FACEIT
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| Full name | FACE IT Limited |
| sport | E-sports |
| League foundation | 2011 |
| Country countries | International |
| TV partner | Twitch |
| Website | faceit.com |
FaceIT (officially FACE IT Ltd. ) is a London organizers of e-sports -Wettkämpfen in professional and amateur, who in 2011 founded. FACEIT operates servers in Europe , America , Southeast Asia and Australia . FACEIT currently provides servers for matches in the disciplines Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , League of Legends , Dota 2 , Overwatch , Team Fortress 2 , Smite , PUBG and World of Tanks .
Competitions
FACEIT enables its users to compete against other players in the respective game. In friendly competitions, the player can play alone or as a team against randomly selected opponents at any time. After a few victories he is assigned a skill level that is determined by his own Elo. It shifts after a game depending on the result, your own performance and the level of your opponents. In addition to simple competitions, the user can also take part in four FACEIT tournaments per month free of charge. FACEIT also has a five-tier league system in the amateur area depending on the performance group, for whose participation the user has to pay monthly fees to FACEIT. Sometimes the best players in the top league have the opportunity to qualify for the professional "FACEIT Pro League". With successes in leagues and tournaments the player receives so-called "FACEIT Points", which he can exchange for valuables or services.
In addition to amateur competitions, FACEIT also organizes tournaments for professional players. In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , FACEIT held smaller online cups from May 2013 to March 2014. The FACEIT League was held for the first time in spring 2014. The league, which was held as a Europe-wide online tournament in the first edition, expanded to North America and Oceania in 2015. The league finals are now taking place offline. It was held in the past specifically or at events by partner DreamHack . The SoloMid team won the first two offline finals in 2015 ; including the tournament at DreamHack Valencia 2015 with a total prize money of 100,000 US dollars . In August 2015, FACEIT announced that it would host a monthly tournament with $ 20,000 in prize money.
In April 2016 the first season of the Esports Championship Series organized by FACEIT started , which replaced the FACEIT League. The organizers announced prize payouts of $ 3.5 million over the first two seasons.
In addition to its own tournaments, FACEIT regularly organizes competitions in cooperation with other organizers. Thus, the company organized the end of September 2016 in collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment and the Eleague the Overwatch Open , with a budget of US $ 300,000 tournament in the first-person shooter Overwatch .
In September 2018, FACEIT hosted the 13th Counter Strike: Global Offensive Major, the FACEIT Major: London 2018 , at Wembley Arena . The total prize money was set at $ 1,000,000. In the finals, Astralis prevailed against Natus Vincere and won $ 500,000.
FACEITTV
FACEIT broadcast their major tournaments mostly via the in-house Twitch channel FACEITTV Live. The games usually reach tens of thousands of viewers at the same time. The channel was visited over 136 million times and has over 930,000 followers. (As of December 14, 2017)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. faceit.com
- ↑ Overview of the FaceIT events on Liquipedia
- ↑ FACEIT announces Pro League. hltv.org, August 11, 2015, accessed on August 16, 2015 .
- ↑ FACEIT announces $ 3.5million league. hltv.org, April 6, 2016, accessed April 25, 2016 .
- ^ Samuel Lingle: An Overwatch tournament is coming to ELEAGUE with finals airing live on TBS. (No longer available online.) The Daily Dot, July 22, 2016, archived from the original on September 28, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
