The €20,000 second edition of Pantamera CS:GO Challenge will take place at Inferno Online gaming center in Stockholm, Sweden on February 27-28.
Two teams have secured a place through the ESL Nordic Nationals Winter, which took place at the end of December and saw Torpedo coming out ahead of No Problem!, now known as Preparation who feature a slightly different lineup.
Two more qualified through the Pantamera Go4CS:GO series, one of which being AliGon, most of whose lineup played in the PGL Minor under the Lemondogs banner.
allu's ENCE to take part in Pantamera CS:GO Challenge
The remaining four received direct invites. Markus "pronax" Wallsten's Ancient, ENCE, ALTERNATE aTTaX and Orgless will be joining the other four in the tournament taking place in Stockholm's Inferno Online gaming center.
The eight teams have been distributed across two round-robin, best-of-one groups, from each of which two will advance to a best-of-three, single-elimination bracket.
Pantamera CS:GO Challenge groups are looking as follows:
Group A
Group B
Ancient
ALTERNATE aTTaX
ENCE
Orgless
Preparation
Torpedo
A LA MIX
AliGon
* Hover over team names for full lineups ** A LA MIX will field FREDDyFROG, Kallberg, pErReLiCiOuS, REZ
And here is the full schedule of the tournament:
Saturday, February 27th
12:00
Ancient
vs. Preparation
BO1
12:00
A LA MIX
vs. ENCE
BO1
13:15
Ancient
vs. A LA MIX
BO1
13:15
ENCE
vs. Preparation
BO1
14:30
Preparation
vs. A LA MIX
BO1
14:30
Ancient
vs. ENCE
BO1
16:30
ALTERNATE aTTaX
vs. ValrossGaming
BO1
16:30
Orgless
vs. Torpedo
BO1
17:45
ALTERNATE aTTaX
vs. Orgless
BO1
17:45
Torpedo
vs. ValrossGaming
BO1
19:00
ALTERNATE aTTaX
vs. Torpedo
BO1
19:00
Orgless
vs. ValrossGaming
BO1
Sunday, February 28th
14:00
Semi-final #1
BO3
17:00
Semi-final #2
BO3
20:00
Grand final
BO3
20:00
Third-place decider
BO3
A total of €20,000 has been funded for the tournament via recycling at Inferno Online in Stockholm, with the prizepool distribution being as follows:
1. €12,500 2. €5,000 3. €2,500
ESL will be streaming the event at twitch.tv/esl_csgo, the matches will also be featured in our Hot Matches section.
ENCE #27 Aleksi 'allu' JalliMiikka 'suNny' KemppiTom 'stonde' GladMikko 'xartE' VälimaaJuho 'juho' Lampinen Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Torpedo #36 Samuel 'decent' OldenburgSimon 'downie' StormJoachim 'darti' FornstedtSimon 'atter' AtterstamMattias 'malle' Lindberg Preparation #64 Frej 'kHRYSTAL' SjöströmNicolai 'glace' JensenFrederik 'LOMME' NielsenJohn 'wenton' ErikssonCasper 'cadiaN' Møller AliGon #65 Erik 'zende' SundeqvistMattias 'khobra' HeidnertGustav 'KAB0M' RunemalmJerry 'xelos' RåbergJimmy 'Jumpy' Berndtsson Markus 'pronax' Wallsten Age: 24 Team: Ancient Rating 1.0: 0.93 Maps played: 713 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.65 Orgless #37 André 'BARBARR' MöllerViktor 'flashie' Tamás BeaLasse 'maeVe' ElgaardBence 'DeadFox' BöröczAlexander 'SKYTTEN' Carlsson ALTERNATE aTTaX #23 Christian 'crisby' SchmittOliver 'kzy' HeckTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschKevin 'keev' BartholomäusStefan 'stfN' Seier Ancient #46 Markus 'pronax' WallstenJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonMathias 'pauf' KöhlerAndreas 'znajder' LindbergSimon 'twist' Eliasson