From May 3 to 11, 2021, the largest esports tournament in the history of the Kostanay region “Qostanay CS: GO OpenCUP” in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day, was held on the basis of KSK, in which any resident of Kostanay could take part. area from 16 years old (from 14 years old with parental permission).
The organizers of the tournament are the Kostanay Construction College and the Anti-Corruption Service of the Kostanay region. The event was held within the framework of the “Sanaly Urpak” project.
The event was sponsored by the local company KTK LLP, which, on behalf of the BIZON brand of power engineers, supported the tournament with a prize fund of 65,000 tenge.
33 applications from the national teams of the region were submitted to participate in the tournament.
The games were held in two stages: online qualifiers in the best of one format according to the play-off system and the full-time final in the best of three format, that is, up to two victories.
The two strongest teams WinXXX and Kostanay dragons, who met in the LAN finals at the site of the Kostanay Construction College, went to the grand final of the tournament.
During the finals, the game zone and the games themselves were broadcast live with the participation of professional commentators Adlet Kaparov and Adil Zhumagaliev on the streaming platform twitch.tv/cyber_ksk.
Bolat Rustem Sailauovich, head of the Department of Prevention and Integrity of the Regional Anti-Corruption Service, as well as the head of by the sector for the development of educational work in the organizations of Teepo Akhmetova Zhubaira Auezkhanovna, who congratulated the children and awarded them with prizes.
Tournament results:
1st place – the team “Kostanay dragons” – 30 thousand tenge and the Winner’s Cup.
2nd place – the team “WinXXX” – 20 thousand tenge.
3rd place – “Compton” team – 15 thousand tenge.
The MVP (Best Player) of the tournament was a player of the “Kostanay dragons” team under the nickname “Chika” – Makhmetov Chingizkhan.
For active participation and contribution to the development of e-sports in the region, a special sponsor prize – 100 cans of energy from BIZON was awarded to representatives of the Jitikara e-sports league JCF.
Thank you all for participating and congratulations to the winners!