Elisa Masters Espoo schedule announced

12-11-2022 13:23

The playoffs of the event will be held in the Espoo Metro Arena.

The schedule for the upcoming Elisa Masters Espoo has been released. The event will take place from November 16-20 in Espoo, Finland, with 12 teams competing for the lion's share of the $200,000 prize pool and a spot in the IEM Katowice 2023 Play-In.

Teams will be split into two groups of six, with the group stage set to be played in a BO1 round-robin format to determine the playoff teams. Second and third-place teams from the groups will meet in the quarter-finals, while the group winners will qualify directly for the semi-final.

Snappi's ENCE are the highest-rated team in the tournament

Group A's first matches will be played on Wednesday, with the group consisting of four Major attendees in ENCE, BIG, Sprout, and GamerLegion. They are joined by HEET and the only Finnish roster in attendance, HAVU.

fnatic and Astralis headline the team list in Group B, with the Danish team set to play with Kristoffer "⁠Kristou⁠" Aamand in place of Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz. The duo are joined by Complexity and Bad News Eagles, alongside two underdog teams in SAW and 500.

device to skip first tournament with Astralis following return

The two groups are:

Group A

Group B

The schedule for the event is as follows:

Wednesday, November 16

Date	Matches
Elisa Masters Espoo 2022
16/11/2022	BIG 10:00 HEET	Match
16/11/2022	GamerLegion 10:00 HAVU	Match
16/11/2022	ENCE 11:55 HAVU	Match
16/11/2022	Sprout 12:10 HEET	Match
16/11/2022	BIG 13:55 Sprout	Match
16/11/2022	ENCE 13:55 GamerLegion	Match
16/11/2022	BIG 15:30 HAVU	Match
16/11/2022	GamerLegion 15:30 HEET	Match
16/11/2022	BIG 17:10 GamerLegion	Match
16/11/2022	ENCE 17:10 Sprout	Match
16/11/2022	Sprout 18:50 HAVU	Match
16/11/2022	ENCE 18:50 HEET	Match
16/11/2022	Sprout 20:45 GamerLegion	Match
16/11/2022	ENCE 20:45 BIG	Match
16/11/2022	HEET 23:05 HAVU	Match

Thursday, November 17

Date	Matches
Elisa Masters Espoo 2022
17/11/2022	Bad News Eagles 10:00 SAW	Match
17/11/2022	Complexity 10:00 500	Match
17/11/2022	Astralis 11:30 SAW	Match
17/11/2022	fnatic 11:40 500	Match
17/11/2022	Bad News Eagles 13:20 Astralis	Match
17/11/2022	fnatic 13:20 Complexity	Match
17/11/2022	Complexity 14:30 SAW	Match
17/11/2022	Bad News Eagles 15:10 500	Match
17/11/2022	fnatic 16:05 Astralis	Match
17/11/2022	Bad News Eagles 16:10 Complexity	Match
17/11/2022	Astralis 18:00 500	Match
17/11/2022	fnatic 18:20 SAW	Match
17/11/2022	Astralis 20:25 Complexity	Match
17/11/2022	fnatic 20:25 Bad News Eagles	Match
17/11/2022	SAW 22:30 500	Match

Friday, November 18

Date	Matches
Elisa Masters Espoo 2022
18/11/2022	BIG 15:40 500	Match
18/11/2022	ENCE 19:15 Astralis	Match

Saturday, November 19

Date	Matches
Elisa Masters Espoo 2022
19/11/2022	Sprout 15:50 BIG	Match
19/11/2022	fnatic 20:25 Astralis	Match

Sunday, November 20

Date	Matches
Elisa Masters Espoo 2022
20/11/2022	BIG 18:00 fnatic	Match

havu unluigi

2022-11-12 13:23

nice

2022-11-12 13:24

bo1 = overratedlegion goes 5-0

Okay

you don't want 1-2 B01s in your major? here's 5 bo1s to determine your playoffs!!

2022-11-12 13:27

7 replies

nowhere near the same thing lol its a tier 2 lan in finland

2022-11-12 13:29

I dislike BO1 as well, but not when It's a league, a completely different scenario than Swizz format. It had been better with just one group though, and a true league format. I really think CS.GO could use a league. The idea of having as many elimination matches as possible has become way too overused.

2022-11-12 14:44

4 replies

But from the matches schedule it looks so exhausting though both for the players and watchers. No bo3 for elimination/advancement is a bit scary.

2022-11-12 14:47

3 replies

You are right. My dream scenario is a league like in regular sports, running over a very long time, all BO3's. No playoffs, no eliminations. Just a league like in normal sports. If you are no. 1 after let's say...19 games, you truly deserve the spot, and playoff games wont be needed. If such a tourney is put together, the prestige of winning it may top winning a major.

2022-11-12 14:54

2 replies

We had this when I was young... CS 1.6 ESL Pro Series, running for couple of months, twice a year. Back then (2005) there weren't so many other events though. CPL mostly.

2022-11-12 15:08

1 reply

I am old schooler myself, started playing before steam was a thing I remember. But didn't watch back then. Stopped in 2002 or so returned in 2015. These days I play 10 games a year or so. The community is way more toxic today imo, not really enjoyable.

2022-11-12 19:37

They need to wrap the tournament up before the blast fall finals start hence this mess of a schedule

2022-11-12 17:38

Fnatic should win this no cap Papa krimz need money to shave his beard

2022-11-12 13:31

losing hair, shaving beard krimzy krimz

2022-11-12 13:38

espoo looks nice.

hope you guys enjoy finland :)

2022-11-12 13:45

Five bo1 matches in a day wow, never seen anything like that before. I think we are going to see some upsets in those matches as it's more difficult to prepare against certain teams because of the tight schedule. Interesting

2022-11-12 13:58

I would have been excited to go see Havu live, but sadly they are not making the playoffs and there are no audience during groupstage.

they play Elisa Open final vs ENCE ac on sunday no?

2022-11-12 14:29

Oh yeah. Everytime I checked they only lost all their games. I missed that they actually won some. Have to reconsider.

2022-11-12 14:35

Should be doable no fighting for the third spot against Sprout and GL?

2022-11-12 14:53

Speak and no info 0/5

2022-11-12 15:21

ALL BO1'S 😴

2022-11-12 14:05

device , when?

2022-11-12 14:27

#STAYAWARRIOR

2022-11-12 14:33

NOW, open the fricking fantasy O_O

2022-11-12 14:36

They lost a lot of their potential viewers as device isn't playing, as I can imagine a lot of viewers would tune in, merely to check out his form and alike. Now it's just another random T1/T2 tourney which most viewers don't care the slightest about.

2022-11-12 14:39

Sad but true. However, people shouldn't overlook new operators in the field, unless they want the whole scene to decline and possibly even die eventually. There used to be a lot more TOs that have ever since pulled out. Now we are pretty much only down to ESL and Blast. Even Blast a few years back was frowned upon but look at them now. People constantly praise their high level production and already consider them a prestige event of sorts. But yeah, I agree, the team list for this event could have been more interesting.

2022-11-12 14:51

I agree that we need new TO's. But only to replace other TO's whose production value stopped developing. Having a myriad of different TO's makes no sense. I hope they make a great show, and I look forward to seeing kind of a league format for once, something I truly miss in CSGO. I wish it was just one big group though. I really want just one regular league in CSGO. It works in all other sports, why not in CSGO?

2022-11-12 14:50

Because of schedule.. There used to be two leagues, no it's none.. The main reason is greedinest of ESL and BLAST.

2022-11-12 16:11

more like elisa masters is poo HAR HAR HAR

2022-11-12 15:25

You are wasting your talents here dude

2022-11-12 15:53

FANTASY? :D

2022-11-12 15:26

damn betting heaven for full day for 2 straight days POGGERS

2022-11-12 16:05

Bo1 no thx

2022-11-12 16:06

if u bet on this tournament, u are asking for trouble

2022-11-12 16:08

#sawtouadar

2022-11-12 16:49

ez4bne

2022-11-12 17:41

who cars((

2022-11-12 18:39

Best of one's all the way until the playoffs? are chu serious man? wtf.

2022-11-14 19:21

Casters? If Anders and Moses/ SpungeJ and Machine would cast these games i would 100% tune in. But with some weird T5 finnish english casters i think i will skip this one tho. Even tho it looks kinda fun with all the matches and the teams meating all the teams?

2022-11-15 18:15

TALENTS As we have amazing teams and partners, we also need amazing talents. Many of these names are familiar from S-tier events such as Major tournaments and ESL Pro Leagues, and we are so happy to bring them to Espoo! Elisa Masters Espoo ’22 Studio Phase will be played from the 16th to the 17th of November. Studio Phase will be streamed in English to Elisa Esports Twitch Channels – twitch.tv/elisaesports and twitch.tv/elisaesportsb. STUDIO PHASE TALENTS In the Studio Phase the audience will be entertained by our stunning Caster Lineup: Ryan “ReTr00” Bernard Travis “TravCS” Landaw Mott Teodor “Tedd” Borisov Jack “Zerpherr” Kelly William “AnThran” Chafee Cole “xner” McHenry ARENA PHASE TALENTS On the Arena Phase, the crowd will be hosted on stage by Pala “Pala” Gilroy Sen, while Anastasija “Heccu” Tolmačeva will convey the players’ feelings to the audience through interviews. Jonatan “Devilwalk” Lundberg and Halvor “vENdetta” Gulestøl will analyze the games and bring interesting insights with James Banks on hosting duty. And for all the in-game action, Jamie “TheEternalJay” Martin and Joshua “Dweg” Nathan will keep you entertained with world-class casting!

2022-11-15 18:34