Funspark RIVALS announced with $30,500 in prizes

The pre-season tournament taking place in December and January will feature 18 Asian teams, with a European division to be announced.

Funspark has announced a new three-stage tournament taking place on December 14-January 15, featuring a ~$30,500 prize pool and 18 Asian teams including the likes of TYLOO, TIGER and Invictus. The Chinese TO has announced there will also be a tournament for the European region but has not yet revealed its details.

TYLOO will participate at Funspark RIVALS

The event will kick off its first stage with 16 teams divided into four best-of-three round-robin groups, from which the top teams will advance to the playoffs and the second-placed teams will play a decider map that will see the winners through to the playoffs as well.

The second phase will be another group stage, this time two best-of-three double-elimination GSL groups with four teams apiece, from which the top two teams will advance to the last stage of the event.

The final hurdle, the playoffs, will feature a single-elimination bracket with best-of-three matches played the whole way through until one team is crowned champion.

The team list is the following:

TYLOO
w2c
Bren
Checkmate
D13
After
TSG
HZ
Mazaalai

Wings Up
NG
Paper Rex
Zero.TSG
Lynn Vision
TIGER
Let's Quit
Invictus
TaiChangGui

The Chinese TO have also announced that their $300,000 Funspark ULTI LAN, which was postponed in October, remains without date as of now due to the ongoing wave of the coronavirus.