iBUYPOWER Masters schedule revealed

iBUYPOWER has revealed the complete schedule for the upcoming $200,000 Masters tournament.

Eight top teams, including the current No.1 and No.3 sides in the world, Astralis and Liquid, will be squaring off over the weekend at the Avalon Theater Hollywood, in Los Angeles, for the grand prize of $100,000.

The tournament will provide the first opportunity to examine some of the new rosters following the off-season changes. Liquid, FaZe, Complexity and Cloud9 all come in with new players, while Luminosity will be fielding Fillipe "⁠pancc⁠" Martins as a stand-in.

Astralis will open up the action against compLexity

The format remains unchanged from the previous iBUYPOWER Masters editions, with a best-of-one, double-elimination group stage leading to a single-elimination bracket, in which all matches will be best-of-three series.

With the groups and the first-round match-ups already determined, iBUYPOWER has now finalised the schedule for the competition, which you can find below:

Saturday, January 19
19:00 | Astralis vs. Complexity | BO1
20:00 | fnatic vs. Cloud9 | BO1
21:00 | Liquid vs. Luminosity | BO1
22:00 | FaZe vs. Ghost | BO1
23:00 | Group A winners' match | BO1
00:00 | Group A elimination match | BO1
01:00 | Group B winners' match | BO1
02:00 | Group B elimination match | BO1
03:00 | Group A decider match | BO1
04:00 | Group B decider match | BO1

Sunday, January 20
19:00 | Semi-final #1 | BO3
22:00 | Semi-final #2 | BO3
01:00 | Grand final | BO3