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EPICENTER 2016
Eight Counter-Strike teams competed at EPICENTER 2016 in Moscow from October 17 to 23. Team Dignitas won the USD 490,000 prize pool recorded by Liquipedia.
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Updated October 23, 2026Competition snapshot
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Epic Esports EventsCommercial note
Tournament organizer · Recorded in the 2016 edition.[1]
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YotaCommercial note
General partner · Recorded in the 2016 edition.[5]
PTG Database Analysis
EPICENTER 2016 was an eight-team offline Counter-Strike tournament organized by Epic Esports Events in Moscow from October 17 to 23. The event used two four-team round-robin groups, with the bottom team in each group eliminated; the remaining six teams advanced to a single-elimination best-of-three playoff.[1]
Team Dignitas defeated Virtus.pro in the final. SK Gaming and Natus Vincere tied for third, G2 Esports and Fnatic tied for fifth, while Ninjas in Pyjamas and HellRaisers tied for seventh.[1][2]
Liquipedia records USD 490,000 in distributed payouts. A pre-event report described an announced USD 500,000 prize pool, while the listed placement amounts total USD 490,000; the profile preserves both source scopes rather than treating them as the same figure.[1][3]
The tournament announcement named mobile operator Yota as its general partner.[5]
References6
- [1]EPICENTER 2016 — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki
- [2]EPICENTER: Moscow overview — HLTV.org
- [3]EPICENTER: Moscow details released — HLTV.org
- [4]EPICENTER groups announced — HLTV.org
- [5]EPICENTER Moscow CS:GO tournament announced — CS:GO.com
- [6]VTB Ice Palace image reuse audit — Epic Esports Events, Wikimedia Commons and Unsplash
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