FACEIT Major New Champions Stage viewer's guide

20-9-2018 09:51

With only eight teams left in the fight for the grandest prize in CS:GO, we've collected all the information you need to follow the remaining part of the FACEIT Major.

Major action has moved from Twickenham Stadium to the SSE Wembley Arena, which boasts a 10,000-seat capacity. The playoffs will run from September 20-23 and feature a single-elimination bracket with all best-of-three games, including the grand final on Sunday.

The top 8 teams of the Major will do battle at the SSE Arena

Below is a full list of the eight teams who will fight for the Major trophy as well as the $500,000 first place prize:

For a comprehensive preview of the first four teams to duke it out in Thursday's two quarter-finals, check out HLTV.org Senior Writer Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin's look at the matchups, which includes analysis of the squad's performances so far. The second part of our playoff preview will be up on the site later today.

Tomorrow, one of the biggest favourites to take the title, Liquid, will play the third quarter-final against HellRaisers. Senior Writer Milan "Striker" Švejda analysed the North American's chances of actually going all the way, an article which you can find right here.

Below is the full schedule of the FACEIT Major's New Champions playoff stage:

Thursday, September 20
16:15 - BIG vs. Natus Vincere | BO3
19:45 - Complexity vs. MIBR | BO3

Friday, September 21
17:15 - Liquid vs. HellRaisers | BO3
20:45 - Astralis vs. FaZe | BO3

Saturday, September 22
17:15 - Semi-Final #1 | BO3
20:45 - Semi-Final #2 | BO3

Sunday, September 23
19:10 - Grand Final | BO3

Nix

2018-09-20 09:52

8 replies

2018-09-20 09:53

2 replies

tyty my german friend

1 reply

ledumbo..

2018-09-20 11:42

Nice

2018-09-20 09:56

Nicw

2018-09-20 09:58

Reported

2018-09-20 10:14

Reported for reporting

2018-09-20 14:24

Reported for not to take it seriously.

2018-09-20 15:01

NaVi

idc

3 replies

nt prokda mertz

2018-09-20 10:44

I’m not mertz wtf

2018-09-20 10:53

Hi puget.

NAVI > BIG COL > MIBR

14 replies

Big > NaVi Mibr >coL

12 replies

already put money on my prediction, ez $€$€$€$€$

2018-09-20 10:20

Same

2018-09-20 11:12

Lul rip your money then

2018-09-20 12:15

Haha true!

2018-09-20 14:29

Hr > liquid

2018-09-20 10:42

7 replies

0/8 bait

2018-09-20 11:21

4 replies

truth hurts

2018-09-20 11:24

Bad bait

2018-09-20 11:39

2018-09-20 13:02

2018-09-20 13:55

Weak baity

2018-09-20 11:43

Ye most likely. Lets not forget that the underdogs can upset (mibr)

2018-09-20 11:44

isn`t the major over yet ? lol who`s watching it anymore ?

2018-09-20 09:54

39 replies

2018-09-20 09:55

Just 2 million people around the globe.

17 replies

seriously ? i doubt there will be past 500k viewers (including 300k fake accounts for drops) and the final... maybe 700k viewers on all streams cs:go is booring these days, same old maps, same old plays, same old strats.. nothing exciting anymore ffs smoke banana and rush mid...

2018-09-20 10:24

16 replies

it's like you don't even pay attention

2018-09-20 10:27

13 replies

its just that i don`t even read what every pleb has to say... unless its something interesting and fact based...

2018-09-20 10:29

i mean you don't pay attention to the games, if you think all strats are the same

2018-09-20 10:32

11 replies

when did u start watching the majors ? i started at DHW13, and for sure i can compare the past 5 years

2018-09-20 10:40

10 replies

You have no idea what You are Talking about. Clearly.

2018-09-20 10:43

who are u and why are u posting ? its like you`re watching porn, and i`m interrupting saying that you should be watching this.. instead of that...

2018-09-20 10:46

no. not even close. you are just delusional. but its ok, if you really think that nothing happened in the scene strategywise, then so be it. I will just call you an idiot. for funzies. good day sir.

2018-09-20 14:58

no wonder you are bored, maybe do something new in ur life

6 replies

can`t compare real life with online one please stop posting.. at least post something interesting to read

2018-09-20 10:47

5 replies

smh too much trolling

2018-09-20 10:49

please stop posting, i only read like 2 words from your posts :)

2018-09-20 10:57

education that bad in luxembourg?

2018-09-20 11:10

actually i`m an expat in LU but nevertheless, we were teached never to trust what jews are saying

+rep

2018-09-20 12:17

yes. n0thing is not exciting anymore after he left cloud9.

2018-09-20 10:31

TrashBG is amazing game , yea. Same for childnite , noone above 12y/o (mental age) plays it..

2018-09-20 11:46

Every cs fan except you

2018-09-20 09:57

not interesting anymore... same old crappy maps, same old strats... in 2 years the cs:go scene will be dead, nobody will watch it anymore

2018-09-20 10:25

15 replies

you know people said that 2 years ago, right?

so have you followed what happened since then ? players: 283.000 august 2018 353.000 july 2017 (pgl major) steamcharts.com/app/730 viewers: PGL Krakow = 840.000 average viewers Eleague 2018 = 897.000 average viewers Faceit major 2018 so far: 379.000 average viewers esc.watch/tournaments/csgo/pgl-major-kra.. esc.watch/tournaments/csgo/faceit-major-.. esc.watch/tournaments/csgo/eleague-major.. esports-marketing-blog.com/esports-viewe..

2018-09-20 10:39

Do you know if they take in account Major qualify viewers for faceit?

no, just the main event so last week`s group stages had 379.000 average viewers.. pretty low considering all the teams were playing the playoffs will have the same... fans of the teams who were eliminated won`t view as much if they are not interested in drops

2018-09-20 11:06

Ok, thanks for info. Yeah it's low, even when there are some great matchups. Yeah, i watch almost only NIP games, maybe sometimes Navi.

2018-09-20 11:23

please also reply this to the plebs above who say i`m just trolling with my issue. thanks :)

2018-09-20 11:41

I bet you have no friends IRL. You seem to be annoying af.

2018-09-20 11:04

i have a full time job, a wife, a 2 year old boy and another one coming this december, i have 2 mortages for the next 30 years need more irl info ?

2018-09-20 11:07

And you still said nothing about friends.

at my age you can count real friends on one hand i don`t have any social media, so while you must be proud to have 100 friends on steam and 500 friends on facebook.. those never count

I'm not that young, I too have a full-time job, a fiance, but no kids. My only problem with you is the fact that your comments are senseless. If you don't like watching the game anymore, simple don't do it. You don't need to insult a lot of people with your comments.

2018-09-20 11:48

i never insulted the cs:go viewers i just said things are going downhill for cs:go and the scene the facts are there to find

2018-09-20 14:09

And i am DJ 31k$ a week, 10 kids over 5 wifes , living in Dubai. My goal is 6 more kids until the end of the year.

2018-09-20 11:49

but in real life you are actually a kangaroo

2018-09-20 14:10

2018-09-20 12:03

whole cs szene.. oh wait LUXEMBOURG OMEGALUL

2018-09-20 10:01

Nt germany

Ez for Team Liquid. #NAhope

fake device fan.. huh...

Gaand chaat le na fir americans ki

Acha lavde tu toh bohot bada Entity ka fan hai. Khud Bardolph ka flair rakha hai aur mujhe suna ne aagaya chutiya.

Kumse kum NA hope karta nahi fir raha loduchand

2018-09-20 13:22

Joke toh samajh nahi aata chutiye aa gaye bade batane.

2018-09-20 13:23

Arabs , speak some real language please.

We're not kebabs lmao.

2018-09-20 13:24

giff BO5 grand final FFS

2018-09-20 10:00

2018-09-20 10:05

That should indeed be a priority for the next major. EDIT: imagine bo5 semis :ooo

2018-09-20 10:21

bo7 finals

What about bo9 with 2 hostage rescue maps.

🤨😂😂😂 lol

2018-09-20 11:50

Don't think the teams would wan't to sit down for 10 hours straight playing one final :I Anyways, the thoughts of pro teams playing hostage maps is intriguing. Even more so in a major final.

2018-09-20 14:26

It was a joke. But I really want to see some hostage maps in pro competition. It would be fun

2018-09-20 15:38

I know, I just like to explain things ;)

2018-09-20 15:40

Oh, gl&hf to Ast tomorrow.

2018-09-20 15:43

And you to FaZe. Hopefully it'll be a thriller.

2018-09-20 15:49

I hope that too. Pretty sure Astralis will win, but at least I want to see FaZe playing good.

2018-09-20 15:50

Tbf, astralis have looked shaky so far

2018-09-20 15:52

They did in the challenger stage...but in the legend stage they were pretty good. And what about FaZe...going 3-2.

2018-09-20 15:55

Yeah, true.

2018-09-20 16:43

-1

2018-09-20 11:28

small arena = major Cologne biggest fckn event = no major

2018-09-20 10:03

they allrdy had it last year or 2016. they will get it again 2019 / 2020 again i think

2018-09-20 10:06

They had 2014, 2015 and 2016

First major of 2019 is Katowice 😍

+<3

2014, 2015 and 2016??

yeah but no major in 2k17 and 2k18?

Because they wanted to give other organizers a chance?

2018-09-20 10:34

kk now they can go back, been shitty the last years ESL > all

2018-09-20 10:37

MLG > Cologne. UUUUUSAAAAA UUUUUSAAAA

2018-09-20 11:51

CROWD MICROPHONES CROWD MICROPHONES but still a nice tounrament imo, but cologne better :p

2018-09-20 12:11

Navi mibr liquid astralis

2018-09-20 10:17

Col*

2018-09-20 11:52

2018-09-24 10:40

good schedule

2018-09-20 10:18

"The top 8 teams of the Major will do battle at the SSE Arena" -The wise Yossarian

2018-09-20 10:22

S1mple will destroy fucking trash(BIG) 1941-1945 Let’s repeat

can't wait for gold pick'em trophy from this major :)

2018-09-20 10:28

NAVI, MIBR, Liquid, Astralis to go through

NA^VI DAVI =C

Ez 4 astralis

2018-09-20 10:48

Why the hell isn't the final bo5?

2018-09-20 10:55

Astralis and Faze crash quarter-final. what a sht show

NaVi, coL, Liquid, FaZe to win quarters

2018-09-20 11:14

gl to all teams

2018-09-20 11:29

NAVI is <3

2018-09-20 11:40

Viewer guide: be jobless or skip university/school OMEGALUL

OMEGALUL. Just live in proper timezone

2018-09-20 13:03

not everyone is a thirdy, m8

2018-09-20 13:06

associating with b8 u dumbastank?

2018-09-20 13:42

what the fuck is wrong with this organisation.B03 GRAND FINAL?????????????

2018-09-20 13:25

BO5 in grand final = tired player = player getting sick and there's a chance of them to death = CSGO will be banned forever = RIP :( btw this is Valve sponsored major which mean Valve is responsible to the tournament

2018-09-20 15:33