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 AGroup B Luminosity Gaming NiP OpTic Fnatic Astralis Liquid G2 Esports Cloud 9
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 14:00 OpTicvs AstralisBo115:10 Luminosity Gamingvs G2Bo116:20 Fnaticvs Cloud 9Bo117:30 Liquidvs NiPBo118:40Group A winners match Bo119:50Group B winners match Bo121:00Group A elimination match Bo3Thursday, May 12th 14:00Group B elimation match Bo317:15Group A decider Bo320:30Group B decider Bo3Saturday, May 14th 16:00Semi-final #1 (B1 vs A2) Bo317:40Semi-final #2 (B2 vs A1) Bo3Sunday, May 15th 16:00Showmatch 18:00Grand final Bo5Headline source
