ESEA S17 Finals viewer's guide

5-12-2014 16:00

The ESEA Invite Season 17 Global Finals will start in less than eight hours with the All-Stars match, take a look at the viewer's guide if you're wondering when your favourite teams play.

Eight teams were drawn into a double elimination best-of-three bracket as usual, with four coming from Europe and four from North America. Before that though, some of the stars from each team will be seen during the All-Stars match, which will kick off the action in Dallas, TX.

iBUYPOWER are the back-to-back reigning champions, as they came out on top of seasons 15 and 16, who will try to get a hold of a share of the $47,000 prizepool split between all eight teams as shown below.

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

Don't forget that the map pool is different to what we're used to from tournaments held in Europe, as we can see Season and Train on the list instead of Overpass and Cobblestone.

de_nuke
de_dust2
de_inferno
de_mirage
de_cache
de_season
de_train

Veto system also isn't quite the same in comparison with other organizations' systems, ESEA uses the 1-2-1 veto process, which works as follows:

1. Away team removes one map
2. Home team removes two maps
3. Away team removes one map
4. Home team picks map one, away team picks the side
5. Away team picks map two, home team picks the side
6. Remaining map is map three, home team picks the side

Take a look at the full schedule of the tournament below:

Saturday, December 6th (days are according to CET)
00:00	All-Stars Europe	vs. All-Stars NA	BO1
01:30	iBUYPOWER	vs. Virtus.pro	BO3
01:30	Titan	vs. Denial	BO3
04:00	Cloud9	vs. mousesports	BO3
04:00	fnatic	vs. eLevate	BO3
17:30	Upper bracket round #2		BO3
20:00	Lower bracket round #1		BO3
22:00	Lower bracket round #2		BO3

Sunday, December 7th
01:00	Upper bracket final		BO3
03:30	Lower bracket final		BO3
17:30	Consolidation final		BO3
20:00	Grand final		2x BO3

Also note that following Hovik "⁠KQLY⁠" Tovmassian's VAC ban, Titan decided to play in Dallas with their coach Jeremy "⁠ioRek⁠" Vuillermet, while mousesports called upon the services of Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik, who will play in Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli's stead.

Tune in to one of the streams in our Stream section once the games go live, the show is kicking off with the All-Stars match at 00:00 , followed up by two matches from upper bracket round one at 01:30 .

hope it will a good tourmanet, even tho the schedule isn't optimal for watching from Europe

2014-12-05 16:01

21 replies

as an unemployed no gooder, i still feel like these are much better than the early morning dreamhack group stage matches tho.

2014-12-05 16:05

4 replies

2014-12-05 18:32

+1. I had to wake up at 6 AM EST to watch DHW and FACEIT/ESWC started at around 3 or 4 AM I think.

2014-12-05 19:11

1 reply

1 AM and 3 AM respectively. FEEL MY PAIN EUROFRIENDS

2014-12-05 19:33

Hardcore fan, GJ!

2014-12-05 21:39

yeah time is not good for Europe xddd

2014-12-05 16:09

13 replies

It's finally good for the US though :D

2014-12-05 16:20

11 replies

haha

2014-12-05 16:30

Agreed, i don't have to open hltv untill 5 now lol

2014-12-05 16:45

Ikr I didn't get any sleep during dhw wake up at 5-7 am go to sleep at 1am...

2014-12-05 18:13

3 replies

Yeah that was gayyyy!!! but really i just ment i wouldnt have to deal with people spamming cheats untill half day lol.

2014-12-05 18:22

2 replies

At least dhw was over Thanksgiving, so I did not have to skip any classes to watch :P

2014-12-05 18:30

first - cs second - studies lol

2014-12-05 21:48

I think NA tournaments should be played early, and EU tournaments should be played late. That way both sides of the Atlantic could watch and they would maximise viewership.

2014-12-05 18:25

yeah but those tournaments cant be hosted in uk nor sweden cause they have police hours after 8 pm :/

2014-12-05 18:59

what are police hours? sounds like something out of V for Vendetta. "anyone caught out after curfew will be shot on sight."

2014-12-06 00:00

if u d be smarter u d know curfew is/was not so long time ago i europe

2014-12-06 00:09

2014-12-05 18:48

what? considering it's a murican event, it's EXCEPTIONALLY good. Only the first batch of matches is played in the night, the rest is in the evening for Europeans. I'd argue they have it as good as Americans overall.

2014-12-05 17:21

Oh I'm sorry it's not Dreamhack that starts at 5AM in the US.

2014-12-05 17:36

Didn't complain, lol.

2014-12-05 18:54

Nice

2014-12-05 16:00

third

TITAN EZ WIN

nice

noo

i believe in you chrisJ <3

2014-12-05 16:02

? i think hes not playing bro

2014-12-05 16:14

he is playing, he found a US weed dealer hltv.org/news/13769-chrisj-to-attend-ese..

2014-12-05 16:15

lol bro, sry... i didnt see that news :) ty for info! me > blind

2014-12-05 16:36

blind > you

2014-12-05 18:57

is it FMPONE's season or the old version?

2014-12-05 16:03

I beleive it is the new one :)

2014-12-05 16:07

it is the new one

2014-12-05 16:34

Yay! Finally no more cobbleshit..

2014-12-05 16:56

even tho it looks baller i still don't like that "asiimov" look..

2014-12-05 16:59

well if you aint first, youre last

useless tournament no1 wont watch.

Engrish is epic.

2014-12-05 16:46

richiee aint here

2014-12-05 16:04

vpro vs fnatic in the final

de_train life stopped in USA?

10 replies

no, better than cbbl or overpass

2014-12-05 16:13

8 replies

better than cbble but overpass > train

2014-12-05 16:28

7 replies

2014-12-05 16:57

1.6 train > cbble, overpass, CS:GO train.

2014-12-05 17:50

it was great as a map but still way too ct sided

2014-12-05 18:11

If you had good T, you could make more rounds than CT. Like mTw or fnatic. Neo&co. had best train CT but I'm not sure about T.

2014-12-05 19:06

Sure but it was still too CT sided, million time better than the CSGO train tho

2014-12-05 19:12

train>cbble

2014-12-05 16:22

<3 double elim

<3 train

No overpass and cobble <33

the broadcasting times are a joke i hope... dont they want any viewers from europe for half the games???

You do realize it's pretty much the same time it was for US (reversed of course) when DHW was on, right?

noone cares for muricans

2014-12-05 19:30

Good to know you're such an ignorant troll, try harder next time.

2014-12-05 19:48

you are wrong

2014-12-05 23:04

Im pretty sure that its only fair. In my timezone the DHW games started at 2 am my time.

2014-12-05 19:58

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but we are europe, we are best, most important, times should be according to our timezones not some redneck retards...

2014-12-05 20:07

lol so ignorant very troll

2014-12-05 21:07

bro cmon, dont pretend as if u dont know what i mean. you know eu is above na. Only reason we are still friends with u is because of us army stronk, but ure cuntry? Too many retards, even in canada. Too many redneck tards.

2014-12-05 21:43

LOL yet Canada and America are still some of the most desirable places to live

2014-12-06 07:01

not for blacks if they dont wanna get shot by the cops, rofl

2014-12-06 11:22

wow train, its cool

2014-12-05 16:10

yes, very cool. leave a bit of "normal"

no overpass? :/ and nobody plays train...

2014-12-05 16:12

yeah like wtf l0l

Some good matcheups can't wait

2014-12-05 16:16

oh cool, thought the finals would be late at night as well.

2014-12-05 16:18

what does 2xBO3 mean? they will play BO3 and second BO3?

yes upper bracket winner has one bo3 advantage

2014-12-05 16:27

the team that comes from the upper bracket will have to win only one BO3..while the team coming from the lower bracket will have to win two BO3 to win the final.

2014-12-05 17:01

casters? besides dunn?

2014-12-05 16:26

dust moret, most likely

He said on adren stream he wasnt invited, unless it changed now.

2014-12-05 18:18

Long Live TRAIN!!! best map. ever. thoughts

2014-12-05 16:29

Season>Overpass>train>cobbleshit imo

2014-12-05 16:58

Season = Overpass > train >>>>>>>>> cow dung > cobble

2014-12-05 17:42

Fak you. Cow dung > all

2014-12-05 17:45

Indeed. :D

2014-12-06 03:23

americana get rekt again

2014-12-05 16:31

read the article, specifically the 2nd paragraph

2014-12-05 19:56

Glad to see train

goo c9!!

TRAAAAAAAIN WOOOOOO

2014-12-05 16:41

Chhooo choo choo

Ez fnatiC

respect for train

2014-12-05 16:48

watching for train (everyone will veto it ;-;)

2014-12-05 16:53

finnaly train!

DE_TRAIN, best map ever is BACK!

2014-12-05 17:00

These times are crap for Euros :((

suck it up majority of other tournament times suck for NA viewers

No overpass and cobble :DDD

2014-12-05 17:04

de_season good. Now we just need tuscan T_T

2014-12-05 17:05

cbble sux, overpas good, train good

2014-12-05 17:08

Something tells me fnatic is gonna wipe the floor with all the amerifats and eurobads. Only VP will put up a decent fight

2014-12-05 17:31

2014-12-05 17:39

well this will basically consist of fnatic destroying everybody, and the virtus.plow coming in 2nd.

Always tough schedule for Asian fans..

2014-12-05 17:47

- train + overpass and we got the perfect map pool

2014-12-05 17:57

Late night CS is the best

2014-12-05 18:06

train <3 <3

Sillu that Overpass is not in the pool, it's really fun map. More entertaining than Season imo.

2014-12-05 18:07

it will be in the next season, so ye

Will train or season be dropped?

2014-12-05 18:34

Full b03 is awsome!

2014-12-05 18:26

best mappool

2014-12-05 18:50

5 mix teams, the underperforming Cloud9, and VP and Fnatic. How exciting.

TRAIN, Season??? RIP CS GO

2014-12-05 19:40

I love how big of a prize difference there is from 1st and 2nd place. I think 2nd place should be 10,000 and 7-8 place finishers should get 1,000.

nah you either win big or go home with nothing

2014-12-05 19:59

brings out the best performances of the players. closer the money is clumped together, the less that's on the line. complacent play can't be entertaining.

2014-12-06 00:55