Groups for EPL S7 Finals revealed

The groups for the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals have been determined.

The Verizon Theatre in Dallas, Texas, USA will host the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals on May 14-20. 16 teams will partake in the tournament which will have a $750,000 prize pool. The winners will take home $250,000 while the runners-up earn $110,000.

The event will have two double-elimination groups, each of which will hand out three spots in the playoffs. The upper-bracket winners will advance to the semi-final while upper-bracket runners-up and lower-bracket winners move on to the quarter-finals.

s1mple & company will face tough opponents in the group stage

MOUZ, FaZe, and Natus Vincere have been drawn into the same group while Astralis, SK, and Liquid are set to compete in the other group. The last slot in Group Yellow will be handed out in the ESL Latin America League Season 1 Finals between FURIA and Sharks.

Here is the full group draw:

Group Yellow Group Red
Europe MOUZ North America Liquid
Ukraine Natus Vincere Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas
United States NRG Denmark OpTic
Europe FaZe Turkey Space Soldiers
United States Cloud9 Australia Renegades
Europe HellRaisers Denmark Astralis
Korea MVP PK Brazil SK
Other South America slot Australia Grayhound
#1
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United Kingdom __JB
Ez 4 nip
2018-04-30 09:37
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2 replies
+1
2018-05-01 01:03
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#112
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Australia niaouli1998
+1
2018-05-01 04:42
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Ez for Optic
2018-04-30 09:37
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5 replies
#25
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France BaguetteHD
ez 4 MAJ3R
2018-04-30 09:43
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2 replies
Maj3r : The closet Baguette
2018-04-30 09:46
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1 reply
#52
Faceit level 10  | 
isa | 
Sweden RRosenberg
Maj3r=Kebab Baguette
2018-04-30 10:17
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Optic vs Astralis inc
2018-04-30 10:21
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#59
STYKO | 
Germany _PH1L
Hopefully not ...
2018-04-30 10:38
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tq hltv
2018-04-30 09:37
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lool balanced
2018-04-30 09:37
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21 replies
actually it is
2018-04-30 09:41
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1 reply
+1
2018-04-30 09:45
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+1 It's a damn accurate and balanced list from ESL!
2018-04-30 09:44
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18 replies
Actually Group 1 is far better, Navi, C9, Mouz and FaZe are actually four Top 5 teams in one Group
2018-04-30 10:35
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17 replies
#65
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Albania Mamluku
yeah group red is kinda underwhelmimg. the only really good teams are liquid and astralis
2018-04-30 11:09
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7 replies
NiP can play good tournaments as well
2018-04-30 11:13
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6 replies
#78
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Albania Mamluku
yeah they can. but not in par with astralis and liquid
2018-04-30 12:09
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5 replies
who made it out of the groups last tournament?
2018-04-30 17:43
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4 replies
#98
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Albania Mamluku
who has won more matches last 3 months?
2018-04-30 18:33
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3 replies
NIP has barely played any lol. Nip > liquid 100% hltv fake rankings can’t deal w it tho
2018-04-30 18:34
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2 replies
#100
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Albania Mamluku
ok. by barely u mean ecs and esl matches right?
2018-04-30 18:42
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1 reply
Lol going by online results they’re better than Astralis who are world number one. Also they’re worse than envyus. So I guess envy is #1
2018-04-30 22:08
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#94
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Puls3 | 
World bigb1rd
Not sure C9 are top 5 right now. I'd put Astralis and fnatic above them and liquid pretty much even. Yellow group is a bit stronger but Astralis just beat half the teams in it to win a tournie, SK are always dangerous and NiP and Liquid can beat any team on a good day.
2018-04-30 16:35
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8 replies
C9 is the best team worldwide atm
2018-04-30 18:19
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7 replies
#103
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Denmark Jeffersond
0/8
2018-04-30 20:28
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5 replies
Who won the major?
2018-04-30 22:09
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4 replies
#107
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Denmark Jeffersond
even more 0/8
2018-04-30 22:58
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#114
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Denmark Jeffersond
HahahHahahahahuehuehuehihi Tyloo 2:0 Get shit on :b
2018-05-01 16:50
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2 replies
c9 2 - 1 faze eleague major 2018 hmmmm :thinking:
2018-05-01 22:35
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1 reply
#118
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Denmark Jeffersond
0/8
2018-05-02 15:16
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+1
2018-04-30 22:09
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#5
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Germany Supriiime
NiP and Astralis!
2018-04-30 09:37
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1 reply
#18
Faceit premium user Faceit level 5  | 
REZ | 
Sweden Squtzy
Worth watching!! #GONINJAS
2018-04-30 09:39
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#6
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Netherlands Bryantjes
spicy
2018-04-30 09:37
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Astralis
2018-04-30 09:38
0
ez s1mple
2018-04-30 09:38
0
#10
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United States ViKaLiBuR
3rd
2018-04-30 09:38
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Ez4Ast
2018-04-30 09:38
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Mvp in yellow. Lul Actually that's racist take the joke back
2018-04-30 09:38
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2 replies
#44
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Netherlands Reolroer
LUL
2018-04-30 10:00
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And all the red flags (exepct USA) are in red group :D
2018-04-30 10:18
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#13
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Bulgaria BlindBG11
Why Yellow and Red? lol
2018-04-30 09:38
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4 replies
#22
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Turkey BenjaCS
This is done to give themselves the option to name the groups 'A' and 'B' later. If they call them A and B now, they can't change it later.
2018-04-30 09:42
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3 replies
Why can't ya just say red or blue/black and white smh
2018-04-30 10:01
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2 replies
#49
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Turkey BenjaCS
The color choice is weird, I gotta admit
2018-04-30 10:09
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1 reply
#62
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Turkey thcnkpln
Oha türk mod mu varmış lan
2018-04-30 10:54
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Gg ez
2018-04-30 09:38
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#16
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Denmark Takob
nice
2018-04-30 09:38
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#17
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United States Kalihi_
EZ for South American Slot
2018-04-30 09:38
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1 reply
#70
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Spain Nagardien
+1
2018-04-30 11:21
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#19
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Palestine MrZoldiK
Navi + cloud9 + faze + mouz loool
2018-04-30 09:39
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7 replies
cloud9 top team OMEGALUL
2018-04-30 09:42
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6 replies
#27
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Palestine MrZoldiK
Hard to judge...
2018-04-30 09:43
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4 replies
groups are somewhat balanced imo.
2018-04-30 09:44
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3 replies
#34
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Palestine MrZoldiK
Tbh Liquid + cloud9 + sk are the only teams in America that could compete in world class cs go .. in the other side in Europe there is .. Faze + Astrails + Navi + mouz + nip + ... And more ... So imo the groups is not that much balanced but you can't get a lot better ...
2018-04-30 09:48
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2 replies
Yeah ,EU EPL is much more stacked compared to NA EPL.
2018-04-30 09:49
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1 reply
#37
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Palestine MrZoldiK
+1
2018-04-30 09:50
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#28
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Palestine MrZoldiK
Ultra instictolul
2018-04-30 09:43
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EZ furia
2018-04-30 09:40
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#21
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Sf | 
Turkmenistan Autista
putting the asian team in group yellow is racist
2018-04-30 09:40
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3 replies
#41
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Finland k6s
saying that is racist is racist
2018-04-30 09:56
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2 replies
#42
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Sf | 
Turkmenistan Autista
saying that is racist is racist is racist
2018-04-30 09:58
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1 reply
#45
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Finland k6s
saying that is racist is racist is racist is racist
2018-04-30 10:00
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group yellow 4x > red
2018-04-30 09:42
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#31
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Turkey nihat_7
Ez for pazzTares and ez for SS
2018-04-30 09:45
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#36
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Slovakia AdorrioN
lmao such an unbalanced groups, too ez 4 Astralis
2018-04-30 09:49
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#38
Xyp9x | 
Germany l9nkz
group red astralis, NiP, Liquid group yellow mouz, faze, navi easiest prediction of my life maybe some upsets but we will see.
2018-04-30 09:50
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1 reply
#43
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Other Phinks
Don’t think so. I expect alot of upsets so it will get dicy.
2018-04-30 09:59
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Nip will win
2018-04-30 09:51
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3 replies
ehhhhh no
2018-04-30 14:32
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2 replies
Watch and see my frend
2018-05-01 01:49
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1 reply
I would like nip to win, but i dont think it will happen
2018-05-01 05:12
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#40
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Argentina ZaraLarsson
group A: mOUZ, FaZe, FURIA Group b: SK , Astralis, NiP
2018-04-30 09:56
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1 reply
No
2018-04-30 10:04
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#47
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Finland k6s
will it be swiss?
2018-04-30 10:02
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3 replies
#50
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Turkey BenjaCS
Second paragraph explains the group stage format.
2018-04-30 10:10
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1 reply
#89
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Finland k6s
Thanks, missed it somehow
2018-04-30 14:18
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double elimination with seeding for the playoffs
2018-04-30 10:22
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ez semi for Na'Vi
2018-04-30 10:13
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"Navi face Hard opponents" new c9, faze shit, Nrg, Hellraisers, mvp pk and some South American team. Seems very hard lol
2018-04-30 10:18
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#57
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Australia RaginStarZ
why red and yellow?
2018-04-30 10:30
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2EZ4XANTARESANDSS
2018-04-30 10:46
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This event is gonna be lit for sure!!!
2018-04-30 10:51
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Rip SS
2018-04-30 10:56
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#64
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Brazil c4oX
Ez for FURIA kappa
2018-04-30 10:59
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Red Group slightly eaiser than yellow would say.
2018-04-30 11:10
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really nice experience pool for mvp pk
2018-04-30 11:11
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wow stacked event, gonna be awesome .
2018-04-30 11:18
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#71
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Spain Nagardien
Where's group blue?
2018-04-30 11:22
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#72
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Brazil beckergod
group red sk, astralis, nip/optic or liquid yellow cloud 9 navi and mouz
2018-04-30 11:26
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ez nrg
2018-04-30 11:30
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#74
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
jks | 
Europe Zajda
red so stacked, blue ez pz for favorits
2018-04-30 11:37
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#75
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Serbia MAESTRO55
GL to SK and Astralis!
2018-04-30 11:44
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I remember when gambit was invited to events :')
2018-04-30 12:07
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1 reply
esl doesn't invite directly into event, wild card was maximum they ever did
2018-04-30 13:42
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YYEEEEEESSS
2018-04-30 12:08
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Rip space soldiers. They are again in the hardest group
2018-04-30 12:12
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#80
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NiKo | 
Europe trey_
EZ FAZE
2018-04-30 12:14
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#81
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Sweden MrMans103
predictions group A: mouz, navi & faze group B: astralis, nip & liquid
2018-04-30 12:29
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Navi Mouse Faze. Astralis Nip Liquid.
2018-04-30 12:30
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wtf is this yellow/red groups? A or B/1 or 2 to much casual? or why not white/black?
2018-04-30 12:40
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1 reply
they are not racist , so that's why not white/black /closed
2018-05-02 12:43
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#84
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Austria I_love_Hltv
EZ for South American Slot
2018-04-30 12:52
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#85
rain | 
Slovakia F3ster
NRG win
2018-04-30 13:37
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#87
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Kazakhstan c1assic
Mvp pk EZ
2018-04-30 13:54
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#88
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Denmark Fjumse
s1mple just so Much Better than all the others. Ez MVP from home...
2018-04-30 14:00
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I hate this "16 team but only 6 playoff spots" format. The playoff series are what we actually want to see most...give us back our two more series back please
2018-04-30 14:19
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#92
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LeX | 
Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
1st Navi 2nd HR 3rd NRG
2018-04-30 15:16
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#93
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Denmark denDAY04
Up-front Group Yellow seems far more competitive than Group Red. But we shall see. Hopefully there will be good games in both.
2018-04-30 16:32
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#95
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Finland Vkims
Ez for natus vincere
2018-04-30 16:53
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#101
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Macau Never get tired
Yellow: 1. mousesports 2. Cloud9 3. Na`Vi Red: 1. SK 2. NiP 3. Liquid
2018-04-30 20:00
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1 reply
- SK +Astrails
2018-05-02 12:42
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#102
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Brazil BuddyINSANE
Let's go Brazil, we can do it! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm
2018-04-30 20:22
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#111
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Habib | 
Oceania Negroponty
nice
2018-05-01 03:36
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SpaceSoldieahahahhaha
2018-05-04 10:31
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#120
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Turkey srtn16
ez 200k dollar for spaceS
2018-05-04 14:22
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