Two weeks ago ESPN and MLG announced that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be at X-games, Aspen, Colorado this upcoming January. There will be a $50 000 prizepool to fight for and the tournament is a invitational tournament with eight teams attending. Yesterday three out of the eight invited teams was announced, these three teams was Ninjas in Pyjamas, Fnatic and Cloud 9.

Adam ”Friberg” Friberg had this to say after receiving the invite to the tournament,

”We’re really thrilled that we are invited to the MLG XGames Aspen event! MLG has had great events in the past and we’re happy that they decided to give CS:GO the opportunity!

We will be taking a break after DreamHack Winter over christmas etc, then we’re going to practice as much as we can before the event.”

Per Lilliefelth CEO of Ninjas in Pyjamas also commented the invite to the tournament,

”eSports is growing bigger and bigger for each day that comes, seeing X-games entering the eSports world is another great step in the right direction. We are grateful to be one of the invited teams to this enormous event, we look forward to the event and will do our best to dig gold in the USA”

The event will be broadcasted on Major League Gaming’ own platform MLG.tv in addition to that the highlights of the games will be broadcasted on two of the biggest television networks, ESPN and ABC.*