ESL has announced that the upcoming ESL One Rio Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major has been cancelled due to the existing COVID-19 pandemic, however, the company will bring a CS: GO Major to Brazil when needed.
The announcement made as a component of ESL’s publication of your plans for the rest of the year for CS: GO competencies. resolution taken through ESL and Valve to cancel the event.
This is the moment when ESL One Rio has been affected by the pandemic, with the occasion originally scheduled to take a position in May this year, however, due to the pandemic, the occasion was postponed until the end of the year and the prize pool. doubled to $2 million in the hope that the pandemic would become general again thereafter.
“With Valve, we had to take the difficult but safe resolution to cancel the 2020 ESL One Rio Major due to the ongoing disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” ESL said in a statement. “We’ve been running several election functions until the last hour to make the Major a reality, but in the end we have to face the fact that the global scenario lately doesn’t allow a Major to take place. While Valve lately can’t tell when and how the Majors will return, as soon as they do, we’ll paint to bring the Major to Rio. The new dates will be announced once a Major’s return to the arena is for everyone involved. All purchased tickets are still fully valid or can be refunded upon request. “
While this is dazzlingly disappointing news for CS: GO fans, there’s more news to accompany this announcement. ESL will host two events online and, if the pandemic allows, a LAN event before the end of the year.
The first will be IEM New York taking place in October, with 3 online divisions competing for a percentage of $250,000. There will be European, American and CIS competitions.
The next step is IEM Beijing-Haidian, which will also come with a $250,000 prize pool, but this time there will be 4 divisions, adding one in Europe, North America, Oceania and Asia.
Finally, and the main attraction is the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge 2020, which will see 8 groups invited directly to a LAN environment in Cologne, Germany, to compete for a percentage of the huge $500,000 prize pool. position between 15 and 20 December, however, plans would possibly be repositioned if the pandemic still makes an LAN occasion up to that point.
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