theGXL Invitational was the largest North American TF2 LAN tournament to date. It took place on October 11th, 2014 at the GXL Universe 2014 LAN held in Oaks, Pennsylvania. This event included twenty teams, including the top four teams from CEVO-P Season 5 and sixteen other community teams, including TEZC, a European team.
eXtv and GXL contributed a base prize pool of $2,000, and each team participating contributed $60 to the prize pool, bringing it up to a cash prize pot of $3,200 in total.
In addition, Corsair Gaming sponsored the tournament and provided a wide variety of hardware prizes. While the vast majority of prizes were allocated to the top 4 finishers, each player participating was guaranteed some type of prize from the tournament.
| Place
|
$ USD
|
Gear Prize
|
Team
|
 1st
|
$1600
|
6× RGB M65 mice,
6× RGB K70 Cherry Red keyboards,
6× H2100 Wireless Headsets,
6× MM200 mouse mats
|
 froyotech
|
 2nd
|
$800
|
6× H2100 Wireless Headsets
|
 Classic Mixup
|
 3rd
|
$480
|
6× RGB M65 mice,
6× MM200 mouse mats
|
 eLevate
|
 4th
|
$320
|
6× MM200 mouse mats
|
 Street Hoops eSports
|
The following four teams were the top four teams in CEVO-P Season 5 and were automatically seeded into the elimination bracket based on their performance at the LAN from the day before:
The other sixteen teams competed in a round-robin group stage of four groups, of which the top three teams advanced to the elimination bracket.
Each match in the entire tournament (except for the grand finals) was conducted as a single-map series and played with the ETF2L ruleset, with the map decided based on a pick-ban stage in which the final map remaining was played after each team eliminated three maps from the following map pool:
Results[edit]
Group stage[edit]
| Group A
|
| Pos
|
Team
|
W-L
|
Results
|
| 1
|
 Terminal Chillness
|
3-0
|
|
| 2
|
Nancy Drew Mystery Crew
|
2-1
|
|
| 3
|
Turin Down For What?
|
1-2
|
|
| 4
|
 TEZC
|
0-3
|
|
| Group B
|
| Pos
|
Team
|
W-L
|
Results
|
| 1
|
6cuties
|
3-0
|
|
| 2
|
2014: A Kace Oddysey
|
2-1
|
| Round
|
Map
|
Score
|
Opponent
|
| 1
|
cp_process_final
|
4
|
2
|
Alien Vs Predator Vs Brown Vs B.O.E.
|
| 2
|
cp_granary
|
6
|
3
|
Showstopper's Damage
|
| 3
|
|
1
|
6
|
6cuties
|
|
| 3
|
Showstopper's Damage
|
1-2
|
|
| 4
|
Alien Vs Predator Vs Brown Vs B.O.E.
|
0-3
|
|
| Group C
|
| Pos
|
Team
|
W-L
|
Results
|
| 1
|
Under the C
|
3-0
|
|
| 2
|
BUDSQUAD
|
2-1
|
|
| 3
|
SYOPS TF2
|
1-2
|
|
| 4
|
SOFA KINGZ
|
0-3
|
|
| Group D
|
| Pos
|
Team
|
W-L
|
Results
|
| 1
|
Keywork eSports
|
3-0
|
|
| 2
|
yaboys
|
2-1
|
|
| 3
|
MAD LUXURIOUS
|
1-2
|
|
| 4
|
Lightning Command
|
0-3
|
|
Knockout stage[edit]
froyotech
1
Turin Down For What?
0
Under the C
1
yaboys
0
Street Hoops eSports
1
Showstopper's Damage
0
Terminal Chillness
1
BUDSQUAD
0
Classic Mixup
1
SYOPS
0
Keywork eSports
1
2014: A Kace Odyssey
0
eLevate
1
MAD LUXURIOUS
0
6cuties
1
Nancy Drew Mystery Crew
0
froyotech
1
Under the C
0
Street Hoops eSports
1
Terminal Chillness
0
Classic Mixup
1
Keywork eSports
0
eLevate
1
6cuties
0
froyotech
1
Street Hoops eSports
0
Classic Mixup
1
eLevate
0
froyotech
1
Classic Mixup
0
Turin Down For What?
0
yaboys
1
Showstopper's Damage
0
BUDSQUAD
1
SYOPS
0
2014: A Kace Odyssey
1
MAD LUXURIOUS
1
Nancy Drew Mystery Crew
0
6cuties
0
yaboys
1
Keywork eSports
1
BUDSQUAD
0
Terminal Chillness
1
2014: A Kace Odyssey
0
Under the C
0
MAD LUXURIOUS
1
yaboys
0
Keywork eSports
1
Terminal Chillness
1
MAD LUXURIOUS
0
Street Hoops eSports
1
Keywork eSports
0
eLevate
1
Terminal Chillness
0
Street Hoops eSports
0
eLevate
1
Classic Mixup
1
eLevate
0
froyotech
2
Classic Mixup
0
Champions
Runner-up
Third place
