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CEVO unveils Placement tournament

10-2-2016 17:23

CEVO has revealed all the details about the placement tournamentsfor its professional CS:GO division.

Starting in just a few hours, the CEVO Placement tournament will be held in Europe and in North America to determine the final four teams (two per region) who will compete in the professional division, which will have $125,000 on offer.

Sixteen invited teams from both Europe and North America will lock horns in a double-elimination bracket, featuring best-of-three matches in the upper bracket and best-of-one clashes in the lower bracket.


Orgless to play in the placement tournament 

Season 9 comes with crucial changes to the format that will be used in the professional division, which will consist of four 16-team single-elimination brackets to determine the four sides who will represent each region at the season finals, which will be held from April 28 to May 1 at the Gfinity Arena, in London.

Below you can find the bracket for the placement tournaments in Europe and North America:

Europe
Germany PENTA Sports vs. Sweden QuackPack
Russia Team YP vs. Finland ENCE
Sweden Publiclir.se vs. United Kingdom fm-eSports
Europe Orgless vs. Sweden Torpedo.gg
United Kingdom BEASTS vs. Germany KILLERFISH
Europe nevermind vs. Sweden CG
Denmark fan jävla vs. Norway Lions
Sweden DenDD vs. Russia Team Empire
North America
United States VAULT vs. United States No ID
United States Vanquish vs. Canada Mostly Harmless
United States Dying Breed vs. United States WinOut.net
United States RONIN vs. Canada ACE Gaming
United States Tectonic vs. United States Dreamboat
United States Obey.Alliance vs. United States SteamAnalyst
United States Out of Nowhered vs. United States Team ex-AA
United States Noble  vs. Mexico Quetzal

The schedule for the placement tournaments looks as follows:

  Europe North America
Wednesday, February 10
Round of 16 20:00 01:00
Round of 8 - LB Round 1 22:30 03:30
Thursday, February 11
UB Semifinals - LB Round 2 20:00 01:00
LB Round 3 21:15 02:15
Sunday, February 14
UB Final - LB Round 4 20:00 01:00
LB Final 21:15 02:15
Monday, February 15
Consolidation Final 21:00 02:00
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#1
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Finland flyingspacewater
n1
2016-02-10 17:23
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#41
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North America NaScene
ez win 4 Quetzal cuz colorful flag!!
2016-02-10 17:39
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#75
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Canada kHYRR73
ofc ez
2016-02-10 18:58
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#60
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Denmark Jeffersond
where are all the murican teams like CLG, c9 and liquid? This is their tier right?
2016-02-10 18:16
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#71
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African Union violentcrayon
careful or you'll burn those burgers and not just toast them
2016-02-10 18:41
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#72
United States azkheistheamericanplayer
:(
2016-02-10 18:43
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#84
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United States GeT_ReiCh
coming from the danish, who's best team can't even beat G2
2016-02-10 21:14
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#88
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Denmark Lage
They did beat them yesterday though. But nice try
2016-02-11 11:26
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#90
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France BoboonK
And where are LDLC.White and Platinium ? With they good ranking in regualar season : cevo.com/event/cs-globaloffensive/standi..
2016-02-12 23:53
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#2
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Sweden Raele
ez ence
2016-02-10 17:24
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1 reply
#87
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Sweden ayyyylmao
hi raele im ayyyylmao and me banned from cevo for ban evade
2016-02-11 11:08
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#3
Turkey HESNOTME
OK
2016-02-10 17:23
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#4
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Czech Republic Seb0gfx
gk
2016-02-10 17:23
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#5
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Austria Kramoon
nice
2016-02-10 17:23
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#6
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World captainf*ckface
ads
2016-02-10 17:23
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#9
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Portugal Ambrius
ez
2016-02-10 17:23
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#10
Sweden swedistaniarethinkthat
Looks good!
2016-02-10 17:23
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#11
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Australia BCP
sweet
2016-02-10 17:23
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#12
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zehN | 
Finland jemmis
nicee!
2016-02-10 17:23
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#15
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Finland striimIT
ez ENCE
2016-02-10 17:24
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#16
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tarik | 
United States HyperInfinity
unbelievable
2016-02-10 17:24
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#17
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United States Origin503
Nice! Cant wait!
2016-02-10 17:24
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#18
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Finland dENAA
n1
2016-02-10 17:24
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#19
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World Heeze
nice
2016-02-10 17:24
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#21
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boltz | 
Egypt rappparen
f0dder?
2016-02-10 17:24
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#23
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Korea highlanderX
fan jävla
2016-02-10 17:24
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#24
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NAF | 
Canada bongsmoker1337
mexico ez
2016-02-10 17:24
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#25
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Russia adv1
gl hf BARBAR
2016-02-10 17:24
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#29
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United States tolkienfanatic - HLTV.org
Progress. Excited for this new format.
2016-02-10 17:27
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#40
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Dominican Republic blabla666
Why no Asia? Tyloo, CyberZen, Mongolz > All teams in the placement tournament .
2016-02-10 17:38
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#42
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United States tolkienfanatic - HLTV.org
CEVO doesn't have divisions in Asia/Oceania
2016-02-10 17:40
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#44
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Dominican Republic blabla666
Then let someone host an online qualifier for you. MixBot(Chinese tournament organizer) is hosting DreamHack CS:GO qualier for Asia for example.
2016-02-10 17:45
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#30
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Spain Alser
ez for Mostly Canadian
2016-02-10 17:26
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#31
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Argentina ECSBOX
wow, another top teams tournament
2016-02-10 17:26
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#32
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United Kingdom FullSpe3d
wtf those brackets are retarded, orgless vs torpedo and ENCE vs YP in the first round? ok then
2016-02-10 17:27
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#35
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United States tolkienfanatic - HLTV.org
It looks like seedings were done based upon whether teams were relegated/qualified or invited
2016-02-10 17:31
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#36
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Finland fr0zeNid
god ence
2016-02-10 17:32
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#37
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Spain StarkForce1
sexy Pixel Fire <3
2016-02-10 17:34
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#38
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Lithuania HomeInvader
ez for?? nevermind
2016-02-10 17:35
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#39
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Finland  jOELZ
so many nub teams ripp
2016-02-10 17:36
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#73
United States azkheistheamericanplayer
So are you not on one only because u don't want to go to lan?
2016-02-10 18:45
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#43
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North America spankP
Wow NA has so many unrecognizable teams I've actually heard of all of the teams in the EU but jesus
2016-02-10 17:40
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#46
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molodoy | 
Brazil Nobuga
n1
2016-02-10 17:43
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#47
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Finland Gandalf the Weedwizard
WTF are those NA teams?
2016-02-10 17:45
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#57
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Estonia swag420weed
+1 Only heard of ace gaming :D
2016-02-10 18:04
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3 replies
#65
United States azkheistheamericanplayer
Noble? Tectonic? Win out?
2016-02-10 18:21
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2 replies
#77
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Estonia swag420weed
nope, but only watch top tier NA games
2016-02-10 19:24
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1 reply
#83
United States azkheistheamericanplayer
I only watch top tier as well but I've heard of them
2016-02-10 20:58
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#48
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France CitronCS
Round of 8 ?
2016-02-10 17:47
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#49
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Czech Republic csl1337
FAN JÄVLA QUACKPACK EZ
2016-02-10 17:50
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#50
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United States KiIIah
Now I see the difference in NA and EU... Look at tier 3 EU compare to tier 3 NA...
2016-02-10 18:00
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#51
dav1deuS | 
Chile Romanosky
Not top teams?
2016-02-10 18:01
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#52
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NiKo | 
Poland Jaruzel
So they are inviting some shitty teams and call it "pro league" lmao
2016-02-10 18:01
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#54
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Brazil rmarques
No GA? Didn't they play main season last year?
2016-02-10 18:01
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3 replies
#59
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Brazil karlyn90
They will already play the 1st division.
2016-02-10 18:20
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2 replies
#70
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Brazil rmarques
I don't get it. After the Main division is the Professional, isn't it ?
2016-02-10 18:40
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1 reply
#74
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FalleN | 
Switzerland pazzo0
they are on professional division m8
2016-02-10 18:53
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#55
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NiKo | 
Poland Jaruzel
btw TSM is not invited xD
2016-02-10 18:02
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#56
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Brazil DidoPahpum
GA? =/
2016-02-10 18:03
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#61
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Brazil karlyn90
They will already play the 1st division.
2016-02-10 18:20
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#79
Brazil lucastless
GA ganhou a 2 divisão da cevo , já está classificada na 1 divisão
2016-02-10 19:38
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#58
World kekfrag69
youtube.com/watch?v=36A_2UUfyPo Video about the placement and semmlers reaction with anders.. EleGiggle trolling feelsbadman KApPAPRIDEdedEDDEDE
2016-02-10 18:08
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1 reply
#82
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Brazil baleia
what a terrible editing man almost had a seizure jeez
2016-02-10 20:34
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#62
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Mexico MEXICANOALATAQUE
Ez Mexico :)
2016-02-10 18:19
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#63
Thorin | 
United Kingdom DyLanoo
EZ UK
2016-02-10 18:20
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#64
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Japan SukMaiDik
RKO out of nowhere I hope fl0m plays for Noble
2016-02-10 18:21
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#66
Macau Ralele
GERMany win!
2016-02-10 18:24
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#67
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United States iceweaselbz
RIP VALENTINES DAY
2016-02-10 18:31
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#68
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United States j0w
Where Echo Fox?
2016-02-10 18:36
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#69
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Bulgaria lazy_programmer
ez for gplay oh wait...
2016-02-10 18:37
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#76
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North America Medusza
Bad group draw for ENCE ez tournament for YP/Enpire and Penta/ex-Pixelfire.
2016-02-10 19:23
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#78
coldzera | 
Brazil Lukkasmarquesbr
izi for Quetzal
2016-02-10 19:32
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#80
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f0rest | 
Iran JKWoWiaN
new teams gl all
2016-02-10 19:45
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#81
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Brazil Romarioek
Tier 3 and 4 hahahhaa
2016-02-10 20:04
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#85
Mongolia asdasdddddddddddd
no asia? cmon
2016-02-11 06:14
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#86
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freddieb | 
Sweden carvin
go CG!!
2016-02-11 11:06
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