The Convention with $7,700

This year, The Convention will host an eight team CS:GO tournament that will have on offer 67,000 Norwegian Krone or approximately $7,700. The event will be played straight out of Kristiansund, Norway which will be the temporary battleground (from February 24-28) for six invited teams, five from Norway and one from Sweden, and two qualified teams:

BX3	Expert Gaming
Demise	GamersLeague
Celestial Gaming	Rift
BYOC qualifier #1	BYOC qualifier #2

The remaining two entrants will be found through a BYOC qualifying tournament to be played at the event. One team that has mentioned possibly attending the BYOC qualifier is the Finnish RCTIC team.

HLTV.org has been informed that the prizepool will be distributed in the following fashion:

1. - 30,000 NOK (~$3,440)
2. - 15,000 NOK (~$1,720)
3. - 10,000 NOK (~$1,140)
4. - 5,000 NOK (~$570)
5-6. - 2,500 NOK (~$290)
7-8. - 1,000 NOK (~$125)

With the following prizepool distribution, every team entering the tournament is therefore secured some payoff from the tournament.

Interestingly, the event will run during the same timeframe as another Norwegian LAN, the ~$9,100 Nemean LAN. More information can be found at convention.no (in Norwegian) or facebook.com/theconvention (also Norwegian).