CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9 Finals CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9 Finals

CEVO Gfinity S9 finals viewer's guide

27-4-2016 21:49

The CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9 Finals will commence in London tomorrow and as such the group draw and schedule has been released. Here is the entire viewer's guide.

The event which is scheduled to take place from April 28 - May 1 marks the end of the CEVO Season 9 Professional season which this time around, took the form of online qualifiers. $125,000 will be up for grabs for the eight teams in attendance.

To start things off there will be a group stage played in the GSL format from which the best two teams will advance to the playoffs. Interestingly, the group stage will feature best-of-three matches across the board.

The groups are as follows:

Group A Group B
Europe HellRaisers Brazil Tempo Storm
Poland Virtus.pro Denmark Dignitas
United States Splyce Denmark SK
Canada OpTic United States Selfless

*Hover over team names to see lineups

Of special note is the fact that, Natus Vincere, one of the invited teams has decided not to attend the event paving the way for SK to take their spot.

The playoffs will start with the semi-finals and will all be played in a best-of-five format. The full schedule is below:

Thursday, April 28th
11:00 Brazil Tempo Storm vs. Denmark SK BO3
13:45 Poland Virtus.pro vs. United States Splyce BO3
16:15 Denmark Dignitas vs. United States Selfless BO3
19:00 Europe HellRaisers vs. Canada OpTic BO3
21:45 Group B losers match
BO3
       
Friday, April 28th
11:00 Group A losers match
BO3
13:45 Group A winners match
BO3
16:15 Group B winners match
BO3
19:00 Group A decider match
BO3
21:45 Group B decider match
BO3
     
Saturday, April 30th
13:00 Semi-final #1 BO5
17:30 Semi-final #2 BO5
     
Sunday, May 1st
16:30 Grand final BO5

The talent lineup for the event will consist of a nine-man crew; here it is:

United Kingdom James Banks - Stage host

United States Chris Puckett - Desk host

United Kingdom Duncan "Thorin" Shields - Analyst
United Kingdom Richard Lewis - Analyst

United States Joseph "heliumbrella" Cunningham - caster
Canada Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - caster
United States Dust "dusT" Mouret - caster
United Kingdom Vince "Metuz" Hill - caster
United Kingdom Jack "Jacky" Peters - caster

The entire prize pool for the event is $125,000 distributed as follows:

1. - $55,000
2. - $30,000
3-4. - $12,500
3-4. - $12,500
5-8. - $5,000
5-8. - $5,000
7-8. - $2,500
7-8. - $2,500 

If you're looking for more coverage related to the CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9 finals be sure to check out the interview conducted by Bünyamin "BenjaCS" Bektaş with Skyler "⁠Relyks⁠" Weaver and Michal "stich" Malachowski's article previewing the $125,000 LAN finals.

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Canada LongBaguette
GREEN WALL
2016-04-27 21:50
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Denmark Arthrangos
Wat ?
2016-04-27 21:52
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#43
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TenZ | 
Canada LongBaguette
OpTiC ArThRaNgRoS wiTH the InSAnE TrIcKsHotZz XXX
2016-04-27 22:04
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United Kingdom DominnX26
ez vp
2016-04-27 21:49
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#64
World mondzik4i434
Brand new cs go roul/ette csgourban.com to get 5 $ use this co/de: uxDZaIB2
2016-04-28 05:47
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Portugal drater2635
last
2016-04-27 21:49
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#14
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Romania s1nky_
ez for snax my brother
2016-04-27 21:49
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#15
North America jaCePTs
Last
2016-04-27 21:49
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#16
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Finland KARJALA
No Scoots. :(
2016-04-27 21:49
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Ukraine mntzz
vp or dig to take it all
2016-04-27 21:49
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#38
Germany Vanadium_
Those are the two faves yes
2016-04-27 21:55
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#44
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Georgia aliosha
Vp yes dig no way they will choke as always
2016-04-27 22:04
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Denmark ddk121
fsfs
2016-04-27 21:49
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United Kingdom sentrylondon
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2016-04-27 21:50
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#25
Sweden mcmichel
this is how major shold be , not a lan event with 125k prize pool
2016-04-27 21:50
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United States NippleInspector
All big tournaments should have 16 teams and double elimination format
2016-04-27 21:52
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France godium
k
2016-04-27 21:50
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#28
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North America [unknown]
group b all terribad teams lol
2016-04-27 21:51
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#35
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Croatia Clammier
You suck at trolling.
2016-04-27 21:52
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#46
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Sweden DiscoMeister
SK - bunch of onliners and shitters Dignits - same as above + chokers Selfless - Who the fuck are they? Tempo storm - They had 1 lucky run on Katowice and thats all, trashy and overrated team. So I guess he is so right saying that group B sucks
2016-04-27 22:14
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#63
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North America [unknown]
thank u its true, clammier blind maybe
2016-04-28 05:46
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Sweden DiscoMeister
i are think so
2016-04-28 12:19
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Croatia Clammier
Right, and let's look at Group A? HellRaisers? OpTic? Splyce?! Only top tier team there is Virtus.Pro. SK Gaming & Tempo Storm are very good teams, both online and offline.
2016-04-28 18:39
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Sweden DiscoMeister
both HR and Optic > TS and SK so? SK sucks online, magiskb0y is the biggest onliner of all time ;]
2016-04-28 18:46
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Croatia Clammier
Actually, you're right. SK is shit, lol.
2016-04-28 19:54
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Finland puhuri
BO5 semi-finals is awful
2016-04-27 21:51
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Spain Alser
Wrong prize distribution, 7-8 get $2,500
2016-04-27 21:52
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Poland mki`
Good catch, it's fixed now!
2016-04-27 21:56
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United Kingdom OMGitsDN
You could also add Piotr 'izak' Skowyrski as a caster He will be there casting in their studio He is getting paid and will stream on gfinitys pl channel (I think that counts as their official caster?)
2016-04-27 22:17
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Macau Weeeeew
Bo5 semi wtf
2016-04-27 21:52
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#36
World Black123459
tier 100000 tournament. your chance vp win this shit tournaments cleaner toilets
2016-04-27 21:53
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North America xRoyal
Ayy lmao cevo best tournament organizers my dudes BTW - why did c9 forfeit their game vs splyce? They woulda bbeen here instead
2016-04-27 21:56
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Russia IV4N_
2ez4VP
2016-04-27 22:01
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juanflatroo | 
Europe Stanislavv
tfw fake anders is the best caster
2016-04-27 22:01
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#45
Norway mynameisdoe
bo5 playoffs,lmao
2016-04-27 22:09
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Canada gstar
If VP fails to win this, then it would time for a roster change.
2016-04-27 22:24
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Finland 0100cs
The fudge is this talent lineup? Even the PGL minor has a better talent lineup... CEVO, not even once.
2016-04-27 22:31
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World Reformative
What the hell did you expect from a 125k tournament?
2016-04-28 01:56
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Finland 0100cs
Well, the minors are a lot smaller than this, and they have better casters.
2016-04-28 14:10
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World Reformative
The minors are being casted by a bunch of different casters. The recent Americas minor was casted by these same MLG casters.
2016-04-28 19:48
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Finland 0100cs
I mainly ment the european and even the asian minor.
2016-04-28 20:13
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#52
Spain Sindillermo
WTF the casters? I'm not asking for Anders/Semmler or Sadokist/HenryG. But who are these guys?
2016-04-27 22:53
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United States [jayfour]
not even worth watching any part of this. trash teams. trash casters.
2016-04-27 23:04
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World Elador
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2016-04-27 23:26
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Tunisia k3yg3n
ez vp
2016-04-27 23:26
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#56
Poland Erwu4N
Piotr 'Izak' Skowyrski
2016-04-28 00:00
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United Kingdom Nirvanavn
is that a tier 2 tournament?
2016-04-28 00:11
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World Spidersaur
these casters wtf, guess i will be muting stream again
2016-04-28 03:02
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Brazil ultim8isfiredup
BO5 Semis hoo lee shiet
2016-04-28 03:18
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#65
Brazil BuddyINSANE
Wow, first match! GO GO GO Brazil! #TSWIN We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL!
2016-04-28 05:54
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Finland tuhoajamasiina
t2 teams and t5 talent not gonna watch
2016-04-28 08:58
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Hungary FHarbor
bo5 semis kek
2016-04-28 12:41
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Vietnam sgk_12m
Should have been bo7 final
2016-04-30 04:28
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