ESWC schedule released

22-10-2014 15:21

The ESWC organisers have released the schedule for all the tournaments that will be held at the 2014 world finals.

The French event will take place from October 30 to November 2 at the Porte de Versailles as part of the Paris Games Week event, with 24 teams from all over the world battling it out for a piece of the $50,000 prize pool in the male CS:GO tournament.

The tournament will kick off with a round-robin best-of-one group stage, with the top two sides from each of the four groups progressing to the single-elimination playoffs, which will use a best-of-three format.

Below you can find the tournament schedule, so that you do not miss out on the action:

Thursday, October 30:

09:30 - 18:30 - Groups A and B

Friday, October 31:

09:30 - 18:30 - Groups C and D

Saturday, November 1:

09:30 - Quarter-finals #1 and #2
12:00 - Quarter-finals #3 and #4
14:00 - Semi-final #1
16:00 - Semi-final #2

Sunday, November 2:

10:30 - Third-place decider
15:00 - Grand final

If you wish to find out the specific times for the group matches, check out the ESWC's website. Below are the four groups of the tournament:

Group A	Group B
fnatic	Virtus.pro
Na`Vi	ESWC France runner-up
k1ck	Cloud9
London Conspiracy	Planetkey Dynamics
Pow	Virtual Impact
Energy eSports	AlienTech
Group C	Group D
ESWC France Winner	dignitas
NiP	iBUYPOWER
HellRaisers	3DMAX
CPH Wolves	mousesports
KaBuM.GA	GPlay
E4US	Cipangu.GO

Nice

2014-10-22 15:24

nice

group D will be interesting...

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Group C also I think.

2014-10-22 15:25

dunno if I am the only one that doesn't actually expect something from group D, I mean dignitas should have this one in the bag and even though there will be probably 3 teams competing for the 2nd place, I don't actually find 3DMAX capable of upsetting. So it will be between IBUYPOWER and mousesports, and I think the NA team has a slighty edge here, because of mouz performance problems @LAN.

2014-10-22 15:28

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Agreed. Though I wouldn't be surprised if mous is able to beat iBuypower, I expect them to lose. Thats probably one of the few games I am not sure of the result.

2014-10-22 15:31

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mouz wont beat iBP, its a lan tournament

2014-10-22 16:00

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I think that you might underestimate how iBuypower acts under pressure. What happens is that steel and/or DaZeD start yelling into the coms telling everyone to step it up. In a high pressure LAN, that could easily put some players over the edge. They've always done well at NA LANs because there wasn't a whole lot of pressure to start with. But with EU LANs, its a lot of stress for them. Also, if mous can take out Skadoodle and keep him from getting an AWP, they really only have to deal with Swag. Strats for playing vs iBuypower should really focus on taking out Swag and stopping Skadoodle from AWPing, because steel isn't a special player, DaZeD is a mediocre IGL, and AZK is a solid player, but can't do what Swag and Skadoodle can.

2014-10-22 16:04

you underestimate allu my friind :)

2014-10-23 05:49

Don't underestimate 3DaneslayerMAX.

2014-10-22 16:11

fnatic navi vp c9 nip ldlc ibuyplanetickets dignitos

i dont think so Group A - ok Group B - VP and Winner Qual from France Group C - HR and CW too strong now, i think Nip go lose Group D - ok, but mouz can surprise

Group C - HR and CW too strong now, i think Nip go lose XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD PENTA 2-0 HR, ESC 2-0 CPHW such strong, much wow.

2014-10-22 16:16

maybe on b you are right but i stil belive that c9 is better then Titan but if ldlc will end up there it will be a diffrent story group 3 i will qoute anders and say "you got to be kidding me" hr is realy weak and cw 2 group D maybe

2014-10-22 16:44

"$50,000 prize pool in the male CS:GO tournament." Mixed tournament*

A - Fnatic, Navi B - Virtus, Cloud9/ESWC 2nd place C - ESWC 1st place, NiP D - Dignitas, iBuypower/mousesports

2014-10-22 15:26

A - Na'Vi, Fnatic B - Cloud9, Virtus C - LDLC, NiP D - Dignitas and the really tricky one. Since it's lan, I would say iBUYPOWER/3DMAX. If 3DMAX can find the form from DH stockholm, then they'll go on. I can only see mouz go on if they get their shit together really soon.

2014-10-22 16:05

Hope to see Alientech and K1ck doing some damage, even if unlikely. GOGO

Fnatic, Na'Vi, VP, C9, ESWC France Winner, HR, Digi, and iBP are going to be the once who have a chance. Does only one team from each group advance, or two? Because if one, there will be some awesome games at the end of the group stages.

Two, as written in the article ;)

Will be pretty cool to see, though the Group stages won't be as interesting. Quarterfinals should be sick however. Thanks for the speedy response! <3

2014-10-22 15:29

Mira please can we get dreamteam for this tournament? we need it!

2014-10-22 17:09

Noice

2014-10-22 15:27

Ninjas will win ESWC (with 16:14 matches).

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nah

2014-10-22 15:33

On cobblestone

2014-10-22 16:20

are u taking bets?

2014-10-22 17:26

YES!!

2014-10-23 11:46

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2014-10-22 15:30

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ho too bad

2014-10-22 15:36

Groups B & C stronk

vp ez win eswc

gogo c9 :D

2014-10-22 15:32

i can see a lot of upsets on this tournament

2014-10-22 15:37

Any1 saw the japanese team playing?

2014-10-22 15:39

hltv.org/news/12900-cipangugo-win-eswc-j.. Links to some VODs there

2014-10-22 15:43

Gl VI.

2014-10-22 15:49

Group C is the group of death imo.

NiP,HR,CPH gg KaBuM hahaha hard mode

2014-10-22 15:53

2014-10-22 16:12

where Wolf? Kappa

Virtual Impact beat Wolf

2014-10-22 20:07

Gl c9!

2014-10-22 16:13

May I dream of a dreamteam for this event ?

2014-10-22 16:17

VP easy group ;d

VI will wreck VP :P

2014-10-22 20:08

GL & HF! :)

2014-10-22 16:47

eNergy all the way!! Really hoping the best for them!! South Africa needs to be represented more!!!

2014-10-22 16:50

CLOUD9!!!!

2014-10-22 16:51

GoGo POW ! gl & hf

2014-10-22 17:03

dreamteam please

2014-10-22 17:06

I think the grand final will be LDLC vs Cloud9

2014-10-22 17:08

i like c9, but i think they wont go so far here :)

2014-10-22 17:45

Nah, I don't think C9 will do as many crazy comebacks with heroplays as they did in Cologne tbh. I like them tho.

2014-10-23 05:01

the poor Kabum hahahaha

GO KaBuM <3

2014-10-22 17:10

fix group D :<

2014-10-22 17:17

A: fnatic, navi B: VP, C9 C: LDLC, HR D: dignitas, mousesports Good luck to Navi and HR) (but really - win VP)

2014-10-22 17:24

c9 is a joke

2014-10-22 17:27

Mouz to win the whole thing. -_-

2014-10-22 17:44

kappa

2014-10-22 17:46

gl all

2014-10-22 17:52

GL VI

2014-10-22 18:01

dreamteam? !

2014-10-22 18:31

This is the Time of E4US ♥

2014-10-22 18:44

lol makach kiféh x)

2014-10-22 19:17

Dont understimate the Gplay guys they can upset everyone in group D. That is they second big event after Dreamhack Bucharest 2013 and tbh mouz, ibp(too overrated for the moment?) are not so big enemies from now. Will be interesting.

2014-10-22 19:06

IMO it will be impossible for Gplay to defeat Dignitas, so definitely not "everyone", but you're right that if IBP and Mousesports play poorly (which isn't that unusual for them on international LANs), then Gplay definitely have a chance. Go Gplay and NiP!

NiP with one of the easiest groups...jesus

2014-10-22 19:25

A: fnatic, LC Rest: dont care

2014-10-22 19:32

NiP out in groups

2014-10-22 19:46

Cant wait for this shit to go down

2014-10-22 20:01

CASTERS?

2014-10-22 20:20

Group A- Fnatic , K1CK Group B- Virtus Pro , Titan Group C- NIP , LDLC Group D- Dignitas, 3DMAX Top 4: Fnatic,Virtus Pro,NIP,LDLC

2014-10-22 20:58

i obviously expect K1CK to beat Pow and Energy esports, but I don't think they can't make it through. it's also BO1 format, which should, if anything, motivate them even more to surprise the other 3 big teams (fnatic, navi and lc) :)

2014-10-23 05:53

go KaBuM

2014-10-22 21:11

IBP lucky with easy group... still wont make it out though.. GG. hope C9 makes it to finals.

2014-10-22 23:16

3DMAX & Allusports to upset.

2014-10-23 11:41

and it sucks living in the US as it always has if you wanted to watch this event at all. also, what an unsatisfying, shitty format. I'll never understand tournament organizers that put so much effort into an event, but effectively ruin half of the fun by refusing to reconsider a different tournament structure. same boring, short one as always.

2014-10-22 23:52

Yea I agree but on the other hand it's not a CS:GO tournament only. It's an expo and have alot going on. But ESWC have always been a shitty tournament, alot of prestige but really shitty organized.

2014-10-23 05:04