StarLadder returns with third season today

StarLadder StarSeries goes into a third season in this year. Action-packed main round with 16 teams until beginning of October, offline finals with 8 teams 18 to 21 October.

StarLadder is hosting a third edition of the StarSeries in this year. Starting today, 16 teams will fight for total prize money of $15,000, which will be distributed at the offline finals at the Cybersports Arena in Kiev.

The tournament starts with 120 matches from the main round, played from today on, Monday 17 September. Two and a half weeks later, this phase is scheduled to be finished already. That is 15 matches for each team within 17 days. Except EG and mTw, all teams have reported a complete lineup which they will use at the StarSeries.

Confirmed Lineups for StarLadder StarSeries
Na'Vi	Empire	Virtus.Pro	Moscow 5
Puppey Lost Dendi XBOCT ARS-ART	Go[blin] Funn1k blow Scandal Silent	NS Crazy kSi illidanSTR Santa	nexus Sedoy BullsEye STALIANER Dread
The Retry	Quantic	EG	mousesports
PGG Inmate Amsi Zver Dota_Lucker Jackal	PAINTITGOLD Korok Brax Universe 1437	Maelk Fear DemoN TBA TBA	Kuroky SingSing SexyBamboe Alex Kebap
CLG	BVM	Darer	mTw
Pajkatt Mirakel MiSeRy- Lacoste Akke	henrydickenson bonzajaj bentzer walleater weppas	Noes Grumpy SavaDoom FirFo Hawkeye	Sockshka 7ckngMad Funzii TBA TBA
NEXT.kz	Wolves	fnatic	Team Y
Mantis eQual LuCky StalCat FF	Calculus Ryze Balsam miGGel THEneNo-	Era Fly N0tail Trixi H4nn1-	CWM vigoss Admir GoD freezer

The main round will be followed by offline finals again, this time with eight teams participating in Kiev. This number of playoff teams has risen from four at the first SLTV finals in April, to six invited teams last time now to a total of eight teams. In both finals held this year, however, at least the American teams have rejected the invitation on short notice. Let's see how it works this time.

The finals will be held on four days, 18 to 21 October, once again in connection with the other disciplines from the SLTV league, like Bloodline Champions or World of Tanks.

Russia to open the third season of StarSeries

On the opening day, eight matches are scheduled. They will be streamed by v1lat and mtrx4u. Virtus.Pro vs. Empire is one of the two opening matches, played parallel to Moscow 5 against BVM from Sweden. This way, three Russian teams will open the series of SLTV matches.

Schedule, 17 September
Match			Streamer
Moscow 5	17:00 CET	BVM	mtrx4u
Virtus.Pro	17:00 CET	Team Empire	v1lat
Fnatic	18:00 CET	M5	v1lat
Team Empire	18:00 CET	Darer	mtrx4u
BVM	19:00 CET	Fnatic	v1lat
Virtus.Pro	19:00 CET	Darer	mtrx4u
EG	20:00 CET	Wolves	v1lat
Mouz	20:00 CET	Quantic	mtrx4u

Timetable:
Main round: 17 September - 3 October
Offline finals: 18 October - 21 October

Prize money:
1. Place: $6,000
2. Place: $3,000
3. Place: $2,500
4. Place: $2,000
5. Place: $500
6. Place: $400
7. Place: $350
8. Place: $250

Source: StarLadder