ELEAGUE Premier playoffs viewer's guide

9/10/2017 - 17:58

With the ELEAGUE Premier 2017 playoffs drawing near, we have prepared a viewer’s guide that includes the bracket, prize distribution and broadcast talent.

The ELEAGUE Premier 2017 playoffs will take place from October 10-14 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and will feature the eight teams who managed to book playoff spots by finishing in the top two places in the groups. The bulk of the tournament's $1 Million prize pool will be on the line, with the champions taking home $500,000.

NiKo's FaZe will take on EnVyUs in the quarter-finals

The teams who finished first in their group will take on a second placed-team from a different group in the quarter-finals. The single-elimination, best-of-three bracket ensures that teams from the same group will not be able to play each other until the grand final.

Below is the playoff bracket:

FaZe	vs. Envy
North	vs. Heroic

Cloud9	vs. G2
Astralis	vs. fnatic

The first two days will feature the quarter-final, matches, while the third day will feature the two semi-finals. The grand final will be played a day later.

The full schedule can be found below:

Tuesday, October 10
20:00	G2	vs. Cloud9	BO3
23:30	Astralis	vs. fnatic	BO3

Wednesday, October 11
20:00	FaZe	vs. Envy	BO3
23:30	Heroic	vs. North	BO3

Thursday, October 12
20:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
23:30	Semi-final #2		BO3

Saturday, October 14
04:00	Grand final		BO3

The on-air broadcast crew will feature the following names:

Richard Lewis - Host

Sue "Smix" Lee - Reporter

Jason "moses" O’Toole - Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunović - Analyst

Anders Blume - Commentator
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia - Commentator
James Bardolph - Commentator
Auguste "Semmler" Massonat - Commentator

The prize distribution will be as follows:

1. - $500,000
2. - $150,000
3-4. - $70,000
5-8. - $35,000

ayy

2017-10-09 17:59

very ez trophy for FaZe

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lul, why d u think so?

2017-10-09 18:01

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because no SK

2017-10-09 18:12

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And ez win vs g2 in Grand-Final

2017-10-09 18:33

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Not easy but I think faze will win

2017-10-09 19:32

(X) Doubt

2017-10-09 18:07

ez 4 EnvyUs

2017-10-09 21:40

2017-10-09 18:00

Ez vp

EZ4FAZE

PogChamp1337

eZaF 4 FaZe

cringe

2017-10-09 18:03

pz ez

Ez g2

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G2 - FaZe playoffs FaZe take it sadly

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Isn't g2 - fnatic/Astra ??

2017-10-09 18:06

Nah FaZe

2017-10-09 18:09

Envy trust me xD

2017-10-09 18:11

XDDDD

2017-10-09 18:25

FaZe win ez 4:00 final tho :/

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Yeah wtf so annoying:(:(

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We can't see FaZe (at least very likely) play/win in the grand final because of these shitty American times mate :( Fuck this, it could be played much earlier so Europeans could watch aswell

2017-10-09 18:20

Who am I kidding I probably will go up from bed to see it but it still sucks XD

2017-10-09 18:59

What

2017-10-09 20:57

What can I say I love cs

2017-10-09 20:58

"Who am I kidding" <- what do you mean with that?

2017-10-09 22:04

It means that even if I don't want to get up early and see the match I probably will.

2017-10-09 22:08

alright lul, I often go to bed at that time so no grand final for me probably haha

2017-10-09 22:17

If envyus won it

ez for astralis

2017-10-09 18:02

cool

YNk PogChamp

G2 up

Let's gooo

2017-10-09 18:04

G2 up? Who says that lmao

2017-10-09 18:35

Envy so unlucky :/

Nv would lose to everyone here anyway

Heroic, fnatic and c9 are widely beatable by nv if they perform well (which is the critical point tbh).

Yes definitely but nv seem to struggle on lan

2017-10-09 19:06

They played well at the eleague groupstage, but it will be damn hard against faze in any case...

2017-10-09 19:11

they will upset faze .. just believe my friend

Naaaaa that's impossible :/

G2 will crush them all !!! Ezpz lemon baguette squeezy

No sadokist and henry dammit why eleague

2017-10-09 18:05

True thts wat i was finding in the list Sadokist and henry are the best

2017-10-09 18:15

Waste of a final gonna be 10k viewers max

Live in EU and final 4.00 rip

ez sk

ez for SK LUL

Time for North to win it. As long as someone else can handle G2.

2017-10-09 18:08

G2 vs faze final

2017-10-09 18:10

Faze vs North would be pretty neat

2017-10-09 18:45

Why cannot the finals be bo5 :(

bcuz no vp

2017-10-09 18:13

Vp busy losing to japaleno

2017-10-09 19:04

Dat final time doe

Where is SK?? "Top 1" team oh wait they were raped by heroic xD

2017-10-09 18:17

Where is the best team in the world , #1 according to this site ? Oh wait... btw nice time schedule , keeping in mind that 7/8 teams are from EU Eleague very smart management. I'm sure the whole population of NA will watch every game.

its ok, the new #1 will be revealed at this tournament (assuming G2 FaZe or Astralis in the finals)

2017-10-09 18:38

i wouldnt be so sure , the points gap is unexplicably high between the teams.

why do the writers always say "niKos Faze" or "Devices' Astralis" when its....not their team and had nothing to do with roster?

2017-10-09 18:19

RLewis as host - this is going to be a good show

2017-10-09 18:22

EZ FAZE

2017-10-09 18:26

tnx yNk ResidentSleeper

2017-10-09 18:29

c9 VS heroic gonna be good final

2017-10-09 18:32

ez 4 Astralis

2017-10-09 18:34

schedule is pure cancer omg not a single european can watch it

2017-10-09 18:44

Ez 4 Cloud9

ANDERS <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

2017-10-09 18:47

Tough draw for C9

2017-10-09 18:53

Would be nice for c9 to do some damage, but they need to smooth out some loose edges.

2017-10-09 18:54

faze > nv north > heroic g2 > clown9 fnatiic > astralis

2017-10-09 18:55

semis: north > faze g2 > fnatiic final: g2 > north

2017-10-09 19:45

stfu

2017-10-09 20:11

FaZe fan again...

2017-10-09 20:15

nt but i hate them with a passion

2017-10-09 20:17

No SK :( GL North

2017-10-09 18:56

LAN?

2017-10-09 19:03

Who cares SK is still number 1 Kappa

SO EZ 4 SK GAMI...oh wait

100% accurate predictions, follow my bet for easy money on betting: 1) G2/C9 2:0 2) AST/FNC 2:0 3)Faze/NV 2:0 4)Heroic/North 1:2 gl

2017-10-09 19:12

Faze got this

2017-10-09 19:16

Oh boy, here I go watching CS:GO at 05:00 a.m. again!

2017-10-09 19:22

Grand final at 4 am. Good job EL.

2017-10-09 19:25

4am final. LUL NA, that's why Majors and such in NA are awful, you definitely could have had a more EU friendly time when EU is a big audience. It would have been better for almost everyone that the final would have started in the beginning of the afternoon in NA ...

2017-10-09 19:33

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You don't need EU when you already have that sweet-sweet TV money. Don't forget they already did that one $250k BO3 at the exact time as these finals.

2017-10-09 19:44

Then, f**k NA (especially ELeague, yeah i admit that their quality of production is (very) high, but the atmosphere sucks, you never get a wild crowd in a stadium with them as it happens in most european sports) destroying the game with massive amounts of money (the 250.000$ BO3 between VP and Astralis was utterly retarded considering the average cash prize on tourneys and the fact that VP was already playing like a Tier 3-4 at the time)

They're just targeting people in different timezones, just like that Australian IEM. I don't think they're destroying anything, they're just developing it for one specific part of the audience. From the audience's other part perceptive it's kind of a necessary evil or a necessary bummer to be exact. You can't get CS popular in NA if you don't stream it at their time sometimes too (and it's not like a whole tournament is 4-5 a.m.)

2017-10-09 19:57

Yeah understand that a NA tourney should target mainly NA audience but do it as much as other zones (especially Europe because many viewers) time friendly if you can. At least the final, especially when the final is not the same day as the 2 semis ...

This is where TV thing get's in a way cos you definitely want the main match of the tournament to be broadcasted at the best possible time for the viewers of that broadcast, it's like the main thing of the whole idea. It's a necessary bummer, like I said. Who knows, maybe they're keeping their production level just so they can stay a TV material so at the end of the road it's a solid compromise.

2017-10-09 20:03

Yeah maybe it's utopic to think the game can keep growing without the mainstream medias like TV channels with their producers seeing e-sport as great investment when they probably thought 3 years ago that gamers are "useless no lifes in their basement lul".

2017-10-09 20:05

It can but just to the certain level. And with Valve not giving a shit about their game on a development level of issue we need every growing possibility we can get lol.

2017-10-09 20:09

No that was 7am

2017-10-10 22:05

Ooooooh... you're right, my bad.

2017-10-10 23:03

5 in the morning on american television without any watchable streams for EU viewers good luck with that