SL i-League Inv. #1 viewer's guide

The SL i-League Invitational will take place in the Olimpiyskiy Football Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, from May 19-22, with eight teams in attendance of the $100,000 event.

Keep in mind that Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev's Worst Players have replaced Born Of Fire as the Chinese were initially supposed to travel to Kiev but weren't able to acquire visas. 

The eight participants have been drawn into a double-elimination, best-of-three bracket. While the double elimination usually gives some sort of an advantage to the upper bracket winner, it will not be the case here.

The upper bracket quarter-final match-ups can be seen in the schedule below:

Thursday, May 19th
09:00	HellRaisers	vs. SK	UB1
09:00	Virtus.pro	vs. Worst Players	UB2
12:00	UB1 loser	vs. UB2 loser	LB1
15:00	FlipSid3	vs. GODSENT	UB3
15:00	Natus Vincere	vs. Dobry&Gaming	UB4
Friday, May 20th
09:00	UB3 loser	vs. UB4 loser	LB2
12:00	UB1 winner	vs. UB2 winner	UB5
18:00	UB3 winner	vs. UB4 winner	UB6
Saturday, May 21st
09:00	LB1 winner	vs. UB6 loser	LB3
12:00	LB2 winner	vs. UB5 loser	LB4
18:00	Upper bracket final
Sunday, May 22nd
09:00	Lower bracket final
12:00	Consolidation final
18:00	Grand final

There will be two official streams for the event, one in English and one in Russian, both of which will show up in our Streams section once they go live. Here is the complete on-air crew for SL i-League Invitational #1:

English broadcast	Russian broadcast
Pala "⁠Pala⁠" Gilroy Sen	Taufiq "⁠Tafa⁠" Khidri
Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen	Igor "⁠sL4M⁠" Sopov
John "BLU" Mullen	Juriy "⁠strike⁠" Tereshenko
Halvor "⁠vENdetta⁠" Gulestøl	Konstantin "⁠leniniw⁠" Sivko
Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller	Fyodor "Kvan" Zakharov
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett	Alexandr "HomeR" Lysenko
Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer	Oleksij "⁠xaoc⁠" Kucherov
Tom "Tombizz14" Bissmire	Stepan "DonStepan" Shulga
	Aleksandr "petr1k" Petrik
	Ivan "⁠Johnta⁠" Shevtsov
	Antonina "Tonya" Predko

A total of $100,000 will be given out at the end of the weekend, with the prize distribution being following:

1. - $50,000
2. - $20,000
3-4. - $10,000
5-6. - $3,000
7-8. - $2,000

We have prepared a special event page for the SL i-League Invitational #1, which includes most of the basic information. You can go check it out here.

If you'd like to know more about the teams attending the event, head over to our preview which delves deep into their recent history, chances to make it far and more.