ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 Finals: Event Preview

The  ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 Finals, a $250,000 event for  Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive, is set to go live in Burbank, California from December, 10-13. Eight teams, from across Europe, and North America, will battle it out for a share of the $250,000 prize pool, and to also be crowned ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 champions

This event will also be ignoring the recent patch released on December, 8, 2015.

The Format

The eight competing teams were divided up into two groups, Group A, and Group B. Throughout the group stages, and Semi-Final matches, the teams will play in a best-of-three, double elimination bracket. For the two teams that get to the Grand Final, they will play in a best-of-five match.

You can find the groups below:

Group A

• Team Liquid
• Fnatic
• Team Conquest
• Team EnVyUs

Group B

• Question Mark (Formerly Team SoloMid)
• Luminosity Gaming
• Natus Vincere
• Counter Logic Gaming

The Schedule

The first set of matches at the event have already been determined, with the other matches being identified after the outcome of previous matches.

*All matches are in Pacific Time (PT)

Thursday, 10 December

• 10:00 – Team Liquid vs. Team EnVyUs
• 13:00 – Team Conquest vs. Fnatic
• 16:30 – Question Mark vs. Counter Logic Gaming
• 20:00 – Natus Vincere vs. Luminosity Gaming

Friday, 11 December

• 10:00 – Group A Winners
• 13:00 – Group B Winners
• 16:30 – Group A Elimination
• 20:00 Group B Elimination

Saturday, 12 December

• 10:00 – Group A Decider
• 13:00 – Group B Decider
• 16:30 – Semi-Final #1
• 20:00 – Semi-Final #2

Sunday, 13 December

• 11:00 – Grand Final

The Prize Pool

The eight teams from Europe, and North America will be competing across a four day event for a share of the $250,000 prize pool.

The Talent Team

The  ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 Finals will feature an 11-man, on-air talent team bringing you all of the information, casting, and analysis required.

You can find a full list of the talent team below:

• Alex “Machine” Richardson – Host

• Lauren “Pansy” Scott – Caster
• Cory “Megaman” Gilbert – Caster
• Anders Blume – Caster
• Auguste “Semmler” Massonnat – Caster
• John “blu” Mullen – Caster
• Matthew “Sadokist” Trivett – Caster
• Jason “moses” O’Toole – Caster
• Robin “Fifflaren” Johansson – Caster
• Sean “seang@res” Gares – Caster

• Heather “sapphiRe” Mumm – Observer

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