Champion of Champions circuit announced with $3.4 million total prizemoney in 2022-2024

6-5-2022 16:00

Various prominent tournament operators have teamed up once again to host a circuit culminating with a Global LAN Finals event in January 2024.

- 44 online cups, 11 LAN finals, and a global final
- FACEIT, Eden, Relog, Fantasyexpo, and Black Molly Entertainment among partners
- $3.4 million in prizemoney handed out over 1.5 years
- Online stage begins mid-2022

GRID and its foundational partners FACEIT, Eden Esports, Relog Media, Fantyasyexpo, and Black Molly Entertainment have jointly announced a new tournament circuit called "Champion of Champions Tour (CCT)," which is going to run from June 2022 to January 2024 and hand out a total of $3.4 million in prizemoney.

The organizers have teamed up with several other regional operators — Beyond the Summit Brazil, REPUBLEAGUE, FiReSPORTS, Fragster, and Gjirafa — in a mission to "provide an opportunity for emerging, regional esports talent" and "enable sustainable growth of the scene and support the professionalization of our industry as a whole," says GRID COO Tom Warburton.

What the Champion of Champions Tour entails is a series of tournaments layered into three phases, which will take place in several regions across the Americas and Europe.

It will begin in June with a $1.8 million online cups stage, through which teams will be able to qualify for the second stage featuring 11 studio LAN events and offering a total of $1.1 million in prizemoney. Teams will be awarded points in the leaderboard across the first two stages, fighting for a spot at the $500,000 CCT Global Finals, taking place in January 2024.

In essence, it is the second season of the currently ongoing Champion of Champions circuit, which has hosted tens of events over the past year and is set to culminate with the LAN Sweet LAN finals later this year.

More details about the exact structure and specific tournaments that will be held will be revealed in the coming weeks, according to the organizers. More information can also be found on the website of the circuit.

2022-05-06 16:01

17 replies

wtfff Major Sweet Major will become a reality soon

2022-05-06 16:02

16 replies

ez4 imperial

2022-05-06 16:03

pog actually good for t2 teams

2022-05-06 16:04

would be sick

2022-05-06 16:05

can't wait

2022-05-06 16:08

2022-05-06 16:15

xaxaxa

2022-05-06 16:39

Hahahah

2022-05-06 16:45

lmfao

2022-05-06 17:19

Lol

2022-05-06 17:32

KKKKKKKĶKKKKK

2022-05-06 17:49

Skade major Champion?

2022-05-06 18:19

Top 1 comment of 2022

2022-05-06 21:13

EZ44ZE

2022-05-07 01:44

2022-05-07 03:23

+1 lmao

2022-05-07 15:57

yas

2022-05-08 09:50

Boohoo

YOOOO

nice

2 replies

Nice what.. 3,4 mil in price pool over 2 years. That’s pretty lame to be honest. A least put up numbers like 10 mil plus.

2022-05-06 19:37

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Lame for T2 tournament??

2022-05-06 21:58

Big W

Let's GO!

how much of this money is from fixed games?

12 replies

who cares about fixed games, if you are roomtemprature enougth to gamble you deserve to loose the money.

2022-05-06 16:12

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2022-05-06 16:22

lmao basically true

2022-05-06 16:23

gamblers are deciding to give their money away, better up and comming tier 4 talent get it, and can use it to quit job and play cs fulltime, than some shady ass millionare criminal boss gets it.

2022-05-06 22:26

dont lose money, all i do is win

2022-05-06 16:40

If you loosing money, just win them

2022-05-06 16:56

my goodness what an idea, why didn't I think of that?

2022-05-06 17:21

loose money = pocket change lose money = no money

2022-05-06 18:35

Actually thanks, i were disappointed by this words, HLTV users is a bless

2022-05-07 00:07

Ahahaha couldn't agree more

2022-05-06 21:01

2022-05-07 03:24

All

2022-05-07 00:52

GODDD better than any t1 cup

t2 scene has a life line thats nice to see

ITS GREAT NEWS GUYS!!! ALGA FACEIT, Eden Sports, Relog Media, Fantyasyexpo, and Black Molly Entertainment!!!

2022-05-06 16:46

Hype

Will this be 4 everyone or for teams that ESIC wants? #FREEZAKK #FREEHALLY #FREEPEACEMAKER

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2022-05-06 16:13

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2022-05-06 19:38

Lol why free peacemaker he abused free roam and tracked an opponent through apartments?

2022-05-07 13:48

Hopefully theres no matchfixing, dope to see if true

why are ppl up obsessed with match-fixing it's not a common thing if it happens at all

2022-05-06 16:19

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Seeing how skade plays pinnacles I would doubt that statement

2022-05-06 16:30

2022-05-07 00:51

0/8

2022-05-06 17:00

Flashpoint v2?????

Not even remotely close

2022-05-06 16:53

GJ GL CS scene need more LAN-tournaments except ESL/BLAST/major and need more t2-LAN events

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+1 This could be a huge boost to the T2 scene. Many T2 LANs are more regional and don't have the same prestige as an international tourney would.

2022-05-06 16:06

exactly thats why we have 3 various euro-leagues in big football and i saw too much interesting matches and teams in every league + chance for show us new talented players. thats all can working in CS too #T2SceneIsAlive

2022-05-06 16:11

It’s a step in the right direction for developing cs thats for sure

2022-05-06 16:25

Champions of Matchfixing tour

more matchfixing lets go

Epic

that's cool I guess

ezMoney for those who know how to bet, silvers crying now

2022-05-06 16:07

No need to matchfix online now with this prize money being offered

how about ban every people that actually cheat or used damn coach bug first ?

2022-05-06 16:10

letsgoo SKADE vs K23 Final can't wait

MASSIVE MONEY LAUNDERING LETS GO

2022-05-06 16:18

+1 poog

2022-05-07 00:50

Now we just need valve to step up. they should bring TI to cs as well, Tired of a $1 mil major already.

would be fun to have 2 majors and a T1 per year... i mean we already have big tournaments offering $1M

2022-05-06 16:21

good to know

2022-05-06 16:20

Hmm where did the announced 2022 million$ final go???

Cool

2024? What about new version of CSGO? 10 years have passed. WE NEED NEW GAME, RIGHT?

Tournament organizers don't create games

2022-05-06 16:31

When we had 1.6 for 10 years, everybody complained and stop tournaments just because there was a new raw game which was rejected by most of pros. But because the lack of tournaments, they switched. When this gonna happen again?

2022-05-06 16:43

coc

2022-05-06 16:29

this isn't enough

for what?

2022-05-06 16:32

s0mple_0_CCT

2022-05-06 16:33

really nice actually

2022-05-06 16:36

sick af

2022-05-06 16:42

This is super cool and exactly what pro CS needs. Long-form tournaments with lots of opportunities to qualify from lower levels of CS. Perfect

VCT format but with matchfixing

2022-05-06 16:54

Bettors are going to bet these matches 1000000x times more than any Valorant matches.

2022-05-06 17:07

thats nothing

ez matchfixing

2022-05-06 16:59

this is great news

Is it for tier-1 teams, or tier-2 and tier-3? Also, how many LAN's would take place on NA soil? This might help recover the NA scene.

44 onnline cups, so each team has 44 chances. that means 322 x 44 times every week. can't wait to see more 16-14 and choke games

+1 XDDD this teams will be rich

2022-05-06 17:02

That's what it seems like, 44 online series is a ridiculous amount

tbh they are just rebranding all those scam leagues so they can earn more with money laundry business. even ESL changes to ESEA scam league to ESL Challengers to make it looks more legitimate and competitive like pro league. after the endless scandals we heared in each ESEA region

2022-05-06 17:17

+1 more people being robbed, MORE!

2022-05-07 00:25

nuts

Valorant good but not best, CS best

2022-05-06 17:04

More big tours = good. I mean matchfixing happens in CS (like in every sport, there's no way matchfixing doesn't happen in any kind of sports at all), but it's not a common thing for sure (Maybe except for Chinese scene). Not to mention that FACEIT is among the partners here, so I doubt it's a some shady thing. Right now we only have BLAST and ESL (and PGL, but they're shit). They're good, but we need more tournament hosts, to have more competition. People are really exaggerating over this.

2022-05-06 17:08

the reason why many leagues pop up and disappear is because of their shady investors. csgo is one of these games that no one take it seriously that's why they keep matchfixing almost more than 50% of games and let's not forget the shady investors that pop up and fund shitty cups with bookies for big prize pool then disappear and never hear from them again.

2022-05-06 17:13

in other words = money laundry.

I had a meeting with Black Molly Entertainment a few months back for an internship in the graphics and artistic direction department. It felt short because they told me they didn't have the money and human ressources to hire me. I'm so pissed now that I see that, and this huge circuit I might have been able to work for... so sad

2022-05-06 17:20

First, they need to deal with the match-fixing in their tournaments.

2022-05-06 17:28

Show some proof so they can do something about that.. do you have any?

2022-05-06 17:56

Yes

2022-05-06 18:13

Share it with us

2022-05-06 19:33

I already shared it with the proper authorities.

2022-05-06 19:53

They won't do shit because they are the ones who writes the script From where do you think they got these millions

2022-05-07 00:23

No asian region? that's so sad.

This is so weird, apparently there was supposed to be a big tournament called "Champion of Champions" for 2022, joint by Elisa, Relog, Pinnacle and Funspark but apparently it went up in smoke as Relog are the only remaining member out of those TOs

Funspark are not doing events because of covid in China. They will start doing events from next year.

2022-05-06 19:01

meanwhile dota: 5 million cash prizes

2022-05-06 17:33

Why not just create a big tournament once a year like the international or worlds. It will bring more hype to cs not this match fixed online cups.

2022-05-06 17:50

Hi Major

2022-05-06 19:51

Not the same level as ti and worlds.

2022-05-07 10:49

It is

2022-05-07 18:03

Pinnacle Major POG

2022-05-06 17:54

major sweet major

Yoyoyoyo

wtfffffffffff

2022-05-06 18:00

biggest money laundering scam with tier3-4 matchfixing teams,great to see that big prize pool,but not at that cost.

2022-05-06 18:02

2022-05-07 00:22

matchfixing major pog

2022-05-06 18:22

POG

2022-05-06 18:37

Gfinity Champion of Champions :O

2022-05-06 18:40

And they don't even mention asia but their mission is to grow the scene like bruh. CS has become the game of Europe and Americas... GOOD JOBBBBB 🤬🤬🤬

2022-05-06 19:00

That’s why the best Asian teams should come over to Europe. TYLOO are planning to do this and hopefully IHC will too. These TOs are based in Europe so for Asia u have to hope Funspark can still run some tournaments

2022-05-07 08:45

The TOs could just host tournaments on Asia it's not that hard if your mission is to grow the scene and if everyone went to EU then it would kill our scene more. Because of covid in china Funspark won't be doing any events this year.

2022-05-07 10:56