StarSeries i-League S5 viewer's guide

27-5-2018 13:20

With StarSeries i-League Season 5 about to start, we have prepared a viewer's guide with all the information you need to know about the event, including schedule, prize distribution and on-air talent for the English broadcast.

Starting on Monday and running through Sunday at the National Palace of Arts, in Kiev, the next StarSeries event will feature 16 top teams, five invited and 11 determined by online qualifiers held in Europe, North America, Asia and the CIS.

Reigning StarSeries champions MOUZ will return to Kiev to defend their title, with Season 4 losing finalists Natus Vincere also in attendance. Astralis, FaZe and fnatic are among the big-name absentees after declining invitations to compete at the event, which will have $300,000 on the line.

mousesports will try to defend their Season 4 title

The tournament will begin with a best-of-three Swiss stage, with the top eight teams sealing passage to the single-elimination playoffs. Unlike the previous StarSeries event, there will not be a third-place match this time around, with both the semi-finals and the title decider being held on the final day of the competition.

Below you can find the complete schedule for the event:

Monday, May 28
09:00	Liquid	vs. NRG
09:00	SK	vs. VG.Flash
12:00	Natus Vincere	vs. TYLOO
12:00	AGO	vs. Virtus.pro
15:00	MOUZ	vs. North
15:00	AVANGAR	vs. Gambit
18:00	Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs. HellRaisers
18:00	GODSENT	vs. Renegades
Tuesday, May 29
09:00	Round #2 - Two 0-1 pool matches
12:00	Round #2 - Two 0-1 pool matches
15:00	Round #2 - Two 1-0 pool matches
18:00	Round #2 - Two 1-0 pool matches
Wednesday, May 30
09:00	Round #3 - Two 0-2 pool matches
12:00	Round #3 - Two 1-1 pool matches
15:00	Round #3 - Two 1-1 pool matches
18:00	Round #3 - Two 2-0 pool matches
Thursday, May 31
11:00	Round #4 - Two 1-2 pool matches
14:00	Round #4 - 1-2 pool match & 2-1 pool match
17:00	Round #4 - Two 2-1 pool matches
Friday, June 1
11:00	Round #5 - match #1
14:00	Round #5 - match #2
17:00	Round #5 - match #3
Saturday, June 2
09:00	Quarter-final #1
12:00	Quarter-final #2
15:00	Quarter-final #3
18:00	Quarter-final #4
Sunday, June 3
11:00	Semi-final #1
14:00	Semi-final #2
17:00	Grand final

Guiding the viewers through the action over the course of the tournament with be a 15-man panel with three hosts, James Duffield, Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus and Pala "⁠Pala⁠" Gilroy Sen, four analysts and four casting pairs, including the Henry "HenryG" Greer - Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett combo.

The full English talent lineup can be found below:

James Duffield - host
Tres "stunna" Saranthus - host
Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - host

Duncan "Thorin" Shields - analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunovic - analyst
Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - analyst
Sean "seang@res" Gares - analyst

Henry "HenryG" Greer - caster
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - caster
Tom "Tombizz" Bissmire - caster
Jason "moses" O'Toole - caster
Harry "JustHarry" Russell - caster
Halvor "Vendetta" Gulestol - caster
Hugo Byron - caster
Anders Blume - caster

The Russian on-air team, featuring renowned figures in the CIS scene such as Oleksij "⁠xaoc⁠" Kucherov, Arseny "⁠ceh9⁠" Trynozhenko and Anatoliy "⁠liTTle⁠" Yashin, looks as follows:

Antonina "Tonya" Predko - host
Roman "CaspeR" Lepokhin - host

Aleksey "xaoc" Kucherov - analyst
Alexandr "Petr1k" Petryk - analyst
Aleksey "yXo" Maletskiy - analyst
Arseniy "ceh9" Trynozhenko - analyst
Anatoliy "liTTle" Yashin - analyst

Igor "SL4M" Sopov - caster
Fyodor "KvaN" Zakharov - caster
Yurii "Strike" Tereshchenko - caster
Alexandr "HomeR" Lysenko - caster
Taufiq "Tafa" Khidri - caster
Mikhail "0kr0ha" Shmygel - caster
Konstantin "LENINIW" Sivko - caster

The official English and Russian stream channels for the event are the following:

English:

twitch.tv/starladder_cs_en
twitch.tv/starladder_cs_en2

Russian:

twitch.tv/starladder5
twitch.tv/starladder10

Finally, the prize money breakdown for the tournament is the following:

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

nice, but t2

2018-05-27 13:22

30 replies

Fake DonHaci here

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hahaa he has don in his name impersonating donhaci AMIRITE edit: jk ofc

2018-05-27 13:24

3 replies

Expected

2018-05-27 13:31

2 replies

expected

2018-05-27 13:33

1 reply

2018-05-27 13:37

Which tournament t1 is?

2018-05-27 13:36

24 replies

a tournament with more than 6 top teams

21 replies

liquid, nip, sk, navi, gambit, mouz. close enough

2018-05-27 14:17

20 replies

gambit and sk lol

2018-05-27 14:43

19 replies

look at the current top 10

2018-05-27 14:45

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hltv ranking lul

2018-05-27 14:46

17 replies

true, esl csgo ranking is much better. oh wait both sk and gambit are top 10 there as well.

12 replies

no ranking is perfect. also sk and gambit are NOT top teams.

2018-05-27 14:47

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you said a tournament with MORE than 6 top teams is tier1, yet you deny a team that is #7-8 in two separate rankings of being a top team, then by your logic its impossible to have more than 6 top teams so no event can possibly be tier1?

2018-05-27 14:50

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i said more than 6 top teams not 6 teams in the top10 LMAO

2018-05-27 14:51

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if a team in the top 10 is not considered a top team, then how can any other team outside of it possible be one?

2018-05-27 14:53

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I don't think you know the difference between an actual top team and top10 teams. top teams are contenders, tier1 teams. sk and gambit arent contenders

2018-05-27 14:54

Tell me when there has ever been a csgo tournament with 6 title contenders

2018-05-27 20:09

i said it wrong. well you know what i mean by top teams.

2018-05-27 20:13

I understand, but HLTV has to countfor something, its impossible to keep track of top contenders without it, especially recently where no team apart from Astralis and Faze (before Xizt) are consistent on a tourny by tourny basis

2018-05-27 20:18

yeah.

2018-05-27 20:19

top teams are: astralis, navi, mouz, fnatic, liquid, faze, and maybe nip

tournament with more than 6 top teams and you just said that there are only 6 top teams

2018-05-27 15:34

sorry i should have said 5. also nip is probably the 7th tbh.

2018-05-27 15:35

XDDDDD Retard spotted

2018-05-27 15:20

says someone who uses "XD"

2018-05-27 15:23

xcddddddd

2018-05-27 16:13

Check gosugamers for best ranks lul

2018-05-28 05:20

A TOURNAMENT WITH ASTRALIS IN IT

2018-05-27 13:46

Are you going to watch this t2 tournament ?just leave

2018-05-27 13:53

T2 tournament, no thanks

Then dont watch, simple

Ty for your great input man, now I'm just scared to watch it, knowing that r_hawk from India wants me not to!

2018-05-27 13:25

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But mouz will play there,and you are their fan,so why not to watch?

2018-05-27 13:40

He doesn't want you to 'not watch', he's just suggesting that if you are so incapable of watching a tournament without the so temporarily ranked 'top 2 teams', then don't, just stop whining.

2018-05-27 14:38

Exactly, thank you my desi brother

2018-05-27 16:45

¿¿¿ Your comment had absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

2018-05-27 20:12

It's completely relevant...

2018-05-27 20:51

??? I was making a joke about this being a T2 tournament, which in all seriousness, why would I call a tournament with my favorite team attending t2, and I think you didn't quite grasp it... Also I didn't say anything about top 2 teams? As to my reply to r_hawk, the sarcasm was dripping off of that comment... Come on man.

2018-05-27 22:33

street shitter IQ

2018-05-28 09:36

Hmmm ty for compliment I'm have IQ 2406 don't @ me

2018-05-28 11:14

+1.

2018-05-27 13:28

2018-05-27 13:23

dickz

Thorin + Sado N1.

sadokist back

2018-05-27 14:44

Unexpected

tyloo will upset navi, with a 2-1 score. lets go bntet the LAN Beast

idk what will happen with a stand in

2018-05-27 13:42

nt poland

2018-05-27 14:32

Nice guide, I read all

Looking forward to watch SK :) I hope they keep improving

Sadokists rocks

Without Astralis and FaZe, the two heavy hitters, this is a tier 2 tourney. Lol

2018-05-27 13:26

And fnatic

2018-05-27 13:30

Yeah missed they weren’t attending either. Wtf

Should be ez tournament for navi,cuz no astr and faze

2018-05-27 13:41

Agreed - Na'Vi, SK or Mouz, but I do not believe in SK just yet so Na'Vi should only have (in theory) to worry about Mouz like at the last Starseries then.

2018-05-27 21:11

Their fault for not coming, SK, NaVi, Mouz are going to other tourneys they're going to as well and they're playing this. Starseries has always been a nice tier 1-1.5 tournament and it'll be so this year as well.

2018-05-27 14:36

I didn't say I wouldn't watch it though. It's the best format yet. All Bo3's in the grp stage

2018-05-27 21:12

Mousesports got this one <3

No Astralis no faze and no optic Will not be as successful

AND FNATIC???

where are they ? can't qualify? heh

2018-05-27 13:43

Will have more viewers than cologne considering ESL has Facebook and miss me with that gay shit.

2018-05-27 14:35

Sadokist is back <3

2018-05-27 13:27

Holy shieet, Big boi event lol Ez 4 vp

2018-05-27 13:29

Bump

Ez 4 SK teleton

Sadokist TriHard

2018-05-27 13:32

Playing bo3 in the first round is retarded, the whole 1st day we will be forced to watch bad matches.

Nice sadokist wb bro

ez vp

Na Vi or mouze win

2018-05-27 13:39

Navi for sure

Ye they are at home so they are probably biggest favourites, but we know they always somehow manage to finish second :D and Liquid is black horse for me.

2018-05-27 13:44

Imo they managed to reach finals in dallas only cuz that was their home crowd, in starladder they won't perform good

Ye thats true americans always tryhard on their home soil :D

2018-05-27 13:47

Monday, May 28 10:00 Liquid vs. NRG : who win 10:00 SK vs. VG.Flash : who win ? 13:00 Natus Vincere vs TyLoo : who win? 13:00 AGO vs Virtus.pro : who win? 16:00 mousesports vs North : who win? 16:00 AVANGAR vs Gambit : who win? 19:00 NiP vs HellRaisers : who win ? 19:00 GODSENT vs Renegades : who win?

SK gonna win this

2018-05-27 13:54

sado is back

2018-05-27 14:07

No 3rd place decider, BO3 final (because semis and final the same day) instead of BO5, that's a bit disappointing. About 40 to 50% of the teams are pretty mediocre ones as well.

2018-05-27 14:11

Team that has to play in the 2nd semi final and wins basically gets fucked by playing finals shortly after...

2018-05-27 14:22

sadokkkist HyperBruh

2018-05-27 14:29

ez4vp

2018-05-27 14:30

go ninjas

2018-05-27 14:33

It's a tier 1- tier 1.5 tournament, it's the fault of the "top teams" to decline the invite for this, starseries has always been a nice tournament and even this year it will have no shortage of competition and good counter strike.

2018-05-27 14:34

VP fail to quali 2 times to this LAN still invited just russian tournament and russian org EleGiggle

I think they will get kicked after this tournament

2018-05-27 16:20

Lol all cis analyst name uses A

2018-05-27 14:49

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Welcome back sado

If i click on Gambit's roster in the preview it shows seized being part of it, is it cause hltv hasnt updated the roster on the site yet or is seized to attend this with Gambit?

seized is no longer with gambit anymore

2018-05-27 15:26

Ez 4 VP

2018-05-27 14:52

Astralis and FaZe skipped because they're really wanting the Intel Grand Slam. So they need to win next Intel events, and not just being good at them...

2018-05-27 15:01