Gfinity 3 viewer's guide

31/7/2014 - 19:11

With Gfinity 3's $45,000 CS:GO tournament now days away, we're ready to publish the official viewer's guide for the event taking place on August 2-3.

Gfinity 3 has gathered eight of the world's top twelve teams, according to our July world ranking, and two more who could well be considered for spots in the top fifteen.

The whole stacked event will be finished in just two short days at the Olympic Park in London, where a total of $45,000 will be split among the top eight finishers as follows:

1. $20,000 + ESWC spot
2. $10,000
3-4. $5,000
5-8. $1,250

The event will be casted by the likes of Stuart "TosspoT" Saw and Anders Blume, with Scott "SirScoots" Smith and Duncan "Thorin" Shields also part of the production crew.

In case you missed them, we have conducted an interview with mousesports' Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli here, and another one featuring Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill here.

Thorin & SirScoots will be present at G3

Below is the official schedule for the event, which will start with two six team groups, followed up by an eight team single elimination best-of-three bracket.

Please note that G3 have not scheduled the matches on either day, aside from the first one. Instead they are expected to go live after the previous matches finish.

Saturday, August 2
10:00	FM	vs. mousesports	BO1	*
10:00	NiP	vs. Epsilon	BO1
10:00	fnatic	vs. iBUYPOWER	BO1
~11:30	Infused	vs. London Conspiracy	BO1	*
~11:30	Virtus.pro	vs. ESG	BO1
~11:30	Titan	vs. dignitas	BO1
~13:00	Epsilon	vs. fnatic	BO1	*
~13:00	NiP	vs. Infused	BO1
~13:00	London Conspiracy	vs. iBUYPOWER	BO1
~14:30	ESG	vs. dignitas	BO1	*
~14:30	mousesports	vs. Virtus.pro	BO1
~14:30	FM	vs. Titan	BO1
~16:00	NiP	vs. fnatic	BO1	*
~16:00	ESG	vs. mousesports	BO1
~16:00	Infused	vs. iBUYPOWER	BO1
~17:30	Titan	vs. Virtus.pro	BO1	*
~17:30	fnatic	vs. London Conspiracy	BO1
~17:30	dignitas	vs. mousesports	BO1
~19:00	NiP	vs. iBUYPOWER	BO1	*
~19:00	Infused	vs. Epsilon	BO1
~19:00	ESG	vs. FM	BO1
~20:30	Virtus.pro	vs. dignitas	BO1	*
~20:30	fnatic	vs. Infused	BO1
~20:30	Epsilon	vs. London Conspiracy	BO1
~22:00	Titan	vs. ESG	BO1	*
~22:00	FM	vs. dignitas	BO1
~22:00	NiP	vs. London Conspiracy	BO1
~23:30	Epsilon	vs. iBUYPOWER	BO1	*
~23:30	FM	vs. Virtus.pro	BO1
~23:30	mousesports	vs. Titan	BO1

Sunday, August 3
10:00	Quarter-final #1		BO3	*
~12:00	Quarter-final #2		BO3	*
~14:00	Quarter-final #3		BO3	*
~16:00	Quarter-final #4		BO3	*
~18:00	Semi-final #1		BO3	*
~20:00	Semi-final #2		BO3	*
~22:00	Grand final		BO3	*

* Implies the match is played on the main stage

If the quarter-finals go the distance, G3 will move one or two of them to the tournament area to make sure the rest can still be played on the main stage.

Gfinity 3 will take place on August 2-3 at the Olympic Park in London, UK. HLTV.org will be on-site to provide you with full coverage of all the action.

Can't wait! Go London

2014-07-31 19:13

2 replies

skurk<3

2014-07-31 22:21

1 reply

aaakei<3

2014-07-31 23:32

sick

2014-07-31 19:15

fnatic-IBuyPower!!!

THE HYPE IS PALPABLE.

awesome!

will never be n1 :(

OMG GAME ALL DAY <3

2014-07-31 19:17

can't wait!

2014-07-31 19:18

dat matchs

2014-07-31 19:19

bad that all matches are played the same time

2014-07-31 19:23

4 replies

You can't have everything.

2014-07-31 19:24

Otherwise the tournament would be like whole week...

2014-07-31 19:40

Imo it should have started on friday

2014-07-31 20:02

No, then i wouldnt be able to watch!!!!!!!!

2014-08-01 10:17

Dis gonna be gud

2014-07-31 19:25

Really looking forward!

see ya guys there! and make sure to cheer for our guys :)

I won't be bored this saturday

gl esg

2014-07-31 19:26

can't wait to see ibp play

2014-07-31 19:27

I'm expecting great things from this tournament , but also from ESWC to follow up this "qualifier". Good luck to all teams there hoping for some upsets.

2014-07-31 19:28

EDIT: My mistake, mixed up two tournaments.

2014-07-31 19:35

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it will be on main arena or something on friday too

2014-07-31 19:31

you realize that's a different tournament right?

I do, but I mixed them up. Sorry. Also, it would be cool if G3 had half of the groupstages on Friday, this way we're gonna miss some great matches, already at 10 am one, for example.

2014-07-31 19:36

Budget~~~

2014-07-31 19:37

You know G3 != ESL right?

2014-07-31 19:32

Ok...FM vs Mouz on Main Stage...not fnatic-iBP or NIP-EPS... WTF is this?!

They have to coverage some matches with British teams man... They are totally underdogs and basically every match with them is not as interesting as others.

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I know that...both infused & FM are on Main Stage......

Every team gets to appear on the mainstage.

2014-07-31 19:53

Does that matter that much and all the important matches starting from the QF will be played on the main stage so.

2014-07-31 20:37

16:00 NiP vs. fnatic BO1 oh shiat!

can't wait for jakem to own everyone fs

2014-07-31 19:38

G3 > ESL

2014-07-31 19:46

NiP vs iBP , CANT WAIT :>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

omfg, its gonna be good bets on csgolounge :>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so many bo1, so many upsets inc in 3.. 2.. 1..

2014-07-31 19:48

So many skins to lose

Really tight schedule, hope everything will run smooth, if theres 5min delays in every match = CHAOZ.

2014-07-31 19:54

who cares

2014-07-31 19:57

10:00 fnatic vs. iBUYPOWER BO1 ~11:30 Virtus.pro vs. ESG BO1 ~13:00 Epsilon vs. fnatic BO1 ~14:30 ESG vs. dignitas BO1 ~16:00 NiP vs. fnatic BO1 * ~17:30 Titan vs. Virtus.pro BO1 * ~19:00 NiP vs. iBUYPOWER BO1 ~20:30 Virtus.pro vs. dignitas BO1 ~23:30 Epsilon vs. iBUYPOWER BO1 these matches gotta be streamed! *

2014-07-31 19:58

OMG...look at them starting 6 matches *_* Sad thing is we can watch only 1 at a time :/

2014-07-31 20:05

DreamTeam?!

2014-07-31 20:07

All matches will be streamed correct? Not just mainstage matches?

2014-07-31 20:24

dreamteam twg...?

2014-07-31 20:34

No dreamteam for G3? I know we'd only have 1 switch-out period, but it would still be sick for this tournment.

2014-07-31 21:09

Very expensive team for spectators 50euro to just watch, and zero communications from G3 itself, they literally just send info to hltv. edit: zero info on website gfinity.net/

2014-07-31 21:28

I think they should hold off on deciding the main stage matches for the end of day1 until they see how the groups are panning out. No point having a nothing game on stage when 2 teams could be potentially playing for the last spot in the next round

2014-07-31 21:44

Local timezone or CET?

2014-07-31 21:47

Its your timezone that you set on settings

2014-07-31 21:49

Wow I never knew that option changes the whole site much thanks

2014-07-31 22:08

me neither dude! thanksss

2014-07-31 22:13

omg what a saturday!!!

DREAMTEAM ?!?!?!?!

2014-07-31 22:18

I hope Thoorin packed enough jerseys :D

2014-07-31 23:21

Looks like a lot of good CS to watch.

2014-08-01 00:13

strange that the worst game out of all of them opens.

2014-08-01 05:40

Good luck to iBP :)

2014-08-01 08:50

Tosspot YEAH!!

2014-08-01 10:41

grandfinal will be at 2 in the morning cuz its british lans and at british lans we do lan finals at 2 in the morning just like all iSERIES

2014-08-01 13:37

worth watching : 10h00 Fnatic - IBP 11h30 Titan - Dignitas 13h00 Epsilon - Fnatic 16h00 NIP - Fnatic 17h30 Titan - VP 19h00 NIP - IBP 20h30 VP - Dignitas 23h30 Epsilon - IBP the schedule is really optimized :D

2014-08-01 14:27

finally we will see IBP vs NIP

2014-08-01 16:57