IEM San Jose with $100k tournament

1-8-2015 16:18

ESL has announced that the IEM stop in San Jose will feature a Counter-Strike tournament with upwards of $100,000 on offer.

The SAP Center indoor arena, commonly known as "The Shark Tank" will stage on November 21-22 the third IEM event of the season, the second to feature Counter-Strike after the Gamescom stop, which will see six teams face off for a piece of an $85,000 pool.

San Jose's stop will have $100,000 on offer for Counter-Strike players, though this figure will increase further through community funding options, which should be revealed shortly.

IEM San Jose will be the "biggest CS:GO event in North America to date", says ESL

The entire tournament will, according to ESL, be played on a massive stage, making it "the biggest CS:GO event North America has seen to date."

IEM San Jose will also play a key role in determining which teams will attend the final event of the season, the IEM World Championship, in Katowice, in early 2016, ESL has revealed.

nice one

2015-08-01 16:18

nice

pocket money

100k only?

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Only? Haha dumb swede

2015-08-01 16:21

give it a while they've just added csgo to IEM events

2015-08-01 16:24

don't be dumb

finally in murica

"community funding options" finally.

2015-08-01 16:19

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PGL CCS Kick-off Season implemented community fund raising, it gathered a total of $1,142.50. csgo.cyborgmatt.com/prizetracker/pgls1

2015-08-01 16:25

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The problem was that only subscribers on twitch could contribute money(like 2,5~ $ month). I don't know if they did, but I didn't see anywhere that donators could chip in on the prize pool. Just imagine motar2k giving 20k $ instantly for that.

2015-08-01 16:32

lool thats really bad :D

2015-08-01 18:03

I wouldn't mind contributing to the crowd funding if they had the rewards system like in dota's ti. I would love to see some incentives for each prize pool goal reached

2015-08-01 16:28

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perhaps they will in some way. We'll probably get some info soon.

2015-08-01 16:34

last nice

nice :D

lame

tailgating and csgo good shit

Go Sharks!

nice!

2015-08-01 16:20

"IEM San Jose will also play a key role in determining which teams will attend the final event of the season, the IEM World Championship, in Katowice, in early 2016, ESL has revealed." What? So no Katowice major anymore?

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Doesn't specify that is relating to CSGO. It could be LoL.

There was a news CSGO is back to IEM.

IEM San Jose will be the "biggest CS:GO event in North America to date", says ESL Are u blind?

maybe the major will be IEM World Championship?

IEM world finals have totally different qualifications system than Valve's majors. It demands major changes by Valve or IEM. I doubt any of them will surrender to other one.

If it's a major it should have the same qualifing system than others (8 legends from last major playoffs and 8 challenger from qualifier) Here, they say that this IEM will determine who will go to Katowice. So this Katowice event won't be a major, or valve might have allowed ESL to do some changes (which is wierd)

2015-08-01 16:27

bad

> community funding biggest prize pool tournament in csgo history confirmed $2 million inc

Without benefits from donating I don't think it would even reach 1mil

2015-08-02 05:51

inb4 flusha toggle for money

2015-10-05 23:03

crowd funding is gonna push the prize pool to $10,931,103.00 like dota lol

2015-08-01 16:22

Not as long as people don't benefit from their donations, the only reason the prize pool is that high in Dota2 is because people benefit from giving their money for the prizepool.

2015-08-01 17:39

Valve should make at least one great tournament with 1m$+ prize like they've been doing for ages with international for Dota2 with 10m$+ prize...

2015-08-01 16:23

Hope they have good network administrators who know how to load balance properly. The ESWC incident was like 400-500gbps.

They're playing on a fucking hockey rink?

2015-08-01 16:26

They melt the ice and put a stage over it

2015-08-01 16:31

spodek is a hockey rink

Csgo on ice

2015-08-01 16:36

San Jose Sharkssss

2015-08-01 16:38

Sooooo happy that there is finally a tournament in the bay area! And its a massive one at SAP.

2015-08-01 16:39

sick

csgo on ice confirmed

2015-08-01 16:45

KennyS gonna be bhopping around the ice rink confirmed

2015-08-01 17:01

Yesssss, only like a 40 minute drive from there. Don't worry, I'll bring plenty of boards with hltv memes on them.

2015-08-01 16:56

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DO IT

2015-08-01 17:17

I'll see if I can get the premium seating so when the camera pans out you will see a big "jOELZ ON LAN? I ARENT THINK THAT." sign.

2015-08-01 17:34

Will put a Kappa // in the chat for you, if I see that.

2015-08-01 18:07

I aren't think that

2015-08-01 21:39

2015-08-01 17:11

Yes plz more NA tournaments :)

Nice!

2015-08-01 17:23

i play many of cs go so this can bee funy !!

2015-08-01 17:30

I hope the pricemoney will exceed 250.000$, so either valve realizes the potential for proper crowdfunding in the three majors or proper competition with the majors from IEM.

2015-08-01 17:33

Why? It's just a week before DH Winter, already a Major tournament.

2015-08-01 21:35

Why what? I'm not sure I understand your comment. What does DH Winter has to do with anything, beside the fact that it's a major? As long as it's not coinciding with IEM, then what is the big problem about the time of it?

2015-08-02 13:07

Cause teams need to prepare for the bigger tournament? Also wouldn't it be a bit stupid to have 2 big tournamets next to each other?

2015-08-03 18:44

fuck i wouldnt be able to go.

so much tournaments this year holyy shit

2015-08-01 17:51

IEM NA, DH NA, n1 muricas

2015-08-01 17:54

4 days before DH winter,maybe some t1 teams will not attend this...

DH 40k... bussiness friend

2015-08-01 18:11

4 days us is enough

wow, nice. looks like intel is done being fucked around by ESL and is going to stick it's big intel dick where it belongs: right between the hairy, unwashed asscheeks of CS:GO

2015-08-01 18:25

wat

2015-08-01 18:38

intel is gonna slowly insert its throbbing moneycock into our quivering bungs.

2015-08-01 19:00

c u there bitches

2015-08-01 18:33

noice

2015-08-01 18:42

hockey or cs?

2015-08-01 18:46

Sharks choke in the playoffs so CS.

2015-08-01 19:23

fnc taking this ez

2015-08-01 19:20

YES community funding

2015-08-01 19:25

Love the fact they're using the Shark Tank for this :)

2015-08-01 19:29

what will they do with the hockey rink though it will be too cold to play CS in there

2015-08-01 19:37

2015-08-01 19:52

$100,000 nice! :O

2015-08-01 20:25

On maaaaan

2015-08-01 21:20

i finding team...

2015-08-01 21:22

VACation on ice

2015-08-01 21:24

Very nice ESL, excited to see Bo1 till semis, also 7 days before DH Winter... These guys at ESL are mad...

2015-08-01 21:34

Epic

2015-08-01 23:00

CS:GO coming to the bay!! I'm so down!!! xD

2015-08-01 23:26

Sick news, events in the us always have a special feel about them.

2015-08-02 00:43

PogChamp

2015-08-02 01:01

Kreygasm

2015-08-02 01:04

Nice

2015-08-02 01:16

Haven't we tried having CS in the US with very little successes? I remember WCG 2010 in Los Angeles. The crowd sucked, there was barely any interest for E-sports in the US, especially CS. Lets hope times have changed. Maybe then I can change my view of the US as the land of console peasants and casual mobile gamers.

2015-08-02 05:46