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ESL Pro League CS:GO season 17: Groups and schedule

The tournament lasts over a month.
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Published: Jan 27, 2023 11:21 am

ESL has introduced the four groups for the $850,000 ESL Pro League season 17 on Jan. 27. Thirty-two CS:GO teams will attend the competition and each group will feature eight squads.

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The group stage of ESL Pro League season 17 is different than ESL’s previous round-robin format. The tournament organizer will use the triple-elimination format for each group and the top four teams in each group will advance to the playoffs. The group winners move straight to the quarterfinals, the runners-up move to the round of 12, while the third and fourth-place squads advance to the round of 16 as a high seed and low seed, respectively.

As for the playoffs, ESL has kept the single-elimination bracket format. All matches of the tournament will be best-of-threes, aside from the grand final on March 26, which will be a best-of-five.

Here are every group of ESL Pro League season 17 and the schedule for the tournament.

ESL Pro League season 17 groups

Group A

  • G2 Esports
  • Outsiders
  • Fnatic
  • Cloud9
  • Eternal Fire
  • Evil Geniuses
  • MIBR
  • IHC

Group B

  • Heroic
  • FURIA
  • MOUZ
  • BIG
  • Movistar Riders
  • Imperial
  • Complexity
  • SAW

Group C

  • FaZe Clan
  • Vitality
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas
  • OG
  • 00 Nation
  • PaiN Gaming
  • Grayhound
  • Rooster

Group D

  • Natus Vincere
  • Team Liquid
  • ENCE
  • Astralis
  • ForZe
  • Team Spirit
  • Rare Atom
  • ATK

ESL Pro League season 17 schedule

Every group of ESL Pro League season 17 will be played separately. This means that Group B only starts after Group A is over, for example. The initial matchups are set and so are the days, but the exact time of the matches has not been revealed yet. We’ll update this section when more details are revealed.

Wednesday, Feb. 22

  • Outsiders vs. IHC
  • MIBR vs. Fnatic
  • C9 vs. EG
  • G2 vs. Eternal Fire

Wednesday, March 1

  • Heroic vs. Movistar Riders
  • BIG vs. Complexity
  • FURIA vs. Imperial
  • MOUZ vs. SAW

Wednesday, March 8

  • FaZe vs. Rooster
  • NiP vs. paiN
  • OG vs. 00 Nation
  • Vitality vs. Grayhound

Wednesday, March 15

  • Liquid vs. Rare Atom
  • ENCE vs. ATK
  • Spirit vs. Astralis
  • NAVI vs. forZe
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Leonardo Biazzi
Staff writer and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been passionate about games since he was a kid and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Before Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he worked for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo also worked for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior writer, until he returned to Dot Esports and became part of the staff team.
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