CCS Kick-off Finals viewer's guide

23-4-2015 23:25

Here is the viewer's guide for the $75,000 CS:GO Championship Series Kick-Off Season Finals, taking place from April 24-26 in Romania's capital city, Bucharest.

After two online stages of the CCS Kick-Off Season, which saw EnVyUs and TSM taking first places in the group stage, getting two slots at the Finals, while the remaining two, fnatic and NiP, came from the last chance qualifier.

Tomorrow the Finals kick off with the initial match-ups at 15:00 and 18:00 , nearly the whole remainder of the tournament is scheduled for Saturday, excluding the grand final taking place on Sunday evening.

Here's the entire schedule of the double elimination bracket for the Bucharest event:

Friday, April 24th
15:00	fnatic	vs. TSM	BO3
18:00	EnVyUs	vs. NiP	BO3
Saturday, April 25th
11:00	Lower bracket final		BO3
14:00	Upper bracket final		BO3
18:00	Consolidation final		BO3
Sunday, April 26th
17:00	Grand final		BO5

A lineup of seven will bring you all the action from the DreamHack Bucharest venue in Polyvalent Hall on the official stream. A CCS duo will be joined by an analyst panel, consisting of Duncan "Thorin" Shields, Richard Lewis and the recently retired Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen.

Sebastian "TataStrumf" Honciuc (Host)
Rachel "Seltzer" Quirico (Hostess)

Toby "TobiWan" Dawson (Commentator)
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett (Commentator)

Duncan "Thorin" Shields (Analyst)
Richard Lewis (Analyst)
Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen (Analyst)

The prizepool of $75,000 will be divided across all teams according to their placings as follows:

1. $40,000
2. $20,000
3. $10,000
4. $5,000

CS:GO Championship Series Kick-Off Season Finals begins tomorrow at 15:00 with the first best-of-three series between fnatic and TSM. A two-man crew will be on-site to bring you a full coverage of the tournament.

Don't forget to check out HLTV.org's Michal "stich" Malachowski's preview for the tournament here.

great matches

2015-04-23 23:25

leggo

fnatic

natu BibleThump

2015-04-23 23:26

RACHEL Kreygasm

2015-04-23 23:30

n1 gl

2015-04-23 23:31

natu

2015-04-23 23:33

OMG totally gonna go there to get an autograph from Thorin.

2015-04-23 23:34

6 replies

im so jelly ;(

2015-04-23 23:35

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haha i swear this guy will fall in to coma when listening to thorin speak !!

2015-04-24 17:44

>get an autograph from Thorin Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 it 8/8!

2015-04-24 01:41

EZ 50000$ on ebay

2015-04-24 04:57

illuminati confirmed

2015-04-24 06:51

Thorin is the real MVP of this event ;)

2015-04-24 10:53

Should be good! Expecting fnatic to take it

2015-04-23 23:59

oh jesus my ears are gonna bleed.. why natu whyyy

2015-04-24 00:03

Fnatic out of shape. NV terrible. Tsm good , but not best. NiP looking sharp, i think they can win the whole tournement.

2015-04-24 00:04

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Tsm good but not best (jw best)

2015-04-24 02:39

Looking sharp? With those couple online games they have actually played?

2015-04-24 06:34

Ahaahaha no Nip Always top

2015-04-24 07:22

tobiwan and sadokist? couldnt u at least get one decent caster? damn guys...

2015-04-24 00:10

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Sadokist is good bro don't hate just because NA

2015-04-24 00:43

Agree Sadokist is actually topnotch. I would prefer Sadokist + Anders any day. That would be a power duo. They are like totally feeling/breathing the game when they commentate. Becoming one with casting, ZEN-style ;) Semmler/Tobiwan are like too geeky for my taste, always feel awkward as hell. They remind me of 2 basementdwellers rarely exposed to sunlight and have low social capacities.

2015-04-24 10:56

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+ Semmler get's hard carried by Anders. If you spectate him commentate alone it is pretty sad. But if you spectate Sadokist or Anders alone they are a one man army.

2015-04-24 10:58

agreed my danish com-padre.

2015-04-24 11:43

the grill is sexy

no anders and semmler no fun, ok lets go next one...

2015-04-24 02:04

Hostess? Who..

2015-04-24 02:38

Well I guess I'll have something to do while I fight off this cold. My prediction: 1. NiP 2. TSM 3. fnatic 4. EnVyUs Let's go!

2015-04-24 02:42

Question is, who is the grill?

2015-04-24 03:20

Easy for NIP <3

2015-04-24 03:26

wow Seltzer as the Hotness of the event... I mean Hostess Keepo

2015-04-24 03:28

bnetcmseu-a.akamaihd.net/cms/gallery/RGA..

2015-04-24 05:29

where is ddk and the black guy from faceit ?

2015-04-24 05:53

You mean white james and black ddk?

2015-04-24 06:12

only watching this event for Rachel <3

2015-04-24 06:35

again final BO5 , this is just bad . and this lan is cool , 4 top teams are in 1 lan. but i wanna to see vp and navi herre to :p

2015-04-24 06:37

7 replies

Bo5 is the only way to play a final

2015-04-24 08:37

this is fucking boaring and taking lot of time.

2015-04-24 10:06

5 replies

Well, don't watch it then? lol JW good, bo5 best!

2015-04-24 10:15

Well, what the fuck are you doing here then, if you don't want to watch counter strike? (lol) Bo5, or even Bo7 would be brillant if you're a real counter strike fan. The more, the better, when it comes to top teams clashing.

2015-04-24 11:00

i thinks that you have no life, just csgo. so you just on the computer all the day. but pepoles here are not like you. and bo5 are can take 4-5 hours

2015-04-24 11:07

Well, if having a life makes me a sad douchebag like you, who need to talk trash to others. Then I am happy I don't have that enriching life filling me with hatred and negativity. There exist something called youtube, if you can't spend hours watching a match. Then you can decide yourself when to watch it.

2015-04-24 11:21

bye

2015-04-24 16:38

Sweet tobiwan!

2015-04-24 06:50

bring tonya

2015-04-24 07:10

1.nip 2.fnatic 3-4 tsm navi

2015-04-24 08:33

i mean 3-4 tsm envy

2015-04-24 08:34

prediction: fnatic vs tsm mirage (fnatic) inferno (tsm) cache (decider) 2-0 fnatic __ envyus vs nip inferno (nip) mirage/cache (envyus) dust2 (decider) 2-1 nip

2015-04-24 10:16

ez 4 natu, all in gogogo

2015-04-24 10:34

Do we really need 3 analysts for 4 teams and only 2 casters? and a hostess as well? we only get like 7 matches it's a bit extreme lol. 2 hosts and 3 analysts for a 4 team event, overkill.

2015-04-24 11:48