Map pool for MLG Aspen revealed

15-1-2015 10:41

Major League Gaming has announced the map pool for the upcoming X Games Aspen event.

From January 23-25, MLG will host its first major CS:GO tournament, with eight teams - three from North America, one from South America and four from Europe - facing off for a prize purse of $50,000.

These eight participants have been drawn into top groups of four teams, who will take on each other in a round robin stage. The top two sides from each group will advance to the single-elimination playoffs, which will use a best-of-three format.

MLG has now announced that it will use the standard map pool for the tournament, with de_overpass and de_cobblestone included. Below you can find all the maps that will be played at the event:

de_dust2

de_inferno

de_nuke

de_mirage

de_cache

de_overpass

de_cbble

de_dust2
de_inferno
de_nuke
de_mirage
de_cache
de_overpass
de_cobblestone

The $50,000 will be distributed among the top four teams as follows:

1. - $25,000
2. - $12,500
3. - $7,500
4. - $5,000

The full tournament schedule has also been released, and it looks as follows:

Friday, January 23
19:00	ex-iBUYPOWER	vs.	fnatic
20:00	ex-mouseSpaz	vs.	LDLC
21:00	NiP	vs.	dignitas
22:00	KaBuM.TD	vs.	Cloud9
23:30	LDLC	vs.	fnatic
00:30	ex-mouseSpaz	vs.	ex-iBUYPOWER
01:30	Cloud9	vs.	NiP
02:30	dignitas	vs.	KaBuM.TD
Saturday, January 24
19:00	fnatic	vs.	ex-mouseSpaz
20:00	ex-iBUYPOWER	vs.	LDLC
21:00	NiP	vs.	KaBuM.TD
22:00	Cloud9	vs.	dignitas
23:30	Semi-final #1
01:30	Semi-final #2
Sunday, January 25
18:00	Bronze medal
20:30	Grand final

nice

2015-01-15 10:42

8 replies

expected

2015-01-15 10:43

7 replies

u shitting me? cobble? expected. all leagues in na use season now. should ve known when they used it in the qualifier. rip mlg.

2015-01-15 11:03

6 replies

expect the worst my friend

2015-01-15 11:18

3 replies

why not try the new train?

2015-01-15 11:55

2 replies

theres no feedback on train yet, and they didnt even update the map one bit in yesterdays udpate.

2015-01-15 12:07

1 reply

exackly.thats my point.focus on cobble and overpass only. they could put some energy on train as well.

2015-01-15 12:13

any leagues using season already? I don't recall the map pool of everything, but would like to see cobblestone gone too.

2015-01-16 02:36

esea

2015-01-16 11:42

No train? =(

is it ready ?

2015-01-15 10:55

yolo

2015-01-15 11:05

2015-01-15 14:08

RIP Train :(

2015-01-15 15:29

WHEN I THINK IN Train I think of 4fun Kappa

2015-01-15 11:04

still in developement

de_cbble roflcopter

n1n1

Major map pool inb4 300k prizepool

2015-01-15 10:44

EG & CLG wont play with his new names?

their new names that haven't been made public yet

2015-01-15 10:46

train/season > cbbl

2015-01-15 10:45

nioce

Rip KabuM... Nip - Dig and C9...

4 replies

Better than Fnatic, LDLC, ex-iBP.

2015-01-15 10:49

that's the best outcome they could've gotten.. if you respond like that means you have NO faith in KaBuM.

2015-01-15 13:32

no My friend, I hope KabuM win, but if i'm Realist, this don't gonna happen

2015-01-15 14:50

They will lose every bo8.

2015-01-15 16:24

good teams, good matches :) can't wait! too bad titan no playerino :(

2015-01-15 10:47

no sleeperino ? no problemo

IBP can't catch a break with fnatic. These poor bastards play them at every LAN.

ez nip

2015-01-15 10:50

Decent match times for a tournament in the USA, at least for GMT timezone.

2015-01-15 10:51

no season:( no train expected but could have added seasonnnnnn:c

2015-01-15 10:52

Sick matchups. Good luck to all teams! GO MERICA

2015-01-15 10:53

+train

+tuscan

2015-01-15 10:56

2015-01-15 11:00

Tournaments shouldn't be adding cobble, barely anyone likes it as a map and this only influences Valve to add it to the majors.

FalleN said he never lost to Americans, will have to show that against Cloud9. #GoKabum

2015-01-15 10:58

this was in 1.6 other times... but this game is CS;GO and we dont have CSGO scena in Brazil, so c9 > Kabum.

2015-01-15 16:19

We have a saying here in the US - theres a first time for everything.

2015-01-15 17:32

-cbble +train.

2015-01-15 10:59

Shame not seeing season or new train. Would've been interesting to see how the new train holds up at a big LAN. IMO would've been the best possible time to test the map out considering the tourney isn't a major

2015-01-15 11:01

It isn't your timezone, changed mine from NZ to China and the same showed up. Im guessing it's CET?

fucking god, cobble is a good map so stop crying jeez. cobble over boring olofpass every day.

2015-01-15 11:08

cbble is a sniper nest :-( btw yes its interesting over olofpass :d but train>

2015-01-15 11:15

-cobble +train please

2015-01-15 11:14

COBBLE. Again? When is this Valve enforced madness going to end? It was almost not played at all in DHW. When will they acknowledge no one likes this.

2015-01-15 11:33

cobble again ? remove this shit , it has no basis for a competitive map at all

2015-01-15 11:36

NiP vs dig , AGAIN !! no de_season YEEY

2015-01-15 11:49

finally , a chance for mouseSpaz to make an European debut .

2015-01-15 11:51

International you mean

2015-01-15 12:18

I just want c9 losing to kabum. It's probably the only thing I could expect anyway from the brazilian team...

2015-01-15 12:30

cobble suck. Valve, Fix this plz.

2015-01-15 12:31

I really want to see de_toscan or any mill version in 2015 ^^

2015-01-15 12:39

2015-01-15 22:09

-cbble +office

2015-01-15 12:44

-dust2 +seaside

2015-01-15 14:26

game has been out how long and map pool still sucks... overpass needs a little balancing done, cbble needs to be fucking deleted from the world.

2015-01-15 12:45

need to tune in so MLG does more tournies. I'm definitely not too happy about the format though, not nearly enough games. needs more bo3!

2015-01-15 13:03

so basicly as usual.

2015-01-15 13:07

nip ez

2015-01-15 13:26

Fokken cobble, where is season

2015-01-15 13:33

KaBuM 3-0-0

2015-01-15 13:42

so we have 50.000 dollar pricepool for majors? Valve getting poorer

2015-01-15 13:59

Valve is not providing funding.

2015-01-15 15:47

Why is it called a major then?

2015-01-15 20:59

The name is for COD

2015-01-16 01:05

i cry everytime i see the letters cbbl :/ +tuscan / +fixed train

2015-01-15 14:28

-cbble +season

-cancerstone +season +train

2015-01-15 15:04

no season, no train, but cobble, wtf guys ?

2015-01-15 15:21

-cobble -overpass +train +season

2015-01-15 15:40

Players globally would rather have Cobble in map pool over Season since a lot of Euros haven't even played it still.

2015-01-15 15:46

That logic is flawed. "We played a lot of this shitty map, so we prefer to keep on playing a shitty map, instead of putting in effort in a decent one". No one would play cobble if Valve didn't put it in the majors. No one. Ever.

2015-01-15 16:04

It's not a flawed logic when Pro Players said they'd rather play Cobble than Season.

2015-01-15 16:17

I still can't understand why they put Cobblestone in tournaments, it's such an awful map. Season would be much better IMO.

2015-01-15 16:11

de_cobble is terrible map -coble + train or season

2015-01-15 16:21

RIP MLG Clueless newgen orga's

2015-01-15 16:25

RiP Watching this event.Them timings. 23:30 ex-iBUYPOWER vs. fnatic 00:30 ex-mouseSpaz vs. LDLC 01:30 NiP vs. dignitas 02:30 KaBuM.TD vs. Cloud9 04:00 LDLC vs. fnatic 05:00 ex-mouseSpaz vs. ex-iBUYPOWER 06:00 Cloud9 vs. NiP 07:00 dignitas vs. KaBuM.TD

2015-01-15 16:54

pls tournament organisers stop forcing stupid cbble when all pro teams have better knowledge of season, a map that's not a complete display of retardation

2015-01-15 16:56

I don't like cobble but i think it should be in the map rotation. A lot of EU teams/leagues play it. However, I'd rather see season more. Hopefully we'll see it sometime this year.

2015-01-15 17:37

Train and Season would be nice additions, seeing as most people are just gonna veto cbble.

2015-01-15 18:06

NiP 16-1 KabuM (Round of Glory)

2015-01-15 18:48

shut up

2015-01-15 21:06

nice, overpass is getting good imo. fun to watch.

2015-01-15 18:51

Looking good. Don't have to stay up too late just to watch these matches.

2015-01-15 21:02

cs rio ?

2015-01-15 22:58

kabum and elevate training now, SCORE 13x1 FOR KABUM! KABUM WILL TRAINING WITH EX IBP TODAY ! I POST SCORES HERE! OBS: KABUM WITH HIGH PING! KABUM WILL BEAT EVERY NA TEAM !

2015-01-16 01:13