StarSeries S3 Finals seeding revealed

29-3-2017 18:00

The seeding and the first pairings of the swiss system group stages at SL i-League StarSeries Season 3, which is due to kick off in Kiev next week, have been revealed.

The teams attending the LAN finals, which will take place at the Palace "Ukraina" In Kiev on April 4-9, have been divided into four pools, with the teams from the first and fourth pools playing each other, and the teams from the second and third doing the same.

Pool 1	Pool 2	Pool 3	Pool 4
Natus Vincere	North	fnatic	CLG
Astralis	Gambit	G2	5POWER
Virtus.pro	FaZe	HellRaisers	TYLOO
SK	Ninjas in Pyjamas	Immortals	MVP Project

With the teams in Pools 1 and 2 being invited, and the teams in Pools 3 and 4 having made it through qualifiers, this means the invited teams will be playing teams who made it through the qualifiers in the first round of matches.

The Palace "Ukraina" will once again host the StarSeries finals

The tournament will then continue with teams with the same record facing each other until the final eight teams are left standing. The first match-ups are:

Astralis	vs. CLG
Virtus.pro	vs. MVP Project
SK	vs. TYLOO
Natus Vincere	vs. 5POWER
Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs. G2
North	vs. Immortals
FaZe	vs. HellRaisers
Gambit	vs. fnatic

The last eight teams will then go on to play a single elimination best-of-three playoff for the lion’s share of $300,000, which will be distributed as follows:

1. - $125,000
2. - $50,000
3-4. - $25,000
5-8. - $10,000
9-11. - $6,000
12-14. - $4,000
15-16. - $2,500

Ez for NiP imo

2017-03-29 18:01

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can be hard tho, faze and gambit are kings of bo1 lol

2017-03-30 00:25

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Agree, faze win 9/10 bo1 in tournament's

2017-03-30 14:45

Nice

2017-03-29 18:00

TYLOO GO ahahahha not rigged tournament, always tyloo vs sk everytime, seems legit

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~Suddenly, DH Masters Malmo memories come to your mind~

2017-03-29 18:11

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I dont mean that sk is a huge team, its just the fact that its always tyloo vs sk first map, never tyloo vs clg or some low team like that :P Tyloo win easy with zhoking

2017-03-29 18:14

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thats because of the seeding pools logically pool #1 have priority over others so they get weaker oponents. what im not getting here is how they distributed teams on pools since nip won last season

2017-03-29 18:24

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Probably by HLTV rankings.

2017-03-29 18:47

All pools distribution is made on the start of the season (right after major), using power rankings on that moment. 1-2 pool is filled by invited teams, 3rd and 4th by qualified.

2017-03-29 19:05

The 1st and 2nd pools are filled with invited teams, 3rd and 4th with qualifying teams. When they see NiP, they were like "nah they won't win this season they sucks lol" but they have to invite them since they are the winner last year so they put them on the last on the second pool. See the huge Kappa there.

2017-03-30 09:32

rip mvp project

Rip vp

2017-03-29 18:03

yes

ez 4 tyloo

POOL 4 LUL

top tier cs teams only allowed in it.

2017-03-29 18:08

two chinese, 1 na

2017-03-30 00:39

well thats what im telling you about,top tier...look at those godlike stats from tyloo...ez win

2017-03-30 00:40

no NA = top tier thats what I mean

2017-03-30 00:51

...nah,na is the best mate.

2017-03-30 00:52

lol

I thought these we the groups and i was like man what the fuck

Same i thought it was sk navi astralis and vp playing each other in a group and i was like you got to be joking xD

2017-03-29 18:04

i did too before reading lol i almost freaked out! :D

2017-03-31 12:30

pool 4 :D

Pool 4 WTF EDIT: OK pool 3 and 4 is a joke

what do you mean

its pools, not groups.. they're seeded 1-4 its not group 4 that is shit

ye I didn't read all of it first i just looked at the pools and assumed they were groups :)

2017-03-30 01:50

RIP VP

Pool 1 Pool of Death PogChamp

The 4th pool tho

Ez for TempoStorm

Wtf is pool 1

? the 3 best teams plus Navi? what is bad about pool 1? the only team that would deserve pool 1 more would be Faze IMO

2017-03-29 18:58

sry i missunderstand it i thought it were groups an they have to face each other

2017-03-29 18:59

What is the pool 4 .-.

Group 1 vs group 4... group 4 has no chance... nice seeding :<

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thats not groups

2017-03-29 18:10

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Can you read? Lul, group 1 is matched vs group 4. Look at the group 1. Look at the group 4. How is CLG or MVP supposed to win with the likes of Astralis, VP, SK, Navi? Top kek...

2017-03-29 19:40

nvm xD

2017-03-29 20:28

They are not, the worst teams should face the best teams. Why should crappy teams get easy match ups? They don't deserv a free pass. The best 8 teams should end up in playoffs, and no team in pool 4 deserves to be there!

2017-03-29 21:55

I bet VP and Na'Vi would lose to NiP, g2, Fnatic, or even Gambit. But despite their low form, it's almost impossible for t5 teams to upset VP and Na'Vi. Teams from group 2 and 3 would have a high chance of upset against every team from group 1. But it looks like organisers really want teams with the biggest fanbases in playoffs... like... 5power? MVP project? TyLoo without their best player? CLG...? No upset potential at all. And that's why group stages are usually so boring.

2017-03-29 23:13

But it's not a group stage, it's a Swiss format. That is just the first match, after that teams with the same record faces each other. So good teams will play good teams and bad teams will play bad team already in the second game.

2017-03-30 00:14

Oh.... so in the end it's not so retarded :D

2017-03-30 07:14

can you read? group 1 only plays group 4 for the first round and then you play against whoever has the same win-loss record as you for the rest of the swiss system group stage

2017-03-30 00:30

VP,Astralis/FaZe,Gambit/Fnatic,G2/CLG,TyLoo Anyways, Pool 4 is retarded

navi > faze, north LUL

wow thats insane, NiP vs G2

g2 unlucky :/

2017-03-29 18:02

rofl, they'll smash nip

2017-03-29 18:15

Yeah top tier G2 can't even win an online game xD

2017-03-29 18:17

Don't think so. NIP in honeymoon period with draken, while G2 struggling to get some kind of form.

2017-03-29 18:18

G2 are in form now, they have like a 6 game winning streak or something

2017-03-31 15:51

Ez4ez

ez for fnx.NTC.. didico of csgo !!

Ez 4 Brazil

Pool 1 vs Pool 3 and Pool 2 vs Pool 4 is the way it should have been for closer games if you wanted invited teams to meet qualified.

We are using slaughters pairs method, same as was used on Major, where #1 meets #4 and #2 meets #3.

2017-03-29 18:05

Noice

group 4 lmaooo

it's not a group dude

2017-03-29 18:25

Good format

again fnatic vs Gambit omggg

loool NavI pool 1 FaZe pool 2 ahhahah fucking Ukraine

2017-03-29 18:06

thought the same

2017-03-29 18:29

Retarded? These are not the groups.. can you even read?

2017-03-29 22:47

Group 4 is just unreal

2017-03-29 18:07

he cant read expected from brazil

no bntet feelsbadman

I like this seeding system, seems everything fair

2017-03-29 18:09

Event in Ukraine ---- NaVi vs random chinese team

SK vs. TyLoo byebye favelas

Pool 1 lol, this is way too crowded.

NiP vs G2 meanwhile Virtus Pro vs MVP. lol

2017-03-29 18:12

legit pool hahahah

2017-03-29 18:13

Didn't know they were doing Swiss groups, looking forward to it. This slightly favours teams who have smaller map pools as there's no Bo3's, so don't be surprised if there's a few unlikely teams who get hot quickly and get out of groups.

1st match winners Astralis (ez top 1) Virtus.pro (plow too strong for kpop) Project SK (no BnTeT, no win) Natus Vincere (who tf are 5POWER?) NiP (2ez4draken) Immortals (fnx gonna school some noobs) FaZe (GOD allu) fnatic (ez aimlock)

5POWER is the team that beat eFuture.dk and another good chinese team I think.

2017-03-29 18:16

that was TyLoo, but still ez for Na'Vi when Na'Vi got upset last StarSeries, we already knew about TyLoo and their infamous upset soo yeah

Yeah I know bo1 ez for NaVi

especially Swiss, twice they've gone 3-0 now

2017-03-29 18:27

No fnatic, Fnatic are bots

2017-03-30 12:42

pool 1 should've been sk-astralis-vp-north/faze navi pool 2 and nip pool 3 Only place navi would've got pool 1 is in, wait, Ukraine. Fuc*ing biased!

1 and 2 pools were formed according to power rankings on the start of the season (Right after the Major). Na'Vi was much more stronger on that moment than FaZe or North.

2017-03-29 18:21

ty panda

Oh, that makes sense then. Ty

2017-03-29 22:50

hmm your explanation makes no sense! invites to S3 were revealed Feb 22nd, and at that time Navi was 5th, ranked below Astralis, VP, SK and North (No way Navi is pool 1) Now you're saying that the seedings were done after the major (I'm assuming Eleague major that ended in Jan 29th). In the rankings released on Jan 30th Navi was ranked 9th, below Faze, North and even NIP and Fnatic) No fuc**ing way Navi is pool 1. Can we just say that it's chouvinistic bias?!?!

2017-03-30 17:44

Invites were figured out and confirmed on 14th of February. If you will check rankings (which was not the main rating source) on 13th of February, you will find answer.

2017-03-30 18:55

Agree 100%, even Fnatic deserves a seed 2 more then NiP atm. And either North or FaZe a seed 1 over Na'Vi.

2017-03-29 22:49

2017-03-29 18:19

The tournament will then continue with teams with the same record facing each other until the final eight teams are left standing. is a Swiss system in place then?

2017-03-29 18:26

For easier introduction of this system you can check this image: static.hltv.org/images/galleries/1693-fu..

2017-03-29 18:28

okay so it's a Swiss system. ty very much

Pool 1 SUPER TIER 1 Pool 2 Tier 1/2 Pool 3 Tier 2 and G2 Tier 5 Pool 4 Tier 50000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

NaVi SUPER TIER 1 I aren't think that (im a navi fan that's painful)

2017-04-03 19:43

Is this rigged? Pool 4 teams are just awful compared to the other teams, basically pool 1 teams start with 1 free win :p.

thats the point of a seeded swiss system

Well, last tournament VP and Na'Vi lose to chinese teams. It is best of one, everything can happen :D

thats the point

It's not groups, its pool. 1 best teams 4 worst teams. 1 group consists of 4 teams 1 from each pool

2017-03-29 18:51

RIGGED

Na`Vi Pool 1 LMAO group stage warrios

2017-03-29 18:30

too bad sk isn't even group stage warriors and gonna out before quarters just like they did last time

2017-03-29 18:41

I know the truth hurts a bit :) How many majors does Navi have? How many second places? How many tournaments top 4? in big events :)) sorry bro :)

2017-03-29 21:59

Majors is the only one thing what you can put in question

2017-04-02 23:25

tyloo sk once more

2017-03-29 18:35

hltv reading comprehension xdd

2017-03-29 18:55

Just too ez 4 G2

2017-03-29 18:56

good luck Virtus.Plow! :)

this just shows how special people on hltv are... they cant understand a basic bracket system broken into pools. realize your a idiot and learn to not be one.

2017-03-29 19:08

First 4 matcches will be 99 % on betting sites

Na'Vi in 1st pool? LOL XD

ikr at least faze should be instead of them

2017-03-29 20:01

2017-03-29 21:52

Im really scared for VP when they play asian teams xD More scared than when they play Astralis or SK lol.

2017-03-29 19:36

Pool 1 is comprised of the current top teams, Lol.

2017-03-29 19:42

1. 5POWER 2. MVP Project 3. Tyloo 4. CLG 5. HellRaisers 6. Immortals 7. NiP 8. G2 Ez tournament

2017-03-29 19:44

Nip vs G2 <3 I bet Astralis and FaZe goes in playoff without a loss. First turn: Astralis Virtus.pro SK Natus Vincere G2 North FaZe Gambit

2017-03-29 20:07

First turn: Astralis Virtus.pro SK Na'Vi G2 IMM FaZe Fnatic

2017-03-29 20:26

too ez 4 5POWER

What the fuck is up with pool 1 & 4 !? O_O

2017-03-29 21:07

ez for VP and G2.

2017-03-29 21:14

You see 800k grand prize means everything to anyone. However, Starseries is more organized & classy.

2017-03-29 21:48

North > Na'Vi

2017-03-29 22:46

Fixed. All the china teams and the only US team in 1 group. How many times is this going to happen until someone important grows a brain..

2017-03-29 23:08

RIP CLG

2017-03-29 23:09

RIP NIP !!!

2017-03-29 23:25

What in the fuck is pool 4.

2017-03-29 23:52

This comment section is so filled with AIDS that I might get infected by writing this... JUST FUCKING READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE

2017-03-30 00:35

EZ FOR SK

2017-03-30 02:01

RIP pool 4 lmao

2017-03-30 03:10

Astralis Virtus.pro SK Natus Vincere G2 Immortals HellRaisers fnatic

2017-03-30 09:18

Hellraisers and G2 rly??? Maybe Gambit and North

2017-03-30 12:40

maybe not

2017-03-30 12:44

HR ez

2017-03-31 17:08

rip tyloo

2017-03-30 10:41

Its Kyiv.

2017-03-30 12:09

GAMBIT GOOOOO!!!!

2017-03-30 12:38

NiP easy matchup as always.. kappa.

what the hell are these pools....

2017-03-30 16:57

NA if you dont pass group now you never will. RIP NAVI. Fnatic you lucky bastards. Gambit and Faze should go on in their group.

2017-03-30 17:21

lol, faze and gambit are both kings of bo1. I think they will advance to the playoffs without big problems

2017-03-30 19:07

yeah even i want NIP go first (even i am from Serbia XD ) reality is reality...

2017-03-30 19:38

Pool4 = tier4 teams

2017-03-30 17:29

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