Cobx Gaming, announces Cobx Masters, India’s Largest Multi-title International Esports Tournament to be held from 5 th April to 7 th April, 2019 at Bombay 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 approximately INR 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 participating 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 th Mar – 7 th Mar
- 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).
