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A giant video-game tournament is coming to MGM Grand

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Esports is coming to Vegas in a big way.

It will be many years until we see a Stanley Cup championship in this town. But several giant eSports tournaments will visit Vegas in that time, including DreamHack Masters, coming to the MGM Grand Garden Arena February 15-19. That’s months before the Something-Something Knights even put on their skates. Granted, eSports isn’t as dynamic as hockey—expect to see seated teams of gamers playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive against each other—but the stakes are every bit as high: The winning team gets a $450,000 payout. Who will unseat the reigning DreamHack champs—Ninjas in Pyjamas? Won’t be the Something-Something Knights, broheim.

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