ESL Expo Barcelona to kick-off this Friday

From February 19-21th, ESL will be hosting an eight team international CS:GO tournament as well as the ESL Masters Spain, the National League of Legends championship, in the beautiful city of Barcelona.

Eight CS:GO teams, four international, two European and two Spanish, as well as eight local League of Legends teams will battle it out in their respective tournaments for a total prize pool of €80,000 across the two platforms CS:GO and League of Legends at the ESL Expo Barcelona presented by Mobile World Congress. The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will use a format similar to the one from the Intel Extreme Masters held at gamescom, with each team being assigned three lives. Every defeat costs a life and the match winners get to pick which two teams will play next. The vote for the first series is currently on-going. In addition to Counter-Strike action this weekend, the ESL Masters Spain in League of Legends will be held at the three-day event.

Participants for the CS:GO event:

CS:GO event casters:

Oliver "OJ Borg" D'Anastasi - Host

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk Host

Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Caster

Leigh "Deman" Smith - Caster

Henry "HenyG" Greer - Caster

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Caster

Jason "moses" O'Toole - Caster

Janko "YNk" Paunovic - Analyst

CS:GO event schedule, all times are CET (GMT+1):



Friday, February 19th

10:00 AM - Match #1

11:30 AM - Match #2

1:00 PM - Match #3

2:30 PM - Match #4

4:00 PM - Match #5

5:30 PM - Match #6

7:00 PM - Match #7

8:30 PM - Match #8

Saturday, February 20th

10:00 AM - Match #9

11:30 AM - Match #10

1:00 PM - Match #11

2:30 PM - Match #12

4:00 PM - Match #13

5:30 PM - Match #14

7:00 PM - Match #15

8:30 PM - Match #16

Sunday, February 21st

10:00 AM - Match #17

11:30 AM - Match #18

1:00 PM - Match #19

2:30 PM - Match #20

4:00 PM - Match #21

5:30 PM - Match #22

7:00 PM - Match #23

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