Groups for EPL S7 Finals revealed

30/4/2018 - 09:36

The groups for the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals have been determined.

The Verizon Theatre in Dallas, Texas, USA will host the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals on May 14-20. 16 teams will partake in the tournament which will have a $750,000 prize pool. The winners will take home $250,000 while the runners-up earn $110,000.

The event will have two double-elimination groups, each of which will hand out three spots in the playoffs. The upper-bracket winners will advance to the semi-final while upper-bracket runners-up and lower-bracket winners move on to the quarter-finals.

s1mple & company will face tough opponents in the group stage

MOUZ, FaZe, and Natus Vincere have been drawn into the same group while Astralis, SK, and Liquid are set to compete in the other group. The last slot in Group Yellow will be handed out in the ESL Latin America League Season 1 Finals between FURIA and Sharks.

Here is the full group draw:

Group Yellow	Group Red
MOUZ	Liquid
Natus Vincere	Ninjas in Pyjamas
NRG	OpTic
FaZe	Space Soldiers
Cloud9	Renegades
HellRaisers	Astralis
MVP PK	SK
South America slot	Grayhound

Ez 4 nip

2018-04-30 09:37

2 replies

2018-05-01 01:03

2018-05-01 04:42

Ez for Optic

5 replies

ez 4 MAJ3R

2018-04-30 09:43

Maj3r : The closet Baguette

2018-04-30 09:46

1 reply

Maj3r=Kebab Baguette

2018-04-30 10:17

Optic vs Astralis inc

2018-04-30 10:21

Hopefully not ...

2018-04-30 10:38

tq hltv

lool balanced

21 replies

actually it is

2018-04-30 09:41

2018-04-30 09:45

+1 It's a damn accurate and balanced list from ESL!

2018-04-30 09:44

18 replies

Actually Group 1 is far better, Navi, C9, Mouz and FaZe are actually four Top 5 teams in one Group

2018-04-30 10:35

17 replies

yeah group red is kinda underwhelmimg. the only really good teams are liquid and astralis

2018-04-30 11:09

7 replies

NiP can play good tournaments as well

2018-04-30 11:13

6 replies

yeah they can. but not in par with astralis and liquid

2018-04-30 12:09

who made it out of the groups last tournament?

2018-04-30 17:43

4 replies

who has won more matches last 3 months?

2018-04-30 18:33

3 replies

NIP has barely played any lol. Nip > liquid 100% hltv fake rankings can’t deal w it tho

2018-04-30 18:34

ok. by barely u mean ecs and esl matches right?

2018-04-30 18:42

Lol going by online results they’re better than Astralis who are world number one. Also they’re worse than envyus. So I guess envy is #1

2018-04-30 22:08

Not sure C9 are top 5 right now. I'd put Astralis and fnatic above them and liquid pretty much even. Yellow group is a bit stronger but Astralis just beat half the teams in it to win a tournie, SK are always dangerous and NiP and Liquid can beat any team on a good day.

2018-04-30 16:35

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C9 is the best team worldwide atm

2018-04-30 18:19

0/8

2018-04-30 20:28

Who won the major?

2018-04-30 22:09

even more 0/8

2018-04-30 22:58

HahahHahahahahuehuehuehihi Tyloo 2:0 Get shit on :b

2018-05-01 16:50

c9 2 - 1 faze eleague major 2018 hmmmm :thinking:

2018-05-01 22:35

2018-05-02 15:16

NiP and Astralis!

Worth watching!! #GONINJAS

2018-04-30 09:39

spicy

Astralis

2018-04-30 09:38

ez s1mple

3rd

Ez4Ast

Mvp in yellow. Lul Actually that's racist take the joke back

LUL

2018-04-30 10:00

And all the red flags (exepct USA) are in red group :D

2018-04-30 10:18

Why Yellow and Red? lol

This is done to give themselves the option to name the groups 'A' and 'B' later. If they call them A and B now, they can't change it later.

2018-04-30 09:42

Why can't ya just say red or blue/black and white smh

2018-04-30 10:01

The color choice is weird, I gotta admit

2018-04-30 10:09

Oha türk mod mu varmış lan

2018-04-30 10:54

Gg ez

nice

EZ for South American Slot

2018-04-30 11:21

Navi + cloud9 + faze + mouz loool

cloud9 top team OMEGALUL

Hard to judge...

groups are somewhat balanced imo.

Tbh Liquid + cloud9 + sk are the only teams in America that could compete in world class cs go .. in the other side in Europe there is .. Faze + Astrails + Navi + mouz + nip + ... And more ... So imo the groups is not that much balanced but you can't get a lot better ...

2018-04-30 09:48

Yeah ,EU EPL is much more stacked compared to NA EPL.

2018-04-30 09:49

2018-04-30 09:50

Ultra instictolul

EZ furia

2018-04-30 09:40

putting the asian team in group yellow is racist

saying that is racist is racist

2018-04-30 09:56

saying that is racist is racist is racist

2018-04-30 09:58

saying that is racist is racist is racist is racist

group yellow 4x > red

Ez for pazzTares and ez for SS

lmao such an unbalanced groups, too ez 4 Astralis

group red astralis, NiP, Liquid group yellow mouz, faze, navi easiest prediction of my life maybe some upsets but we will see.

Don’t think so. I expect alot of upsets so it will get dicy.

2018-04-30 09:59

Nip will win

2018-04-30 09:51

ehhhhh no

2018-04-30 14:32

Watch and see my frend

2018-05-01 01:49

I would like nip to win, but i dont think it will happen

2018-05-01 05:12

group A: mOUZ, FaZe, FURIA Group b: SK , Astralis, NiP

2018-04-30 10:04

will it be swiss?

2018-04-30 10:02

Second paragraph explains the group stage format.

2018-04-30 10:10

Thanks, missed it somehow

2018-04-30 14:18

double elimination with seeding for the playoffs

2018-04-30 10:22

ez semi for Na'Vi

2018-04-30 10:13

"Navi face Hard opponents" new c9, faze shit, Nrg, Hellraisers, mvp pk and some South American team. Seems very hard lol

why red and yellow?

2018-04-30 10:30

2EZ4XANTARESANDSS

2018-04-30 10:46

This event is gonna be lit for sure!!!

2018-04-30 10:51

Rip SS

2018-04-30 10:56

Ez for FURIA kappa

2018-04-30 10:59

Red Group slightly eaiser than yellow would say.

2018-04-30 11:10

really nice experience pool for mvp pk

2018-04-30 11:11

wow stacked event, gonna be awesome .

2018-04-30 11:18

Where's group blue?

2018-04-30 11:22

group red sk, astralis, nip/optic or liquid yellow cloud 9 navi and mouz

2018-04-30 11:26

ez nrg

2018-04-30 11:30

red so stacked, blue ez pz for favorits

2018-04-30 11:37

GL to SK and Astralis!

2018-04-30 11:44

I remember when gambit was invited to events :')

2018-04-30 12:07

esl doesn't invite directly into event, wild card was maximum they ever did

2018-04-30 13:42

YYEEEEEESSS

2018-04-30 12:08

Rip space soldiers. They are again in the hardest group

2018-04-30 12:12

EZ FAZE

2018-04-30 12:14

predictions group A: mouz, navi & faze group B: astralis, nip & liquid

2018-04-30 12:29

Navi Mouse Faze. Astralis Nip Liquid.

2018-04-30 12:30

wtf is this yellow/red groups? A or B/1 or 2 to much casual? or why not white/black?

2018-04-30 12:40

they are not racist , so that's why not white/black /closed

2018-05-02 12:43

2018-04-30 12:52

NRG win

2018-04-30 13:37

Mvp pk EZ

2018-04-30 13:54

s1mple just so Much Better than all the others. Ez MVP from home...

2018-04-30 14:00

I hate this "16 team but only 6 playoff spots" format. The playoff series are what we actually want to see most...give us back our two more series back please

2018-04-30 14:19

1st Navi 2nd HR 3rd NRG

2018-04-30 15:16

Up-front Group Yellow seems far more competitive than Group Red. But we shall see. Hopefully there will be good games in both.

2018-04-30 16:32