ESPC #3 announced

ESPC are hosting their third CS:GO tournament in Helsinki on September 28th. A total of eight teams will be in attendance, team solemn and 4w being invited by the organizers.

Like the previous two ESPC tournaments, the third one will be held at Pelitalo, which is also the home for Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen's Areena gather-tournaments.

The one day tournament sponsored by CM Storm will start with two simultaneous groups consisting of four teams using the GSL group stage format, which was used at DreamHack Summer 2013. Top two teams will continue to single-elimination best-of-three playoffs. 

allu is looking for a second consecutive ESPC win.

Teams will be allowed to setup at 10:00 on Saturday, followed up by both groups being played with matches starting at 11:00 , 12:15 and 13:30 .

The semi-finals are expected to kick-off at 16:00 after a lunch break for the teams, followed up by the third place decider and the grand final right after both semi-finals.

The organizers have decided to invite two of the best Finnish teams, Aleksi "allu" Jalli's 4w and Timo "reflex" Rintala's team solemn, both of whom have accepted the invitations.

Confirmed teams for ESPC #3:

4w (natu, allu, suNny, reVicer, xartE)
team solemn (disturbed, KHRN, reflex, God, stonde)

Last six spots are up for grabs for the fastest teams that signup via this form starting on tomorrow, September 3rd at 17:00 . The entry fee for the tournament is 165€ per team.

Prize pot of the tournament will be 1,200€, and it will be split between top three finishers, who also get rewarded in hardware courtesy of the event's sponsor CM Storm.

ESPC #3 prize distribution:

1. 800€ + 5x CM Storm Quickfire TK
2. 400€ + 5x CM Storm Ceres-400
3. 5x CM Storm Pitch

Previous ESPC tournaments this year were won by RAIDERS and Curse.EU. This upcoming event will be streamed in Finnish by ESPC TV, with casters to be announced at a later date.