Groups for ESL ESEA Finals revealed

25-6-2015 18:18

ESL have revealed the groups and initial match-ups for the upcoming ESL ESEA Pro League Finals in Cologne, Germany, taking place from July 2-5.

Four teams from each the European and North American divisions will attend ESL ESEA Pro League Finals in just under a week following the close of the online group phase, where everyone played each other twice.

FalleN's Keyd have a tough task ahead to surprise again

Today ESL have revealed the group draw, as well as the initial match-ups. Apparently seeds have been done according to the teams' placement in the online group phase, and the groups are following:

Group A	Group B
Cloud9	fnatic
Virtus.pro	Keyd Stars
Luminosity	TSM
EnVyUs	CLG

Two main favourites of the tournament, fnatic and TSM, have been set into the same group, but they won't see each other until round two of group play, as the first match-ups for day one, Thursday, July 2nd, are:

Virtus.pro	vs. Luminosity
Cloud9	vs. EnVyUs
fnatic	vs. CLG
Keyd Stars	vs. TSM

The full schedule is as follows:

Thursday, July 2nd:

11:00 - Doors Open
11:45 - Show Start
- Group A Match 1
- Group A Match 2
- Group B Match 1
- Group B Match 2
- Group A Winner Match
- Group A Elimination Match
- Group B Winner Match
- Group B Elimination Match

Friday, July 3rd:

14:00 - Doors Open
14:45 - Show Start
- Showmatch
- Quarter-final #1
- Quarter-final #2

Saturday, July 4th:

14:00 - Doors Open
14:45 - Show Start
- Showmatch
- Semifinal #1
- Semifinal #2

Sunday, July 5th:

15:30 - Doors Open
16:15 - Show Start
- Showmatch
- Grand Final

HLTV.org will keep you up to date with the information on the $250,000 ESL ESEA Pro League Finals, which is set to take place in ESL's studios in Cologne, Germany on July 2-5.

NICE ONE

2015-06-25 18:18

12 replies

oly 8 teams? wasn't 16?

2015-06-25 18:30

11 replies

nope this is esl/esea lan with 4 from EU and 4 from NA not esl cologne major ~

2015-06-25 18:32

10 replies

Ha ok XDDD ty

2015-06-25 18:32

9 replies

No NA team in playoffs hue :D

2015-06-26 07:58

8 replies

you do realize that's literally IMPOSSIBLE to have 0 na teams in playoffs? the way it works people who take 1st seed (win the winners match) are automatically in the SEMI FINAL So 1 TAKES ON ? 2 TAKES ON ? quarterfinal #1 winner= ? quarterfinal #2 winner= ? 3 teams come out of each group theres 2 na teams each group retarded rolin'?

2015-06-26 10:00

7 replies

okey, no NA teams in semifinals :D

2015-06-26 12:50

4 replies

And no Ukrainian teams... even in the tournament. Feel better? Stop being a hater.

2015-06-30 14:14

2 replies

give 4 spots to Ukraine like for yours continent. If it could be 8 spots to whole world, I think only 1-2 teams from whole NA and SA would able to play in finals.

2015-07-01 13:50

u had your own country quals so shut up

2015-07-01 23:36

ty, that's better :D

2015-06-30 17:15

You're on point cause i did not realize that the 1st place going to semis directly. But still, please... ;d

2015-06-26 18:59

its most likely to only be one NA team in the playoffs cuz CLG has to make it for there to be two since keyd isnt north american

2015-06-30 18:38

rip na

2015-06-25 18:18

cool

2015-06-25 18:19

aayy

2015-06-25 18:19

NA BibleThump

2015-06-25 18:19

rip keyd and NA

2015-06-25 18:19

1 reply

true :(

2015-06-25 23:12

lol cloud9 vp again :D

2015-06-25 18:19

6 replies

as always together in group

2015-06-25 18:31

Just pray for me that they make a better showing of it this time around... Last time they played we had the infamous "Exiting B." ;_;

2015-06-25 18:37

4 replies

nah im rooting for VP :D

2015-06-25 18:48

exiting B, exiting B..... it was this moment Shazam knew, he fucked up

2015-06-25 18:49

2 replies

I could not stop laughing after I saw that.

2015-06-30 17:18

1 reply

it was really funny :D

2015-06-30 18:59

LG>C9

2015-06-25 18:19

12 replies

Lol in what world?

2015-06-25 18:41

9 replies

lol fanboy

2015-06-25 18:47

8 replies

League of Legends Fanboy?

2015-06-25 21:43

6 replies

? never play this shit

2015-06-25 21:45

5 replies

you just said "lol fanboy." lol stands for League of Legends. (I'm joking around if you didn't get it)

2015-06-25 22:27

4 replies

I kek'd

2015-06-25 22:43

2 fangays

2015-06-25 23:38

2 replies

All the homo m8

2015-06-25 23:44

Nohomo, my friend.

2015-06-26 00:25

Fanboy with facts>

2015-06-25 21:51

Yes my smartphone company is definitely better than some super rich gaming org

2015-06-25 23:43

1 reply

lel

2015-06-26 13:51

omg , again VP with C9 :D

2015-06-25 18:19

1 reply

Everytime ;_;

2015-06-25 18:36

GL teams

2015-06-25 18:19

rip clg

2015-06-25 18:19

RIP CLG

2015-06-25 18:19

RIP NA

2015-06-25 18:20

ok, NA is done

2015-06-25 18:20

rip keyd )':

2015-06-25 18:20

Must be a weird feeling for pyth to come to Germany to play and then leave again to the US and not back to Sweden. :p

2015-06-25 18:20

1 reply

*canada, but yeah :D

2015-06-25 18:57

c9 always with VP and nV

2015-06-25 18:20

go keyd!

2015-06-25 18:22

group B >>>>>>>> group A

2015-06-25 18:22

gl pyth+4, but this group is death.

2015-06-25 18:22

TSM is considered as a main favourite of the tournament. Right... They lost last two matches against EnvyUs and Titan. Fair enough...

2015-06-25 18:22

7 replies

fnatic still favo because vp>tsm and envyus vs tsm was to long ago.

2015-06-25 18:24

2 replies

10 days is not so long ago...

2015-06-25 18:26

1 reply

talking about bo3 lan

2015-06-25 23:46

but it is lan not online maybe because of this

2015-06-25 18:24

Surely it doesn't have anything to do with their last three offline tournament results, does it? 1st @PGL 1st @FaceIT 1st @Fragbite Masters But nah, BO1 online matches mean more.

2015-06-25 18:32

1 reply

Nah Virtus Pro best world m8

2015-06-25 18:44

sure. BO1 match online is more important than winning an actual LAN. we can tell by far... poor pole

2015-06-25 19:12

Is this the big prizepool tournament or just a pretournament would feel weird to only have 8 teams ^^

2015-06-25 18:23

1 reply

this is the big one

2015-06-25 18:26

so QF 3 & 4 is not played?

2015-06-25 18:23

2 replies

1st seed in groups get auto spots in SF#1 and #2. QF#1 and #2 will be battled out between 2nd and 3rd place in groups respectively: #2 of group A vs #3 of group B #2 of group B vs #3 of group A Last placed teams in groups will be eliminated. Bo1 groups, Bo3 playoffs, Bo5 final.

2015-06-26 01:36

1 reply

ty bae

2015-06-26 15:04

rip NA

2015-06-25 18:23

go keyd

2015-06-25 18:23

RIP CLG will be hard to get double digit rounds in all 3 matches combined

2015-06-25 18:23

VP, C9, nV... Best friends forevah

2015-06-25 18:23

1 reply

C9+VP good but not best (C9+VP+nV best)

2015-06-25 21:47

rip NA.. EnvyUS & VP group A.. TSM & fnatic group B I highly doubt that Cloud9 will overcome EnvyUS because they're on a slump lately.

2015-06-25 18:24

1 reply

You're forgetting luminosity and keyd..... Clg won't accomplish much imo

2015-06-25 21:16

RiP kstars LOL

2015-06-25 18:24

and the Los Angeles finals?

2015-06-25 18:24

gl KeyD, TSM/fnatic final hopefully

2015-06-25 18:25

rip keyd and NA

2015-06-25 18:27

RIP KEYD HAHA

2015-06-25 18:27

rip clg

2015-06-25 18:27

VP WITH C9 ARE ALWAYS IN SAME GROUP FFS WTF IS THAT XDD

2015-06-25 18:29

Ez for vp and fnatic

2015-06-25 18:29

EZ EU

2015-06-25 18:29

well, there will be only EU teams in the playoffs...xD

2015-06-25 18:29

1 reply

Nope there will be 3 teams going into the playoffs. ( see #216) So, worst case scenario, at least 2 american teams will be in the Bo3 playoffs.

2015-06-26 01:41

rip keyd :(

2015-06-25 18:29

Hard for keyd, c9 with the best upset chance, probably an all EU semifinal.

2015-06-25 18:31

1 reply

Luminosity as well.

2015-06-25 21:18

TSM and fnatic one group rip NA

2015-06-25 18:31

C9 with VP and NV again. Is this some kind of inside joke for CS tournament organisers VP NV C9 seem to be forever together..be it ESWC 2014,Gfinity,Faceit 2014 Lan finals...

2015-06-25 18:31

1 reply

true xD

2015-06-25 18:32

RIP CLG lol

2015-06-25 18:32

6 replies

They would lose to everyone at the event,except luminosity maybe.

2015-06-25 18:33

3 replies

maybe lol

2015-06-25 18:33

Luminosity dominate clg in every game lol.

2015-06-25 21:19

1 reply

i said clg might have a chance against luminosity hence the maybe.

2015-06-25 21:26

RIP Keyd too. The dream is over

2015-06-25 18:34

1 reply

If They put pressure on Europe, I'll be happy :)

2015-06-26 23:26

this could be awesome event... than NA comes with their teams stealing EU spots

2015-06-25 18:32

2 replies

Ya we should get rid of eu teams.

2015-06-25 18:46

1 reply

LOL +1

2015-06-25 20:42

RIP KEYD at least win the CLG

2015-06-25 18:34

c9 to upset VP and fall with Fnatic on the quarters. Ska will carry the shit of C9

2015-06-25 18:35

lol so rigged to try get C9 to make it through groups

2015-06-25 18:35

2 replies

Um... You do see Fnatic and VP in there, right? Just me?

2015-06-25 18:38

You realize the seeds are calculated by league placement

2015-06-25 18:47

RIP Keyd and CLG :( the final = TSM x Fnatic = Fnatic wins 100$

2015-06-25 18:36

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck,fuck fuck, y u do this esl with KeyD? :(

2015-06-25 18:37

Good luck Keyd, you will need a lot.

2015-06-25 18:37

shame it's bo1's

2015-06-25 18:39

why does c9 get the easy bracket and keyd get the hard one? :(

2015-06-25 18:38

2 replies

Because Keyd lost 5 league matches to C9's 3 losses. Thus C9 are the higher seed in the finals.

2015-06-25 18:44

1 reply

i know the reason but i just wanted keyd to have a relatively easy bracket and this happens :P

2015-06-25 18:48

it wasn't suppose to be a 500'000$ tournament?

2015-06-25 18:39

2 replies

Wasn't it?

2015-06-25 18:44

1 reply

It is, $250k was given out during the online stage. Last place got $4000, it was ridicilious

2015-06-25 18:48

2ez4 keyd kappa

2015-06-25 18:39

Groups: 1-Envyus 2-Virtus.pro 3-Cloud9 4-Luminosity 1-Fnatic 2-TSM 3-Keyd 4-CLG Quartefinals: Keyd vs Virtuspro Cloud9 vs TSM Semifinals Keyd vs Envyus TSM vs fnatic Final: Keyd vs fnatic Champion: Fnatic #Ibelieve I do not see this bad group for keyd, pass three teams to the next stage, and they fell to the weakest team of the group (CLG), they have an easy way to the quarterfinals, after that they will have to surprise Virtuspro or Envyus, which will be very difficult indeed if they can draw a map of fnatic or TSM in the group stage to face Cloud9 or LG, if they would get halfway to stay among the top 4 teams.

2015-06-25 18:39

6 replies

how can 3 teams from 1 group get to the quartefinals? ..

2015-06-25 18:45

4 replies

one team of each group get to the semi-finals, while the third and four team of each group get to the quarterfinals

2015-06-25 18:51

3 replies

You are dumb? or you do not read the news? 4 teams, one straight to semifinal, 2 to quarterfinals

2015-06-25 18:53

not really the 4th is straight out 3rd and 2nd go to quarters 1st straight to semis

2015-06-25 19:15

1 reply

ahva!

2015-06-25 19:19

Rofl...

2015-06-25 21:31

Sweeeet maxbets. TY ESEA for 4 NA teams.

2015-06-25 18:39

2 Quarter-final and 2 Semifinal doesn't make sense.

2015-06-25 18:39

1 reply

The winners of Groups A and B Winner Match gets BYE and goes straight to semifinals. The losers of those matches and the winners of Groups A and B Elimination Match goes into the quarter finals. The losers of Elimination Match goes home.

2015-06-25 18:50

well here is to hoping either vp or envy don't come in top form to the lan. I'd like to see c9 make it far.

2015-06-25 18:41

easy group for vp

2015-06-25 18:41

RIP whole NA...

2015-06-25 18:42

damn Cloud 9, VP and Envy are in the same group for Gfinity as well.

2015-06-25 18:43

1 reply

They were together at ESWC 2014 as well,and Faceit lan finals just before that. Its fucking rigged lol.

2015-06-25 19:00

Bad thing for Keyd and CLG : They won't be seeing Quarter finals. Good thing for TSM and fnatic : They ccan warmup by rekting these two NA teams.

2015-06-25 18:45

1 reply

2015-06-25 18:51

hard task for Keyd, but go Keyd!

2015-06-25 18:47

Fnatic and TSM in the same group ? Rip keyd

2015-06-25 18:48

c9 and vp always together

2015-06-25 18:49

VP AND CLOUD9 IN SAME GROUP AGAIN LOALAODKPMADMKADKNLAKLN HAHAHAHAHA

2015-06-25 18:49

OMG NIP EZ GROUP AGAIN. Oh wait.. =(

2015-06-25 18:50

2 replies

haha p.s hello to nip's fangays

2015-06-25 18:52

1 reply

rekt :'p

2015-06-25 19:19

Guys remember that the format is different, 3 teams advance from the group stage, this should be mentioned in the article.

2015-06-25 18:51

rip keyd rip clg LOL

2015-06-25 18:51

2 replies

rip murica u mean

2015-06-25 18:52

1 reply

yes rip muricanos

2015-06-25 18:59

Envyus > TSM VP > TSM Fnatic > TSM

2015-06-25 18:51

3 replies

maybe...but TSM > all NA

2015-06-25 18:53

2 replies

also Titan > TSM

2015-06-25 18:54

1 reply

rofl

2015-06-25 19:00

Should be 8 EU teams

2015-06-25 18:53

1 reply

its not a major so NP

2015-06-25 23:49

sad for keyd... T.T

2015-06-25 18:53

The 3 best teams in the world are in the same group TSM, fnatic and ... Keyd kappa

2015-06-25 18:56

tsm fnatic keyd ---------- vp envyus cloud top3 both groups 100%

2015-06-25 19:04

ez for keyd fallen o verdadeiro!

2015-06-25 19:06

why 3 showmatches?

2015-06-25 19:09

organisators of the tournament be like: "ok we have cloud 9 and virtus pro set , lets draw the rest"

2015-06-25 19:11

R.I.P NIP :(

2015-06-25 19:15

This is a good draw to Keyd IMO. They only have to bet CLG to advance to next stage, witch they face VP or nV, witch is better then TSM or Fnatic. I really see they reaching Semi-Finals this time.

2015-06-25 19:16

3 replies

2015-06-25 19:20

If you think that keyd can beat nv or vp you are crazy

2015-06-25 21:34

1 reply

better chances then against TSM or Fnatic. will it be easy? hell NOT.

2015-06-25 21:53

KEYD 1ST lol not really, quarters at least. CLG and Luminosity out TSM will take the 100k ^^ fnatic will get upset once again by the danesupremepower

2015-06-25 19:19

1 reply

Can not count luminosity out.

2015-06-25 21:24

does it mean all games bo3 ?

2015-06-25 19:20

EnvyUs VirtusPro Fnatic TSM Wow,this was hard.

2015-06-25 19:26

lol vp again vs c9 xD

2015-06-25 19:33

Rip NA cant see them winning vs europe here...keyd stars maybe

2015-06-25 19:33

RIP Keyd Fanatic >>> Life

2015-06-25 19:37

TSM 16-0 every game E: in their group

2015-06-25 19:44

C9 !!!

2015-06-25 19:57

RIP NA

2015-06-25 20:02

Good luck BRAZIL!

2015-06-25 20:02

Group 2 too strong :(

2015-06-25 20:15

NiP always get the easy groups! Oh wait..

2015-06-25 20:16

What a massive waste.. giving NA 4 slots is just fucking pointless, now the groups are fucked since there are 4 t1 teams and 4 t3+ teams.. It's not gonna be even fun to watch a fully prepared fnatic take a shit on CLG and 16-0 them twice in a row..

2015-06-25 20:32

5 replies

Then what are you worried about? The same four teams will be in the semi-finals that you see every other LAN. Nothings different except they all get a warmup match. The only difference is there's equal representation from the NA side. Seeing as ESEA fronted HALF the money, it really amounts to you hating NA. If it's frustrating you so much, why not just skip watching CS that weekend and just catch back up to any other weekend and see the same 6-8 EU teams playing each other?

2015-06-25 20:42

3 replies

there is no chance that the NA teams & keyd win even one match so there is no reason to watch four 16 - x games. i would rather see nip navi titan on a lan which all have a chance to get to the playoffs. iam not worried about anything, just bored that half of the tournament is just, like you said, warmup.

2015-06-25 21:41

Its frustrating because there are so many better teams than CLG or luminosity who could actually at least give a decent challenge to the top teams rather than being complete pushovers. There are other teams in the world who are better and devote more time to cs, and therefor deserve the spot to compete against the best. Fucking idiotic that simply by living in another continent these guys get away for being lesser.

2015-06-25 21:59

1 reply

mad cause 3rd world

2015-06-25 22:52

Why people talk about tier 1 and tier 2 and tier 3 and so on teams makes me laugh. Show me the rules and regulations for being set in one such tier... exactly. They don't exist. So saying a ream is tier 1 and another team us tier 3+ is just your opinion on the team. Those so called tier 3+ are what you might call tier 1 teams in NA. So basically my point is, stop saying one team is this tier and another that tier, because those tiers do NOT exist.

2015-06-25 21:28

and where are Quarter-final N3 and Quarter-final N4?

2015-06-25 20:45

C9 are always in a group with VP and nv :/

2015-06-25 20:54

jesus, no luck for keyd but I steel believe in you gl

2015-06-25 21:11

RIP Tarikan

2015-06-25 21:40

RIP NA teams

2015-06-25 21:53

BO1 or BO3 matches ???

2015-06-25 21:56

RIP KeyD :/

2015-06-25 22:34

Quarterfinals?! There are only 8 teams, how can there be quarter finals? No team gets eliminated in groups?

2015-06-25 22:42

CLG is so fucked

2015-06-25 22:50

they really like c9 to be with VP and NV don't they. 2 tough looking groups either way though.

2015-06-25 22:57

RIP xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2015-06-25 23:08

hard job for keyd

2015-06-25 23:16

Keyd top 3 i believe

2015-06-25 23:28

Lets do this KeyD

2015-06-25 23:30

ez 4 NiP. Oh, wait... CLG will be raped xD

2015-06-25 23:38

250 000$ 8 teams 4 days bo1.................... WTF SERIOUSLY?

2015-06-26 01:01

So, both first and second best teams of the world are on group B, plus Keyd (who's top1 or top2 NA)... plus CLG B is much stronger than A

2015-06-26 01:43

GO KEYD!

2015-06-26 05:22

i know this sounds rude but 4 team from murica n (NA) is way 2 much in my opinion.. like there is such teams as Nip, Navi, Titan and many others that i would pref to watch!

2015-06-26 15:54

rip NA. fnatic will win, i hope. glhf clg :) so many fangays keyd, top kek.

2015-06-26 16:15

bo1 is so fuckin pathetic on this level so random, possibly not the best team might win in these systems

2015-06-26 19:45

Bet 1000$ than neither of NA teams will come out of groups

2015-06-26 20:52

GL C9 and KeyD

2015-06-26 23:27

GL KeyD

2015-06-27 05:46

rip keyd

2015-06-27 06:07

Can I be the next to say how fucking dumb it is to have an 8 team major with 2-4 teams being out of it before the thing even starts. EU should, without a doubt, have twice the representation that NA has and that just simple demographics not to mention that 6 EU teams would fare better and beat NA sides at lan consistently. What a fucking travesty this shit is, leave it to the ESEA braintrust to have its name on the banner.

2015-06-27 06:30

rip NA in group B BibleThump

2015-06-27 08:09

$250,000... That is stupid money for a ESEA event but w/e ill be watching.

2015-06-28 22:46

EU 4:0 btw ESL ESEA PRO LEAGUE so HYPE

2015-06-29 12:35

The NA teams may aswell stayed home tbh...

2015-06-30 01:25

3 replies

okay. So, ESEA wouldn't front half the money and it would be just YET ANOTHER EU tournament with the SAME teams you guys see EVERY other weekend.

2015-06-30 14:17

2 replies

Better than seeing shit teams getting stomped. Nobody wants to see NA teams get stomped 2-0 by the top 4 EU teams. Can't say about you but I am not interested in seeing GE vs Silver.

2015-06-30 14:20