iBP announce $5,000 Invitational

12-2-2015 23:56

iBUYPOWER have announced an online $5,000 invitational tournament with most of North American ESEA-Invite teams, taking place on February 28th-March 1st.

iBUYPOWER have teamed up with ESEA and decided to hold an Invitational with seven ESEA Invite teams with the exception of Cloud9, who were unable to attend.

Instead of them Ascendancy, a ESEA Premier team, were invited to fight for a share of $5,000, most of which is reserved for the first placed team:

1. $4,000
2. $1,000

Following eight teams will battle in a single elimination bracket, played in a best-of-three between February 28th and March 1st.

Area 51	Mythic
CLG	Liquid
Denial	SKDC
eLevate	Ascendancy

The matches will be streamed over at iBUYPOWER's stream at Twitch.tv/iBUYPOWER, which will show up in our stream section once it goes live.

lmao

2015-02-12 23:56

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better than a new mousepad at least

2015-02-12 23:57

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For those who's IQ is lower than 100, it's ONLINE tournament. sry for reply

2015-02-13 09:04

Area 51 invited?! LOL

2015-02-13 12:24

My awp ace youtube.com/watch?v=ze1E6wJvxp0

2015-02-13 19:13

nice

2015-02-12 23:56

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iBP computer again? 4 hour delay between maps minimum. Guaranteed one crash per match. Not nice.

2015-02-13 00:16

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Its an online tournament not LAN....

2015-02-13 00:43

It's online tournament...

2015-02-13 09:09

........... ok

2015-02-12 23:56

epic news ibp

2015-02-12 23:57

gl teams

2015-02-12 23:57

ayy lmao

2015-02-12 23:57

A51 win ezpz

2015-02-12 23:57

Who can throw the most for 5K?

2015-02-12 23:58

big news boys

2015-02-12 23:58

pls summit gets donated more than this

2015-02-12 23:58

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haha

2015-02-13 00:03

O_o n1 i guess...

2015-02-12 23:59

This tournament is mainly to define the new iBP? haha

2015-02-12 23:59

Nt swag

2015-02-13 00:01

WHERE IS CLOUD9? Oh wait it's tier 3 team...

2015-02-13 00:01

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They invited them, C9 had other things to do though so they declined.

2015-02-13 00:57

Okay, Liqiud, eLevate, CLG and Area 51 tier 3 teams? do you even know what the fuc* you are saying? hahahaha Most stupid comment to be said yet, even stupider than those who still think it's a Lan event.. You clearly dosen't know much about cs:go if you think they are tier 3 teams omfg i will never stop laughing over this comment! hahahahahaha :'D :'D :'D :'D

2015-02-13 18:42

5k prizepool is entirely within reason for an online tournament. Hope this will be a reoccurring tournament. Good stuff, iBP.

2015-02-13 00:02

CLG 1st, Liquid 2nd

2015-02-13 00:03

Online ez tarik ez 4000 bucks

2015-02-13 00:04

throw inc :DD

2015-02-13 00:05

iBUYOPTIMISM

2015-02-13 00:06

they will pick the winner

2015-02-13 00:08

the winner will move to IBP

2015-02-13 00:08

Meh

2015-02-13 00:13

/facepalm

2015-02-13 00:15

inb4 winning team gets signed

2015-02-13 00:16

easy for liquid

2015-02-13 00:19

AHAHAHA. all that teasing for that? /facepalm

2015-02-13 00:20

why there is Denial invited ... plz replace these!!!!!!! noobs

2015-02-13 00:25

lawl... everyone expecting for a new team and they give us this.... its ok i guess :\\

2015-02-13 00:29

lmao 5k what a big joke

2015-02-13 00:33

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It's online tournament...

2015-02-13 09:09

5k, they got that money from the throw

2015-02-13 00:35

piss poor... that prize money is couple of their shitty pc's

2015-02-13 00:39

In before iBP signs the winners.

2015-02-13 00:43

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I could see the best-placing team that isn't already signed with a big org getting signed with iBP.

2015-02-13 00:46

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They have money, no reason they couldn't steel Liquid. I'd personally love to see them sign Mythic.

2015-02-13 02:17

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Edit: wrong Steel. :p

2015-02-13 02:18

hahaha nice troll, every1 thought that they are making a new team ;p

2015-02-13 00:44

iBP will get 40k from match fixing :D

2015-02-13 00:44

Thank you ibp this is awesome!

2015-02-13 00:46

whatever, not watching low+ matches. ipb just trying to clean their name *cough* match-fixing *cough* good for na scene, tho

2015-02-13 00:49

5000? WAOW

2015-02-13 01:06

They will pick up winners to their org if it won't be CLG or Liquid.

2015-02-13 01:27

ibp slump?

2015-02-13 01:37

Ascendancy's line up? Didn't I see them play with mOE once hm or .....

2015-02-13 01:39

#ibuythrower

2015-02-13 01:49

huge prize xD n1 for NA

2015-02-13 01:51

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It's online tournament... $5,000 is more than great for 4 day ONLINE tournament.

2015-02-13 09:07

Lets hope no delays happen as it is iBP.... In b4 streaming computer crashes and was done by iBP....

2015-02-13 01:52

The winner gets placed within the iBP org.

2015-02-13 02:08

Damn, people shitting all over this even though that Argentinian tournament with a top prize of like $400 was in the Hot Matches. Without C9 here, I wonder who might win. eLevate were sick at MLG Aspen, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them place well.

2015-02-13 02:10

this is iBP's attempt to clear any bad feelings people may have due to the match fixing situation but whatever the reason, good for NA teams. i support it 100%

2015-02-13 02:11

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its asinine for anyone to have bad feelings towards IBP...they didnt do it, their piece of shit players did.

2015-02-13 07:36

ibp ez skins

2015-02-13 03:02

So can I assume that this time they won't have shitty PC's so that we can avoid another ClutchCon?

2015-02-13 03:07

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Online event.

2015-02-13 05:23

It's online tournament...

2015-02-13 09:06

+how much do you get in throw money? :)

2015-02-13 03:14

lets see who can throw harder than the other teams

2015-02-13 03:23

Simple One Step Plan to betting on this tournament: - Select the underdog in every match.

2015-02-13 03:30

Nice, invite KabuM!!!!

2015-02-13 05:21

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I don't think KaBuM will be in America at that time cause this is a Online tourney.

2015-02-13 05:24

2015-02-13 05:26

gl tarik and co

2015-02-13 05:59

I'm guessing the results of this will help them decide which team they pick up.

2015-02-13 07:22

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not bad, I was thinking the same :D

2015-02-13 09:36

INVITE KABUM INVITE AFFNITY

2015-02-13 07:57

LOL, 800 dollars per person in the winning team. Not even worth attending.

2015-02-13 08:42

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It's online tournament... 800 dollar per face from 4 day tournament is great.

2015-02-13 09:06

$800 for a one day tournament that you play from your house. How much do you earn per day djcw?

2015-02-13 09:29

do you know how much you can buy from mcdonalds with 800 $? :DDD

2015-02-13 09:36

Is it a betting competition?

2015-02-13 08:52

expected

2015-02-13 09:06

The SK Gaming of North America.

2015-02-13 10:29

2015-02-13 11:49

thanks for ezy skines, summit1inch

2015-02-13 13:29

CLG vs Liquid basically xD

2015-02-13 17:19

Do anyone consider it's 5000$$$$$$$$$$/dollars, go to google and type valuta exchange and take your money and compare it to 5000 dollars, and get a fucking sad face for saying shitty price pool hahaha.. that's a nice pool for playing cs:go from your home sitting in your chair. They make more than most of you/us do in a month, on fucking 3 to 4 days? :D

2015-02-13 18:51