Spirit flew to Kazakhstan as a heavy candidate for the $ 400,000 prize for the championship team.

The teams attend

PGL Astana will start on Saturday, May 10, with the participation of many strong teams seeking to prevent the leading candidate, Spirit winning the championship.

Among them are names like Natus Vincere, Aurora, and The Mongolz, teams who are looking to take advantage of the opportunity when the three teams in the top 4 of the world are absent in this tournament.

We will also witness the launch of:

Olek "Hades" Miskiewicz in G2 shirt,

Rasmus "hooxi" Nielsen in the Astralis squad,

Danil "Molodoy" Golubenko and Mareks "Yekindar" Gaļinskis in Furia.

Ninjas in Pyjamas also had the first international debut with a new squad in Lan.

List of participating teams:

Spirit (Russia)

Natus Vincere (Europe)

Aurora (Türkiye)

The Mongolz (Mongolia)

G2 (Europe)

Gamerlegion (Europe)

Virtus.pro (Russia)

Astralis (Denmark)

Pain (Brazil)

Mibr (Brazil)

M80 (USA)

Furia (Brazil)

Big (Germany)

Ninjas in Pyjamas (Europe)

Oddik (Brazil)

Hotu (Russia)

Schedule and format

The tournament will use the same format as PGL Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest, with the Swiss BO3 group stage (all matches are Best-of-3), using the Major Bucholz Seeding system and the opening match in the form of 1VS9 (No. 1 seed team plays with the lowest seed team).

However, unlike Bucharest, the playoff round will have a direct audience at Barys Arena - a stadium with a capacity of 11,578 people.

8 teams passing the group stage will start from the quarterfinals. The final will be the best-of-5, after the third match on the final Sunday.

Local time playing time (GMT+4), with 3-4 matches starting from 12:00, while semi-finals onwards will take place at 17:00 and 21:00.

Prize

PGL continues to use the familiar "peak" prize structure, with a total prize value of US $ 1.25 million. Of which 50% will be divided directly to organizations (teams).

🥇 Rank 1: $ 400,000

🥈 Rank 2: $ 187,500

🥉 Rank 3: $ 150,000

Grade 4: $ 87,500

Rank 5-8: $ 62,500 per team

Grade 9-11: $ 31,250 per team

Rank 12-14: $ 18,750 per team

Grade 15-16: $ 12,500 per team