Fnatic - A profesional gaming team

In conjunction with MSI and SteelSeries, FnaticMSI PLAY presents a Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 tournament, featuring over 5000$ in prizes.

FnaticMSI PLAY continues to support a variety of gaming communities, in an effort to make competitions more fun (and lucrative) for the players, and provide them an opportunity to improve against the top competition in the world. This holds true for our latest event, a Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Tournament (register here), where 32 teams will vie for over $5000 in cash and prizes, provided exclusively by MSI and SteelSeries.

This tournament also sets a milestone in PLAY's history, as this marks the first event in which a brand new piece of hardware will be awarded in a prize pool. The MSI N560GTX Ti Twin Frozr II is the latest high quality performance graphic card in the MSI GeForce line, with a market value of 260$. Along with high tech components from MSI and SteelSeries mice and mouse pads, the standout player (the one who presents the best individual performance in the tournament) will be rewarded with MSI GT680R gaming laptop!

Prize Distribution

1st: 500$ + 5x MSI N560GTX Ti Twin Frozr II 
2nd: 250$ + 5x SteelSeries Kinzu
3rd: 5x SteelSeries 4HD
MVP: MSI GT680R Gaming Laptop

Dates

Monday 16th May:

18:00 - Round of 32 - BO3
20:00 - Round of 16 - BO3
22:00 - Round of 8 - BO3

Tuesday 17th May:

18:00 - Semifinals - BO3
21:00 - 3rd place/finals - BO3

Please note that all times are CET. Check in starts at 17:00 which is 1 hour before the tournament, check in will last 45 minutes. We will invite some top tier teams to participate, while all other slots will be filled by "first come first served" rule. That means teams that check in first will reserve their slot in the tournament.

Additional Information

1. Your team must have 5 members to be eligible for check-in's
2. Enter your Steam ID via the Dashboard. Every player must have this entered.
3. Players only need to create Teams on the PLAY website, UGAME has nothing to do with the PLAY Tournaments
4. To create/join a team is simple follow this link. If you are joining already created team, select "Pick an existing team option", pick your team from the list, enter the password set by team creator, and you will be on the roster.
5. If you have anymore questions or require assistance please join our IRC Quakenet channel #fnatic.play and contact one of our admins
6. First 32 teams that check in from 17:00 to 17:45 CET on 16th will play the tournamet, note that we are not picking teams manually.
7. Read the rules.

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  MSI is proud of its more than 20 years experience in designing and manufacturing high performance IT products. The product lines of MSI are motherboards, graphic cards, notebooks, consumer electronics, barebones, networking and server products, and fully integrated add-on peripherals. With its ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 qualified facilities, MSI products provide the ultimate performance, reliability and value-increasing productivity.
  
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  SteelSeries is all about gaming. Their mission is to create performance enhancing gaming gear, created for and by leading professional gamers. They continuously strive to better themselves, and work with leading professional gamers from 3 different continents to create their products. Their staff are distributed throughout the world, working from offices in Europe, North America and Asia.
  
  The SteelSeries headquarters are located in Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark), and host the primary office facilities for the company. The headquarters handle all planning, production and partner coordination.
  
  For logistical reasons they also have sales offices in Asia (Taipei, Taiwan) and USA (Los Angeles, California). From Taipei they can reach the entire Asian market, as well as New Zealand and Australia. From Los Angeles they can reach North America, Canada and South America. All manufacturing is done by sub-suppliers from Europe and Asia, and then delivered to one of the warehouses for final processing.