Counter-Strike: Global Offensive $250,000 EMS One Katowice Championship Announced

Having just concluded an amazing 2013 of EMS One CS:GO, we are happy to announce that ESL is taking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to the big stage and finishing its first 2014 EMS Season with a $250,000 tournament in the Spodek arena at the Intel Extreme Masters venue in Katowice. The shared $500,000 prize pool for the IEM Season 8 Finals & the EMS One CS:GO Finals sets a new prize money record for a European eSports event and is sure to once again draw massive crowds to the 11,500 capacity stadium. The EMS One CS:GO tournament, made possible by ASUS, Intel, Valve and the CS:GO community, will feature a combination of 16 invited and qualified teams from around the globe, who will battle it out for a share of the massive community funded prize pool. Eight are already invited to the quarter-finalists, pulled from the last community funded tournament, the 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries CS:GO Championship, which includes the four best performers of last year's EMS One CS:GO Season. Follow the action and see a calendar of upcoming events via this page. Teams currently in the line-up include:

• Fnatic
• Ninjas in Pyjamas
• ex-Team VeryGames
• über G33KZ (ex-CW)
• Recursive
• LGB eSports
• Complexity
• Astana Dragons