NRG Esports won ECS Season 8 North America Week 1

The meeting between NRG and Sharks ended quite quickly, namely with a score of 2-0 (16-10 on Nuke and 16-5 on Mirage). For their work, the NRG received a cash prize of $ 12,500, Sharks won the second largest reward in the form of $ 7,500.

On the way to the finals, NRG also defeated Team Singularity and Cloud9 .

The Esports Championship Series Season 8 North America began on September 16 and ends on October 31. The total prize pool of the eighth season in Europe is $ 125,000 and runs in five weeks. In each of them, the participants share $ 25,000. Following the results of five weeks, four teams will be determined that will receive direct invitations to ECS # 8 Finals.

Now it is not known exactly when the LAN finals of ECS Season 8 will take place, which cannot be said about the prize pool of the event - it will be $ 500,000. The champion will receive $ 225,000 of them.