MettleState announced a one million Rand CS:GO tournament following their streamed “grudge match” between Bravado Gaming and Energy eSports.
The grudge match proved an entertaining one and saw Energy eSports run out the 2-1 winners of the R50,000 cash up for grabs after coming back from a 1-0 deficit against the team in blue.
More Money
Of course, the R50,000 was just the icebreaker and MettleState went on to announce that a total of 24 teams will be able to compete for a R1 million prize pool – South Africa’s largest for a single title. The ‘Galaxy CS:GO Tournament’ (also called the MettleState|Samsung CS:GGO Tournament) will see 12 invited teams and 12 ‘public’ teams who will be added on a “first come, first served basis” when they register via www.mettlestate.com. As it stands at the time of writing, it doesn’t appear as if registration has opened (or at least I couldn’t see the registration link).
Registrations are due to close on 10 March 2017 with the online component kicking off on 13 March 2017. The tournament culminates in a LAN final scheduled for 4 to 7 May 2017 at an undisclosed venue.
The format of the tournament have not been revealed as yet, but the 12 invited teams are:
- Aperture Gaming
- Bravado Gaming
- Damage Control
- Energy eSports
- eXdee
- Flipsid3 Tactics
- Mythic Gaming
- PuLse-Gaming
- Veneration E-Sports
- Ventus Gaming
- White Rabbit Gaming
- xTc Gaming
MettleState has partnered with ASUS and Samsung for the CS:GO tournament.
Twitch
Speaking of partnerships, MettleState has also announced its partnership with Twitch.tv. According to the press release, this is “a pretty big deal for the local gaming scene. While the esports scene in South Africa has grown at a rapid pace over the past year, what it had been missing was an esports organisation with the backing of international authorities to align South Africa with global tournament hosting and broadcast standards. Mettlestate’s partnership with Twitch will aim to change that.”
This partnership allows users access to more viewing options that won’t put the usual strain on our local internet. It should also (hopefully) tap into the around 200,000 South African viewers watching Twitch a month.
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