Zehn Masters to host unique WAN tournaments
It's not uncommon to see small LAN tournaments popping up from time to time with sizable prizes up for grabs, but you don't see a WAN tournament everyday. The Zehn Masters is a $20,000 tournament series setup by a company called ggCircuit, which partners with several LAN centers across America to host events. The prize pool is divided across ten different games and their respective tournaments.
The two CS:GO tournaments boast $1,500 each of the $20k purse, with the winners claiming $1,200 and runners up $300. What makes this unique isn't necessarily the nine qualifiers across nine different LAN centers, but rather that they culminate in a WAN tournament to decide who takes home the cash. What this means is that, as per tournament rules, all participants will compete from registered Zehn LAN centers, and not remotely from their homes or elsewhere. To thwart any attempts to sidestep this physical location requirement they will be monitoring IP addresses of all players involved.
Below you will find the list of qualifiers for the Zehn Masters:
| December 9 | Florida | East Coast Gaming |
| December 15 | New York | Evo Gaming |
| December 17 | Indiana | eBash Terre Haute |
| December 17 | Illinois | eBash Peoria |
| December 17 | New York | LAN Mob |
| December 17 | Texas | LFG Cybercafe |
| December 17 | New Mexico | Golden Gun Gaming |
| December 17 | Kansas | Novastar |
| December 17 | North Dakota | Section 9 |
| January 5 | New York | Evo Gaming |
| January 14 | Indiana | eBash Terre Haute |
| January 14 | Illinois | eBash Peoria |
| January 14 | New Mexico | Golden Gun Gaming |
| January 14 | Kansas | Novastar |
| January 14 | New York | LAN Mob |
| January 14 | North Dakota | Section 9 |
| January 14 | Texas | LFG Cybercafe |
The dates of the WAN tournaments where qualifying teams will compete for the $1,500 prizes are below:
| January 7 | WAN Tournament #1 |
| January 27 | WAN Tournament #2 |
The majority of the LAN qualifiers for the first WAN event having already taken place, and Dust2.us will update you on them as soon as we hear back from ggCircuit or the respective LAN centers.
You can find the full tournament ruleset and additional details not listed here on their official site ZehnMasters.com. You can also sign-up or show your interest in any of the events by going to their Facebook page. If you're interested in learning more about ggCircuit and the multi-LAN center events they hold you can check out their site ggCircuit.com.
