ECS Season 4 Finals viewer's guide

13-12-2017 16:30

As the kick-off date for the ECS Season 4 Finals draws near, we have prepared a viewer's guide which contains the groups, schedule, talent lineup and more.

The ECS Season 4 Finals will take place in Cancun, Mexico from December 15-17. The last big event of the year, it will feature four teams from North America and four from Europe, who will compete for their share of the $750,000 prize pool.

NiKo's FaZe will be in Cancun

The action will kick off with the group stage, featuring a GSL format. The opening and winners' matches will be best-of-ones, while the elimination and decider games will have a best-of-three format.

The groups are as follows:

Group A	Group B
fnatic	Cloud9
MOUZ	Liquid
OpTic	FaZe
Luminosity	Astralis

The top two teams from both groups will advance to the best-of-three, single-elimination playoffs, which will run on Sunday, December 17.

The full schedule can be found below:

Friday, December 15
16:15	fnatic	vs. Luminosity	BO1
17:30	OpTic	vs. MOUZ	BO1
18:45	Group A Winners' Match		BO1
20:00	Cloud9	vs. Astralis	BO1
21:15	FaZe	vs. Liquid	BO1
22:30	Group B Winners' Match		BO1

Saturday, December 16
15:15	Group A Elimination Match		BO3
18:15	Group B Elimination Match		BO3
21:15	Group A Decider Match		BO3
00:15	Group B Decider Match		BO3

Sunday, December 17
15:15	Semi-final #1		BO3
18:15	Semi-final #2		BO3
21:15	Grand Final		BO3

The complete talent lineup, headlined by Alex "Machine" Richardson as host and by former Cloud9 member Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert as an analyst, looks as follows:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Host

Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - Reporter

Jason "moses" O'Toole - Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunović - Analyst
Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert - Analyst
Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen - Analyst

James Bardolph - Commentator
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia - Commentator
Henry "HenryG" Greer - Commentator
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator

ez edit: first for the first time thanks mom and dad

2017-12-13 16:32

7 replies

Grats

3 replies

2017-12-13 16:33

1 reply

Wtf dud3

Heyy steal my scene

Ez 4 for sk

Hahahahaha xD

2017-12-13 17:59

Congratulations my son, I'm so proud of you! I always knew you were going to be something special. You are my special little gemstone. Son, I love you. Love, Dad

2017-12-13 20:24

Ahem

nice!

FUCK NAHUYS

LG x Faze FINAL

Tomara, parceiro

2017-12-15 14:51

Ez sk oh wait...

Group B THE GROUP Group A the other ones

ez mouz

wooow normal hours for EU and another tournamnet without Thorin !

fnatic mouz Faze Astralis

No device for Astralis though. C9 will probably make it instead.

2017-12-13 20:07

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Cloud9 chokers same with liquid dude XD

+1 Still it's Rubino, and not Dennis. EZ for C9, maybe.

2017-12-13 22:01

Its karrigans faze

EZ FOR CLAU9

2017-12-13 16:35

JORDAN

why pizza is allowed to... wait... OH FUCK EZ FOR MARKE

2017-12-13 16:37

lmao group a

Group A LUL tier2 teams

2017-12-13 16:38

Semi finalists at pro leauge finals, tier 2 LUL

2017-12-13 17:50

All in FaZe Clan

2017-12-13 16:40

group A group of bots group B group of death n1 logic

2017-12-13 16:42

This is the sedding ^^

2017-12-13 18:01

fnc optic faze c9

ez for SK lul

2017-12-13 16:48

Ez for cheio, the only man that can take the TOP1 spot from coldzera in the future.

Fnatic or c9 or even Astralis if Dennis goes good mode. FaZe will choke

2017-12-13 16:49

dennis wont play. it will be rubino

2017-12-13 20:52

Welp c9 faze final ig

2017-12-13 16:53

Matrousse on vacation again?

in mexico wtf. ez for drug mafia rigged torunament :D

2017-12-13 16:56

Ffs lurppis... Thank god for the mute button

2017-12-13 17:01

TIER 2 tournament

2017-12-13 17:04

Group A lul

2017-12-13 17:06

If faze loses this tourney they should disbnd

2017-12-13 17:08

nice tier 2 tournment

2017-12-13 17:09

Astralis really no chance using stand in. Even ifthey show up, you can't count a tournament with a stand in as a consistent result. So many upset possibilities: LG is now playing lans, and with the firepower of chelo they could get something good. Liquid now with steel, elige and twitz are already good fraggers imo, let's see how this plays out. Cloud9, after the roster moves I tough they would really improve but I'm not seeing very much of them. Hope they find good form. OpTic is very weird for me. All players are like "sometimes good, sometimes bad", now that mixwell is awping allu must be asking himself if this is what he wanted. FaZe, no doubt that they are good but if they want to show at least that they are top 2, they need to win this tournament. Fnatic is back to playing in stages, but they really need to keep up with consistent results. If they can get out of groups here, you could say that they're back in the game imo. Not much to say about mouse, after ESG I expect more from them but I'm not sure if this team can be also a consistent team.

2017-12-13 17:13

MORE THAN 3 LINES = BAN

2017-12-13 19:18

im really supporting Liquid and LG but.. FaZe gonna rekt everyone

2017-12-13 22:10

Group B is much harder rofl

2017-12-13 17:14

faze might win this time MIGHT

2017-12-13 17:19

2 best casting duos, hell yeah.No Moses,no Semmler, no Pansy, life's good.

2017-12-13 17:23

Ezzzzzzzz LG gogobois

2017-12-13 17:29

That lineup for the analyst desk looks amazing!

2017-12-13 17:34

#GO LG

2017-12-13 17:40

ez for SK

2017-12-13 17:41

EZ for SK

2017-12-13 19:19

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaardolph it s fucking LIT bois

Group A = LOL, group B GG! :) At least should've had Astralis and FaZe in separate groups...

2017-12-13 17:47

nice groups sort ! Faze - Astralis - C9

2017-12-13 18:02

ez for optic or mouz

2017-12-13 18:16

If only Richard Lewis and/or Thorin were here, this would've been the worst casting talent possible at an event

2017-12-13 18:17

The fuck are these groups? I guess they just went straight from online rankings, but shit someone should've looked at that and thought "hmmmm, this is fucked"

2017-12-13 18:28

Only a faze vs astralis final would have saved this

2017-12-13 19:11

This will be a pretty fun event Hopefully Faze manages to win it

2017-12-13 19:52

If they dont win this they need to disband

2017-12-13 20:54

If FNATIC has a good showing at the event, they could easily enter the the top 5. Especially since they have an easy group (hopefully no jinx) Norh aren't at the event, and they're just a few points away from Fnatic, just getting out of the groups would most likely be enough to pass them in the ranking. With a good showing (like getting to the final) they would most likely get to over 400 points and therefore pass G2 and C9 which is a top 5 for Fnatic. This would be a great ending of the year for Golden and the boys!

2017-12-13 22:03

I really love how fnatic is finally getting better again and moving back up the ranks!!! :D

2017-12-13 23:20

They will probably win their group but that doesn't make them top5 since none of the teams in their group is even top10, unless they win vs FaZe or win the tournament which is pretty unlikely since basically only C9 & FaZe and maybe fnatic or Astralis have a shot at winning this tournament

2017-12-14 00:26