Europe Minor viewer's guide

18-7-2018 14:12

With the Europe Minor about to start, we have put together a viewer's guide with all the information you need to know regarding the event.

The road to the FACEIT Major will continue on Thursday with the fourth and last Minor, where eight European teams will battle it out for two spots at the showpiece event, as well as for their share of a $50,000 prize pool.

The eight sides have been drawn into two groups of four, which will be played out in a GSL format. The opening and the winners' matches will be best-of-one games, while the elimination and the decider clashes will consist of best-of-three series. The top two teams from both groups will proceed to the double-elimination, best-of-three playoffs.

NiP are the highest-ranked team in attendance

Here are the groups for the event:

Group A

Group B

The group stage will be played on the first two days of the tournament, while the playoffs will be held over the week, with the complete schedule looking as follows:

Thursday, July 19
15:30 - OpTic vs. 3DMAX | BO1
16:45 - ENCE vs. LeftOut | BO1
18:00 - Group A winners' match | BO1
19:15 - Group A elimination match | BO3
22:30 - Group A decider | BO3

Friday, July 20
15:30 - Kinguin vs. Sprout | BO1
16:45 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Red Reserve | BO1
18:00 - Group B winners' match | BO1
19:15 - Group B elimination match | BO3
22:30 - Group B decider | BO3

Saturday, July 21
13:00 - Upper bracket semi-final #1 | BO3
16:15 - Upper bracket semi-final #2 | BO3
19:30 - Lower bracket final | BO3

Sunday, July 22
13:00 - Upper bracket final | BO3
16:15 - Consolidation final | BO3
19:30 - Grand final | BO3

A five-man crew will be guiding the viewers through the action during the four day-event, with the highly-popular duo Matthew "⁠Sadokist⁠" Trivett-Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer providing live commentary on the matches, while Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez be sitting at the analyst desk, beside host Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus.

Tres "stunna" Saranthus - Host

Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - Analyst
Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquere - Analyst

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
Henry "HenryG" Greer - Commentator

Finally, the prize pool distribution looks as follows:

1. $30,000 + spot in New Challengers Stage
2. $15,000 + spot in New Challengers Stage
3. $5,000

nice

2018-07-18 14:12

12 replies

1. Leftout 2. Optic

2018-07-18 14:14

9 replies

expected

2018-07-18 14:16

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1. Optic 2. 3DMAX

2018-07-18 14:43

7 replies

No chance for 3DMAX

2018-07-18 14:46

5 replies

did u saw last games from them ? MAKA IS INSANE

2018-07-18 14:48

3 replies

Maniac???? Glad your back

2018-07-18 14:52

I saw but you will see man

2018-07-18 15:51

1 reply

3d max has a pretty good chance i'd say

2018-07-18 17:29

Its gonna be 3dmax and nip, #GONINJAS

2018-07-18 23:31

1.ENCE 2.optic

2018-07-18 14:49

1 Optic 2 Kingwin EZ for Kinguin

2018-07-18 14:18

Agreed +1

2018-07-18 14:22

EZ4ENCE

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hahahaha NiP more like RiP

2018-07-18 14:33

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2018-07-18 15:52

PogChamp

2018-07-18 14:13

Nice

ez for uhh.... hmmm

ez4ence also id like to say NiP but i dont honestly know at this point

optic

I'm about 50/50 on NiP. They keep choking but I can see Dennis and Lekr0 giving it their all to qualify. Maybe Rez too. It's the old timers I'm worried about.

2018-07-18 14:35

i think the matches are going to be great to watch

2018-07-18 14:38

Ez for Spunj tbh

Let's go NiP, we need some fresh stickers especially R EZ stickers

2018-07-18 14:15

Last Chance for NIP or i think GTR and forest will retire

NEO and TaZ are way wrose then them but did they retire xD

2018-07-18 14:24

TAZ still playing good then,not pasha or neo

2018-07-18 14:37

TaZ is a mediocre player in tier 4 now.

2018-07-19 06:47

NiP and LeftOut let’s goo

lets go ENCE

2018-07-18 14:17

So ez 4 optic

Optic and nip

Tbh I put my money on Optic/Ence/Left out best ones with a chance. Don't see nip making it out of this

2018-07-18 14:25

It's gonna take some superstar stuff from Dennis, Lekr0 and Rez for them to make it. I have very little faith in the old guys.

2018-07-18 14:36

Nip pls do it

2018-07-18 14:27

2018-07-18 14:29

LET'S GO OPTIC!!

groups are kinda shit since ENCE, LEftOut and Optic in the same group anways eZ4ENCE

Not ez4nip

2018-07-18 14:32

optic nip wouldnt qualify. MARK MY WORDS

To me, each team of group A is better than any team in group B, except maybe Red Reserve

2018-07-18 14:34

I have a feeling Optic / NiP will find a way to lose

I don't think Optic will go very deep in the major but they seem to be pretty good at the qualifying stages of tournaments, as far as just playing solid CS and edging out the opponent with good fundamentals. Jugi, K0nfig and Gade are unfortunately all pretty all over the place. You can always trust Cajun though.

2018-07-18 14:39

1. ENCE 2. Optic

ez for Ence + optic or kinguin

RIP NiP

Ence Optic

2018-07-18 14:40

Very hard for me to pick here. Optic, Ence, Nip and Red Reserve are the most likely IMO, but I feel like anyone but 3DMax can upset here. I got a slight feeling that Sprout can outplay some of the big names here (LeftOut and NiP), they've got good fundamentals and some decent talent honestly.