new French championship coming from C8
The French C8 Network announced today the launch of the new E-Sports European League, sponsored by the owner of this network Canal +, for the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Six teams, all from France, with the exception of one team from Denmark, will participate in the tournament with a prize of $ 24,000.
This is because of PEGI 18 ratings for the Global Assessment, the tournament will take place late at night, but will be available on a channel to be viewed by the public.
We have many strong local names such as EnVyUs Academy, Ionic,who are the former MeMyself & I, and many others, beside the French teams, the North Academy, is the only non French team participating in this championship.
This shows that the tournament will last for up to ten weeks and begin on September 24th. Here is the full list of participating teams:
- EnVyUs Academy
- Ionic
- aAa
- dizLown
- ARES
- North Academy
As for the distribution of the prize money, the main details have been announced by C8 , and as it is expected that it will be distributed to the top four only in the tournament, about half of the participating teams will almost come out somewhat victorious in this local tournament. Teams prize in order :
1. ~ $ 12,000 for the owner of the first place
2. ~ $ 6,000 to the second-place holder
3-4. ~ $ 3000 for the third and fourth place.
