After announcing our tournament The World Championship we are ecstatic to announce a series of leagues that we will hold around the world with 64,600 USD up for grabs. As the name “Rising Stars” suggests, these leagues will be seasonal leagues aiming to support the grassroots CounterStrike: Global Offensive scene. The main goal is to support nonTier 1 teams as they work their way to become truly top teams. In fact, we plan on helping these teams in more ways than just helping them gain exposure. In the future we hope that these teams can become shareholders and partners of the event, to share the profits and successes of the event.
There will be four leagues in four regions (Europe, North America, South America and Southeast Asia). In total, 64,600 USD will be given out in these four leagues, while 12 online qualifiers will determine which teams qualify for these leagues. Although originally this was a 50,000 USD guaranteed prize pool tournament, it will now grow to 64,600 USD if the teams finish all of their matches.
YOUR ESPORTS ENTERTAINMENT LTD PRESENTS A SERIES OF COUNTERSTRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE LEAGUES: “RAZER RISING STARS” AWARDING 64,600 USD
Statement from Your Esports Entertainment Ltd. CEO, Mohamed “Availer” Zardab:
“Your Esports Entertainment is proud to present the next chapter in the CS:GO tournament and league circuit. The Razer Rising Stars League (RSL) will be a worldwide league available in 4 regions. It is a league that is designed to develop grassroots CS:GO, to give opportunities to new undiscovered teams and players and to create a stable backbone league for mid tier teams as a stepping stone to the top tier echelons of CS:GO.
The league is designed to hone and promote new and raw talent. While also our main goal is to help develop the brands and image of tier 2 and lower teams. We also hope to share in our success with the community and with these teams with future seasons having the league members receiving a percentage of the profits of the league so that the success of the league is the success of the teams, and the success of the teams will equal the success of the league. We hope to build up the teams involved and to build up the scenes in the various parts of the world to
create a stable grassroots ecosystem for CS:GO.
The community will also have a chance to take part in the leagues with 50% of the slots given to open qualifiers that will be powered and hosted on the incredible Razer Arena platform. Razer Arena also share our vision of developing CS:GO at the ground level and are with us fully at making sure this will be a successful endeavour.
We will also make sure that with the completion of our studios in Belgrade that we will offer the best possible production value and quality in CS:GO regardless of the level of CS that we will be broadcasting. The Razer Rising Stars League will be a league to watch this year, but not only watch, also takepart in.”
Razer Rising Stars Europe League:
The Razer Rising Stars Europe League will run from March 15 May 1 and will receive the lion’s share of the prize pool; 20,000 USD. It will feature 16 teams, 8 of which will be invited while 8 will join from 4 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 16 teams participate in a roundrobin format. Each team will play each other in a bestoftwo match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss.
After every team plays their 15 BO2 matches, the league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 10,000 USD
2nd 5,000 USD
3rd 3,000 USD
4th 2,000 USD
5th16th 500 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be four online qualifiers awarding 8 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All four qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward. Links to the qualifiers are below:
Invited teams for Europe: LoungeGaming, LDLC White, ALTERNATE aTTaX, EFrag.net eSports Club, CPH
Wolves, Orgless, DenDD
Razer Rising Stars SouthEast Asia League:
The Razer Rising Stars SouthEast Asia League will run from May 1 June 1 and will have teams competing for 10,000 USD. It will feature 10 teams, 4 of which will be invited while 6 will join from 3 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 10 teams participate in a round robin format. Each team will play each other in a bestoftwo match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 9 BO2 matches, the league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 5,000 USD
2nd 3,000 USD
3rd 2,000 USD
4th-10th 200 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be three online qualifiers awarding 6 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All three qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward.
Razer Rising Stars North American League:
The Razer Rising Stars North American League will run from April 15 May 15 and will have teams competing for 10,000 USD. It will feature 12 teams, 6 of which will be invited while 6 will join from 3 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 12 teams participate in a roundrobin format. Each team will play each other in a bestoftwo match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss.
After every team plays their 11 BO2 matches, the league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 5,000 USD
2nd 3,000 USD
3rd 2,000 USD
4th10th 250 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be three online qualifiers awarding 6 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All three qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward.
Razer Rising Stars South American League:
The Razer Rising Stars South American League will run from March 15 April 15 and will have teams competing for 10,000 USD. It will feature 8 teams, 4 of which will be invited while 4 will join from 2 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 8 teams participate in a roundrobin format. Each team will play each other in a bestoftwo match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss.
After every team plays their 7 BO2 matches, the league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 5,000 USD
2nd 3,000 USD
3rd 2,000 USD
4th10th 200 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be two online qualifiers awarding 4 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All three qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward. Links to the qualifiers are below:
Invited teams for South America: NTN, KeyD Stars, Santos.Dexterity, g3nerationX.
