Indian Gaming League [IGL] CSGO Event Highlights

Source: iglnetwork.com

Another achievements in the course of Indian e-Sports, Indian Gaming League (IGL), that has been recently introduced to provide a new shape to e-Sports in India.

IGL has been founded by cousins – Yash Pariani and Krish Galani recently. The league not only feature games played on PC and consoles but also smart phones. Most of our favorite games can be found in the list, such as Counter Strike : Global Offensive, DOTA2 for PC, Call of Duty, FIFA for consoles and also games like Angry Birds and 8 Ball Pool for smart phones.

The league is co-sponsored by Major League Gaming (MLG) which has millions of followers Worldwide and is also quite popular for their events in distinguish games.

With the capacity of playing 128 teams in a single elimination format, IGL recently ran a tournament for CS:GO which had a total of 99 teams registered and within a few minutes 38 teams checked in. The prize pool of the league was INR 10,000.

All event matches were played on Drag2Death sponsored servers and Draggers worked round the clock to help ILG accomplish rather odd 38 team event in record 13 Hours time.

The event was actually planned for 32 teams however before IGL could act, within a few seconds 6 extra teams checked in. IGL didn’t wanted to disappoint any teams who already checked in and a rather complex and challenging task was given to Drag2Death to complete the whole event in one and a half day.

In an interview with AlienHCasting, the Co-Founder of Drag2Death, Amol Bharti (CoderGeek82) said – “Draggers spent their Valentines Day serving the lovely CSGO teams but yeah for many of us CSGO is the first love and we could not miss our date with love 😉”

The top 10 teams of the tournament came out to be – Team Scorchers, Team Brutality, Old Man Gaming, Forsaken Esports, Team A4D, Team Nuisance, Team Dehshat, Team VacBanned, Team Legacy and Team ITW (in random order).

As we headed to the semi finals, we witnessed some awesome matches between Team Forsaken / Team Scorchers and Team Dehsat / Team oMg followed by the Grand Final match that went on to be between Team oMg (Old Man Gaming) vs Team Scorchers. After an exciting contest, Team Scorchers came out on top and won the Indian Gaming League

The tournament was sponsored by some well known brands such as PlayStation, RedBull being the official beverage partner and Paytm as the league’s official sponsor as per our sources.

We hope to witness more revolutionary efforts in the near future for the sake of e-Sports in India like this one.