Mad Catz Birmingham viewer's guide

4-4-2013 12:34

You can now check out the complete schedule for Mad Catz Birmingham so that you do not miss out on a single match of this exciting tournament.

Organised by Esports Heaven, Mad Catz Birmingham will take place from April 5th to 7th inside the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) as part of the Gadget Show Live, a major technology and consumer expo.

Despite the fact that teams like Ninjas in Pyjamas and Virtus.pro will not be in attendance as they are in Kiev playing the SLTV StarSeries finals, there will be a number of quality sides in action in Birmingham, including VeryGames, Anexis, Western Wolves and fnatic.

The first two days are reserved for to the group stage, while Sunday will see the playoffs being played out. It is still unknown who will be streaming, but it is expected that there will be GO TV throughout the event, like it happened in Vienna last month.

Can VeryGames finally triumph abroad in CS:GO?

The group matches will be played in a best-of-one format, while the single-elimination playoffs will use a best-of-three format. The group winners will automatically progress to the semi-finals, while the runners-up and the third-placed sides will contest the remaining two places in the last-four stage.

Friday
11:00	VeryGames	vs.	Infused
11:00	Anexis	vs.	k1ck
12:15	VeryGames	vs.	CRG
12:15	k1ck	vs.	Infused
13:30	Anexis	vs.	CRG
13:30	VeryGames	vs.	k1ck
14:45	k1ck	vs.	CRG
14:45	Anexis	vs.	Infused
16:00	Infused	vs.	CRG
16:00	VeryGames	vs.	Anexis
Saturday
11:00	Western Wolves	vs.	fm TOXiC
11:00	fnatic	vs.	Dignitas
12:15	Western Wolves	vs.	Reason
12:15	Dignitas	vs.	fm TOXiC
13:30	fnatic	vs.	Reason
13:30	Western Wolves	vs.	Dignitas
14:45	Dignitas	vs.	Reason
14:45	fnatic	vs.	fm TOXiC
16:00	fm TOXiC	vs.	Reason
16:00	Western Wolves	vs.	fnatic
Sunday
10:00	Quarter-finals
13:00	Semi-finals
16:00	Third-place decider
16:00	Grand Final

HLTV.org will be in Birmingham to bring you live coverage of Mad Catz, so stay tuned to our website for all the latest informations about this event, including galleries, video interviews, statistics, GO TV and frag highlights.

they should win this

2013-04-04 12:35

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Ill be casting this event in English! pending GOTV of course. twitch.tv/sanTi___

2013-04-04 18:13

Western Wolves got this I think! Some tough competition from Anexis and VeryGames perhaps.

2013-04-04 12:37

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From Anexis? come on now, they wont have a chance.

2013-04-04 13:19

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lol

2013-04-04 16:09

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2013-04-04 16:58

The british are invading :o

2013-04-04 19:04

WW? Yes

WW FTW xd

fnatic!

2013-04-04 12:40

if VG can finally triumph :D? I would rather say if WW could finally triumph. I dont consider VG to be on top2 of the world atm. i even see VP as a stronger team than them :)

2013-04-04 12:42

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NIP VP WW VG I would say. It's hard to say for sure which one is the better team of WW and VP imo, due to that VP has won a BO3 on lan whilst WW proceeded to the final with a BO1 win, which can be random.

2013-04-04 12:54

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WW is a better team overall - yet. They just need to learn how to adapt to 1.6 players playstyle proberly ;)

2013-04-04 13:32

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danish bias detected [I might be wrong :D]

2013-04-04 14:13

What is biased here? You obviously can see that VP or NaVi playing WAY different than all the others.

2013-04-04 15:48

What is biased here? -> [Danes saying that their danish team is bett0r]

2013-04-04 16:00

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That's not being biased. That's an opinion. ugh you act like you have to HATE teams from your country.

2013-04-04 16:07

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ugh read the whole comment danish bias detected ->>>>>> [I might be wrong :D] <<<<-- p.s dont tell me that they are not cheering for their own team, that why I mentioned bias any way there is no way that I can win a discussion with aryan german :>

2013-04-04 16:35

youre right i bet this guy is biased towards all the lithuanian teams out there.

2013-04-04 18:29

A better team than VP overall ? On what are you basing this statement ?

2013-04-04 14:43

If you think about it, VP won 2 maps over WW and WW did the same, it just happend to matter more to win the last game as it was in the lower bracket. Those 2 teams are pretty equal atm if you ask me.

Between each other, yeah. But as you can see, VP just beat NIP, whilst WW never have come close to achieving that. So i would say that makes VP a better team :P

2013-04-06 13:35

i cant see anexis that well which is a shame i wanted them to win, they have a stand in 5th i believe as hughsy has work commitments ?

2013-04-04 12:46

final of ESH and starladder in same time:( why :( I hope for little delay

VG easy p

2013-04-04 12:47

nooooooo, grand final clashes with starladder final...

fnatic fo sho!

2013-04-04 12:52

1st WW 2nd VG 3rd fnatic 4th Anexis If fnatic loses to Anexis? lul

I wouldnt pick VG as second, they seem to disapoint everytime, and i have a feeling they wont do any better at this event. I might be wrong though.

2013-04-04 14:08

dreamteam !!!

2013-04-04 12:57

Can you make a betting competition for this event? Or a dreamteam? Let it be without prizes, just for the fun of it. pleeeaaaaase :)

2013-04-04 12:58

Make Dreamteam!!!!

2013-04-04 13:02

WW will win this one, too bad though.

2013-04-04 13:06

Why would that be a bad thing?

2013-04-04 14:06

Because he is a ScreaM fan :)

2013-04-04 14:34

Dreamteam plz!

2013-04-04 13:13

Western Wolves ftw

Why so early in the morning :/ 9 to 14 - on my days off I wake up around noon so I could get 1 or 2 games. I guess the center it is in requires them to be not playing later than maybe 14 or something. Also - Dreamteam !

2013-04-04 13:20

well acording to other lans,u wont miss anything due to delays :)

2013-04-04 13:23

damn right ! forgot about that !

2013-04-04 13:26

Gadget Show Live closes at 18:00

2013-04-04 13:24

Would be interesting if WW suck this time.

2013-04-04 13:59

"Can VeryGames finally triumph abroad in CS:GO?"... ehm no?

2013-04-04 14:04

hahaha, hope not :) but after VG did that come back against fnatic last night... I fear people still underestimate VG.

2013-04-04 14:24

True they are getting better, but i still dont see them winning though :)

2013-04-07 16:44

Where is betting?

2013-04-04 14:09

no NIP, fnatic win

anexis must do it. nip - anexis final

2013-04-04 14:15

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2013-04-04 14:16

LOL I love this!

2013-04-04 14:26

lmao

2013-04-04 16:25

where the fuck do you see nip participating?-.-

2013-04-04 14:46

I think WW will take this, if not i hope fnatic will.

2013-04-04 14:19

i think k1ck is going to show a great game as well.

2013-04-04 14:20

Gl WW and fnatic

2013-04-04 14:32

ww easy

2013-04-04 15:31

NVM LOL. i'd say 1) ww 2) fnatic 3) anexis

2013-04-04 15:32

will be interesting to see ww bo3 with VG

2013-04-04 15:34

at starladder finals with VP, ESC, navi

Stinger mvp :)

2013-04-04 15:35

anexis should win this. tournament without nip = worth watch

2013-04-04 15:37

can they?

2013-04-04 15:44

prize money ?

11 250 euro prize pool 6,500 for first place

2013-04-04 16:23

Lets see if they handle this event better than the last. The last one was horrible.

2013-04-04 15:49

3 danish teams in same group.. Yay.....

2013-04-04 16:13

fnatic must be in final GLGLGLG

anexis v fnatic final ~!~

2013-04-04 16:32

fnatic to win this one

2013-04-04 16:33

com'on Anexis :D

2013-04-04 16:55

Dreamteam will be fun indeed ;-)

2013-04-04 17:31

Lets see if this event will be more fun to watch without NiP.

2013-04-04 17:34

FINALS Anexis vs Western Wolves. Anexis Wins 2-0

2013-04-04 17:57

Ofc not

2013-04-04 18:30

dreamteam pls

2013-04-04 19:16

Anexis or Fnatic, not VG

2013-04-04 21:08

So Fnatic in England? I might need to get to Birmingham asap to meet them! :D

2013-04-05 13:07

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