Astralis & ex

ESL has announced that Astralis and ex-Titan have received the last two invitations for the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational.

From February 19-21, ESL will be hosting an eight-team international CS:GO tournament as part of the ESL Expo Barcelona presented by Mobile World Congress.

With €75,000 on offer, the competition will feature four invited teams and four qualified sides, two of them hailing from Spain.

Astralis to attend Spanish event 

After previously announcing that EnVyUs and fnatic had been invited to attend the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational, ESL has now revealed that the final invites have been issued to Astralis and the former Titan squad.

This means that the list of participants for the event looks as follows:

fnatic	Vexed Gaming
EnVyUs	dignitas
Astralis	x6tence
ex-Titan	gBots

Meanwhile, ESL has announced that the tournament will use a format similar to the one from IEM Gamescom, with each team being assigned three lives. Every defeat costs a life, and the match winners get to pick which two teams will play next. The winner of the tournament will be the last team standing, who will take home €22,000.

Below you can find the full prize distribution for the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational:

1. €22,000
2. €11,000 
3. €5,500 
4. €4,500 
5. €3,500 
6. €2,500 
7. €1,500 
8. €500  

* + €1,000 for every life left and every victory achieved