Thunderpick World Championship teams, format, schedule, prizes, talent

16 teams will compete for $500,000 from October 27 until the grand final on November 5.

The inaugural Thunderpick World Championship will kick off on Saturday, October 27, running for a week before awarding the victor half of the $500,000 prize pool.

The online event features FaZe for the first time since their win at IEM Sydney and the news broke of Liquid's interest in Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken.

Counter-Strike 2's first Big Event champions are joined by the likes of Cloud9, MOUZ, and HEROIC — presumably with William "⁠sirah⁠" Kjærsgaard and Christoffer "⁠Chr1zN⁠" Storgaard standing in for Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund and Jakob "⁠jabbi⁠" Nygaard.

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Thanks to two North American qualifiers, there is healthy representation when it comes to stars and stripes on the team list with Complexity, M80, Nouns, and Wildcard at the tournament.

That list does not include Liquid, who were replaced by Monte, as the team is reportedly undergoing a roster revamp that will once again make it a team with an American majority.

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Participating teams

Eight invites were handed out for the event, and the 16-team strong lineup was filled out by the teams that progressed out of four single-elimination brackets (two in Europe, two in North America.)

Groups will be played in the GSL format, with four-team double elimination brackets across four separate groups seeded by HLTV Ranking.

Play then switches to a single-elimination eight-team bracket for playoffs.

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Schedule

Group A

Date	Matches
Thunderpick World Championship 2023
27/10/2023	Cloud9 10:00 fnatic	Match
27/10/2023	Ninjas in Pyjamas 16:30 Virtus.pro	Match
28/10/2023	fnatic 10:00 Ninjas in Pyjamas	Match
28/10/2023	Cloud9 13:00 Virtus.pro	Match
29/10/2023	fnatic 10:00 Virtus.pro	Match

Group B

Date	Matches
Thunderpick World Championship 2023
27/10/2023	Monte 13:20 Wildcard	Match
27/10/2023	FaZe 19:55 SAW	Match
28/10/2023	Wildcard 16:05 SAW	Match
28/10/2023	Monte 19:00 FaZe	Match
29/10/2023	SAW 19:00 Monte	Match

Group C

Date	Matches
Thunderpick World Championship 2023
29/10/2023	Spirit 14:00 Complexity	Match
29/10/2023	MOUZ 16:05 M80	Match
30/10/2023	Complexity 13:00 M80	Match
30/10/2023	Spirit 19:30 MOUZ	Match
31/10/2023	Complexity 16:25 MOUZ	Match

Group D

Date	Matches
Thunderpick World Championship 2023
30/10/2023	HEROIC 10:00 Nouns	Match
30/10/2023	FURIA 16:00 BIG	Match
31/10/2023	Nouns 10:00 FURIA	Match
31/10/2023	HEROIC 13:00 BIG	Match
31/10/2023	FURIA 19:10 BIG	Match

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Prize distribution

$500,000 is up for grabs, split as follows:

1. $250,000
2. $100,000
3-4. $50,000
5-8. $12,500

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Broadcast talent

Host (for playoffs)

Sam "⁠Tech Girl⁠" Wright

Analysts (for playoffs)

Allan "⁠Allan⁠" Hender
Neo "Ne0kai" Cain
Travis "Trav" Landaw Mott
Anirudh "Paladin" Ajay

Commentators

Freddie "GrimyRannarr" Pritchard
Brandon "BDog" Rawlings
Daan "Hyferia" Kesseler
Cole "xner" McHenry
Tom "SneakyBeaky" Taylor
Ryan "ReTr00" Bernard