StarSeries Season 3 viewer's guide

2-4-2017 13:56

With the SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 Finals starting on Tuesday, we have prepared a viewer's guide with the schedule, talent lineup, and prize distribution of the tournament.

Set to kick off on Tuesday, the SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 Finals will run through April 4-9 at the Palace "Ukraine" in Kiev, where the second season of StarSeries took place.

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

Sixteen teams will face-off in a Swiss group stage. The eight best teams after the group stages will play a single elimination bracket playoff for the lion's share of the $300,000 prize pool.

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

The pairings for the first round of matches, the only one known in the Swiss system, were made after seeding teams into four pools. Pools 1 & 2, which featured invited teams, and pools 3 & 4, which featured teams who made it through qualifiers.

Tuesday, April 4th
10:00	North	vs.	Immortals	BO1
11:30	Virtus.pro	vs.	MVP Project	BO1
13:00	SK	vs.	TYLOO	BO1
14:30	Astralis	vs.	CLG	BO1
16:00	FaZe	vs.	HellRaisers	BO1
17:30	Gambit	vs.	fnatic	BO1
19:00	Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs.	G2	BO1
20:30	Natus Vincere	vs.	UYA	BO1

Wednesday, April 5th
10:00	Round 2 - Match #1			BO1
11:30	Round 2 - Match #2			BO1
13:00	Round 2 - Match #3			BO1
14:30	Round 2 - Match #4			BO1
16:00	Round 2 - Match #5			BO1
17:30	Round 2 - Match #6			BO1
19:00	Round 2 - Match #7			BO1
20:30	Round 2 - Match #8			BO1

Thursday, April 6th
10:00	Round 3 - Match #1			BO1
11:30	Round 3 - Match #2			BO1
13:00	Round 3 - Match #3			BO1
14:30	Round 3 - Match #4			BO1
16:00	Round 3 - Match #5			BO1
17:30	Round 3 - Match #6			BO1
19:00	Round 3 - Match #7			BO1
20:30	Round 3 - Match #8			BO1

Friday, April 7th
08:00	Round 4 - Match #1			BO1
09:30	Round 4 - Match #2			BO1
11:00	Round 4 - Match #3			BO1
12:30	Round 4 - Match #4			BO1
14:00	Round 4 - Match #5			BO1
15:30	Round 4 - Match #6			BO1
17:00	Round 5 - Match #1			BO1
18:30	Round 5 - Match #2			BO1
20:00	Round 5 - Match #3			BO1

Saturday, April 8th
09:00	Quarter-final #1			BO3
12:00	Quarter-final #2			BO3
15:00	Quarter-final #3			BO3
18:00	Quarter-final #4			BO3

Sunday, April 9th
11:00	Semi-final #1			BO3
14:30	Semi-final #2			BO3
18:00	Grand final			BO3

To break down the action in Kiev, here is the talent lineup, including the desk as well as the play-by-play commentators:

Alex "Machine" Richardson – Desk Host

Duncan "Thorin" Shields – Analyst
Jason "moses" O'Toole – Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunović – Analyst

Anders Blume – Commentator
Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat – Commentator
Henry "HenryG" Greer – Commentator
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett – Commentator
Tom "TomBizz" Bissmire – Commentator

The distribution for the $300,000 pool is 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

very nice tournament im hyped

2017-04-02 13:56

incredible

nice

2017-04-02 13:57

Ez Astralis

Ez for Navi

2017-04-02 13:58

My body is ready

2017-04-02 13:59

Ez4 astralis And this format is shit.

2017-04-02 14:00

4 replies

its the exact same format that was used at the EL Major

2017-04-02 14:05

2 replies

And?

2017-04-02 21:42

1 reply

look at the guy's flag

2017-04-03 05:54

this format looks best tbh, might be even better than bo3 groups

2017-04-02 14:26

UYA? nvm, didnt realise they changed.

2017-04-02 14:01

interesting to see how these asian teams do probably all get rekt. TyLoo can maybe win a map

g2 gonna win it

2017-04-02 14:06

navi/sk pool1, faze pool2 kek

2017-04-02 14:07

bcuz it's Starladder NaVi will win this

2017-04-03 05:52

i highly doubt :D

2017-04-03 10:43

I dont know

2017-04-02 14:09

looks good, ez Astralis

2017-04-02 14:10

ez4mvp

2017-04-02 14:12

UYA? wtf is dis?

2017-04-02 14:14

5power's new org

2017-04-02 14:18

hltv.org/news/20092-5power-and-tree9-mer..

2017-04-03 10:12

Seminfinals and final on the same day????

2017-04-02 14:17

going to be a nice event if they don't fuck up with production

season 2 was run pretty smoothly, season 3 should be fine as well

2017-04-02 15:14

bye sk

2017-04-02 14:21

that pool 1 is bullshit

3 replies

they wont play eachother its not a group but a pool lol

2017-04-02 14:24

i know, thats why im saying it "lol"

2017-04-02 15:58

because its like top 4 teams in the world have easy way to playoff

who the fuck is tombizz?

NiP pool 2? good one.

2017-04-02 14:25

10 replies

Use brain hater. All invited teams are pool 1-2, the qualified teams are pool 3-4. And b4 you say shit, NIP was invited since they won the last starladder (with lele) so it makes perfect sense.

2017-04-02 15:45

9 replies

hater? fanboi pls. would make more sense inviting an actual good team instead of NiP who hasnt shown anything, invite status worthy result, for a long long time now. But ofc they invite them cause of the fanbase and cause they are terrible in qualifiers lol.

2017-04-02 17:36

8 replies

So you are yet an other hltv kid totally oblivious to the concept of reigning champion. So sad that you in your NIP hate can't even see reason and think like a normal person.

2017-04-02 17:49

7 replies

NiP hate? the team is dogshit now. Why would I hate that? lmao and by the looks of it they wont win anything major for a long time to come. SeemsGood. Regarding your "concept".I want to see the best teams compete. Not a terrible extinct team get special treatment because they have a lot of fankids and won stuff years ago.

2017-04-02 17:58

6 replies

you're really retarded.. they won the last star series tournament, ofc they get an invite to the next is it so hard to comprehend?

2017-04-03 16:17

why are u jumping in trying to act clever? where do I state I dont get why they are invited? expected from "<3 Niko" lmao.

2017-04-03 16:21

done talking with a brain dead cya

2017-04-03 16:32

atta boi. off with ya

2017-04-03 16:33

All of the top teams are competing... who would you rather see

2017-04-04 09:16

top team NiP n1 :D

2017-04-04 09:29

It sucks that in playoffs we will have to hear the ruski commentator :(

2017-04-02 14:27

why

2017-04-02 14:43

rip pool 1

2017-04-02 14:28

no adren no party

2017-04-02 14:30

Janko yeeeeey ResidentSleeper

2017-04-02 14:36

Smells like a good tournament

2017-04-02 14:50

it looks like it's classed by team tier

2017-04-02 14:59

Finally some good clock times <3

2017-04-02 15:15

HYPE

2017-04-02 15:23

atlast swiss format has been usefull in many ways, so many matches and good for both teams and viewers

2017-04-02 15:34

This'll be such a good tournament, a shame that NiP is already the clear winner. #NiPMAGIC

Pretty good timezone for Asia

2017-04-02 16:03

FK YES FINALLY THE TIMINGS ARE GOOD FOR ME <3 Don't have to stay up till 2am just for the first match :D

2017-04-02 16:05

FeelsGoodMan?

2017-04-02 21:04

and i just got rekt, its like 5 AM here, and i got to work at 6 AM (brazil)

2017-04-03 16:05

Gonna be awesome

2017-04-02 16:20

will be nice see G2 first Lan with this Lineup

2017-04-02 16:26

Pool 0ne = Pool of Death

2017-04-02 16:38

I think you guys mixed up UYA and 5POWER

2017-04-02 16:44

Looking forward to it. Will do predictions at some point.

2017-04-02 17:01

UYA - 5Power

Pool 4 rigged so at least one asian team gets out smh starladder

2017-04-02 17:57

no round robin/bo5 - no thrill (at least no bo3 for the deciders) also who's the asshole that put pool 4 against pool 1? it's like ants against gods.

2017-04-02 18:36

Four days of BO1, boring, see you in the play off.

2017-04-02 19:48

can't wait

2017-04-02 20:57

5power are so rip

2017-04-02 23:13

Nip above fnatic PogChamp

2017-04-03 00:39

2017-04-03 07:17

fak, so much interesting matches to watch, but even the finals will be played whole day /WTF

2017-04-04 13:17

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