Eight North American teams have been invited to the $25,000 CyberPowerPC Winter Invitational, that will take place online on December 1-2.

Another Extreme Series event, hosted by CEVO and sponsored by CyberPowerPC, is set to take place at the beginning of next month.

After the last two editions of the Extreme Gaming Series Invitationals, that were won by OpTic and Misfits, the prize pool has been bumped up from $15,000 to $25,000. The rest of the competition has mainly stayed the same, with eight teams battling it out in a single-elimination BO3 bracket over the course of two days.

With most of North America's top teams not taking part, Cloud9 are the big favorites for EGS Winter

CyberPowerPC Extreme Gaming Series Winter Invitational will feature the likes of Cloud9 and CLG, as well interesting squads such as GX and Torqued, with the full team list available below:

A talent line-up consisting of four casters: Dust "dusT" Mouret, Keith "SeasideCS" LaFortune, Hugo Byron, Mark "Boq" Wilson, and Charles "ChazGG" St Clair as the observer will be covering the action at CyberPower's Twitch channel. The tournament will be played out in two days, following the schedule below:

Friday, December 1st 22:00 Splyce Gale Force vs. BO3 00:30 Cloud9 Torqued vs. BO3 03:00 CLG GX vs. BO3 05:30 Ghost SoaR vs. BO3 Saturday, December 2nd 23:00 Semi-final #1 BO3 01:30 Semi-final #2 BO3 04:00 Grand final BO3

Top four teams will share the $25,000 dolars, with a large majority of the prize pool going to the two highest placed teams: