Assembly Winter 2014 release info

Assembly Winter 2014 will feature a 5,000€ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament and take place on January 31st through February 1st in Helsinki, Finland.

The event will take place at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Center and is going to feature eight teams from Finland, Norway and Estonia competing for the first place prize of 3,000€.

Group stage will be played using the GSL double elimination format, and the playoffs will be decided using a standard best-of-three single elimination bracket for the final four teams.

naSu's ENCE hope to keep winning on Finnish soil

Two official streams will be available for the event, one in HD with Finnish commentators and another one in Russian. Public GOTV will also be available and others are free to stream the event.

Eight teams, featuring the new H2k Gaming and Joona "natu" Leppänen's ENCE among others, which have already confirmed their participation, have been drawn into two groups:

Group A	Group B
ENCE eSports	H2k Gaming
Team Menace.fi	Cursive
partyastronauts	Minttu
Paranoia eSports	MayaM Gaming

The aforementioned squads will be competing for a prize purse of 5,000€, which will be split among the top three finishers as follows:

1. 3,000€
2. 1,500€
3. 500€ 

Full schedule has also already been announced, with both group stage being played on January 31st and playoffs on February 1st, as shown below:

Friday, January 31st
15:00	ENCE eSports	vs. Paranoia eSports	BO1
15:00	Team Menace.fi	vs. partyastronauts	BO1
16:00	Group A round two		BO1
17:00	Group A round three		BO1
19:00	H2k Gaming	vs. MayaM Gaming	BO1
19:00	Cursive	vs. Minttu	BO1
20:00	Group B round two		BO1
21:00	Group B round three		BO1

Saturday, February 1st
10:00	Semi-final #1	BO3
12:30	Semi-final #2	BO3
15:00	Third place decider	BO3
18:00	Grand final	BO3

HLTV.org will not be on-site at Assembly Winter 2014 but we will add hot matches and we will keep you updated as the tournament progressses. Official results page is here.