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The tournament will feature some notable tier-two teams such as Sprout, Winstrike, Copenhagen Flames, and Movistar Riders.

Slovakian organizer REPUBLEAGUE has announced a new tournament series which is set to kick off with its first season, slated to take place from April 14 to June 13 and boasting approximately a $71,000 prizepool (€60,000) with a top-heavy distribution.

The event will have 16 teams in attendance, twelve of whom will be determined through invites and four via a series of Czech-Slovakian and European qualifiers, played over the course of the next two weeks.

The tournament will begin with a Swiss stage, which will run from April 14-May 12, followed by a double-elimination playoffs bracket on May 19-June 13.

Ten of the twelve invited teams have already been confirmed to participate, most of whom reside between the 20th-40th place in the HLTV.org team ranking: Winstrike, Sprout, Copenhagen Flames, Movistar Riders, SAW, SINNERS, Anonymo, Endpoint, FORZE, and Entropiq.

Below you can see the team list for REPUBLEAGUE TIPOS Season 1:

Winstrike
Copenhagen Flames
SAW
Anonymo
FORZE
Europe invite
Europe qualifier #1
CZ/SK qualifier #1 Sprout
Movistar Riders
SINNERS
Entropiq
Endpoint
Europe invite
Europe qualifier #2
CZ/SK qualifier #2

The prizepool will be distributed among the top-four teams in the following way:

1. $47,570
2. $14,867
3. $5,946
4. $2,973

Endpoint #36 Robin 'robiin' SjögrenJoey 'CRUC1AL' SteuselMax 'MiGHTYMAX' HeathKia 'Surreal' ManShahar 'flameZ' Shushan Sprout #23 Timo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' HowellMarko 'kressy' ĐorđevićJosef 'faveN' BaumannFritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich Winstrike #22 Aleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy Copenhagen Flames #28 Asger 'AcilioN' LarsenMagnus 'Nodios' OlsenNico 'nicoodoz' TamjidiMarcus 'maNkz' KjeldsenJakob 'jabbi' Nygaard Anonymo #41 Janusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'innocent' MocekWiktor 'mynio' KrukKamil 'KEi' PietkunKacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz SINNERS #37 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýJindřich 'ZEDKO' ChybaSebastian 'beastik' DaňoMax 'SHOCK' KvapilAdam 'NEOFRAG' Zouhar SAW #30 Omar 'arki' ChakkorChristopher 'MUTiRiS' FernandesRicardo 'roman' OliveiraTiago 'JUST' MouraRenato 'stadodo' Gonçalves Movistar Riders #35 Lucas 'steel' LopesAlejandro 'alex' MasanetAlejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo CanoOwen 'smooya' ButterfieldKristjan 'shokz' Jakobson Entropiq #207 Filip 'AJTT' DolenskýMichal 'leckr' KadlíčekJan 'HONES' UrválekLukáš 'capseN' KoláčnýJosef 'MoriiSko' Maurenc FORZE #38 Almaz 'almazer' AsadullinEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAndrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoAleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin