The Pinnacle Winter Series is a CS:GO tournament series by Pinnacle that invites up-and-coming and top esports teams to compete. Find out all of the information about the tournament in our guide.
The Pinnacle Winter Series is a CS:GO tournament series that will see some of the best up-and-coming teams from around the world compete online. Each tournament in the Pinnacle Winter Series will feature an $84,000 prize pool with a first-place prize of $40,000 going to the winner. The tournament will be split into three stages and will see 28 teams battle for a share of the prize money.
The Pinnacle Winter Series #3 tournament will take place from February 28 to March 16, 2022.
You can watch Pinnacle Winter Series #3 on Twitch:
The Pinnacle Winter Series tournaments will take place in three stages; the first stage will be played as a Regional Swiss stage, the second as a Main Swiss stage, and the third as a single-elimination Playoff stage.
The Swiss-system tournament format is a system that gives all teams a fair chance to progress to the elimination stages of a tournament. It gives teams equally balanced matches against other teams with the same match score and doesn’t eliminate a team from a tournament after two losses, unlike other traditional formats.
The Regional Swiss stage will see 16 teams invited to compete for eight qualification spots in the Main Swiss stage. Each team that progresses into the Main Swiss stage will also be awarded $2,000 of prize money.
The Main Swiss stage will see 16 teams competing, eight from the Regional Swiss stage and eight receiving direct invites. Like the previous stage, eight qualification spots for the Playoff stage will be available. Each team that earns a qualification into the Playoff stage will earn $3,000.
The single-elimination Playoff stage will see 12 teams in total; four teams will receive direct invites to this stage while eight teams will be those that qualified from the Main Swiss stage. For teams that make it past the first round of the Playoff stage, $1,000 will be added to their prize purse while the overall winning team will earn the first-place prize of $40,000.
The Pinnacle Winter Series will see a number of teams ranked in the top 50 of the HLTV world rankings participate in each competition. Each Pinnacle Winter Series tournament will have a total of 28 teams invited to play. 16 teams will be invited to compete in the Regional Swiss stage, eight teams will receive direct invites to the Main Swiss stage, while four teams will receive direct invites to the Playoff stage.
We’ve had four winners of Pinnacle Series tournaments so far: Virtus.pro; Entropiq; Ecstatic; and K23. As part of winning a tournament, each team has automatically received an invitation to the 2022 LAN Sweet LAN tournament which will have a $250,000 prize pool.
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