Vote for ESL Barcelona opening game

With almost two days left until the start of the ESL Barcelona CS:GO Invitational presented by MWC, the community has the ability to choose the first match of the tournament.

Four invited and four qualified teams will go head-to-head as ESL returns to Barcelona with a tournament that will take place from February 19-21st. The event is going to offer €75,000 to some of the best teams in the world along with a couple of Spanish squads and Vexed.

The format of the contest will be akin to IEM Gamescom, which marked the return of CS:GO to the IEM events in 2015. All the teams will have three lives and every lost map will cost a life. The event will run until every team but one has run out of lives.

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The winners of the maps will have the chance to pick the teams that will play the following game, meaning the teams selected by the spectators for the first match will have an opportunity to shape the storyline from the beginning.

The team list looks as follows:

fnatic		Astralis
EnVyUs		G2
Vexed Gaming		dignitas
x6tence		gBots

In order to vote, you have to login to your ESL account and you can submit your selection in ESL's voting page as you wait for the tournament to start. Also, don’t forget to follow @HLTVorg for extensive coverage of the event from Barcelona.