ESL have revealed the schedule, format and group layouts for the Season 3 ESL Pro League finals, due to take place from May 11-15 in London, United Kingdom.
ESL have announced that the format will remain in the standard style for the event meaning that for both the opening round and the winners match a best of one will be held, therefore, leaving the elimnation and decider matches down to a heated best of three.
The top four seeds from both NA and EU have been scrambled up into two groups which are as follows:
Group A | Group B |
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As the $512,000 tournament progresses into playoffs the teams will jump on over to the O2 arena in London where the Semi-finals will be played in a series of best of threes leaving a climatic best of five to decide the Season 3 champions.
When will the teams be playing?
ESL have also released an aproximate schedule for the event:
Wednesday May, 11th | ||||
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14:00 | ![]() | vs | ![]() | Bo1 |
15:10 | ![]() | vs | ![]() | Bo1 |
16:20 | ![]() | vs | ![]() | Bo1 |
17:30 | ![]() | vs | ![]() | Bo1 |
18:40 | Group A winners match | Bo1 | ||
19:50 | Group B winners match | Bo1 | ||
21:00 | Group A elimination match | Bo3 | ||
Thursday, May 12th | ||||
14:00 | Group B elimation match | Bo3 | ||
17:15 | Group A decider | Bo3 | ||
20:30 | Group B decider | Bo3 | ||
Saturday, May 14th | ||||
16:00 | Semi-final #1 (B1 vs A2) | Bo3 | ||
17:40 | Semi-final #2 (B2 vs A1) | Bo3 | ||
Sunday, May 15th | ||||
16:00 | Showmatch | |||
18:00 | Grand final | Bo5 | ||