CEVO Announces TF2 Season 5 - $8,135 in cash prizes - Register Today!

CEVO is pleased to announce that team registration for Team Fortress 2 Season 5 will open on Tuesday, June 10th and end on Monday, June 30th at 11:59 PM CDT. The Season 5 prize pool will start with a guaranteed minimum of $8,135.00 after an absolutely amazing turnout in Season 4. As promised, we've added all league fees from Season 4 to this season's prize pool (less PayPal transaction fees). Season 5's league fee will vary by skill division and participation includes:

$8,135 minimum guaranteed prize pool + community crowdfunding

ALL matches protected by CEVO's Paladin anti-cheat technology

Automated TF2 Match Mod developed by CEVO|Lange

Complete integration of SizzlingStats for ALL matches

Automatic recording and archiving of STV demos for ALL matches

Automatic weekly matches scheduled and easy to use match scheduling thread

Real-time updated standings and team rankings

Helpful league officials available for LIVE support on ALL match nights

FREE access to community forums and prediction systems for every match

Ability to reserve FREE dedicated servers for all matches

Professional Playoffs on LAN @ theGXL (October 10-12)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR TF2 SEASON 5

Season Details

- 2 week preseason

- 8 week regular season

- double elimination playoffs

- 3 skill divisions (CEVO-Open / CEVO-Main / CEVO-Professional)

- 1 national conference

- Tuesday and Thursday deadline days

- 9:00 PM CDT default match time

- 6v6 game format

Prizes

Professional Division (12 Teams) $40 per player - $5,898.00 + community crowdfunding

1st (50%) - $2,949.00 + 6x FREE GXL BYOC Seats

2nd (25%) - $1,475.00 + 6x FREE GXL BYOC Seats

3rd (15%) - $885.00 + 6x FREE GXL BYOC Seats

4th (10%) - $590.00 + 6x FREE GXL BYOC Seats

NOTE: If anyone wins that has already purchased a BYOC seat at theGXL event, we will work with theGXL to make sure that you're refunded before the start of the event.



Main Division (24 Teams) $18 per player - $1,627.00 + community crowdfunding

1st (60%) - $976.00 + automatic invite to s6 Professional Placement Tournament

2nd (27%) - $439.00 + automatic invite to s6 Professional Placement Tournament

3rd (13%) - $212.00+ automatic invite to s6 Professional Placement Tournament

4th - automatic invite to s6 Professional Placement Tournament

5th/6th - automatic invite to s6 Professional Placement Tournament

Open Divison $18 per player - $610.00 + community crowdfunding

1st (75%) - $458.00 + automatic invite to s6 Professional Placement Tournament

2nd (25%) - $153.00 + automatic moveup to s6 Main skill division

3rd - automatic moveup to s6 Main skill division

4th - automatic moveup to s6 Main skill division

5th/6th - automatic moveup to s6 Main skill division

7th/8th - automatic moveup to s6 Main skill division

In addition to the guaranteed base prize pool of $8,135 committed by CEVO, we are going to continue with our community crowd funding program that we developed in Season 4. The crowdfunding program enables players and fans of each game to help spread the word about CEVO and directly affect the prize pools of the specific games that they love. 100% of the proceeds from the community crowdfunding project will go directly towards the s5 prize pools (less PayPal transaction fees), CEVO will not keep a cent. All donations will be distributed using the percentages lsited above.

NOTE: In an effort to remove dead/inactive teams before the regular season begins, teams who forfeit both of their preseason matches will not be automatically scheduled week 1 regular season matches without contacting CEVO Support to confirm their team status.

Map Rotation & Whitelist

Preseason 1: cp_intermodal_rc3a

Preseason 2: cp_logjam_b1f

Week 1: cp_snakewater_final1

Week 2: cp_process_final

Week 3: cp_granary

Week 4: cp_gullywash_final1

Week 5: cp_badlands

Week 6: cp_metalworks_rc5

Week 7: koth_pro_viaduct_rc4

Week 8: cp_sunshine_rc1a

Week 9: TBA (Professional division only)

We'll be releasing the regular season map rotation and whitelist in the next few weeks after collecting feedback from the community. Feel free to leave us your thoughts on either subject in the comments below, we're listening.

CEVO @ theGXL Universe 2014

CEVO, North America’s largest competitive online PC gaming league, and theGXL, the East Coast’s largest and longest running BYOC LAN event, have announced today that they have entered into an agreement to host the CEVO Season 5 CS:GO & TF2 Professional Playoffs on LAN at theGXL Universe 2014 event on October 10-12, 2014 in Philadelphia.

This partnership will mark CEVO’s first foray into producing LAN events in North America and will be broadcast by CEVO’s digital media arm, CEVO-TV.

Hosting East Coast BYOC LAN events since 2004, theGXL has managed many events with attendance as large as 700 gamers. theGXL will work with CEVO to create a separate tournament area inside of the large event venue.

You can read the full press release HERE.

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Players can register their teams from Tuesday, June 10th until Monday, June 30th at 11:59 PM CDT. We're looking forward to improving after an extremely successful Season 4, and we'd love for you and your team to join us.

As always, we're open to feedback and would love to hear from you. Feel free to post your questions, comments, or concerns below, contact CEVO Support, or visit us in our public TeamSpeak3 server (cevots.gameservers.com:9366) to get in touch with us!

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