PGL S1 Finals viewer's guide

1-10-2015 11:51

We've prepared a viewer's guide in light of tomorrow's kick-off of the $75,000 PGL Season 1 Finals featuring fnatic, TSM, Virtus.pro and Liquid.

Bucharest's Grand Cinema & More digital cinema complex will play a host to PGL Season 1 Finals from October 2-4, featuring four teams, who have qualified through the online phase.

Virtus.pro, TSM and fnatic managed to pull through in the European part, while in North America, Liquid surprised many by taking down Luminosity for the Finals spot shortly after acquiring Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin.

TSM's success started in Romania - will they go back to winning ways?

The four teams will duke it out in a double elimination, best-of-three bracket, barring the best-of-five grand final, for a share of the $75,000 prizepool, with additional $10,000 going to travel support.

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

Each day will see two matches, the full schedule of the event is following:

Friday, October 2nd
13:00	Virtus.pro	vs. Liquid	BO3
16:00	fnatic	vs. TSM	BO3
Saturday, October 3rd
13:00	Lower bracket final		BO3
16:00	Upper bracket final		BO3
Sunday, October 4th
12:00	Consolidation final		BO3
16:00	Grand final		BO5

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett will return alongside Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer from the online phase as casters. On the analyst desk, you will be able to see a trio of Richard Lewis, Duncan "Thorin" Shields and Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen, with Sebastian "TataStrumf" Honciuc conducting the interviews on stage:

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett (Commentator)

Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer (Commentator)

Richard Lewis (Desk host)

Duncan "Thorin" Shields (Analyst)

Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen (Analyst)

Sebastian "TataStrumf" Honciuc (Interviewer)

Finally, our official preview for the PGL Season 1 finals, written by colleague Michal "stich" Malachowski, can be found here.

You can expect full coverage from the event by HLTV.org, who will field a two-man lineup in Bucharest, Romania from October 2-4.

so excited

2015-10-01 11:51

yessss

rip pala

2015-10-01 11:52

rip liquid

let's go vp

2015-10-01 11:53

Pala > all :( :D

Liquid will get a total of 20 rounds on 4 maps is my guess.

2015-10-01 11:56

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Yeah, I think they will improve as well.

2015-10-01 12:01

Pretty sure they might have taken a map off fnatic or TSM in the opener, but VP are just relentless when it comes to americans...

2015-10-01 12:04

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Did Cloud 9 even ever won 1 map against them?

2015-10-01 15:59

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yes, ESWC 2014

2015-10-01 16:38

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-hiko and -spemhis so they did not win with new line up yet right?

2015-10-01 16:54

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Actually they got a map against VP with the new roster with Ska, Freak and shroud. Thats everything :D youtube.com/watch?v=9cUFDygyyUs

2015-10-01 17:04

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still something :D

2015-10-01 17:56

where nv

2015-10-01 12:00

ez 5k for liquid :D

2015-10-01 12:03

Ez 5000 $ for Liquid.

why Liquid ? envy or nip didn`t qualify ?

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3 teams from EU and 1 from murica, read the article.

2015-10-01 12:27

so liquid better than clown9 and CLG ? uhm

2015-10-01 12:30

yes they Qualified before c9 clg and LG in the finals "in North America, Liquid surprised many by taking down Luminosity for the Finals spot shortly after acquiring Spencer "Hiko" Martin."

2015-10-01 12:32

C9 haven't participated in PGL and Liquid qualified over CLG

2015-10-01 12:35

thank you kind sirs /closed topic :D

2015-10-01 13:17

Actually they qualified over LG

2015-10-01 16:29

why not pala? :( but +1 thorin and richard lewis:)

2015-10-01 12:06

Romanian interviewer/stage host at a Romanian event.

2015-10-01 12:54

Because the vomiting caused by his hair bun resulted in too many toilets overflowing.

2015-10-01 13:09

expected

dafuq are these teams

2015-10-01 12:07

if henryg is a nickname, is suspect rlewis probably is too...

2015-10-01 12:13

henryG used this name as a player, so it became his nick. like kennys or jw. richard lewis just uses rlewis to shorten his name sometimes, he never refers to himself as rlewis, while henryg does. its not so easy to explain where the difference is, i hope you got my point.

2015-10-01 13:11

i understand but disagree completely

2015-10-01 14:15

why?

2015-10-01 14:19

BanterSquad

2015-10-01 12:20

banter with natu? LOL natu is the most annoying dickhead ever in the scene (ok cadian is worse). guy cant even speak english. this desk is gonna be fucked up if theres 3 people only and one of them is natu. not to mention fucking sadomoron every single game...

2015-10-01 12:38

#nuckfatu was talking about the core of the BS (RLewis and Thorin)

2015-10-01 12:51

well as u could see at gfnity masters, there aint much banter if there aint any fun people to throw it towards. if thorin tries to banter with natu that would be too cruel. itd look like making fun of a mongoloid kid and social media'd go crazy.

2015-10-01 12:56

Let me predict. VP>NA TSM>FN FN>NA TSM>VP FN>VP FN>TSM

2015-10-01 12:23

pfff XD fnatic loose

2015-10-02 21:46

So far perfect prediction. Let's keep going.

2015-10-02 22:39

henryg as caster yay!

4 teams and one tier 3 in NA HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA good tournament

2015-10-01 12:29

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hahahah the tier 3 na team beat LG in the online qualifer final to get the spot hahahahahah "while in North America, Liquid surprised many by taking down Luminosity for the Finals spot shortly after acquiring Spencer "Hiko" Martin." HAHAHAHAHA rekt brazil retard

2015-10-01 12:33

good tournament for you Keepo

2015-10-01 12:34

stupid brazil tried to talk shit about tier 3 team liquid when they beat LG in the online qualifer final hahahah so rekt what a fail

2015-10-01 12:36

you say right. "Online qualifer" good job

TL beat LG aswell on IbuyPower cup lol TL>LG

2015-10-01 15:00

That was online as well...

2015-10-02 12:42

not sure ^_^

2015-10-04 16:02

Yes because we saw how lg owns everyone on lan rright? Winout championship ahem ahem

2015-10-01 16:01

not sure if bait or favela self rekted

2015-10-01 12:49

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I try search your country in the google but i found none, sorry. what country is this?

2015-10-01 12:53

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its the country where the PGL lan tournament is, that your favorite brazil team missed by getting rekt by tier 3 na team hahahaha

+1 ayyy lmao

2015-10-01 13:12

Rip favela boy

2015-10-01 18:56

It's the country where the last major of the year will be held.

2015-10-01 12:58

sweden allready changed its flag? literally swedistan.

2015-10-01 13:14

The interesting thing about retards is that they get more retarded with each comment that they post.

I'm sorry if you actually wanted to find your brain

2015-10-01 13:21

you guys have a team? or only scream? oohhhh wait, ScreaM is from other country

2015-10-01 13:32

wait, you can't distinguish blue from black?

2015-10-01 13:36

same shit, i never see your flag

2015-10-01 14:56

for a blind guy, yeah, it's same shit xD

2015-10-01 18:40

HAHAHAH, LIQUID > SHITg

2015-10-01 13:34

Salty BRs mad about T3 team beating T10 LG

2015-10-01 19:00

TataStrumf best

2015-10-01 12:37

henryg natu DansGame

2015-10-01 12:48

ez for TataStrumf.

vp-tsm in the finals 3-2 to whoever has the better day. fnatic do not seem to be in their best form

ez $5,000 for Liquid

2015-10-01 13:19

good schedule for me

2015-10-01 13:23

VP - TSM final and 50/50.

2015-10-01 13:47

why is it called season 1? I think this is season 2 cause TSM already won the first PGL or was that under another name? edit: will you guys collect POV demos? there hasn't been much since gfinity in march.

2015-10-01 13:52

The first one was called CS:GO Championship (CCS)

2015-10-01 15:04

Tough to say who will win this. VP and TSM have both shown the capacity to upset Fnatic. With that being said, Fnatic when playing at their skill cap are untouchable. Will be exciting B03s.