The flagship tournament of Valve for Asia is coming back for 2019. With this event, Valve has shown a clear intention of entering the Chinese market and facilitating its community. The partner of Valve in China - Perfect World has just announced Asia Championships of CS:GO 2019.
What do we know?
They will hold this event from the 21st to the 24th of November with the stake of 300,000 dollars. We don't know the exact venue for the event yet, but we do know that Shanghai will be the host city.
Just like back in 2018, this year we will also have 8 teams in this event. Seven teams will participate through direct invitation while one will go through the qualifier in China. In fact, the organizer has revealed three invited teams - ENCE eSports, TyLoo, and MIBR.
Among these three teams, TyLoo is the only Chinese team that has participated in the tournament of last year. TyLoo managed to reach the semi-finals where Virtus.pro stood right between them and the final. These teams place 3rd, 35th, and 11th place respectively in the world ranking currently.
We are still waiting for more information about the invites and details on the tournament. They haven't even released the format for the upcoming tournament yet.
The 2018's tournament
Back in the 2018' tournament, Natus Vincere won the whole thing after beating Virtus.pro in the Grand Final match over three maps for the grand prize of $150,000.
That was the 2nd tournament the CIS squad won during their incredible summer run. And that was also when Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev earned his 6th MVP medal.
However, the organizer hasn't officially invited Natus Vincere to this year's tournament yet.
Stay tuned for updates on the tournament. It is very likely we will get to see s1mple fighting for his another MVP title again.
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