Team Shroud Win The Doritos Bowl Blackout Tournament At TwitchCon
By Zac Cameron ·
The former Counter-Strike pro and his squad have taken down the other pro teams and walked away with the grand prize.
The Doritos Bowl Blackout Tournament at TwitchCon has concluded, and Team Shroud has walked away on top. Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek’s squad battled their way through other high-profile streamers and their teams in order to secure the $100,000 first-place prize today.
Shroud wasn’t the only high-profile player taking part in the tournament, with Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Jack “CouRage” Dunlop, and Ben “DrLupo” Lupo also leading teams in their quest for victory. The tournament scoring system worked a bit differently from regular Blackout rules, with one point awarded per kill and multipliers awarded depending on how the team placed at the end of the round. A top 10 finish earned a 0.5 times multiplier. A 0.75 times bonus multiplier was awarded for a top five placing, while any team that finished in the top three gained a 1.25 times multiplier.
The teams played in four-hour long heats where they attempted to play and complete as many Blackout games as possible in order to secure as many points as possible. Shroud, Justin “Just9n” Ortiz, Jake “ChocoTaco” Throop, and Chad Goff finished the event with the most points overall, sitting just shy of 500 points total. Second place went to CouRage and his team of Call of Duty world champions Damon “Karma” Barlow and Tyler “TeePee” Polchow and former Halo pro player Jacob “Hysteria” Reiser.
While this might be just a streamer event, fans were certainly given a taste of what to expect in future competitions, as Blackout showcases exactly how popular it can be as it looks to take on the other big names in the Battle Royale genre, Fortnite and PUBG.