Professional Gaming League – Cluj
PGL has announced the sixteen invited teams to PGL Cluj-Napoca from Valve’s Global Standings. The $1,250,000 event’s group stage will take place at the PGL Studio in Bucharest, starting February 14, before moving to the BT Arena on February 21-23 for the playoffs.
The tournament will feature two top 5 teams in Valve’s global ranking, The MongolZ and FaZe, along with MOUZ, Eternal Fire, and Falcons from the top 10.
Brazilian fans will get representation from three teams, FURIA, paiN, and MIBR, while North American fans will be able to follow Complexity and Wildcard.
The likes of Astralis, Virtus.pro, 3DMAX, BIG, SAW and Australia’s top side, FlyQuest, round of the roster.
Several of these teams have already kicked off their season at BLAST Bounty Season 1, most excitingly Eternal Fire, who went on to reach the best-of-five grand final where they failed to keep up with Danil „donk” Kryshkovets and Spirit.
Fans wanting to see all of these teams before they travel to Romania will have the chance to at IEM Katowice, starting January 29, where all 16 have been seeded either into the first stage or the group stage.