Organizers for the World Cyber Arena have released information on a LAN Final in Yinchuan, China where four Chinese and four foreign teams will compete for ~$470,000 starting October 2nd to October 5th.
The Tournament is going to be held in Yinchuan, China and will be skipping the usual qualifiers seen more often of tournaments of these size, and will be sending invites directly to eight teams of their choosing.
The official team list includes four of China's best, including LGD, Invictus Gaming, Vici Gaming and 2014 International winners NewBee, alongside four foreign teams consisting of Na'Vi, Alliance, Cloud9 and Titan, will all be battling it out in a double-elimination best-of-three format tournament. The Grand Finals shall be a best of five, with the winners bracket having a 1-0 advantage.
The tournament will be played out from October 2nd to the 5th, the teams, schedule and prize pool are all below.
Official LAN Team Listings | ||||
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Titan |
Alliance | |||
Cloud |
Na'Vi | |||
NewBee |
Vici Gaming | |||
iG | LGD |
Prize Pool:
1st: $325,000
2nd: $89,400
3rd: $40,600
4th-8th: $3,250
Source: 2p.com