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UK – Grosvenor Casinos to host epic.LAN CS:GO Championship
By Phil - 7 June 2018
epic.LAN is partnering with Grosvenor Casinos to host CS:GO esports at casinos and bingo halls across the country over the coming months with a total of £10k on the line.
Qualifiers will be taking place at Grosvenor Newcastle, Grosvenor Coventry, Grosvenor Manchester, Mecca Bingo in Glasgow Quay and Grosvenor Reading thoughout July and August. Winners will go on to the grand final at Grosvenor Coventry later this year to compete for the grand prize.
Each qualifier winning team will receive £750 and runners-up £250, with the grand final champions taking £3000, second place £1500 and third place £500.
Qualifier tickets cost just £50 per team to enter and due to the nature of the venues, the tournament is restricted to ages 18 and over.
You can take part in the tournament and follow all the results at grosvenor.epiclan.net.
Jon Winkle, epic.LAN Managing Director, said: “epic.LAN has always provided community-level tournaments for esports and recognises that some of the barriers to taking part in esports for new teams are the costs of entry and transport. That’s why we’re really looking forward to delivering this new tournament series with the team from Grosvenor Casinos so we can bring esports straight to the community and give more people opportunities to get involved”.
Callum Scott, Events & Entertainment Project Manager at Rank Group, added: “We are very excited about working with epic.LAN. Having played for 10 years, I know how hard it can be to get some much-needed LAN experience. We wanted to work with epic.LAN to offer tournaments outside of London, bringing it to the players and helping grow to our UK talent. It’s all about building a starting point for our future world-class teams.”
