ESL Pro League Finals viewer's guide

9-4-2015 20:19

Here's the viewer's guide for the upcoming ESL Pro League Winter 2014/15 Finals with eight teams battling for $48,000 on the line from April 10-12.

Tomorrow ESL Pro League Winter 2014/15 Finals kicks off with $48,000 on the line, with $32,000 of actual prizemoney (each team gets $2,000 as travel support) split across all eight teams accordingly:

1. $15,000
2. $7,000
3.-4. $3,000
5.-8. $1,000

The system is significantly different to what we're used to, as the entire group stage will be played in best-of-threes, same as the single elimination playoff bracket.

Group A	Group B
Virtus.pro	Titan
TSM	EnVyUs
Na`Vi	CPH Wolves
dignitas	3DMAX

Day one is reserved for the first half of the group stage, as at the end of the day, we will learn one name from each group who goes to playoffs from first place.

On Saturday, groups will be finalized with the elimination and decider matches, while both semi-finals and the grand final are left to be played on Sunday. For the whole detailed schedule, take a look below:

Friday, April 10th
10:00	TSM	vs. Virtus.pro	A1	BO3
10:00	Na`Vi	vs. dignitas	A2	BO3
13:45	EnVyUs	vs. CPH Wolves	B1	BO3
13:45	Titan	vs. 3DMAX	B2	BO3
16:45	A1 winner	vs. A2 winner	A3	BO3
20:00	B1 winner	vs. B2 winner	B3	BO3
Saturday, April 11th
10:00	A1 loser	vs. A2 loser	A4	BO3
13:45	B1 loser	vs. B2 loser	B4	BO3
16:45	A3 loser	vs. A4 winner		BO3
20:00	B3 loser	vs. B4 winner		BO3
Sunday, April 12th
12:00	Semi-final #1			BO3
15:45	Semi-final #2			BO3
19:00	Grand final			BO3

Keep in mind that due to an illness, Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz was unable to come to Cologne with TSM, who will use Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller as a stand-in.

ESL Pro League Winter 2014/15 Finals will be streamed by ESL TV, whose caster lineup you can check out below, as well as an extensive number of partner streams in a lot of different languages.

Host

Sean Charles

Commentators

Leigh "Deman" Smith
Lauren "Pansy" Scott
Anders Blume
Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat
Jason Kaplan

Analyst Panel

Alex "Machine" Richardson
Halvor "⁠vENdetta⁠" Gulestøl
Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg

Observers

Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović
Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović

HLTV.org has already arrived to Cologne with a two-man crew, ready to bring you coverage from the event taking place in the ESL TV studio, including live tweets on the main page, galleries, video interviews and more.

2015-04-09 20:19

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where is NiP?

2015-04-10 04:42

fucking vendetta, he is everywhere

2015-04-09 21:33

mmmk

2015-04-09 20:20

noice

1 - nV 2 - Titan 3 - VP 4 - Na'Vi

4 replies

1 - host 2 - Analyst Panel 3 - Observers 4 - Commentators

2015-04-09 20:22

vp >>> titan, also it's lan so even more

2015-04-09 20:24

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we'll see ;)

2015-04-09 20:33

And you have to keep in mind that KennyS playstyle got harder.

2015-04-09 21:34

Why not let vendetta observe?

2015-04-09 20:23

ven is doing great at the desk

as long as they dont let him cast...

2015-04-09 22:52

m0e best player to ever live. no kappa.

2015-04-10 12:42

NOICE 3DMAX BEST

Sorry to ask but any update on katowice movie ??

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Groupstage's done, will be working on playoffs part when im back from ESL Pro League :)

2015-04-09 20:31

your movies are better than tweedays overedited shit

2015-04-09 20:43

Oh ok cool =) cant wait .

2015-04-09 20:44

haha

2015-04-09 20:25

lol, exactly. Who set up those two groups? Every single team in group A is stronger then those in group B (beside EnVyUs who will top the group obviously).

2015-04-09 21:10

n18

2015-04-09 20:26

foark different languages, stream proper POV with TS

Anders-Semmler <3 Let's go VP!

With all of these shitty teams, there's no competition for 3DMAX

2015-04-09 20:45

No NiP, no fnatic = boring as fuck. EZPZ 4 nV, I'll pass.

2015-04-09 20:49

1- nV 2- TSM 3- VP 4- Na'Vi 5- Titan

2015-04-09 20:51

device is not playing.. so: 1- nV 2- VP 3- TSM 4- Na'Vi 5- Titan

2015-04-09 21:02

The number 1 team of the world is going to win this event..

2015-04-09 20:54

Yeah vp win

2015-04-09 20:57

Right 3dmaxx no competition for them.

2015-04-09 21:36

TSM is playing with stand-in so final will be VP vs Envy

2015-04-09 20:55

How come Fnatic isn't there?

2015-04-09 21:01

They dont attend tier 2 tournaments

2015-04-09 21:21

ESL, anticheat measures please no internet connection, check peripherals and computers plsssss

2015-04-09 21:18

more of this please hltv.org/news/14440-anti-cheating-measur..

2015-04-09 21:25

I think they gonna do exactly the same as in Katowice.

2015-04-09 21:37

And I don't think anyone of those players is cheating.

2015-04-09 21:38

I hope they do, and we will see if Pro League finals have anticheat similar or better than Katowice, I predict mediocre performances from happy, apex, kio ;)

2015-04-09 21:43