RESULTS: Ghost Gaming Win PGL PUBG Spring Invitational 2018
By Nicholas Barth ·
The roster of Ghost Gaming was able to take home first place and the grand prize of the latest major PUBG esports event.
Today marked the end of the PGL Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (PUBG) Spring Invitational, as Ghost Gaming was able to walk away with the $50,000 grand prize, thanks to their 1st place finish after four days of intense PUBG action. Competing against 16 other teams in the battle royale competition, the roster of Magno "Pr0phie" Ramos, Kevin "Miccoy" Linn, Mathias "Turtle" Nielsen and Sebastian "BALLOC" Berendt were able to claim the championship with a final score of 6,155.
The teams that rounded out the top five for the event consisted of Grubie (6,140 points), FaZe Clan (5,735 points), Team Kinguin (5,600 points) and Oh My God (5,315 points). It was an extremely close finish to see who would take home 1st place, as Ghost Gaming edged out Grubie for the top spot with less than a one kill point difference being the deciding factor, even though Grubie collected 107 total kills to Ghost Gaming's 105 kills. However, even Grubie's 16 kills in the final match of the event were not enough to push them past Ghost Gaming in the end.
With PGL's PUBG Spring Invitational being the first major esports event for the battle royale game to utilize individual streams for each team's point of view, and a war room style of analysis desk that featured a virtual representation of the entire map, many members of the battle royale community were pleased with the layout compared to the traditional esports presentation that past events have used. However, only time will tell if other tournament organizers adopt this presentation for their future PUBG events or if PGL will be the only one to utilize the unique design.
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