Funspark announces 2021 tournament series with $630,000 prize pool

15-3-2021 23:00

The Chinese tournament organiser is hoping to run at least the final stage on LAN.

Funspark has announced that $630,000 in prize money will be up for grabs in its 2021 ULTI circuit, which will run from March through to December. The event series will have regional tournaments in Europe and Asia leading up to the Grand Final, where $300,000 will be on the line.

There will be two seasons in both regions, with each season starting with two tournaments, called 'Regional Series', featuring a GSL group stage and a single-elimination bracket. The teams with the most points over the course of the season will qualify for the next stage, a double-elimination tournament called 'Playoffs'.

Details are still scarce about the Funspark ULTI Grand Final, which will be held on LAN if everything goes according to plan after the 2020 event was postponed indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic. The best-performing team of the circuit in Asia and the top two teams in Europe will qualify for the Grand Final, which will also include three invited sides and the finalists of the FunSpark ULTI 2020 Europe Final, a $250,000 tournament announced on Saturday.

Below you can find all the dates for the Funspark ULTI 2021 circuit:

Europe:

Regional Series 1 - March 29 - April 11
Regional Series 2 - May 10-23

Playoff 1 - June 14-20

Regional Series 3 - September 13-26
Regional Series 4 - November 1-14

Playoff 2 - November 29 - December 5

Asia:

Regional Series 1 - March 29 - April 11
Regional Series 2 - May 24 - June 6

Playoff 1 - June 21-27

Regional Series 3 - September 27 - October 10
Regional Series 4 - November 15-28

Playoff 2 - December 6-12

Grand Final - December (Dates TBD)

Funspark has also revealed some of the teams that will be taking part in the first Regional Series in both regions. In Europe, all the slots have been filled through invites, but, according to Funspark, there will be open qualifiers for the following tournaments in this region.

Europe

Asia

TYLOO

Lynn Vision

TCG

Reece

Open Qualifier SEA #1

Open Qualifier SEA #3

Open Qualifier East Asia #1

Open Qualifier East Asia #3

Open Qualifier SEA #2

Open Qualifier SEA #4

Open Qualifier East Asia #2

Open Qualifier East Asia #4

The $630,000 prize pool will be split between the three stages as follows:

Funspark ULTI Regional Series - $180,000 ($30,000 per tournament in Europe, $15,000 in Asia)
Funspark ULTI Playoff - $150,000 (Distribution TBD)
Funspark ULTI Grand Final - $300,000

EZ FOR HAVU! Xseven smurfing.

2021-03-15 23:04

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2021-03-16 08:28

Where is ViCi and Endpoint?

2021-03-15 23:01

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2021-03-16 00:02

In Tier 5

2021-03-16 05:32

vici rebranded to Rare Atom and, i think, roster got kicked. endpoint idk

2021-03-16 08:53

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source?

2021-03-16 16:39

about changing the name - weibo.com/3923830023/JBrQQ6Yyv?type=comm..

2021-03-16 19:36

That's what CS need right now

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t2 cs events? lmfao

2021-03-16 00:23

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t2 even t3 scene is insanely important for any sport/e-sport. you're just a delusional kid if you think different

2021-03-16 00:32

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+1 now we just need to revive na cs

2021-03-16 00:57

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unfortunately na cs need volvo to step up :( if they invest more money in marketing and will support tournaments and some average orgs then na will rise as never before

2021-03-16 01:21

i dont think volvo will car but maybe some other to might make some na tournaments to develop the t2 na scene

2021-03-16 01:22

Kappa

2021-03-16 05:33

BR will revive NAs scene. Taco told that theyll be moving to NA, and TeamOne probably will fly back to NA too. Besides that, there are still two teams that I still don't what they are up to: mibr and kng's gang. With our viewship, chances are that we can lure some sponsors and bring back some love that NA had.

2021-03-16 03:22

<3 love you BR

2021-03-16 06:14

NA 🤝 SA

2021-03-16 08:45

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2021-03-16 12:20

Yeaaa

2021-03-15 23:02

why chinese tournament organizers always named some shit like "funspark"

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literal translations sound even worse than this. just their language and use of terms/culture with a good sense of ignorance

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yea happens in every language i just think it's funny, like how every russian shady org/gambling site is like "eCybergaming Hub"

2021-03-15 23:10

yeah and somehow it works pretty well

2021-03-15 23:12

bro just Royal Never Give UP or go BIG Time Regal Gaming

2021-03-16 00:06

lmao true

2021-03-15 23:13

What about the name Funspark is worse than Flashpoint, BLAST, DreamHack, etc.?

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Nothing wrong with it, just sounds like a stereotypical chinese org name

2021-03-15 23:14

dreamhack is a cool name 0/8 bait

its cringe name its sounds like a brand for fireworks or some shit

2021-03-16 00:05

Why lebanon hates fireworks

2021-03-16 04:33

oh shit

2021-03-16 12:14

lmao

2021-03-16 14:17

sounds like funplus

2021-03-16 05:25

wow some great money

NICEEEe

2021-03-15 23:03

asia xdd

Mad Lions invited despite not having a roster?

2021-03-15 23:05

wdym, TMB will 1v5 all these teams

2021-03-15 23:06

2021-03-16 00:08

LAN? Hopefully we'll get to see it

Nice, doing more than fucking ESL somehow

Pretty nice T2 tournament. Looks good

2021-03-15 23:07

ENCE FPX and HAVU lets goooo

no fpx ://

2021-03-16 00:59

wtf im idiot it was different tournament

2021-03-16 09:32

its ok probably still ez for ence and havu

2021-03-16 14:52

EZ4SINNERS AND GOD OSKAR

2021-03-15 23:09

+1 EZ for sinners

2021-03-16 19:34

where is south america? zzz

No liquid no party

Great news! Can't wait for it to begin.

2021-03-15 23:17

OG should have been invited as well lol

not like any top teams are taking part, maybe it does not fit in these teams schedule.

2021-03-15 23:20

What do you mean? OG is tier 2 now. They will be out in grp stages of every tourney. OG will have plenty of time 😭

2021-03-15 23:23

Yeah, maybe they thought to focus EPL but turns out they are already out LOL, still the team list is only for 1st regional tournament.

2021-03-15 23:34

cool

2021-03-15 23:21

EZ4SINNERS and GOAT NEOFRAG

2021-03-15 23:25

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2021-03-16 14:38

EzHAVU

2021-03-15 23:29

2021-03-16 08:29

ez for quitter boys

2021-03-15 23:31

ez riders

2021-03-15 23:39

Ok so now there’s a timer on Mad Lions' roster. Coach is going to be announced tomorrow, and they’ll most likely have a full 5 man roster by the 29th of March.

2021-03-15 23:40

Mad lions?????

2021-03-15 23:44

Great, I think it's a great opportunity for my boys from AGO to show what they made of, GL to every team.

2021-03-15 23:45

Ence-Havu Final, and game ends 2-2

2021-03-16 00:01

GO RIDERS!

This tournament smells like... <sniff>... WESG

This is definitely easy money for Ence and Havu

2021-03-16 00:04

+1. That what I was thinking

2021-03-16 00:10

Ence xd sAw 2-0 Ence Ence 2-1 G2 that means sAw 2-0 G2

2021-03-16 13:28

wonder if China asks to fix some matches for mad bettors

2021-03-16 00:11

LAN? EZ4SAW

2021-03-16 00:20

nice but where is tire 1 teams

2021-03-16 00:25

Go havu !

2021-03-16 00:31

Nice but asia kekw

2021-03-16 00:33

ez4ence

2021-03-16 00:34

Nice. Ez 4 Riders

2021-03-16 00:48

again no extremum lol what kind of org are they ?

2021-03-16 01:10

ence and havu poggers

2021-03-16 01:31

Another gameparadies or whatever it was called

2021-03-16 01:35

no lul china rich

2021-03-16 02:17

no south america??

2021-03-16 01:53

ChildKing has got this one guys!!!

2021-03-16 02:58

ENCE wins this

2021-03-16 03:07

why no vici tho?

2021-03-16 03:13

yea!!! one decent asian tournament we are alive LUL

2021-03-16 03:27

these randy ass Asian tournaments with 0 tier1 teams never pay the prices lel

2021-03-16 04:23

look this random ass chinese tournament is the only tournament announced in asia since november 2020 and how do you expect tier 1 team from asia if there's no tournaments

2021-03-16 04:46

cool story bro, i hope it goes great. I'm just saying 1) traveling all the way to Asia has been historically annoying, 2) there are always problems with something and 3) Lawyers are always needed to get paid (specially if you win, 2nd 3rd 4th 5th and 6th always get paid)

2021-03-16 15:14

No extremum :'' want to see extremum vs tyloo rlly bad :''

2021-03-16 05:57

go lets quit

2021-03-16 06:13

#BRENLANGMALAKAS

2021-03-16 06:21

oh my god asian cs is back?? rog masters can fuck off

2021-03-16 07:40

Super cool, hope everything goes according to plan, glhf, GO SPROUT

2021-03-16 07:55

such funspark

2021-03-16 08:05

Should have invited VOYVODA

2021-03-16 08:13

No NA/SA teams invited? Just shows how europe is straying away from the US and towards china. All hail the Eurasian empire.

2021-03-16 08:24

Yea because 9/10 tournaments do have EU and NA teams but 0 asia teams? And the EU teams are deciding that no NA teams are invited instead of the ASIAN organiser?

2021-03-16 08:33

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Exactly, this is a tournament run by Chinese CCP money to bring Europe to the east, and i am not implying it's a bad thing. But I just noticed TeamOne and there are few tier 2 NA teams

2021-03-16 08:35

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I was asking these questions for real, i thought that by your first comment you meant that Europe is deciding themselves to stray away from the US and towards China (correct me if im wrong). But the chinese organiser chooses who to invite here which means Europe/EU teams dont have any input regarding the few NA teams.

2021-03-16 08:38