GEST Season 1 To Culminate this Weekend

The final installment of the first season of Gigabyte eSport Tournament (GEST) is ready, and the teams on this leg have been distributed on their respective groups. It will happen on the 2nd and 3rd of February. After being off for 2 months (December and January), GEST seeks to finish big with their February leg. The groups to watch out for are Group C and D where both groups are stacked with great teams. While the Philippine teams are always abundant in GEST (6 this month), it is notable that Indonesia (4), Cambodia (3) and Myanmar (2) have multiple representatives as well. Those number of teams on the latter 3 countries are all GEST-highs, in terms of number of participants. Orange, Skynet and PokerStar were removed from this leg because they were no-shows on the last one.

GEST November Groups
Group A	Group B
Phoenix	iDeal.GIGABYTE
WrathOfOlympus	deperruku
TnC Gaming	NeoES-G7
Bocah sakti	Pacific.Palit
BFF	Global
Group C	Group D
Invasion.GIGABYTE	Neolution
Noypi	SVR_Es
Pacific.eMaxx	iZone.GIGABYTE
CA_HSM	eNcy
iO	Notorious-MS

As usual for Gigabyte eSport Tournaments, group phase will be completed on Saturday. Only the first three teams of each group are promoted to the playoffs. The playoffs will be single elimination with the group winners already in the round of eight.

Prize

1st Place - US$1,500

2nd Place - US$700

3rd Place - US$300

A second season is also expected come March 2013.

GEST February Schedule
Round	Time
Group phase	2 Feb, 13:00 SGT
Tiebreaker (if necessary)	2 Feb, 19:30 SGT
Playoff relegation	3 Feb, 13:00 SGT (tentative)
Round of 8	3 Feb, 14:30 SGT (tentative)
Semi final	3 Feb, 16:00 SGT (tentative)
3rd place decider	3 Feb, 17:30 SGT (tentative)
Grand final	3 Feb, 19:00 SGT (tentative)

More information: GEST January