The CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9 Finals will commence in London tomorrow and as such the group draw and schedule has been released. Here is the entire viewer's guide.
The event which is scheduled to take place from April 28 - May 1 marks the end of the CEVO Season 9 Professional season which this time around, took the form of online qualifiers. $125,000 will be up for grabs for the eight teams in attendance.
To start things off there will be a group stage played in the GSL format from which the best two teams will advance to the playoffs. Interestingly, the group stage will feature best-of-three matches across the board.
The groups are as follows:
Group A
Group B
HellRaisers
Tempo Storm
Virtus.pro
Dignitas
Splyce
SK
OpTic
Selfless
*Hover over team names to see lineups
Of special note is the fact that, Natus Vincere, one of the invited teams has decided not to attend the event paving the way for SK to take their spot.
The playoffs will start with the semi-finals and will all be played in a best-of-five format. The full schedule is below:
Thursday, April 28th
11:00
Tempo Storm
vs. SK
BO3
13:45
Virtus.pro
vs. Splyce
BO3
16:15
Dignitas
vs. Selfless
BO3
19:00
HellRaisers
vs. OpTic
BO3
21:45
Group B losers match
BO3
Friday, April 28th
11:00
Group A losers match
BO3
13:45
Group A winners match
BO3
16:15
Group B winners match
BO3
19:00
Group A decider match
BO3
21:45
Group B decider match
BO3
Saturday, April 30th
13:00
Semi-final #1
BO5
17:30
Semi-final #2
BO5
Sunday, May 1st
16:30
Grand final
BO5
The talent lineup for the event will consist of a nine-man crew; here it is:
James Banks - Stage host
Chris Puckett - Desk host
Duncan "Thorin" Shields - Analyst Richard Lewis - Analyst
Joseph "heliumbrella" Cunningham - caster Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - caster Dust "dusT" Mouret - caster Vince "Metuz" Hill - caster Jack "Jacky" Peters - caster
The entire prize pool for the event is $125,000 distributed as follows:
If you're looking for more coverage related to the CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9 finals be sure to check out the interview conducted by Bünyamin "BenjaCS" Bektaş with Skyler "Relyks" Weaver and Michal "stich" Malachowski's article previewing the $125,000 LAN finals.
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