While the World Finals are taking place in the USA, the Balkan region is having its own Grand Finals in Sofia, Bulgaria. Eight teams will face each other for glory and a total of 5 000 Euro in prize money.
The finals of the Balkans League will take place between 20th and 22nd September in Sofia, Bulgaria during the grand ON!Fest. The festival is a mix of events including gaming, hip-hop and break dancing, drifting, extreme sports, graffiti painting, anime exhibition and much more.
Eight teams, separated in two groups will participate in the League of Legends event.
Group A:
Bulgarian Snipers
Test your Limits
Kalu OP
Dark Passage
Group B:
Cava & Co
nExt!Please
Guru Gaming
Hegemony
The group stage will have double elimination format in the best of 1 series. The best team in each group will face the second one from the other group in a best of 3 series. Dark Passage, the Turkish team appears to be favorite for winning the tournament, but none of the teams are to be underestimated. AFK TV will be streaming the event live. Their stream can be found at: http://afktv.bg/live/afktv.
The 5 000 Euro prize pool will be divided as follows:
- 1st place: 2 000 Euro
- 2nd place: 1 000 Euro
- 3rd place: 600 Euro
- 4th place: 400 Euro
- 5-8th place: 250 Euro
The schedule for the tournament is as follows:
Friday 20.09.2013
Dark Passage vs Bulgarian Snipers - 17:30
Cava & Co vs Hegemony - 19:00
Saturday 21.09.2013
Test Your limits vs Kalu Op - 10:00
nExt!Please vs Guru Gaming - 14:30
Sunday 22.09.2013
Semi Final #1 - 10:00
Semi Final #2 - 13:00
Grand Final - 17:00
Note: there will be additional matches that are not shown in this schedule, depending on the results in the groups.
Source - AFK TV
Source - On Fest
