ASUS ROG GameXpo 2016

On November 4-6 ASUS ROG Tournaments will bring esports to Helsinki GameXpo as the eight best Finnish teams will compete for $10,000 in the ASUS ROG GameXpo 2016 CS:GO tournament.

Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre will once again be home to ASUS ROG Tournaments for a while as we join GameXpo on November 4-6. GameXpo is the largest gaming event in Finland and naturally we don’t want to miss the opportunity to bring esports to the heart of the gaming community. Let us introduce ASUS ROG GameXpo 2016, a $10,000 competition for the top Finnish teams in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, taking its place as the main program of GameXpo.

The tournament will be played on November 4-6 on a large stage inside the GameXpo event. We encourage everyone to come and see the action live from the audience stand with Finnish commentary. Tickets can be bought at messukeskus.com.

Half of the participating teams will be selected via invites while the other half will be determined by online qualifiers, which will be released later. The structure of the tournament is a single elimination bracket with all matches being best-of-3.

Quick Facts

Dates: Fri, 4 November - Sun, 6 November, 2016

Place: Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre, Helsinki, Finland

Teams: 8

Prize pool: $10,000 USD

Format: Single Elimination Playoffs (bo3)

Streams: Finnish & partner streams

Participation: Invites + qualifiers

Tickets: messukeskus.com

Twitter: @ROGtournament

Results: peliliiga.fi

Schedule

Friday, November 4 11:00 EET - Quarterfinal #1 - ENCORE vs Huutista 15:00 EET - Quarterfinal #2 - SkitLite.QPAD vs GoSu 19:00 18:00 EET - Quarterfinal #3 - RCTIC eSports vs Conquer Gaming

Saturday, November 5 12:00 EET - Quarterfinal #4 - LGR vs Paranoia eSports 19:30 EET - Semifinal #1 - LGR vs Conquer Gaming

Sunday, November 6 10:00 EET - Semifinal #2 - ENCORE vs SkitLite.QPAD 13:00 EET - Final - LGR vs ENCORE/SkitLite



Note that the venue opens to public at 12:00 EET on Friday.

Prizes

1. $5,000

2. $3,000

3-4. $1,000

3-4. $1,000

Streams

Every match will be streamed in Finnish on our main channel. The commentary on the main stream as well as on-site will be handled by the most well-known Finnish CS:GO commentator pair Teemu "wabbit" Hiilinen & Juha "aNGeldusT" Kurppa. The interviews will be conducted by Esa "Snapple" Kaisjoki.

twitch.tv/rogtournament - Main stream

twitch.tv/rogtournament - Main stream twitch.tv/eatingasquid - English partner stream

twitch.tv/eatingasquid - English partner stream hitbox.tv/csgostudio - Russian partner stream

Participation

The tournament will feature eight teams, from which four will be direct invites and four will enter through online qualifiers. More info about the qualifiers will be released soon.

Teams

Invites

LGR

Eetu "sAw" Saha

Lasse "ZOREE" Uronen

Saku "SAGGERTON" Jokinen

Sami "xseveN" Laasanen

Slaava "Twista" Räsänen

Encore

Mikko "xartE" Välimaa

Taneli "diSTURBED" Veikkola

Timo "REFLEX" Rintala

Jesse "KHRN" Grandell

Toni "stovve" Liukkonen

SkitLite.QPAD

Simo "Leaf" Mykkänen

Joel "joel b" Borgström

Mikael "ociriz" Karkinen

Ville "rEplan" Ijäs

Jere "Sergej" Salo



Qualified

RCTIC eSports

Joonas "OZALA" Ojala

Ilmo "McDuck" Salomäki

Tommi "McSpam" Lindgren

Olli "INSES" Havisto

Jonathan "Saastis" Åberg

Conquer Gaming

Henri "henkka" Mattanen

Johannes "HiSTELI" Poikela

Olli "sLowi" Pitkänen

Henri "heku" Anttalainen

Arttu "apeHEHE" Nikkilä

GoSu

Aleksi "poc" Tiainen

Niko "EMD" Ruotsalainen

Joonas "aune" Rantala

Joni "KippariZ" Hallman

Jimi "pnarek" Nieminen

Huutista

Lassi "Raspu" Laatinen

Waltteri "weaNd" Siponen

Raine "akSau" Toivonen

Jomi "jomi" Kotta

Sami "saNid" Hagman

Paranoia eSports

Teemu "tEksi" Ursin

Samuel "BUBBIS" Suikkanen

Mikael "miksu" Liljander

Mikko "makko" Tikkanen

Tuomas "toGe" Juopperi



Roster updates

31.10.2016 - ENCORE replaces tomsku with KHRN.

30.10.2016 - Desperados renamed to Paranoia eSports

27.10.2016 - ENCE eSports has cancelled their participation due a scheduling conflict with the EU Minor tournament. The 3rd place finishers from both qualifiers played a match for the extra spot and Desperados came on top.

23.10.2016 - ENCORE replaces KHRN with stovve.

Qualifiers

There will be two qualifiers which will each provide two slots for the main tournament. The qualifiers are open to Finnish teams only. Read the rules and requirements at the tournament pages linked below.

Playoffs

Quarter Finals (bo3) ENCORE - 2 ENCORE - 2 Huutista - 0 Huutista - 0 SkitLite.QPAD - 2 SkitLite.QPAD - 2 GoSu - 0 GoSu - 0 RCTIC eSports - 1 RCTIC eSports - 1 Conquer Gaming - 2 Conquer Gaming - 2 LGR - 2 LGR - 2 Paranoia eSports - 0 Paranoia eSports - 0 Semi Finals (bo3) ENCORE - 2 ENCORE - 2 SkitLite.QPAD - 0 SkitLite.QPAD - 0 Conquer Gaming - 0 Conquer Gaming - 0 LGR - 2 LGR - 2 Final (bo3) ENCORE - 2 ENCORE - 2 LGR - 1 LGR - 1