Gfinity LAN with $30k prize purse

20-3-2014 21:43

Gfinity has announced that it will hold an event in the United Kingdom with up to $30,000 up for grabs in the CS:GO tournament.

Gfinity has been very busy of late trying to break into the competitive scene and is currently organising a professional league featuring cash prizes of $7,500 and some of Europe's strongest sides.

It has now been confirmed that Gfinity is moving on to organising a major LAN event, which will take place from May 24th to 25th at the 7,000-seated Copperbox Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

There will be five games (Call of Duty: Ghosts, CS:GO, DotA 2, StarCraft II and Fifa 14) being played at the event, for a combined prize purse of $175,000. HLTV.org knows that at least $30,000 will be allocated to the CS:GO tournament.

There will be invitational and open qualifiers for the British event. More information about these tournaments will be revealed during the coming days.

Spectator tickets will go on sale on Monday, March 24th, priced at £22 per day.

n111111

2014-03-20 21:44

1 reply

pack your things!

2014-03-20 22:03

nice

2014-03-20 21:45

wow good ;D

n1ce

siiiiiiccck if this dont revive the uk scene nothing will =p

2014-03-20 21:46

3 replies

Monty boy, why the hope

2014-03-21 00:52

There will be invitational and open qualifiers for the British event.

2014-03-21 13:33

why would it

2014-03-21 19:11

nice!

2014-03-20 21:47

Awesome.

Hopefully some top teams come!

2014-03-20 21:50

4 replies

;)

2014-03-20 21:57

2 replies

They will do if Gumpster keeps admin-ing well :D xD

2014-03-20 22:09

pls

2014-03-20 22:55

like rattlesnakes team? TRLOLOLOOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOL

2014-03-21 12:40

nice :D

2014-03-20 21:51

Is gfinity just MLG's expansion into Europe? where is their funding from?

2014-03-20 21:52

Gfinity is seperate to MLG, only partnered up.

2014-03-20 21:56

who gave them 175k+?

2014-03-20 22:11

Sponsors. They have been hosting leagues and lans for a while. They're pretty much the only organizer in the UK so finding sponsors from locals is "easy".

2014-03-20 22:38

Sick something I can actually go to :D

2014-03-20 21:55

CoD:ghost pc ofc ? :)

on the console, haha

2014-03-21 00:40

LANS ....LANS EVERYWHERE good

Nice.

Holy cow this actually might be good, e.g. no lan servers with 20% loss, should be pretty sick :D

2014-03-20 21:58

Hmm 5mins away ok in.

2014-03-20 22:08

Lets make mix neiL :) I miss you bro!

2014-03-20 22:10

B@CK CMON?

2014-03-20 23:32

Added u steam niggy

2014-03-21 00:09

hype

22 pound seems expensive per day? If it goes over 4 days like DH or EMS thats 90 pound or (110 euro / 150 USD)

2014-03-20 22:15

24th and 25th of May only :(

2014-03-20 22:16

very nice

2014-03-20 22:20

This should be fantastic! Looking forward to it :) Hope everyone has been enjoying the gfinity Alienware pro league as well.

2014-03-20 22:23

Hope the gfinity stream might get more then a few hundred viewers when they stream their league matches now:)

2014-03-20 22:37

where abouts?

"which will take place at the 7,000-seated Copperbox Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London." :p

2014-03-20 22:41

hope2go

damn miss topic XD

2014-03-20 22:53

What's the dates of this LAN?

2014-03-20 22:52

What are the dates? Want to make sure I can attend.

COOOl!

2014-03-20 22:57

Nice, CS:GO competitive scene is going big. There is a lot of new tournaments in different countries

2014-03-20 23:01

yeah it's pretty nice :D

2014-03-23 22:22

GUnitttt

2014-03-20 23:02

csgo is rolling !!!

2014-03-20 23:04

lans everywhere!

2014-03-20 23:19

gl VP :D

2014-03-20 23:29

Yyyyyyeeeaaaahhhhh

2014-03-20 23:33

date??? :)

2014-03-20 23:43

+1 date? :>

2014-03-20 23:46

UK should host all 250k event by the way , no crowd favor for "expected" finalist teams

2014-03-20 23:48

Lol agreed

2014-03-21 04:06

Not bad!

2014-03-20 23:52

2014-03-20 23:54

Nice to see Gfinity supporting cs at a uk event and with the prize pool hopefully the top teams will attend. Will try to go and spectate seeing as it's in London, can take the camera if HLTV need someone to do some photo galleries :P

2014-03-21 00:00

So CS:GO isn't even getting 1/5th of the overall prize purse for the 5 tournaments. INB4 $100k to COD:Ghosts \o/ Either way, still awesome :D. UK scene needs something.

2014-03-21 00:13

At least 30k bro so it might be more than that

2014-03-21 00:35

Alth, it is minimum prize at the moment. ;)

2014-03-21 01:10

30K are solid!!! i hope that we will see compLexity there!

2014-03-21 01:01

6 replies

we wont.. just saw that its onyl 12 teams :*( no uk teams im guesing then

2014-03-21 01:12

5 replies

12 teams hmmm titan nip virtus.pro hellraisers dignitas fnatic CRG hudgz team +1 more uk team at least LGB LDLC/mystic 3Dmax prolly something like that

2014-03-21 01:18

CRG? lol?

2014-03-21 01:29

are there any better uk team?

2014-03-21 03:13

I would have to say toxic but I guess we will have to wait and see

2014-03-21 03:27

Hey c'mon they beat fnatic on lan (when fnatic were pissed up)

2014-03-21 04:08

Pretty incredible... gonna smash the qualifiers!

2014-03-21 02:02

dates are 24-25th of May btw

2014-03-21 02:05

Nice to see a UK LAN of merit happening.

2014-03-21 04:24

no way! awesum

2014-03-21 09:21

What platform is CoD:Ghosts being played on?

2014-03-21 10:27

do you cheat at that too?

2014-03-21 13:42

yep

2014-03-24 10:37

2014-03-21 11:25

sweeeet <3

2014-03-21 12:12

Lets hope they can get some high level teams in the bracket.

2014-03-21 13:37

Will be there LIVE :)

2014-03-21 14:15

Any 1 needs player for this ?:)

2014-03-21 14:57

heard ENCE are looking for a new 5th

2014-03-21 15:27

This is great news. hopefully some great teams go. On another note however, if this really is to help the uk scene they will have to have a uk ONLY qualifier with maybe 3 or 4 places up for grabs in the main event. I really hope they do this regardless of the fact they would probably get smashed out it's the first step in the right direction. peace xx ;)

2014-03-21 18:45