Cobx Presents India’s Largest Multi-title International Esports Tournament: Cobx Masters 2019

Cobx Gaming, announces Cobx Masters, India’s Largest Multi-title International Esports Tournament to be held from 5^th Aprilto 7^th April, 2019atBombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. This is the second leg of the Cobx Masters announced earlier last year, the Phase I of which was successfully conducted during the summer of 2018 across 10 cities in India.

The tournament will have a massive prize pool of approximatelyINR 1,40,00,000* (USD 200,000) which has been increased since its first announcement and will be split equally across two titles; Dota 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The structure of the tournament is given below.

For each title, the tournament will have 6 teams part

icipating in the main event. Out of these 6 teams, 2 will be invited international teams, 2 will be seeded from SEA Qualifiers and 2 from India Qualifiers.

• 2 invited international teams

• 2 teams from SEA Qualifier

  • 2 Open Qualifiers in SEA

    • Single elimination BO1 matches

    • Top two move to the Closed Qualifier

  • Closed Qualifiers in SEA

    • 4 invited teams and 4 teams from the Open Qualifiers divided into 2 groups

    • Single round robin

    • Winner of each group move to the Main Event

  • 2 teams from India Qualifier

    • Closed Qualifier in India

      • 20 teams from Cobx Masters Phase I winners and runner-ups

      • Single elimination BO1 matches

      • Winner moves to the Main Event

    • Open Qualifier in India

      • Single elimination BO1 matches

      • Winner moves to the Main Event

The structure will be the same for Dota 2 and CS:GO. The dates for the qualifiers are given below.

• Dota 2 SEA Open Qualifiers: 26^th Feb – 27^th Feb

• Dota 2 SEA Closed Qualifiers: 28^th Feb – 1^st Mar

• CS:GO SEA Open Qualifiers: 26^th Feb – 27^th Feb

• CS:GO SEA Closed Qualifiers: 2^nd Mar – 3^rd Mar

• Dota 2 India Closed Qualifiers: 4^thMar – 7^thMar

• Dota 2 India Open Qualifiers: 8^th Mar – 10^th Mar

• CS:GO India Closed Qualifiers: 11^th Mar – 14^th Mar

• CS:GO India Open Qualifiers: 15^th Mar – 17^th Mar

The prize pool is split among the top 4 teams at the Main Event. The prize pool split per title is given below:

1^st – ~INR 42,00,000* (USD 60,000),

2^nd – ~INR 14,00,000*(USD 20,000),

3^rd – ~INR 7,00,000* (USD 10,000),

4^th – ~INR 7,00,000*(USD 10,000).