During gamescom, an annual video games trade fair taking place in Cologne, FlipSid3 and mousesports will face off on August 18th in the OMEN Challenge by HP, where viewers will vote live between a number of distractions players will face during the match.

The OMEN Challenge between FlipSid3 and mousesports will be played in a best-of-three series with a mr10 setting (as opposed to the standard mr15, where the first team to get 16 rounds wins the map) and boosted startmoney.

Viewers will be able to vote via Twitch chat on distractions, or so-called "tortures", the players will face during the match.



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The exact distractions have not been disclosed, but in last year's version of the challenge, which was played in SMITE, players were put into special chambers. Once a Twitch chat vote came to a close, the chambers initiated the chosen distraction.

Some of the "tortures" there included freezing temperatures inside the chambers, electric shocks and rotating chairs, as you can see in a highlights video from the first iteration.