GAME announce 19,000+€ league

After having acquired SocialNat, one of the three main tournament organizers in Spain with LVP and ESL, GAME—the biggest video game and console retailer in Spain—has been injecting money (45,000€ in prizes for CS:GO last year split between two LANs) and trying to raise CS’s profile in a country where League of Legends is king. Now, GAME has launched its first season of the year for ten of the best teams in the region to compete in.

When compared to ESL Masters Spain, the biggest difference in GAME Stadium is the inclusion of two Portuguese teams which expands the competition from Spain to the whole Iberian Peninsula.

MUTiRiS's k1ck will play in GAME's league

The league will start with an online portion in which all ten teams will face each other once in best-of-ones, with three matches to be played on Wednesdays and two matches to be played on Thursdays during nine match days. The regular season will start on May 3 and end on June 29, and will be broadcast on GAME’s twitch channel.

During the regular season, teams will be awarded 150€ and three points per win, with a 50€ bonus if they win by 10 or more rounds. Also, if a team wins by 10 or more rounds they will get +.5 points in the standings while the team that loses will have .5 points deducted.

After the regular season, four teams will qualify for a playoff which will be played offline during the first half of July. There, the qualified teams will compete for the lion’s share of the prize pool which is 6,000€. Meanwhile, the last team in the table will be relegated and the team placed in ninth position will face the runner-up from GAME’s open league in a relegation match.

The teams which will be competing in GAME Stadium:

KPI	G2V	k1ck	EU4IA	x6tence
Movistar Riders	AlienTech	Arctic	AIE	PAM

The prize distribution, without the 150/200€ win bonuses:

1. - 6,000€
2. - 4,000€
3-4. - 2,000€
5-9. - 1,000€