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ELeague lines up first six teams to compete in first Counter-Strike: GO season

The first official season of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition from ELeague is set to launch in May and the first six teams have been named.

Ozzie Mejia

March 10, 2016 9:00 AM

Back at the end of January, Turner Sports and the folks at ELeague laid out the full schedule for the inaugural Counter-Strike: Global Offensive regular season of competition. There are 18 teams that are scheduled to compete and this morning, ELeague has laid out the first six teams that have confirmed their participation.

The following teams will compete in the first CS:GO season when it premieres on May 24:

Cloud9
Renegades
Counter Logic Gaming (CLG)
Astralis
Ninjas in Pyjamas
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For more on the teams competing, check out the ELeague website. The stakes are high in the first season of competition, with a prize pool of $1.2 million up for grabs. Viewers will be able to catch the 10-week tournament when it airs on TBS every Friday night, right up until the global championship event commences on Saturday, July 30.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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