$250,000 prize fund for latest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive e-sports tournament

Valve has laid $250,000 on the table for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players.

The next CS:GO tournament takes place from Mar. 12 to Mar. 15 at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland, and the large prize fund from the developer will make for a competitive event. It will see 16 teams playing the first-person shooter in front of a live crowd and a large online audience. The last CS:GO tournament — DreamHack Winter 2014 in Sweden — had more than 500,000 viewers for the Electronic Sports League’s (ESL) live online coverage.