Shaoxing to host Eastide 2018, with $225,000 prize pool

21-5-2018 16:35

The Chinese city of Shaoxing will host an international CS:GO tournament in the summer with $225,000 on the line, the event's organisers have told HLTV.org.

Running from August 15-19 at an indoor arena inside the Shaoxing Olympic Sports Center, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, Eastide 2018 will feature eight teams, who will battle it out in a double-elimination bracket that will culminate with a best-of-five grand final.

HLTV.org knows that this will be the first of a series of international events that are being planned by Chinese company Zhejiang Rui Yue Cultural Exchange Co.,Ltd. together with South-Korea based Eastide Company with the goal of bringing "new cultural experiences" by combining esports with other forms of entertainment.

The Shaoxing Olympic Sports Center will stage Eastide 2018

Five of the eight tournament spots will be filled through invites, which will mainly be given out to European and North American teams. Three more teams will come from closed qualifiers, with Europe having two qualifying spots and Asia just one.

More details about Eastide 2018, including prize money breakdown, the first invites and the closed qualifier teams, are expected to be revealed in the coming weeks.

Nice

2018-05-21 16:37

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hey Don will u make boxing great again??

2018-05-22 22:26

Cool

Ago and Vega invite incoming

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LUL

2018-05-21 17:03

hahahaha

2018-05-21 17:28

mafia

2018-05-21 16:38

TAIWAN NUMBER 1

Ez ago ez vega

ecin

2018-05-21 16:39

crazy

no qualifiers for NA LUL

Awesome! shit hotels included again?

This event will be held by Chinese company Zhejiang Rui Yue Cultural Exchange Co.,Ltd. together with South-Korea based Eastide Company,WESG was held by ALIBABA Company. Hope this time they will not let CSer down,GL with shaoxing:)

2018-05-22 07:08

won't pay prizes

China advancing

EZ Shoxie :)

2018-05-21 17:34

Nice another event i wont watch

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i don't think they care if they lose 1 danish viewer because they have millions that will watch from china

2018-05-21 18:24

chinese viewers are worthless

2018-05-21 18:34

So is your opinion :)

2018-05-22 09:54

another shit chinese tournament with high prizepool

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Ok? Good for them to care about the game.

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CS will never be game for China and big prizepools arent the answer. China just doesnt like FPS games And also, they always invite tier 2/3 teams

2018-05-21 17:50

Csgo asia championship?

2018-05-21 19:38

Yea, there is only a small amount of csgo fans in china, the majority of esports are moba like Dota2 and LOL. So no matter how big is the prize pool, csgo won't have a good environment in this country

2018-05-21 20:01

is there any reason to this? just not your guys favorite genre or something?

2018-05-26 06:29

respect

2018-05-21 16:40

VG.FLASH getting the ez match up :D

2018-05-21 16:41

Invit VP

2018-05-21 16:42

CHINA NUMBA WAN

2018-05-21 16:45

A chinese event? Surely they'll rig all the matches

2018-05-21 16:46

SHAOXING Jesus vs Shoxie Jesus

2018-05-21 16:50

Shaoxing? I am from Zhejiang province very nice

2018-05-21 16:51

2018-05-21 16:53

rigged 100%

2018-05-21 16:57

lmao, irrelevant tournament with high prizepool Washed up teams invite inc.

Any tournament that even thinks of inviting VP is a bad tourny

2018-05-21 16:58

Stop chinese events

2018-05-21 16:59

then you will hold one? 0/8

2018-05-21 17:45

Rather get shity hotels and delays and not die or get stolen

2018-05-21 19:40

expected!!!

2018-05-21 17:01

CNCS MAFIA IS BACK BOYS

lol,tier 10000 tournament incoming?

""""FAZE""""""

2018-05-21 17:06

nice, cool, more, ok :D

2018-05-21 17:07

lol China de best <3 GL with event

2018-05-21 17:18

Shoxing

2018-05-21 17:22

EZ 4 SHOX

Yes, CS:GO would be better without these tournaments... dummies.

2018-05-21 17:35

I havent heard this organize beform.... even im chinese :(

2018-05-21 17:43

Games at dawn :((

2018-05-21 17:56

i dont think this tourment will prefect holded.

2018-05-21 18:46

It should not be. If Perfect World hosts it, it will be said on Weibo in advance.🐥

2018-05-22 01:47

Gg a gambit chance

2018-05-21 19:07

Great that Chinese tournaments are being hosted! I also hope there will be chinese spectators in the stadium. Hope that a bunch of great orgs will be invited! Btw, to Chinese CS:GO players, how is Perfect World CS:GO going? Is it working well? Are there many chinese players?

2018-05-21 20:17

Sounds like you are going to china

2018-05-22 04:32

Strange to only give 1 qualifier spot to their own region and 2 for Europe which will likely be filled by tier 2 teams whom are hardly better than the Asian teams.

2018-05-21 22:22

asian teams are not as good gaining viewers

2018-05-22 01:50

I think EU teams could provide audience more great performance,so i guess that's the reason

2018-05-22 06:59

But the matches will be played in the Asian time zone. So just like IEM Sydney did, it makes sense to invite more local teams. Unless the Chinese don't care about their local teams and rather watch more top tier CS which is understandable. But like I said, I doubt many top teams will go here. The spots will be filled by teams like Kinguin, AGO, maybe Heroic or NV and Chinese teams are probably pretty close to their level.

2018-05-22 16:49