would love to be there and watch the LAN finals and to see the new appartement, but i could bet my left ball that i won't get vacation for that date.
On August 01 2015 06:21 Fusilero wrote: What happened to TSM, how did they go out 1-4. I was looking forward to a mouz v TSM finals as well :<
Come to tournament with the attitude: Ez win ez life. Win Inferno against e-what? (ex G-Play) with 16:4 or something, really strong. Act like you won the whole tournament Lose Mirage closely and Overpass badly.
The next day, fall lose to Hellraisers while making a 14-11 to a 14-16
not much to say. Was funny to see the skins go down. And that this tier 1-3 bullshit stopped for the weekend. As now no "tier 1" team is left.
Mhmmm I felt bad for Rahim at the end. I thought he did a good job when he casted with DDK. But RL came of as a dick in that mouz vs SK cast But maybe it just looked like this and they're friends. No clue.
RL took up too much space on the cast for Rahim to do his thing. If you put RL on the cast, expect him to be the loudest guy there, especially when he's had a couple of beers. That being said the casting yesterday was both relaxing and educational at the same time and I thoroughly enjoyed (even if Rahim's casting wasn't up to par). Oh and... GO E-FRAG!
On August 01 2015 20:38 bluQ wrote: Why isn't it listed on TL Sidebar as Event o.O
Probably because of the TL redesign. I only have Sc2 live events in my Live Events bar,even though there should be APM and sgdq as well, according to my preferences..
They're drinking Diebels Alt beer on stream for SOME reason. That's a REALLY awkward kind of beer (trust me, I have to drink that at my grandmother's place). Tastes like a dusty attic. Wonder why haha.
I couldn't/ can't catch to much of this tournament. But I'm really impressed by Take's new location. You can clearly see how passionate these crazy guys are for e-sports. So much respect for Dennis. Putting his future at risk to do what he loves and to see E-sports succeed.
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But maybe it just looked like this and they're friends. No clue.
