ESL Barcelona viewer's guide

Eight teams have gathered in Barcelona, Spain, to fight for a share of the €75,000 prizepot in a rather peculiar format, which we have already seen before at an IEM stop at gamescom.

The teams will be given three lives at the beginning of the competition, and with every loss in best-of-ones they will lose a life. The first match will be decided via a poll by ESL, while every match afterwards will be decided by the previous match winner.

fnatic	Envy
Astralis	Dignitas
G2	Vexed
gBots	x6tence

The matches will start at 09:30 each day, with the first two days featuring eight matches, while up to seven will be played on day three. As usual with ESL events, matches will start as soon as possible after previous ones end.

The German organization's foursome will be taking you through the action on the official English stream, joined by popular duo Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett and Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer, as well as Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole and Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović.

Oliver "OJ Borg" D'Anastasi - Host

Alex "Machine" Richardson – Desk Host

Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Caster
Leigh "Deman" Smith - Caster
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Caster
Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer - Caster
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Caster

Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Analyst

As mentioned above, €75,000 will be distributed among the eight participants according to the following list:

1. €22,000

2. €11,000 

3. €5,500 

4. €4,500 

5. €3,500 

6. €2,500 

7. €1,500 

8. €500  

* + €1,000 for every life left and every victory achieved

1. €22,000
2. €11,000
3. €5,500
4. €4,500
5. €3,500
6. €2,500
7. €1,500
8. €500  

* + €1,000 for every life left and every victory achieved

If you'd like to read what HLTV.org's Michal "stich" Malachowski had to say about the teams attending the event in the warm weather of Barcelona, go over to the preview he prepared about the Spanish event.

HLTV.org will be present on site to bring you full coverage of ESL Barcelona Invitational played out on February 19-21.