EPICENTER viewer's guide

23/10/2017 - 16:35

With EPICENTER due to start shortly, we have prepared a viewer's guide with all the information you need to know ahead of the $500,000 tournament, including schedule, on-air team and prize distribution.

Following a first event in Moscow, EPICENTER has moved to St. Petersburg for its second edition, running until Sunday and featuring ten teams, six of whom were directly invited by the organisers, Epic Esports Events.

EPICENTER 2017 will begin with a four-team wildcard stage, featuring two best-of-three series, which will determine the last two sides making it to the double-elimination group stage, in which all matches will be played in a best-of-three format.

EPICENTER is back, now in St. Petersburg

The top two teams from both groups will progress to the single-elimination knockout stages, which will culminate with the best-of-five grand final, on Sunday afternoon.

Below you can find the group draw for the tournament:

Group A	Group B
SK	Astralis
Virtus.pro	G2
Gambit	North
FaZe / TYLOO	Vega Squadron / Liquid

The complete schedule for the tournament, including the wildcard qualifier, looks as follows:

Monday, October 23
17:00	FaZe	vs. TYLOO	Bo3
20:00	Liquid	vs. Vega Squadron	Bo3

Tuesday, October 24
10:00	SK	vs. Virtus.pro	Bo3
13:00	Astralis	vs. G2	Bo3
16:00	Gambit	vs. FaZe / TYLOO	Bo3
19:00	North	vs. Liquid / Vega Squadron	Bo3

Wednesday, October 25
10:00	Group A elimination match		Bo3
13:00	Group B elimination match		Bo3
16:00	Group A winners' match		Bo3
19:00	Group B winners' match

Thursday, October 26
10:00	Group A decider match		Bo3
13:00	Group B decider match		Bo3

Saturday, October 28
12:00	Semi-final #1		Bo3
17:00	Semi-final #2		Bo3

Sunday, October 29
11:00	Third-place decider		Bo3
14:30	Grand final		Bo5

Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović will join event host Alex "Machine" Richardson at the analyst desk, while two famous casting duos will provide play-by-play commentary during the matches. The complete on-air team for the event is the following:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Host

Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunović - Analyst

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
Henry "HenryG" Greer - Commentator
Jason "moses" O’Toole - Commentator
Anders Blume - Commentator

The $500,000 prize pool will be distributed among the teams as follows:

1. $250,000
2. $100,000
3. $60,000
4. $30,000
5-6. $15,000
7-8. $10,000
9-10. $5,000

2017-10-23 16:38

8 replies

ez fr bondik and bntet

2017-10-23 16:42

1 reply

ez 4 vp

2017-10-24 09:48

If FaZe and Liquid make it this will be the best tournament of the year, it's just a shame VP is attending. The tournament would be perfect if it was C9 or Na'Vi instead.

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NaVi sucks as much as VP right now.

2017-10-23 16:44

Yes that's true. I would put C9 in because they've shown some beautiful CS the last two tournaments, but NaVi have lots of problems atm.

2017-10-23 16:45

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I'm biased because I'm a Na'Vi fan, but you're definitely right in that Na'Vi needs a fix. S1mple is always a joy to watch though, and I still think they're better than VP for sure. C9 is the better of the 2 though, they would have the potential to get out of groups imo.

2017-10-23 16:56