Astralis & ex-Titan to Expo Barcelona

From February 19-21, ESL will be hosting an eight-team international CS:GO tournament as part of the ESL Expo Barcelona presented by Mobile World Congress.

With €75,000 on offer, the competition will feature four invited teams and four qualified sides, two of them hailing from Spain.

After previously announcing that

EnVyUs and

fnatic had been invited to attend the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational, ESL has now revealed that the final invites have been issued to

Astralis and the

ex-Titan squad.

This means that the list of participants for the event looks as follows:

Meanwhile, ESL has announced that the tournament will use a format similar to the one from IEM Gamescom, with each team being assigned three lives. Every defeat costs a life, and the match winners get to pick which two teams will play next. The winner of the tournament will be the last team standing, who will take home €22,000.

Below you can find the full prize distribution for the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational:

1. €22,000

2. €11,000

3. €5,500

4. €4,500

5. €3,500

6. €2,500

7. €1,500

8. €500 

* + €1,000 for every life left and every victory achieved

Source: HLTV.org