UK casters have joined the talent lineup for a new Thunderpick Bitcoin Series, a new tournament series with a prize pool in Bitcoin.
The Thunderpick Bitcoin Series is an online event that started on January 17th, 2022 with a closed qualifier and the CSGO tournament runs until March 7th. Other CSGO and Dota 2 tournaments within the Thunderpick Bitcoin Series are also scheduled to take place later in the year.
UK casters Kremer and Legday are involved, and an all-UK CSGO team could also participate. Into the Breach made it to the grand finals of a closed qualifier, and if they win that today, they’ll make it to the entire event.
British organization Into the Breach also recently reached the ESL Challenger League, switched to Valorant, renewed roster deals and announced new tournaments.
There will be 16 teams participating in the entire tournament including Dignitas, GamerLegion, Blink and more. You can see more about it Thundercoin Bitcoin Series page on Liquipedia.net.
Eight of them reach the finals, where they face four other visiting teams.
The top teams in the final stage of the tournament will compete for a chance to win a share of the 1.2 Bitcoin prize pool with a minimum of $75,000 guaranteed. The minimum is a safe price, but the bitcoin price could increase during the playoffs, so the grand prize may be higher.
The format of the CSGO tournament will be a standard best-of-three, further divided into three stages with the collective 50 best-of-three matches. In closed qualifiers, four teams play in a double-elimination format, with the winning team advancing to the main stage.
Thunderpick is an esports betting platform and this tournament is run in cooperation with Russian promoter UCC.
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