ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017 Starts Today

ELEAGUE is starting today one of the biggest tournaments in terms of prizepool without the need from Valve sponsorship. ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017 has a prizepool of $1,000,000 just like a Major and the winner takes home $500,000. The tournament will take place in Atlanta, the same place as ELEAGUE Major tournament that occurred in January this year.

For this event 8 teams were brought from ESL One: Cologne 2016 and other 8 teams from ELEAGUE Major 2017 – Offline Qualifier, making a total of 16 teams.

The events Group Stage will be played according to the following rules:

• 16 team swiss-tournament
• Every match is Bo1

Teams that advance to the Playoffs will face these rules:

• Single-elimination bracket
• Best-of-three matches

The top 8 teams will be granted Legend status and will automatically be qualified for the next Major.

The teams participating in the tournament are:

Matches will start at 23:00 GMT with Renegades vs. Faze Clan.
The whole event can be seen at our streams page in ELEAGUE tab.