iBP Summer Invitational this weekend

Eight North American teams will compete for $16,000 from July 16-17 this weekend in the online iBUYPOWER 2016 Summer Invitational.

iBUYPOWER have hosted a number of season-based Invitational tournaments since the beginning of last year, with the latest occurrence being Cloud9 winning the $16,000 2016 Spring Invitational back when Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir was on the team.

The upcoming iBUYPOWER 2016 Summer Invitational will also offer up $16,000 for two days of online CS:GO action, from July 16-17. This time around there will be eight teams competing via a best-of-three, single elimination bracket, with quarter-finals on the first day and semifinals and the grand final on the second day.

Stewie2K's Cloud9 are reigning champions from the previous iBP Invitational

The tournament will be run through CEVO's platform and broadcast by CEVO-TV. The full list of teams competing this weekend is:

Cloud9	TSM	Echo Fox	Selfless
Complexity	Winterfox	Kaliber	Prospects

The prize distribution for the iBP Summer Invitational 2016 is:

1. - $10,000
2. - $4,000
3-4. - $1,000
3-4. - $1,000 

The first match will go live on July 16th at 18:00 between Echo Fox and Winterfox. You will be able to catch the action live over at twitch.tv/ibuypower.

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Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir Age: 23 Team: Echo Fox Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 271 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.71 Complexity #39 Rory 'dephh' JacksonJoshua 'sancz' BallengerKia 'Surreal' ManBradley 'ANDROID' FodorShawn 'witmer' Taylor Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Prospects Chad 'Oderus' MillerEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTaylor 'Drone' JohnsonJosh 'JoshRT' LeeCaleb 'sayonara' Lee Kaliber #53 Kyle 'OCEAN' O'BrienCory 'APE' BateMatthew 'no_one' CongdonVincent 'Brehze' CayonteTerry 'dsr' Rioux TSM #14 Kory 'SEMPHIS' FriesenPujan 'FNS' MehtaTimothy 'autimatic' TaHunter 'SicK' MimsRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Cloud9 #17 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamMike 'shroud' GrzesiekAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Selfless #34 Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverMichael 'MAiNLiNE' JaberNoah 'Nifty' FrancisConnor 'CONNOR93' GloverMitch 'mitch' Semago Winterfox #48 Kyle 'flowsicK' MendezDavid 'Xp3' GarridoTodd 'anger' WilliamsAlexander 'LeX' DeilyWarren 'hades' Rettich Echo Fox #36 Ryan 'freakazoid' AbadirSean 'seang@res' GaresShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanDaniel 'roca' GustaferriRonnie 'ryx' Bylicki