ESL Pro League S4 viewer's guide

25-10-2016 20:29

ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals kicks off tomorrow with OpTic facing Liquid in the initial match of Group A. Here's all you need to know about the 11-team, $600,000 event taking place in São Paulo, Brazil.

Brazil's most populous city, São Paulo, will host Season 4's ESL Pro League Finals, taking place from October 26-30.

The first two days will be played behind closed doors at the ESL studios, while Ginásio do Ibirapuera arena will play host to the last group stage day and playoffs.

dignitas set to attempt to get their third title in a row

Originally 12 teams were supposed to attend the event, however fnatic announced their withdrawal in the last minute due to personal reasons.

ESL were unable to find a replacement in such short notice, as numerous European teams below the regular season's top six declined the invitation.

The teams were split into two best-of-one, round-robin groups according to their placement in the online part:

Group A	Group B
Immortals	Ninjas in Pyjamas
MOUZ	SK
OpTic	FaZe
Envy	Dignitas
Liquid	Cloud9
	NRG

Teams who place first in their group will advance directly to semi-finals, while second placed teams will play third placed teams from the other group in the quarter-finals.

Here's the full schedule of the five-day tournament:

Wednesday, October 26th
16:00	OpTic	vs. Liquid
17:10	Immortals	vs. Envy
18:20	MOUZ	vs. Liquid
19:30	Cloud9	vs. FaZe
20:40	NRG	vs. Dignitas
21:50	SK	vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas
23:00	Cloud9	vs. NRG
00:10	Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs. Dignitas

Thursday, October 27th
16:00	Immortals	vs. OpTic
17:10	Envy	vs. Liquid
18:20	MOUZ	vs. OpTic
19:30	SK	vs. FaZe
20:40	Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs. NRG
21:50	FaZe	vs. Dignitas
23:00	SK	vs. Cloud9

Friday, October 28th
16:00	Immortals	vs. MOUZ
17:30	OpTic	vs. Envy
19:00	Immortals	vs. Liquid
19:00	MOUZ	vs. Envy
20:30	FaZe	vs. NRG
22:00	SK	vs. Dignitas
23:30	Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs. Cloud9
01:00	SK	vs. NRG
01:00	Cloud9	vs. Dignitas
01:00	Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs. FaZe

Saturday, October 29th
19:00	Quarter-final #1
22:30	Quarter-final #2

Sunday, October 30th
14:30	Semi-final #1
19:00	Semi-final #2
22:30	Grand final

And here's the broadcast team for the official English stream:

Beatriz "Bia" Bauer - Host

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk host
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Analyst
Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill - Analyst

Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer - Commentator
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
John "Blu" Mullen - Commentator
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole

Heather "⁠sapphiRe⁠" Garozzo - Observer
DJ "Prius" Kuntz - Observer

The $600,000 prizepool will be distributed as follows:

1. $200,000
2. $90,000
3-4. $45,000
5-6. $35,000
7-8. $30,000
9-10. $25,000
11. $20,000

If you'd like to know more about the attending teams, make sure to check out Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin's preview of the ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals.

gl dignitas

2016-10-25 20:29

6 replies

i thought it's a 750k$ tournament

2016-10-25 20:56

5 replies

It is kind of, they give some cash for placing high online before the lan

2016-10-25 21:16

4 replies

or maybe they already gave for who didnt qualify for the lan finals

2016-10-25 21:37

3 replies

Civilised conversation on HLTV. I aren't think that

2016-10-25 21:43

2 replies

i arent take that b8, m8

2016-10-25 21:50

ikr. what year is this?

2016-10-25 22:35

Hoping to see great things from Dignitas! Also will be great to see GODAllu at lan for the first time in a while

2016-10-25 20:30

DH bucharest

2016-10-25 20:37

He played like 2 days ago

2016-10-25 20:39

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Yeah, against C9.

2016-10-26 10:59

ez for NiP

adad

Faze to win it all Kappa

They actually have a slight chances to fight

2016-10-25 20:50

No chance in Group B lol gj ESL with the Group draws 4Head

2016-10-25 20:51

How do you figure? Dignitas and sk are the only two teams they have a low chance of beating. NIP, C9 and NRG are all winnable matches.

2016-10-26 05:55

W00T

im slow :(

Pls Dignitas atleast make it to the semis

WHY NEVER FIRST

SeemsGood

ez for DJ Kuntz

cant wait to faze beat c9 again

LUL

NICE GROUPS LUL

Good luck Na'Vi Kappa

Ez smithzz

ResidentSleeper

Digni 4 second win in a row, cmon !

ez for faze kapa

2016-10-25 20:31

gogo dignitas top1

Those are local times?

10 replies

It must be your region time

2016-10-25 20:33

9 replies

Jesus, games starting at 12:00, that thing is gonna turn into a giant oven

2016-10-25 20:34

8 replies

did you change your timezone? what do you mean with "giant oven"?

2016-10-25 20:36

No, it still the same. It might be hot as hell by that time, gonna have to put my NiP hoodie back on the wardrobe ahahahaha

2016-10-25 20:38

so?

whats your point? im just saying that it might be warm, thats it

2016-10-25 20:40

Dont you have conditioners in Brazil?

Yeah, but i dont think theres such a thing inside the gymnasium

Hahahahaha omg dude of course there is...

2016-10-25 22:34

I dont even live in São Paulo so i dont have any idea about how the gymnasium is

2016-10-25 23:22

Stupid people still hunting for top comments, your dreams are gonna be crushed when admins delete your comments.... <3 OT: This is gonna be FaZe+SK event :)

The prizepool is 580k$, not 600k$(when you add the prizes for spots from 1st to 11th), the 20k$ from 12th need to be added to the prizepool or given to charity.

....

Dignitas' road to top1 go get 'em Rubino and Danes... !

2016-10-25 20:32

Hoping for a Dignitas vs SK final =)

2016-10-25 20:35

grand final is a bo5, isn't it? How the hell are they supposed to play a bo3 and bo5 on the same fking day?

no vp no viewers xD

that's not true, like at all.

2016-10-25 22:36

I want Dig vs SK on finals or semis but in my prediction they wont reach semis :( sad

WHY THE FUCK YNK AGAIN?? Why does he have to ATTEND every fucking event. jesus christ. also group b is so fucking rigged. mouse again so fucking lucky with the easiest group ever.

hope the crowd will be loud and not act like retards with dabbing etc.

2016-10-25 20:42

There will be dab, thats for sure ...

it gives me a cancer, but i hope cameraman will find some hot chicks in the crowd xd

2016-10-25 20:55

In brazil they dunno what is dab.

2016-10-25 21:20

in brazil dab is called tey

2016-10-26 00:18

Great times, I'm surprised actually.

2016-10-25 20:48

Go go NiP, out of groups this time

two highest ranked teams placed in same group they should have adjusted groups after fnatic exit

2016-10-25 20:58

Because fanatic was so good lately ??? They had one more win than the 3rd and 4th placed Team in Eu and the same total as NIP.

2016-10-25 21:03

Group A: 1 MOUSZ , 2 imortals, 3 Liquid/Optik Group B: 1 Dig , 2 Sk , 3 Nip/Faze Btw group a its A joke compared with group B..

poor Jason "moses" O'Toole he is nothing LUL

ez 4 Nip

2016-10-25 21:35

Host girl is nice =p instagram.com/beatrizbauer1/

group A is a real joke btw. and again semis and grand final in the same day :/ also, talent is really poor... not even a "budget anders"

2016-10-25 22:15

You guys will be impressed how cheerful brazilian crowd can be :)

i hope so! it's pretty cool to hear a loud crowd on the stream. although i do hope you will cheer for everyone, not just your home team. :)

2016-10-25 22:38

I'm pretty sure they will, not when the teams are playing against brazil ofc but that's a normal thing... like we see in Poland when VP is playing. But they will cheer every game, especially for popular teams like Nip and envyus

2016-10-26 03:42

Invite g3x problem fixed

2016-10-25 23:07

Eh I just like a loud packed crowd

2016-10-25 23:13

thanks for the good articles like this. it's amazing that you convert timezones and list every match.

2016-10-26 00:03

ez virtus pro edit: top 1

2016-10-26 00:04

21:50 sk vs nip 00:10 nip vs dignitas 2x matches on higl lvl rest full tier2 clown fiesta get rekt ESL i want belive for less than 20k ppl on stream btw forgot menition this 4x teams will be play in final gogog dignitas or nip

2016-10-26 00:25

Friday, October 28th 21:00 SK vs. NRG 21:00 Cloud9 vs. dignitas 21:00 NiP vs. FaZe lol

2016-10-26 00:28

WHERE IS PANSY?!???????????????????? ................... WE NEED HER !!! SHE IS THE BEST !!!

2016-10-26 09:37

why are all events using the round-robin system? this sucks. this is why i don't watch group stages anymore

2016-10-26 10:24

one tier1 team (dignitas) two tier2 teams (nip and sk) and all tier5 teams = tier5 team event i`m gonna pass on watching any match. tchuss

2016-10-26 11:03

Inb4 pro cs players get robbed at gunpoint.

2016-10-26 11:20

no vp so not gonna waste my time with this low event

2016-10-26 15:08

Ez VP Oh wait... Ez Na'Vi! Kappa

2016-10-26 15:44

This ain't even worth watching LUL

2016-10-26 15:56

How can there be only 2 quarterfinals ?

2016-10-28 14:25

How come Norway has no reading sessions in schools "Teams who place first in their group will advance directly to semi-finals, while second placed teams will play third placed teams from the other group in the quarter-finals"

2016-10-28 18:55