ESWC 2015 viewer's guide

9-7-2015 11:57

We have put together an official viewer's guide to get you ready for all the action of ESWC 2015, beginning tomorrow in Montreal, QC, Canada.

Despite this ESWC seeing the largest amount of top teams - ever - cancel attendance, it still packs plenty of top teams to get you excited for three days of action.

The sixteen teams who actually made it to Canada for the event will be competing for a prize purse of $75,000, which is split among the top eight finishers as follows.

1. $30,000
2. $15,000
3-4. $8,000
5-8. $3,500

In the group stage, which we have previewed, teams will play a regular round-robin with everyone facing everyone, and the top two finishers in each group advancing to playoffs.

Playoffs will begin on Saturday with best-of-three quarter-finals, followed up by semi-finals on Sunday. The grand final, also on Sunday, will be played in best-of-three.

Friday, July 10
16:00	Cloud9	vs. Boreal	Group A	BO1
16:00	FlipSid3	vs. Keyd Stars	Group A	BO1
16:00	NiP	vs. QeeYou	Group B	BO1
16:00	Liquid	vs. LDLC White	Group B	BO1
17:30	Cloud9	vs. Keyd Stars	Group A	BO1
17:30	Boreal	vs. FlipSid3	Group A	BO1
17:30	NiP	vs. Liquid	Group B	BO1
17:30	QeeYou	vs. LDLC White	Group B	BO1
19:00	Cloud9	vs. FlipSid3	Group A	BO1
19:00	Keyd Stars	vs. Boreal	Group A	BO1
19:00	NiP	vs. LDLC White	Group B	BO1
19:00	Liquid	vs. QeeYou	Group B	BO1
21:30	Null element Na`Vi	vs. SK	Group C	BO1
21:30	Titan	vs. Luminosity	Group C	BO1
21:30	EnVyUs	vs. Bravado	Group D	BO1
21:30	CLG	vs. Renegades	Group D	BO1
23:00	Null element Na`Vi	vs. Titan	Group C	BO1
23:00	SK	vs. Luminosity	Group C	BO1
23:00	EnVyUs	vs. Renegades	Group D	BO1
23:00	Bravado	vs. CLG	Group D	BO1
00:30	Null element Na`Vi	vs. Luminosity	Group C	BO1
00:30	Titan	vs. SK	Group C	BO1
00:30	EnVyUs	vs. CLG	Group D	BO1
00:30	Renegades	vs. Bravado	Group D	BO1

Saturday, July 11
16:00	Quarter-final #1			BO3
18:30	Quarter-final #2			BO3
21:00	Quarter-final #3			BO3
23:30	Quarter-final #4			BO3

Sunday, July 12
16:00	Semi-final #1			BO3
18:30	Semi-final #2			BO3
23:00	Grand final			BO3

HLTV.org will be on-site in Montreal to provide you with full coverage of the $75,000 tournament including hot matches, statistics, galleries and more, starting tomorrow.

good games coming up!

2015-07-09 11:57

ayy lmao Sucks that top2 isn't there btw. tier 2 event

2015-07-09 11:59

7 replies

ehhh Did u not see bravado clearly written there??

2015-07-09 12:03

1 reply

xd bravado tier 9001

2015-07-09 12:08

actually world cup

2015-07-09 12:07

Cloud9 new #2 team

2015-07-09 19:23

3 replies

Agreed ^^^

2015-07-09 19:55

2 replies

Are you trolling? After one tournament you think they are 2nd best? What about the 2 tournys before v that they got destroyed at.

2015-07-10 00:36

jet lag Kappa

2015-07-10 12:18

2015-07-09 11:58

23:00 Grand final BO5 srly

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Yeah I'll miss one 1/4 final and the final. Work on Monday q____q

2015-07-09 12:45

Starts 00:00 my local time, eaking up 6:00... rip :( NA sucks

2015-07-10 10:20

CEST It's NA event so think about that.

2015-07-09 12:55

RiP viewership

2015-07-09 14:25

4 replies

RIP viewership? Most of the viewership totals and records are made up of NA viewers anyway. Not EU or anywhere else.

2015-07-09 19:57

No.

2015-07-09 20:10

I don't think So

2015-07-10 18:13

LOL

2015-07-11 02:29

Its BO3 mate

2015-07-09 18:26

That's the kind of crap us NA people have to deal with during an EU tourney, so :p

2015-07-09 19:58

Lol 9 in the morning for me. Couldn't be happier

2015-07-10 00:37

And in merica times?

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if you set your timezone correctly on your profile, the times show up correctly for you

2015-07-09 12:05

VPN times always worst times Lurrpis my friend. Will you still be back up player to C9 if they so need it?

2015-07-09 12:06

6 replies

not sure how vpn is relevant to this, you can set any timezone you want

2015-07-09 12:54

5 replies

<3 I got it now ty for great website and stop banning me plz

2015-07-09 13:04

You're not relevant, stop.

2015-07-09 13:11

Says the irrelevant UK scene

2015-07-09 14:15

When someone runs out of arguments on HLTV he either says shit country or 3rd world. You are retarded.

2015-07-10 05:42

Stfu prisoner

2015-07-10 07:38

sweet!

b1 having BO3 semis and BO5 final on same day

navi ua flag,finally :D

only because the line-up was supposed to feature four ukrainians, now it's back to cis :)

2015-07-09 14:45

i knew

2015-07-09 14:53

23:00 Grand final BO5 rip eu

Too late for babby to stay up?

2015-07-09 12:13

i want to sleep bro.

2015-07-09 12:33

Yes too late if you have to work on monday and alarm will go off at 6:00 :(

2015-07-09 14:24

That's amazing idk what you are complaining about. I'd love some 11pm games of high quality. Way better than 4am-8am start times.

2015-07-09 12:16

Eazy for you americano, when it is 17 or so for you.

2015-07-09 14:27

Do you not understand the part where I say "way better than 4am-8am" ... because thats 90% of events for American viewers.

2015-07-09 23:55

How can 20PM in EU be 4-8AM US? If anything we (EU) will/could get a map in 4am on Monday. SO HOW IS THAT BETTER?

2015-07-10 14:18

05:00 Grand final BO3 rip asia

2015-07-09 15:50

I thought the match times would be pretty bad for europe but they seem allright

2015-07-09 12:09

WAY too many teams... the first day will be pointless to watch.. trash on trash..

2015-07-09 12:10

eZ for c9 (noKappa)

2015-07-09 12:11

nt evil japan

lol

2015-07-09 13:17

nt bloody finland

2015-07-09 13:58

first game for rng at 5:30am au time UGHH

5.30 our friday or saturday?

2015-07-09 13:43

Saturday I think

2015-07-09 14:02

Get used to it bro. At the mibr age I used to spend hours of sleeping due to the 4AM mibr matchs. lol Enjoy the fact that your country has a good team!

QZ FOR NIP XD

2015-07-09 12:18

Will all the matches be streamed

2015-07-09 12:19

I doubt it, way too many teams to stream

2015-07-09 12:27

i hope renegades will show something good

2015-07-09 12:32

ez for qeeyou

ez 4 bravado

2015-07-09 12:42

Bo5 23:00 on a sunday? Really? Inb4 75.000 viewers

2015-07-09 12:46

lol let them play at 5 AM canadian time so you EU can watch hahaha

2015-07-09 18:32

ez for kinguin

I LOVE TO SEE CHINESE PLAYER WIN

2015-07-09 13:00

How will they stream 4 games at once?

i hope with 4 different streams, if they gonna stream all the matches

2015-07-09 13:39

C9 and Renegades on finals im calling it

2015-07-09 13:33

Would love to see that!

2015-07-10 10:38

EZ NiP <3

2015-07-09 14:14

virtus pro?

2015-07-09 15:08

stoked to see renegades play. it's also nice to see that the groups are fairly balanced.

2015-07-09 15:25

I'm ready for more of that hot BO1 action

2015-07-09 15:56

I hope to see some good performance from C9 and KeyD

2015-07-09 16:18

inb4 C9 goes back to major choking

2015-07-09 16:22

QEEYOU WILL REKT NIP

Interesting groups, really. Nobody really knows how good the Chinese team is. Nobody can be sure how Flipside will play with Hiko in. Will C9 underestimate Pug Godz and be forced to find a way to win against BOTH Flipside and Keyd? That would be a very difficult task. They may very easily not even make it out of groups if they're not right on it. Liquid has some interesting matches, particularly with LDLC White and NiP. LG, CLG, Renegades... so many interesting matches to pay attention to.

2015-07-09 16:47

ESWC 2014 was the best event of last year. Every game started right on time,not a moments delay. But that event was in france...this is in Canada...

2015-07-09 16:52

tnx for the guide of eswc female lel

2015-07-09 17:19

2015-07-09 17:21

NaVi got this

2015-07-09 17:25

lets go envy ^_^

2015-07-09 17:36

Its not GSL style groups... what if 3 way tie in a group?

2015-07-09 17:47

Its not GSL style groups... what if 3 way tie in a group

Anyone know if they will be doing POV steams like ESL? I really enjoy the team comms.

2015-07-09 18:12

why no fnatic and vp ?

2015-07-09 19:53

Does anybody here knows how will be the playoffs played? Like for example the first match of the playoffs is between who and who? nr1 of group A and 2nd of group B? EDIT: If it was like last year it should be 1st A-2nd D 2nd A-1st C 1st B-2nd C 2nd B-1st D

2015-07-09 20:09