ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals viewer's guide

13-5-2018 19:45

With the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals set to start on Tuesday, we have put together a viewer's guide with all the information you need regarding the event.

Held in Dallas, Texas, the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals will run on May 15-20 with 16 teams from around the globe battling it out for a share of the $750,000 prize-pool.

This will be the ninth event counting towards the Intel Grand Slam, which will award one million dollars to the first squad that wins four out of ten events. FaZe and SK lead the run with two victories, with Astralis and fnatic trailing by one.

SK won the sixth edition alongside TACO

Seven of the participants are from Europe, six from North America, two from Asia-Pacific and one from the Latin American region. Squads have been drawn into two groups of eight, as you can find below:

Group A	Group B
MOUZ	Liquid
Natus Vincere	Ninjas in Pyjamas
NRG	OpTic
FaZe	Space Soldiers
Cloud9	Renegades
HEROIC	Astralis
MVP PK	SK
Sharks	Grayhound

The tournament will kick off with a double-elimination group stage, with matches being best-of-three series after the first round. The teams who top their respective groups will advance directly to the semi-finals, while second and third-place finishers will have to go through the first round of playoffs, which will be held at the Verizon Theatre.

The full schedule looks as follows:

Tuesday, May 15
17:00	Cloud9	vs. FaZe	BO1
17:00	MOUZ	vs. Sharks	BO1
18:10	NRG	vs. HEROIC	BO1
18:10	MVP PK	vs. Natus Vincere	BO1
19:20	Liquid	vs. Grayhound	BO1
19:20	Space Soldiers	vs. Renegades	BO1
20:30	OpTic	vs. Astralis	BO1
20:30	SK	vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas	BO1
21:40	Group A Upper semi-final #1		BO3
21:40	Group A Lower match #1		BO3
01:10	Group A Upper semi-final #2		BO3
01:10	Group A Lower match #2		BO3

Wednesday, May 16
17:00	Group B Lower match #1		BO3
17:00	Group B Lower match #2		BO3
20:30	Group A Lower semi-final #1		BO3
20:30	Group B Upper semi-final #1		BO3
00:00	Group A Lower semi-final #2		BO3
00:00	Group B Upper semi-final #2		BO3

Thursday, May 17
17:00	Group B Lower semi-final #1		BO3
17:00	Group B Lower semi-final #2		BO3
20:30	Group A Upper Final		BO3
20:30	Group A Lower Final		BO3
00:00	Group B Upper Final		BO3
00:00	Group B Lower Final		BO3

Friday, May 18
19:00	Quarter-final #1		BO3
22:55	Quarter-final #2		BO3

Saturday, May 19
19:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
22:55	Semi-final #2		BO3

Sunday, May 20
20:00	Grand Final		BO5

The broadcast talent team features Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez as the tournament's host, while Tres "stunna" Saranthus will be conducting interviews. There will also be an analyst desk starring the likes of Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill and Janko "YNk" Paunović, as well as two pairs of commentators.

Here is how the full on-air team of the event looks like:

Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez - Host

Tres "stunna" Saranthus - Interviewer

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

Henry "HenryG" Greer - Commentator
Jason "Moses" O'Toole - Commentator
Harry "JustHarry" Russell - Commentator
Jordan "Elfishguy" Mays - Commentator

Lastly, here is how the $750,000 prize-pool will be distributed among the 16 teams:

1. $250,000
2. $110,000
3-4. $55,000
5-6. $32,000
7-8. $24,000
9-12. $22,000
13-16. $20,000

HYPE!

2018-05-13 19:45

12 replies

dafuq is "broken tag"

6 replies

Expected

2018-05-13 20:00

4 replies

Dude stop commenting on first comment for attention

2018-05-13 21:17

3 replies

2018-05-13 22:50

2 replies

I should stop commenting on first comment for attention

2018-05-14 02:49

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Dude stop commenting on first comment for attention!

2018-05-15 08:51

Nt medkit

2018-05-14 08:14

Yeet

Liquid ez no draw curse

2018-05-13 19:48

you guys better make it to the semi or i'll be pissed.

2018-05-13 19:52

Oh shit, c9 got the draw curse now! FaZe first... Check the bracket on ESL finals page... Ur fucked Hollly... If u win u play mouz then nrg/navi and if u lose u might have to play one of the two... NRG looking hot lately... Glgl

2018-05-13 19:55

Ik bro. Been like that since the major

nice

rip

Go NIP

2018-05-13 19:46

Hopefuly final this time lol

2018-05-13 20:10

Broken tag

Broken tag, feelsbadman

where is Sadokist?

Just wait til he goes 100%

2018-05-13 21:29

Is this going to be on Twitch or on Facebook?

9 replies

Facebook.

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Well, guess I will skip the Finals for the first time.

Russian stream or germany.

2018-05-13 19:49

Not going to watch. I don't support their business model this season, so I won't make them money through views on their partner streams.

2018-05-13 19:50

+1 i respect your choice

2018-05-13 21:35

I usually watch from on here, makes the Facebook streams look better

2018-05-14 02:38

Facebook

it's on twitch bro I'm pretty sure most big events should be

2018-05-13 19:56

Esl streamer a lot on twitch and YouTube last month as well as Facebook

2018-05-14 07:46

Nice

2018-05-13 19:47

hyped for another event where SK will go out in groups

+1. Especially with their nemesis in their group. The mighty grayhounds

2018-05-13 20:35

#FreeSadokist plz, the best caster with his boyfriend Henry

Home Soldiers online PogChamp Home Soldiers on LAN OMEGALUL

Cry more no scene

2018-05-14 08:16

ELFISHGUY WEEEY

Name a more iconic duo than faze and c9 and getting drawn in the same group

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Sakura and Uselessness

2018-05-13 19:53

Flusha and cheat

Poland And Toilet cleaners

2018-05-13 20:12

NA and tier1

2018-05-13 20:53

Guardian and 2nd place

2018-05-13 20:58

2018-05-13 21:46

FaZe and 2nd place Olof and pronax Shox and ScreaM Cases and keys GabeN and Shooting Stars NA and Visa issues Shroud and Wadu Hek

2018-05-14 10:02

Is this going to be streamed on fb

LOL Faze vs C9 again

B red ?

FFS WHY FACEBOOK THERE IS NO HYPE WHILE WATCHING, as much as I hate twitch chat, at least its fun to see people spamming VAC whenever a mouse weirdly hovers on someone through the walls or if someone pulls a godly play. No feeling of a community, sad.

So if u hate it , then how is it fun

2018-05-14 16:40

Finals bo5 or bo3?

Bo5

2018-05-13 19:57

The chat is full of autistic retards, but at least it does help people feel that there are other people watching and you're not the only retard watching sharks Vs MVP.pk at 4AM in the night. Plus, they do help hype shit up.

2018-05-14 19:11

I can watching tier 10 scene because i betting on this shit thats it =D

2018-05-14 19:12

Shit times xd

+1 xd

2018-05-14 01:04

I can't wait. Esl PL finals has always been great..

2018-05-13 20:05

2018-05-13 20:19

1st: mouz 2nd: Faze 3rd-4th: Ast, Liquid 5th-6th: C9, SS 7th-8th: NaVi, NiP 9-12: NRG, Heroic, SK, Renegades 13-16: MVP PK, Sharks, Grayhound, OpTic.

nt MO

2018-05-13 20:20

nt nt

2018-05-14 06:00

SS > NIP and NaVi LUL

2018-05-13 20:54

This is lan.

Navi is in the other group, we only need SS>NiP

Why even post a viewers guide for something 12 people are going to actually watch live?

2018-05-13 20:26

another easy victory for the greatest team of all time #RUNASTRALIS

2018-05-13 20:27

expected from gabriel ‘two-faced’ toledo

2018-05-13 20:59

easy for best player ever s1mple NAVI 1ST

gl mvp

2018-05-13 20:31

#FreeSadokist

2018-05-13 20:32

Is the final bo5?

2018-05-13 20:36

Faze Mous Nrg NaVi Liquid SS Ast nip

so EZ 4 SHARKS #GoSharks #DIADESHARKS

2018-05-13 20:37

thanks

2018-05-13 20:39

Sadakist, will he ever be back from the dead?

2018-05-13 20:40

I'd say look for him at next big event.. He only got his twitch account back less than 2 weeks ago, so ESL probably had his commentary spot already filled in as they have to do this stuff several weeks ahead of time. I know this tournament is broadcast on facebook, but still, I doubt sado wants to jump back into casting this fast and probably wants to sit it out for a little bit longer.

2018-05-13 22:56