ECS Season 7 Finals viewer's guide

4-6-2019 18:00

With ECS Season 7 Finals set to kick off on Thursday, we have put together a comprehensive viewer's guide for the $500,000 event.

The ECS Season 7 Finals will take place on June 6-9, where the top four teams from the North American and European divisions will face off for their share of the prize pool.

The tournament will feature two GSL groups, with best-of-one opening matches and best-of-three elimination and decider games. The top two sides from both groups will then progress to the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs, which will take place at the SSE Arena.

Astralis will kick off the event against FURIA

Back-to-back ECS champions Astralis will kick off the event by taking on FURIA in Group A, which also features Ninjas in Pyjamas and NRG. In Group B, Complexity, who will be fielding new recruit Owen "⁠oBo⁠" Schlatter, will be squaring off against Vitality, while MIBR go up against North in the other match.

Below you can find the group draw:

Group A

Group B

The complete tournament schedule is as follows:

Thursday, June 6
11:00 - Astralis vs. FURIA | BO1
12:30 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. NRG | BO1
14:00 - Complexity vs. Vitality | BO1
15:30 - MIBR vs. North | BO1
17:00 - Group A winners' match | BO3
20:00 - Group B winners match | BO3

Friday, June 7
11:00 - Group A elimination match | BO3
14:00 - Group B elimination match | BO3
17:00 - Group A decider | BO3
20:00 - Group B decider | BO3

Saturday, June 8
14:00 - Semi-Final #1 | BO3
17:00 - Semi-Final #2 | BO3

Sunday, June 9
17:00 - Grand Final | BO3

Below is the talent lineup for the event:

Freya Spiers – Desk Host

Sue "Smix" Lee – Stage Host

James Bardolph – Commentator
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia – Commentator
Anders Blume – Commentator
Henry "HenryG" Greer – Commentator

Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill – Analyst
Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez – Analyst
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche – Analyst
Halvor "vENdetta" Gulestøl – Analyst

The prize pool will be distributed in the following manner:

1. $225,000
2. $100,000
3-4. $50,000
5-6. $25,000
7-8. $12,500

[LEAKED] The HLTV x Betway MVP Of ECS S7 Finals is Marcelo 'coldzera' David

2019-06-04 18:02

9 replies

You mean Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo*

2019-06-04 18:07

7 replies

You mean João "Felps" Vasconcellos*

2019-06-04 18:16

5 replies

You mean Owen "oBo" Schlatter?

2019-06-04 18:38

4 replies

We are talking about pro players not mm pros...

2019-06-04 18:45

2 replies

Not mm but fpl*

2019-06-05 15:01

1 reply

Yeah sry

2019-06-05 21:07

He will bem like s0m in Envy, 0.8 rating 2.0

2019-06-04 19:05

+1 he is playing like in 2017 again.

2019-06-04 19:45

2019-06-04 18:28

This is incredible

nice

mibr win this one

ez for mibr

2019-06-04 18:03

expecting M16R out in groups

it's like nip might actually surprised, they looked really decent with dennis rising form, but at the same time they can just bomb out of there, losing to nrg in the first, and probably furia in the second game (bo3). i guess that's what it means to be a nip fan? :-) #GONINJAS

2019-06-04 18:05

They'll beat Astralis in the lower bracket game mens )))

2019-06-04 18:41

2019-06-04 19:50

nrg is trash, free win for nip. hope nip can beat astralis aswell, i wanna see this guys reach the semifinal at least. But i agree they gonna lose to Furia.

2019-06-04 20:15

LOL!

2019-06-04 21:45

So ez for mibr that it won't even be fun.

2019-06-04 18:08

smoking too much crack isn't good for your health, brother

2019-06-05 16:46

lmao to ez for astralis

2019-06-04 18:09

GOOD LUCK FOR ALL TEAMS

2019-06-04 18:18

Let's go Vitality/NiP/MIBR

2019-06-04 18:21

Group A kinda stacked

2019-06-04 18:22

No ence no liquid no party hahaahahahaa what a trash tournament

2019-06-04 18:26

12 replies

liquid had 3 chances to qualify lol. navi and ence dont want to qualify cuz they sucked at these events in the past.

2019-06-04 19:07

11 replies

Ence has never even tried to qualify to ECS Navi does fuck up at qualifying through the ladder, yet on the actual lan they wreck (maybe you should have invites for this exact reason so lucky shitters like avangar or heroic dont get in with one lucky match). Same thing for liquid

2019-06-04 19:11

10 replies

if they dont play good at those qualifiers, even when its online, its obviously like they lost the tournemant if you cant even qualify when other trash teams play, its just bad performance. navi played shit even at lan recently. also fucked up the qualifier for the qualifier lol liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Esports_Cha.. liquid had 3 weeks to qualify, lost to rogue, played absolute shit. choked last week vs mibr on mirage ence doesnt want to play qualifier, their fault. 2 big tournemants are out of the way for them.

2019-06-04 19:18

Online online and online Shit happens, faze lost to VP a few weeks ago in ecs qualis Sure they lost to heroic, but lets just watch them bomb the lan in the first rounds when navi would have went all the way "2 big tournemants are out of the way for them" Big? Theres only 2 teams in the top 5 to play against in the ECS, one of which arguably hasnt achieved anything of note ever. How is this a big tournament?

2019-06-04 19:39

8 replies

it is shown as big event. there are 5/10 from the top10 at finals 8/10 attended ecs, ence dont play it, navi is still mad cuz they couldnt qualify last time they all attended ecs. they lost the tournemant by not qualifying. if that event isnt big then iem sydney wasnt big either bro

IEM sidney wasnt big lmao liquid was the only good team attending faze even had standin hahha

2019-06-04 19:54

6 replies

wtf is big for you? starseries also not? only major this year? 6 out of top10 were at sydney that time

2019-06-04 19:56

Major is big, cologne is big, dallas was big, ss 7 was big, even the EPL is big Plenty of big tournies but this aint it 6 out of top10 were at sydney that time" How many top 5? Liquid. faze had standin Thats not big, the winner was known before start lmao

2019-06-04 19:58

starseries was with 3 top5 teams, only 1 of top3 and renegades not top5 worthy astralis and liquid, the huge favourites werent there but its big for you?? where the fuck do you draw the line

2019-06-04 20:00

3 replies

Vitality isnt top 5 worthy either lmao Either its top 5 or it isnt you cant base this off of your own value of teams

2019-06-04 20:01

answer my question pls. vitality is shit yeah. still doesnt change the fact that 8 of top10 attended ecs s7

2019-06-04 20:02

Wow battle of who gets to be in top 10 how exciting In all honesty i would rather watch competing for world top 1 or 3

ez 4 furia

2019-06-04 18:29

Astralis will out on the groups. Mark my penis.

2019-06-04 18:35

18 replies

against nip furia and nrg? oh hell no

17 replies

why not

2019-06-04 19:13

16 replies

even when its 4v5 astralis would rekt them

2019-06-04 19:19

15 replies

FURIA will upset them on BO1, Thursday, you saw here first.

2019-06-04 20:09

14 replies

when its not nuke or vertigo, im pretty sure astralis will win it. astralis could be a bit rusty tho, but the mappool is just too strong here.

2019-06-04 20:16

13 replies

Wait and see.

2019-06-04 20:18

Seing out Furia upsetted a lot of teams last week, i bet astralis will be prepared for that. Either way, they way furia plays is like either rekt or get rekt vs top teams.

2019-06-05 13:59

FURIA is so fckn good, dude. They are not an experienced team, yet. Have you ever thought about that? Imagine this team with all these experiences in big LANS. They already have Moche (not big, but good cuz of the crowd), Cologne and probably Major. They´ll arrive in Starladder with much more experience than now.

2019-06-06 15:00

Ye honestly props to them for being this good with non experienced players. Feels good to have some new teams on top scene! It actually hypes me up to watch a game when they are playing! You never knoww atht o expect

2019-06-06 15:03

Yep. We need new teams doing this stuff to keep on our motivation to watch cs! Btw, I wanted FURIA x NiP BO3. FURIA x NRG already faced each other a few times. Against NiP only one time. But ok.

2019-06-06 15:06

I wanted furia Astralis bo3, sad it couldnt happen ^^'' Hope i can have an other Vitality furia so we can take our revenge

2019-06-06 15:09

VItality x MIBR will be very good, too. FURIA x Astralis BO3 could happen, dude. If FURIA lose to NRG, probably it´ll be FURIA x Ast in decider BO3. But I hope FURIA ends first in the group. haha

2019-06-06 15:39

And we´ll have MIBR x Vitality hahaha Nice match.

2019-06-06 16:06

Lol Vita lost to north... WTFF. At least ye, we will get vita x mibr, well if mibr win against complexity (pls don't choke like vs north)

2019-06-07 11:04

I thought MIBR was coming back... wtf HAHAHAHA 14 x 3 and lost to North. Now, in their pick (Train) losing 15-3, wtf. We´ll see what happens on Vertigo, omfg. FURIA probably will lose to Astralis now on BO3 but it´ll be a very interesting match to follow. gg´s my FR brotha.

2019-06-07 14:40

Omg man... Wtf is happening with mibr :o Yeah i will be looking for astralis x Furia as well! Hope to see a 3 maps match. If mibr loose, srsly vitality better kick complexity's ass

2019-06-07 14:43

If MIBR lose, it´ll be a clean 2-0 for Vita. coL in playoffs wouldn´t that attractive, despite of the oBo thing.

2019-06-07 14:52

You saw here, first. I told u, mafriend. gg

2019-06-06 14:57

1. MiBR 2. FURIA 3. VITALITY 4. NIP 8. ASTRALIS

2019-06-04 18:57

astralis vs vitality make it happen

Hopefully MIBR shits on blastralis

2019-06-04 19:06

2019-06-04 19:51

where is blastralis?

2019-06-04 19:08

yeah where is blastralis

2019-06-04 19:10

at a blast event of course

2019-06-04 19:52

I'd be on: 1. MIBR 2. Astralis 3-4. NRG / North

2019-06-04 19:16

Freya <3

2019-06-04 19:21

replace pimp he talk too much & his voice is annoying

2019-06-04 19:26

it is so funny the way he talks, its like he wants to be a specialist who knows everything.

2019-06-04 20:24

8 teams, 3 of which are top 8. Tier 3 event RIP ECS

2019-06-04 19:28

So EZ for FURIA

2019-06-04 19:31

8 team event and still bo1 shitty event

only the first matches are bo1??? important matches are bo3

2019-06-04 20:52

Opening matches are like Brasil vs. Denmark, lul. oBo is 15 years old and already on professional scene. Them kids (oBo, BoombI4, frozen, CeRq, who's else?) have a bright e-sports future, new school.

HYPE

2019-06-04 20:19

MYMA music ?

2019-06-04 20:51

James + ddk though POG

It was good

2019-06-04 20:58

EZ4FALLEN (dunno about MIBR though)

2019-06-04 21:01

MIBR will lose

2019-06-04 21:19

lets go NIP

semis astralis - vitality furia - mibr final astralis - mibr winner astralis

2019-06-04 21:28

Mibr > astralis i fear

2019-06-04 23:56

Or Semis Astralis-Mibr Furia-vitality Finals Vitality-mibr or Astralis (can't choose)

2019-06-05 05:40

225k omegalul, thats nearly more then liquid have won in the last 3 months where astralis wasnt competing.

2019-06-04 22:12

Liquid #1 Astralis will come back and choke hard you will see.

2019-06-04 23:55

Not when they are playing bots like vitality

2019-06-05 00:36

Do you think liquid need money They needed success

2019-06-05 06:33

Then they have to win the major. But i mean overall every team plays for money

2019-06-05 17:02

Playoffs : Downstralis, Mibr, Furia and Vitallity Downstralis x Mibr and Furia x Vitallity MIbr x Furia Final Furia can easy beat vitallity nip and nrg and Hard game against astralis ( but they can win ) mIbr easy pass against north col vitallity and astralis

2019-06-04 22:30

Brazilian dude knows nothing but his own navel

2019-06-05 00:23

Man, I Based This on Recent Tournaments, Im wrong ? Furia shows a Nice CS against Top 10 Teams Mibr Just Show They Can Destroy Astralis and defeat liquid 2 time ( WAS ONLINE GAME HAHAHA ), Online have so much prblms like Network Connection and Worst Tickrate... Isnt because im a Brazillian, The recent numbers show that... Furia can easy reach to playoffs, astralis is the only team can beat them, and Mibr has a Easy Group Stage... so Can be a BR Final easy

2019-06-05 01:56

Man, I am based on recent tournaments. Am I wrong? FURIA showed a nice game against top 10 teams. MIBR just showed they can destroy Astralis and has defeated liquid twice in an online match even though there are some problems such as connection issues. It isn’t because I’m Brazilian, the record shows that. FURIA can easily reach playoffs being Astralis the only team that can beat them, and MIBR has an easy group stage, thus it can be a Brazilian final easily.

2019-06-05 04:08

This is a post about Col and Vitality, go play your auto replay harp elsewhere

2019-06-06 00:38

So ? They show one more time... I Sayed, FURIA CAN BEAT ASTRALIS

2019-06-06 15:11

Furia won because of the upsetting potential, no one was prepared to such messy strats. They play really fast and very aggressive, but now top5 knows it and it happened once, won't happens twice.

2019-06-05 14:56

Now was the upsetting potential ? This comeback is a upset ? Furia its a great team!111 Why everybody can admit this ?

2019-06-06 15:13

They never played Astralis before, and Astralis lost twice in a row on Nuke. I do think that Furia is a great team, indeed it is, but again they'll need to improve all their strategy because now this is strategically painful to watch, it's just some kind of rushes everytime, almost no construction were everything is based on skill (Wich can be good, but at a long term it's definitely not ideal)

2019-06-06 15:37