Adrenaline Cyber League, a $100,000 competition with a four-team LAN finals taking place in Moscow, Russia on October 1-2, has been announced earlier today by Adrenaline Rush.

Adrenaline Cyber League will kick off with an open stage, which consists of eight best-of-one online tournaments where winners advance to best-of-three, single elimination playoffs.



Gambit invited to Adrenaline Cyber League

At the same time, eight invited sides will be playing in two groups of four. Top two sides from each group will advance directly to the quarter-finals of the aforementioned playoffs, where they'll meet winners of the previous round featuring open stage teams.

The groups of invited teams are following:

* hover over team names for lineups

The open and invitee stage will be played across the entirety of August, while the playoffs are scheduled for the first half of September.

Only the grand finalists will secure a spot at the LAN finals, which will take place from October 1-2 during Moscow's IgroMir Expo, an annual computer and video games exhibition.

The other two participants will be two teams from Europe, who will receive direct invites for the $100,000 finals. The prizepool distribution looks as follows:

1. $50,000

2. $25,000

3. $15,000

4. $10,000

On Thursday, August 4, the invited teams will begin playing their groups, with Preparation and Binary Dragons set to play at 14:00 , and NokSuKao and Comanche will follow at 17:00 .