ESWC format released

4-10-2014 21:01

The ESWC organisers have unveiled the format that will be used in both the male and the female CS:GO tournaments.

The French event will run from October 30 to November 2, in Paris, with 24 teams from all over the world facing off in the male CS:GO tournament, featuring a $50,000 prize purse.

According to the ESWC, the male tournament will kick off with a group stage in which the 24 participants will be drawn into four groups of six teams.

The matches of this round robin stage will be played in a best-of-one format, with the top two sides from each group progressing to the playoffs, which will use a best-of-three match format.

The female tournament will start with two groups of four teams, also played in a best-of-one format, with the top two sides from both groups moving on to the semi-finals.

Below you can find the schedule for these two tournaments:

	Male tournament	Female tournament
Thursday, October 30	Groups A and B	Groups A and B
Friday, October 31	Groups C and D	Semi-finals and 3rd place
Saturday, November 1	Quarter-finals and semi-finals	Final
Sunday, November 2	Third-place decider and final

The draw for all the ESWC tournaments will take place on the week of October 13th, with the seeding system being based on the teams' results in recent international competitions.

2014-10-04 21:02

nice

Amazing

5 replies

FANTASTIC

2014-10-04 21:03

4 replies

good good

2014-10-04 21:19

SENSATIONAL

2014-10-05 02:19

2 replies

PHENOMINAL

2014-10-05 04:38

1 reply

OUTSTANDING

2014-10-05 05:44

Love this format. Think three teams should advance from a six-team groups tho.

11 replies

they should have a LB and 3rd/4th placed teams from groups will go directly into that.

2014-10-04 21:05

9 replies

Definitely not.

2014-10-04 22:39

8 replies

why not?

2014-10-04 22:40

7 replies

Nobody needs a bracket for losers. It's just a waste of time.

2014-10-04 22:44

6 replies

looool

2014-10-04 22:51

It significantly increases the chances of the best teams making it further into the tournament.

2014-10-04 23:20

Teams who lost 3 of 5 games in the group stage are clearly not the best.

2014-10-05 07:35

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Not true at all, with only 2 teams from 6 progressing, the likelihood of an upset is huge, especially as the games are bo1.

2014-10-05 12:08

As I previously said, I think three teams should advance.

2014-10-05 12:35

I guess that'd be ok, but that only makes for 5 games in the playoffs. There is much more action with a LB.

2014-10-05 12:46

We would love to do that but not enough time unfortunately

2014-10-04 21:06

Group of 6, only 2 advance, with bo1 matches? I see favorites getting out early...

5 matches though, maybe 1 or 2 upsets, but not much imo

2014-10-04 21:07

Well, there will be at least 2 strong teams per group. That means one of them has a guaranteed loss. And with cobblestone and overpass, I can easily see some of them going home early.

2014-10-04 21:56

gud!

same format like gfinity or ?

4 teams advanced in gfinity but only 2 groups in the tour right ?

2014-10-04 21:08

yes.

2014-10-04 21:46

teams?

eswc.com/en/2014/game/csgo

2014-10-04 21:12

2014-10-04 21:09

With the diversity of teams going I would've preferred to see a double elimination playoff system so #3 and #4 in the groups still advance to lower brackets. With this format 66% of the teams will be sent packing after their first day in a 4 day event :/

2014-10-04 21:10

One problem: time. Each team will play at least 5 matches. In a tournament with GSL groups some teams play only 2 matches.

2014-10-04 21:13

2014-10-04 21:11

I still think its pathetic males and females are separated in CS....

2014-10-04 21:18

19 replies

why?

2014-10-04 21:23

17 replies

Because males don't have any advantages over females in CS, it just doesn't make sense.

2014-10-04 21:28

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Actually males have. It's just social, males spend more time in gaming in general, so there are more male players, so males are globally better. That doesn't mean male are smarter ingame than female but just that females doesn't give themselves the opportunity to perform as good as male.

2014-10-04 21:31

Yea sure there are more males that play CS, but doesn't have anything to do with it. Females teams have just the same opportunities as males have to get better.

2014-10-04 21:40

Even thou you're right, we saw what happened with Epsilon.Fe when they played vs Male teams. Also, it's better that they give a spot to a team from another country then a female team so CS gets more "famous" in that country.

2014-10-04 21:45

Your thoughts are completely on point, but this isn't really what it comes down to. Do we want females in competitive gaming scene? We do. Players do, organisations do, sponsor do.More the merrier. Do they have a resonable shot at getting a place for themselves if we keep putting them against male teams? They won't.Not now, anyway. But if we give them chances like this, maybe their scene will grow enough to compete with males.

2014-10-04 21:55

Yea but if they only get to compete against other female teams, they won't get better. ESWC have had a separate tournament for females since 2003.

2014-10-04 22:04

shoxie doesn't play a lot same with zet, lets send them to the females division then.

2014-10-05 00:38

males are still so much better than females so if you dont wanna see 16-3 matches it's better to seperate them.

2014-10-04 21:36

That's no reason to separate the two, it just means you have to work hard as a female CS player, like it is for everybody.

2014-10-04 21:48

The same way that male and female 100m runners should all run together then? There's no difference right, the women just need to work harder.....

2014-10-04 22:06

Wtf are you talking about dude? I'm talking CS here, an eSport game, not anything physical...

2014-10-04 22:14

Yes it is. Reaction times (better for men), hand-eye coordination, logical thinking etc etc. Men and women are different, in many many ways. These things all affect how good we are at certain tasks, including counter strike. If you disagree with this and think men vs women in CS is genuinely completely even and balanced and just women being lazy and not practicing enough then you're a fucking idiot.

2014-10-04 22:17

Thats a bullshit argument, and I seriously doubt thats the reason why the two are separated. And I've never said women were lazy in this regard...

2014-10-04 22:36

I don't y think that men and women are 100% equal in their skills, abilities, strengths and body/brain functions. Therefore it seems ridiculous that any competitive sport, event or game with prizes and money at stake wouldn't split the two sexes. Unsurprisingly all other competitive sports do this. Unless you can find evidence that women can compete in csgo totally evenly with men then they should stay separate.

2014-10-04 23:27

troll detected

2014-10-04 22:52

he is right dude !

2014-10-05 08:43

troll detected edit: just kidding. but trust me, a vagine has nothing to do with cs skills, just your desire to be "man"

2014-10-05 15:03

exactly +1

2014-10-04 22:47

GO KaBuM.GA , GO BRAZIL, GO FALLEN!!!!!!!!!! Conquer the world!

2014-10-04 21:21

I hope female teams will do the show. Because finals like Alternate-Druidz was boring as hell...

Can't wait. Am excited. Very yes.

2014-10-04 21:32

the group stage will be brutal

2014-10-04 21:34

Area will win this.

2014-10-04 21:44

group of 6 with 2 teams advancing from bo1s? LMAO this sucks badly

1 Day after Dh Winter ? not so good

2014-10-04 22:10

1 month before DHW

2014-10-04 22:12

Dh winter is until the 29. Nov

2014-10-04 22:41

ESWC ends on 2. Nov

2014-10-04 22:42

Oh shit, thought it starts at 30 Nov. sorry^^

2014-10-04 22:57

np, everyone can make mistakes

2014-10-04 22:59

God knows why most of the teams are even going...8 teams out of 24 will advance to next round..thats pretty sad...

2014-10-04 22:55

"with the seeding system being based on the teams' results in recent international competitions" What about teams that don't have international history, like Kabum and Energy eSports?

2014-10-04 22:56

go KabuM!

2014-10-04 23:23

Sounds good!

2014-10-05 00:27

really? sounds more like a waste of time for most teams.

2014-10-05 00:39

Why?

2014-10-05 01:08

because only 2 teams qualify from each group of 6 ? the weak teams now have 0 chance. And a lot of pro teams dont have chance to advance either. We have NIP,fnatic,C9,Dignitas,Navi,VP,IBP,LDLC,TITAN,3 from esea open qualifier (mouz and 3dmax will be 2 of them). So only 8 of these 11 will qualify... If we ignore the open qualifiers...1 of NIP,fnatic,C9,Dignitas,Navi,VP,IBP,LDLC,TITAN wont get to go to the next round... All im saying is they could have made more groups...or taken more from each group into next round.

2014-10-05 02:01

so it will be exciting because everything is possible in groups

2014-10-05 12:07

Each team will play at least 5 matches. In a tournament with GSL groups some teams play only 2 matches...

2014-10-05 01:36

they will play 5 matches in a league style..but it guarantees that the weaker teams/less known teams now have 0 chance of qualifying...the quarter finalists will be predictable...

2014-10-05 02:04