ESEA Invite S16 Finals viewer's guide

26-6-2014 21:37

ESEA Invite Season 16 Global Finals will soon get underway in Dallas, TX so we now present you the official viewer's guide for the $47,500 tournament.

ESEA will be splitting up all the action between two streams, titled ESEA Blue and ESEA Green. Both are already added on our stream list, and we will make sure to add them on match pages as well.

ESEA also has GOTV available for the event, and you can find IPs on the ESEA schedule & results page. ESEA uses dynamic GOTV IPs, which means for every map the IP will change.

Can iBUYPOWER defend their ESEA championship?

Please note that due to timezone differences between North America and Europe, the days listed below may be incorrect. They are listed under the day it will be in Dallas when the match begins.

The all-star game decide which continent will have the higher seed in head-to-head battles of the same seed in each region. Click here for more details on how it affects the tournament.

Friday, June 27
23:30	All-Star Game
01:30	NiP	vs. compLexity
04:00	iBUYPOWER	vs. OverGaming

Saturday, June 28
17:30	Natus Vincere	vs. OpenEqualFree
19:30	Upper bracket semi-final #1
22:00	Lower bracket round one, match #1
00:30	Virtus.pro	vs. Netcode
02:30	Upper bracket semi-final #2
02:30	Lower bracket round one, match #2
04:30	Upper bracket final
04:30	Lower bracket semi-finals

Sunday, June 29
16:00	Lower bracket final
18:30	Consolidation final
20:30	Grand final

All of ESEA Invite Season 16 Global Finals will be played out using a double elimination best-of-three format, as usual, and you can find the official bracket on our event page.

The players will be competing for a very top heavy $47,500 prize purse with everyone guaranteed at least $3,000 for showing up. Below is the exact distribution:

1. $20,000
2. $6,000
3. $4,500
4. $4,000
5-6. $3,500
7-8. $3,000

HLTV.org will not be on-site in Dallas, but we will still provide you with hot matches and statistics from the event to make sure you don't miss a beat with some of the world's best in attendance.

Have fun watching NaVi and VP

2014-06-26 21:40

Gl nip

2014-06-26 21:43

04:00 Natus Vincere vs. OpenEqualFree 04:00 Virtus.pro vs. Netcode hm ok :D best time, too late and too early at the same time

2014-06-26 21:54

2 replies

best time to sleep :D but i am fan of Na'Vi so i'll watch it :)

2014-06-26 22:54

DHS final day started at 5 AM for me! Finally NA times :D

2014-06-27 01:01

Na'Vi go crash heads ^_^

2014-06-26 21:50

Well, I guess I won't be watching the first round then...

There goes any sleep i had planned

2014-06-26 21:51

3 replies

U will sleep enough in the grave Join and watch :D

2014-06-26 22:03

Take 90 minute power naps ^^

2014-06-26 22:12

1 reply

40minutes sleep circles ftw just like in the army

2014-06-27 10:01

No dreamteam?

2014-06-26 21:57

hltv.org/?pageid=238&eventid=1390 Lets go friend!

2014-06-26 22:08

wohoo!

2014-06-26 22:13

NiP will win

2014-06-26 22:10

damn. Sleepless nights incoming :X

2014-06-26 22:11

easy just need few energy drinks...

They could've atleast planned first and second day a few hours earlier. Impossible for most euroes to watch it.

2014-06-26 22:16

17 replies

well most of the good tournaments take place in Europe, you guys get plenty of action imo now you know how i feel, watching matches at 4 AM and shit

2014-06-26 22:30

6 replies

FO' REAL

2014-06-27 01:48

who cares about america?

2014-06-27 03:28

4 replies

'bout 300 million people, yo

2014-06-27 05:15

It doesn't matter. There are more people international so?

2014-06-27 07:09

Yeah let's run the American event off euro timezones idiot

2014-06-27 18:34

Omg, I didn't say that, but somebody said "300 million people" like that is reason about this event time.

2014-06-27 19:05

The DHS playoffs and finals were in the middle of the night here. It was at 1am over here. All the good tournaments with good teams happen in the middle of the night here, and now one tournament out of the hundred you euros get to watch is at a bad time and you complain? And I don't want to sacrifice sleep to get up at 3am to watch the games I want to watch live, so you are just gonna have to suck it up.

2014-06-26 23:08

9 replies

But noone cares about america, most of stream viewers are european.

2014-06-27 02:02

no one cares about canadian/us viewers so you cunts can fuck off =]]

2014-06-27 03:29

fuck off man. Event takes place in Dallas so if you have problems with this schedule, get fucked kid.

2014-06-27 03:33

2014-06-27 04:49

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2014-06-27 06:06

You mean euros don't care about anyone but euros?

2014-06-27 04:48

A lot of the european tournaments also happen during the night, I don't watch all of them as I hate being up late. Most euros probably won't even complain about when the matches start as they're usually up that late in the weekends anyway. What I said was they could've pushed it a few hours earlier. Lets say it could've started at 8-9 local time instead of 10. Would've given some of us euros a match or two more to watch. I assume it would be good for the tournament aswell as most of the viewers are european and tournaments live off the viewers.

2014-06-27 06:12

I think Friday starts so late because they need to set up, and they did not book Thursday? They do this in a hotel. So they start today late so they set up in the morning. Saturday starts in the early morning, and the finals on Sunday are like 11am PST.

2014-06-27 19:41

The difference is those EU LANs are made of 100% Euro teams most of the time. There were no US teams in DHS. But this event is half EU teams. I don't care if games are 1-2am I guess, but 4am? Two wrongs don't make a right

2014-06-27 13:05

2014-06-26 22:26

As you can clearly see in the table up there, the two semi finals and finals will be, the others won't.

2014-06-26 22:31

Better hours in the next days :D

2014-06-26 22:43

lol so much difference b.w 1 and 2.. :) means look at 2,3 vs 1,2

2014-06-26 22:47

Friday, June 27 00:30 All-Star Game wtf?

2014-06-26 23:07

Are all the matches in CST?

2014-06-26 23:11

5 replies

Yes. If you hold your mouse over the time it'll say something like "Paris, France". So it should be "your time". For me is says "Stockholm Sweden", which is "my time". Time Zonezzzzzzzzz

2014-06-26 23:45

Thank you, sorry for me being so dumb. :(

2014-06-27 00:13

Time of the matches is displayed according to the timezone setting you have configured in your profile. If despite having set it correctly the times are shown wrong you may have to choose an alternative working timezone for everything to display correctly.

2014-06-27 01:22