Groups for ECS S1 finals released

10-6-2016 21:00

The organisers of the Esports Championship Series (ECS) have released the groups and schedule for the season 1 finals, in London.

From June 24-26, the SSE Arena (previously known as Wembley Arena) will stage the offline finals of the first iteration of ECS, featuring the top four teams from the European and the North American divisions.

The exact prize pool for the tournament has not yet been revealed, but it is known that ECS will pay out $3.5 million over two seasons, with this figure also including travel support.

Luminosity will play the opening match at The SSE Arena

The ECS finals will begin with a double-elimination group stage, with the elimination and the decider matches being played in a best-of-three format. The top two teams from both groups will move on to the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs.

Below you can find the group draw in full:

Group A	Group B
Luminosity	Astralis
G2	Cloud9
Liquid	fnatic
Ninjas in Pyjamas	TSM

The full schedule for the British event looks as follows:

Friday, June 24
12:15	Luminosity	vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas	BO1
13:30	Liquid	vs. G2	BO1
14:45	Group A winners' match
16:00	Astralis	vs. TSM	BO1
17:15	fnatic	vs. Cloud9	BO1
18:30	Group B winners' match		BO1
Saturday, June 25
11:15	Group A elimination match		BO3
14:15	Group B elimination match		BO3
17:15	Group A decider match		BO3
20:15	Group B decider match		BO3
Sunday, June 26
12:00	Semifinal #1 (B1 vs. A2)		BO3
15:30	Semifinal #2 (A1 vs. B2)		BO3
20:00	Grand final		BO3

Im proplayer

2016-06-10 21:10

7 replies

percy trying hard to be first hahahah

no match vs me

2016-06-10 21:11

5 replies

on the same fucking second wtf :D

2016-06-10 21:15

2 replies

Someone took 6 seconds more and ended up being #16. I'd bet their F5 is fucked up at this point

2016-06-10 21:28

1 reply

:DDD lol

2016-06-10 21:29

Better change your nick name, freezing point should be 0 not 1. :D

2016-06-10 22:56

rellyyy nigga?

2016-06-11 00:22

ez4fnatic

2016-06-10 21:55

suh

ez fnatic

TSM pls

kkk

ez ence

expected

rip liquid

Group A is the group of death

rip luminosity

or should it be rip nip/g2?

2016-06-10 21:20

na, LG tier 20

2016-06-10 21:21

inb4 twistzz cant play

Of course he can, it's not on TV

Rip na...

Rip s1mple

Group a is do fucking stacked holy shit

2016-06-10 21:13

ez g2

RIP LIQUID RIP P1MPLE AIUahIUhAIAUIuIAaAAIAHIAUIA iuahAIUIAUiA

2016-06-10 21:16

Group A is gonna be guuud

Light a candle for liquid [*]

2016-06-10 21:17

6 replies

they have s1mple back. rip LG i say XD (no rly, i kid)

2016-06-10 21:35

But what about Nip and G2?

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i think its gonna be close between g2 and lg if they play. but they will take nip ez

2016-06-10 22:18

Don't forget NIP rekt G2 on eleague finals

2016-06-10 22:20

Not so sure, but it would be a really good group.

2016-06-11 00:07

Coldzera only has to flash his tatoo to them and RIP TL lmao

2016-06-10 22:19

tsm xDDDDDDDDD

2016-06-10 21:19

Astralis vs TSM

ez for top1

ez astralis

wenton or olofmeister in fnatic?

2016-06-10 21:23

wenton

2016-06-10 21:37

ok rip

g2 against liquid. me happy.

rip nip

2016-06-10 21:31

LG vs NiP in the opening match. nice.

rip nip or swedistan!

2016-06-10 21:32

ez for LG

ez 4 tsm

Astralis easy group as usual :D

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Thats not even good for them..And then u face LG/NIP or G2 and get fcked :D

LOL the only team better than fnatic here is LG. so ez is not that word. less frigtening? maybe.

8 replies

Kappa

2016-06-10 21:42

Keepo

2016-06-10 21:48

Every EU team in this tournament is currently better than fnatic.

2016-06-13 17:39

you dont think olof will be back for the major? i bet he will

2016-06-13 21:12

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That's the caveat I suppose. Assuming olof is on form and is back then you are correct. But this isn't the major, this is the ECS Finals. ECS Finals happen before the major.

2016-06-13 22:10

Just as i exspected, Olof back in time for the major and ecs as warm-up

2016-06-14 06:24

You win this one, sir. :)

2016-06-14 15:38

Haha actually i didnt expect him to come back this early. But he is ready i suppose;)

2016-06-14 20:16

Group A LMAO nice opening match

nice, gonna be good!

There are 5 big Teams (LG, NIP, Atralis, fnatic & G2) and the NA teams ( Liquid, Cloud9 & TSM). Nice Finals... 1 vs 4!!

2016-06-10 21:40

finaly good teams :) at same event

2016-06-10 21:41

#GOLG

2016-06-10 21:43

Glad to see NiP in the same group with LG now they'll make the grand finals

2016-06-10 21:46

ez BrazillianENCE

2016-06-10 21:54

2016-06-10 22:00

LG, NIP, G2 and fnatic.

2016-06-10 22:01

fak! Too early to watch in winter

2016-06-10 22:38

Semi final: G2(winner group A) vs fnatic(runner up group B) and LG(runner up group A) vs Astralis(winner group B) Final: G2 vs LG Winner: LG

2016-06-10 22:41

LG over NiP G2 over Liquid LG (1st) over G2 NiP over Liquid NiP (2nd) over G2 ========== Astralis over TSM fnatic over Cloud9 Cloud9 over TSM Astralis (1st) over fnatic (if olofm doesn't play) fnatic (2nd) over Cloud9 1/2 LG over fnatic, NiP over Astralis Final LG over NiP ez favela

2016-06-10 22:48

over suddenly doesnt sound like a word to me anymore.

2016-06-10 23:00

dank memes 5230 very ezzz

2016-06-10 22:49

TSM 4Head

2016-06-11 00:56

Top3 teams in one group, G2 currently stands a 40% to get on the playoffs so it's too early to judge let's they what they can do in their matches before this event.

2016-06-11 01:02