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A few days back, we introduced you to the Gamers Assembly, one of the most iconic LAN parties in France and Europe, but that was not all! The Copenhagen Games, another landmark in European esports, is happening this week in Denmark. Competitions started yesterday, and are to last until Sunday following a tight and intense schedule.
A thousand participants are expected to fight in half a dozen different tournaments, and we are proud that Toornament was chosen, for the third consecutive year, to be the platform powering the tournaments, listed below:

	CS:GO Open & Main 76 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 53 000€
	Samsung CS:GO Ladies 28 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 14 000€
	Pizzaburger Overwatch 8 Teams – Swiss System + Bracket	Played on PC 9 000€
	ELGiganten Fifa 17 (Tourney #1 and Tourney #2) 2*64 Players – Groups + Bracket	Played on PS4 5 200 €
	Hearthstone 200 Players – Swiss System + Bracket	Played on PC/Mobile 2 660€
	CoD: Infinite Warfare 24 Teams – Double-Bracket	Played on PS4 1 300 €
	League of Legends 8 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 1 300 €

But this event is not just for players, the week is also filled with Esport Conferences and Cosplay happenings, among other things.
If you cant not make it to Copenhagen to follow this event live, make sure to check what is happening on the Official Twitch Channel, and the livestreams of the Community Streamers that will follow and comment the whole party!

Last week-end were played the Finals for the Season 3 of the i-League StarSeries, with not less than 16 of the best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams in the world.
Starladder’s choice for this season has been to go with the Swiss-like system already used in the ESL One: New York in 2016. With double the teams for double the fun, 8 invited teams were to fight 8 qualified teams during the Group Stage.

Tournament & Teams

Invited		Europe Qualifier	China Qualifier	America Qualifier
		Click on an icon to see the matches from that team in the Group Stage. All matches have detailed results and replays available !

8 teams qualified from the Group Stage for the Playoffs, and are, in order:

1. (3-0 score) G2 Esports & Natus Vincere
2. (3-1 score) North, Astralis & HellRaisers
3. (3-2 score) Fnatic, CounterLogic Gaming & FaZe Clan

The finalists were then seeded into the Finals bracket depending on their Group Stage ranking, and well let you have a general look before going further into what happened:

FaZe Clan, which barely managed to qualify from the Group Stage, with the #8th rank, finally overcame the challenge and won the trophy, against all odds. Other teams with impressive results were HellRaisers and CLG, which were not expected to perform as well as they did.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, both Brazilian squads, SK Gaming and Immortals have been under-performing during this event, and so was Virtus.pro.

Maps Stats

All 7 maps from the Active Duty Pool have been played during the tournament, but some teams clearly had a bias towards their favorite ones, and as such, some maps have been much more played than others.
Here is the detail of the maps and who were the best teams and players performing on each:

Map	Times played	Win Rate (CT / T)	Top Team	Top Player
	11	45%/55%		GuardiaN –
	10	43.2%/56.8%		s1mple –
	8	45.3%/54.7%		shox –
	6	63.7%/36.3%		KRiMZ –
	6	51.5%/48.5%		AdreN –
	6	60.9%/39.1%		shox –
	4	58.3%/41.7%		Xizt –

VOD Selection

Even though the whole competition is pretty much a must-see for any and all CS:GO fans, if you do not have time to catch up on every single match, we did a selection for you, so you would not miss the best moments of this historic tournament. Those are maybe not the highest-level games, but the ones you don’t want to miss:

Stage	Teams	Maps	Link
Group Stage Round 1 (bo1)	–		Replay
Group Stage Round 2 (bo1)	–		Replay
Group Stage Round 3 (bo1)	–		Replay
Group Stage Round 4 (bo1)	–		Replay
Group Stage Round 5 (bo1)	–		Replay
Playoffs QuarterFinals (bo3)	–		Replay
Playoffs SemiFinals (bo3)	–		Replay
Playoffs Grand Finals (bo3)	–		Replay
In case you only really have 3 minutes, here is the aL’s FragMovie, with the very best actions from the tournament.			Bonus

We hope you enjoyed this tournament and were able to make up for anything you’d have missed during the week-end!
See you next time for another epic esports tournament!

For those of you who don’t know what the Gamers Assembly is, a few numbers from the 2016 edition of what is one of the biggest European LAN:

• 3 days
• 12 games
• 1 800 players
• 17 000 visitors

Gamers Assembly is back in 2017, from the 15th to 17th of April, in Poitiers, France, with one objective in mind: beating those high scores. It looks like the feat is about to be achieved, as the 3-days BYOC LAN will feature 17 tournaments this year, spanning over 14 games; and as you read those lines, more than 1900 participants have registered to compete!

Without further ado, the tournaments list:

	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 48 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 10 000€
	League of Legends 56 Teams – Groups + Double-Bracket	Played on PC 10 000€
	HyperX Overwatch Trophy 48 Teams – Groups + Double-Bracket	Played on PC 8 000€
	Rainbow Six: Siege (PC) 24 Teams – Groups + Double-Bracket	Played on PC 7 500€
	Rainbow Six: Siege (Xbox One) 16 Teams – Groups + Double-Bracket	Played on XBox One 7 500€
	Hearthstone 264 Players – Groups + Double-Bracket	Played on PC 6 400€
	Nacon Trophy Call of Duty: IW 24 Teams – Double-Bracket	Played on PS4 5 000€
	Nacon Trophy Street Fighter V 128 Players – Groups + Double-Bracket	Played on PC 3 000€
	Starcraft II 66 Players – Groups + Double-Bracket	Played on PC 3 000€
	Fifa 17 128 Players – Groups + Bracket	Played on Xbox One 3 000€
	Trackmania 2: Stadium 64 Players – Double-Bracket	Played on PC 2 200€
	Infomax Team Fortress 2 Trophy 8 Teams – Double-Bracket	Played on PC 2 100€
	Super Smash Bros Wii U 66 Players – (Groups +) Double-Bracket	Played on WiiU 1 500€
	Plantronics Rocket League Trophy 24 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 1 500€
	Trackmania FullSpeed 16 Players – Double-Bracket	Played on PC 700€
	Trackmania Dirt 24 Players – Double-Bracket	Played on PC 700€
	Trackmania 2: Canyon 16 Players – Double-Bracket	Played on PC 300€

If you wish to participate in any of those tournaments, one single link:

Register

All tournaments and results are also available on the Toornament Mobile App, you can look for the Gamers Assembly ones, or yours, or any other tournament you’re interested in!

Since 2014, Gamers Assembly tournaments have been organized and managed on Toornament, and we are proud to be the go-to platform for such a huge and successful event! You can find all current and past tournaments on Toornament:

• Gamers Assembly 2017 tournaments
• Gamers Assembly 2016 tournaments
• Gamers Assembly 2015 tournaments
• Gamers Assembly 2014 tournaments

And if all of this was not enough to hype you up, maybe the Official Trailer will:

You want to compete in a tournament, but don’t know how to find one, or where to play? Let us walk you through, and introduce you to our amazing community, with its endless stream of open-registration tournaments for you to participate in!

You are playing on PC? Console? Mobile? You are more into FPS, sports, fighting? There is a tournament for you!
Here is a selection, but feel free to scour our website for games and tournaments, if you can’t find what you are looking for here!

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Open Tournaments

Training Cupby Daniel – Online	12 Teams Groups + Double-Bracket	08/04/2017 16/04/2017	Register
LIGA S.1 Div.1 by Twenty E-Sports – Online	32 Teams Bracket	09/06/2017	Register
AlphaWolves Cup#1 by HaveFun LTD – Online	32 Teams Groups + Bracket 400€ CashPrize	10/04/2017 01/06/2017	Register
Gun Racer Cup #1 by IceHax – Online	10 Teams Double Bracket	13/04/2017 16/04/2017	Register

 Vainglory Open Tournaments

Lunaris Draft by Lunaris – Online	64 Teams Bracket	08/04/2017	Register
The Lone Star by Jinnis – Online	25 Teams Bracket	08/04/2017 09/04/2017	Register
International League by ToXXiC – Online	34 Teams Groups + Bracket	29/04/2017 30/06/2017	Register

Rocket League Open Tournaments

FDJ Open Series RL2 by FDJ eSport – Online

256 Teams Groups + Bracket 450€ CashPrize

09/04/2017

Register

Overwatch League Open Tournaments

HelmiLAN kevät ’17 by HelmiLAN- LAN	8 Teams Double Bracket	14/04/2017 16/04/2017	Register
EGA Overwatch by EndGameArena – Online	16 Teams Groups + Bracket	29/04/2017	Register
ComicCup MTL 2017 by ComicCon eSports – Online	32Teams Groups + Double Bracket	03/05/2017 09/07/2017	Register

Hearthstone Open Tournaments

Bloody Ox EU Open #2 by Bloody Ox Esports – Online	32 Players Bracket	08/04/2017 09/04/2017	Register
Chickenbone’s Cardstone Extravaganza by Ahmad Kayali – Online	32 Players Bracket	14/04/2017	Register
HelmiLAN kevät ’17 by HelmiLAN – LAN	16 Players Double Bracket	14/04/2017 16/04/2017	Register

You are an organizer, and would like us to showcase one of your upcoming tournaments? Feel free to contact us on Twitter or Facebook!