CS:GO News Week in Review: March 7th

Fnatic win IEM Katowice 2016

The Swedish team took their sixth straight title this weekend as they managed to defeat Luminosity Gaming 3:0 in the grand finals of Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2016. Although the final map score of this best-of-five seemed like a crushing defeat for the Brazilians, LG fought each map tooth and nail, taking two of them to overtimes. Check out our winner's announcement for exclusive footage of the final moments of the event.

VG sign CyberZen

Vici Gaming announced earlier this year that they had begun to search for a Asian CS:GO team to represent them; this week the legendary organization revealed that they have signed the Chinese team from CyberZen, one of the most successful teams in the region.

Razer Rising Stars announced

E-Frag is back with yet another tournament this week as they have announced they will be running the $64,000 new Razer Rising Stars League. Read a piece of their full reveal below:

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Your Esports Entertainment is proud to present the next chapter in the CS:GO tournament and league circuit. The Razer Rising Stars League (RSL) will be a worldwide league available in 4 regions. It is a league that is designed to develop grassroots CS:GO, to give opportunities to new undiscovered teams and players and to create a stable backbone league for mid tier teams as a stepping stone to the top tier echelons of CS:GO.

Malmö qualifier invites revealed

With Dreamhack's first Masters event just a little more than a month out, the Sweden-based organization has revealed this week the invited teams that will compete for two of the spots at Malmö. The eight invites will join eight teams that will come from an earlier 512-team open online qualifier, which is set to begin on March 12th. See the full list of invites here.

MLG Columbus team list completed

With the final day of the MLG Columbus closed qualifier coming to a close early this week, another eight teams have been appended to the invitees that comprise the full team lineup for MLG Columbus, and that list is now complete. North America had a extremely strong showing at the qualifier, managing to snag four of the eight available event slots.