ICE Challenge event announced

The $250,000 ICE Challenge event will take place on February 1-6 in London. The teams participating are a healthy variety of the top teams in the world and some up-and-coming squads hoping to have a great start to the year.

The tournament format will be two best-of-three groups for February 1-2. The bottom team from each group will be eliminated before going into day three. The other six teams will move on to a double-elimination bracket at the ExCeL arena in London on February 4-6. The grand final will be a best-of-five series. The prize pool distribution goes as follows:

1st: $125,000
2nd: $50,000
3rd-4th: $25,000
5th-6th: $10,000
7th-8th: $2,500 

Teams attending will be:

• mousesports;
• Natus Vincere;
• OG;
• Heroic;
• GODSENT;
• Virtus.pro;
• ENCE;
• MAD Lions.