EPICENTER 2019 viewer's guide

16/12/2019 - 15:21

As another edition of EPICENTER is ahead of us, we collected the most important information about the $500,000 tournament and present it in the form of a viewer's guide.

EPICENTER 2019 will take place in Moscow, Russia, on December 17-22, with eight teams in competition for the $250,000 first-place prize. The tournament will kick off with two GSL groups, followed by a six-team single-elimination playoff bracket.

EG, mouz, and more will close out the year in Moscow

Four top-ten teams will participate in the event of which Evil Geniuses is the highest ranked one, but mousesports will be looking to continue their winning streak and add a fourth back-to-back tournament victory before the end of the year. Both Vitality and Natus Vincere being in attendance — and in the same group — opens the door for a Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev vs. Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut matchup which is another thing to look forward to in Moscow.

The groups for the tournament are as follows:

Group A

Group B

The event will take place over a total of six days. The first three will be reserved for the group stage and will be closed off from the public, with a break day following. Then, the top six teams will face off in the playoffs which will take place at the Crocus Expo IEC on December 21-22.

The full schedule for EPICENTER Moscow is as follows:

Tuesday, December 17
11:00 Vitality vs. EHOME | BO3
14:00 Natus Vincere vs. Heroic | BO3
17:00 Group A winners' match| BO3

Wednesday, December 18
11:00 forZe vs. Evil Geniuses | BO3
14:00 Virtus.pro vs. mousesports | BO3
17:00 Group B winners' match| BO3

Thursday, December 19
10:00 Group A elimination match | BO3
13:00 Group B elimination match| BO3
16:00 Group A decider match | BO3
19:00 Group B decider match | BO3

Saturday, December 21
12:00 Quarter-final #1 | BO3
15:00 Quarter-final #2 | BO3

Sunday, December 22
10:00 Semi-final #1 | BO3
13:00 Semi-final #2 | BO3
16:00 Grand final | BO3

To bring the action and break down the matchups, EPICENTER hired the likes of Matthew "⁠Sadokist⁠" Trivett, Daniel "⁠ddk⁠" Kapadia and James "⁠BARDOLPH⁠" Bardolph. Duncan "⁠Thorin⁠" Shields will also be present at the event, taking on the host role this time around, while Halvor "⁠vENdetta⁠" Gulestøl, Christine "⁠potter⁠" Chi, and newcomer Alex "⁠Mauisnake⁠" Ellenberg will be providing analysis on the desk.

Below is the on-air lineup for EPICENTER 2019:

Duncan "⁠Thorin⁠" Shields - Host

Halvor "⁠vENdetta⁠" Gulestøl - Analyst
Christine "⁠potter⁠" Chi - Analyst
Alex "⁠Mauisnake⁠" Ellenberg - Analyst

Matthew "⁠Sadokist⁠" Trivett - Caster
Alex "Hawka" Hawkins - Caster
Daniel "⁠ddk⁠" Kapadia - Caster
James "⁠BARDOLPH⁠" Bardolph - Caster

Half of the $500,000 prize pool will be awarded to the winner of the event, with the whole distributed available below:

1. $250,000
2. $120,000
3-4. $40,000
5-6. $15,000
7-8. $10,000

new vp KEKWWWWW

2019-12-16 15:22

4 replies

Ez MVP for ZywOo

2019-12-16 15:23

Mouz will win

2 replies

I hope they atleast reach finals, I have ropz and woxic in my fantasy team

2019-12-16 15:29

again

2019-12-16 16:33

Fuck new vp

5 replies

gay

2019-12-16 15:26

kkkkkkkkkkk

2019-12-16 15:28

Still better then 2019 VP

2019-12-16 15:55

fuck butthurt polakos

2019-12-16 16:13

polaks mad

2019-12-16 16:32

There's no AVANGAR no more...

Virtus Pro picked up Avangar as the new VP roster and replaced the polish lineup

2019-12-16 15:39

1 reply

That was AVANGAR in news. Now it's ok. It's VP, new VP...

2019-12-16 17:00

ez 4 vp

tier 2,5 event

Thooorin

ez mouz

HAWKA WHO?

2019-12-16 15:24

ez for Avangar/VP since no choker cleaners in the team.

No longer Chokengar more like Chokus Pro

2019-12-16 15:40

still better than toilet clea****

2019-12-16 15:42

Only one T1 team - EG.

2019-12-16 15:27

25 replies

0/8

2019-12-16 15:30

24 replies

Who else? NaVi? Not atm.

23 replies

mouz t1 navi t1, even tho a weak one team zywoo t1 avangar t1-t2 forze best t2 atm

2019-12-16 15:32

22 replies

Ah, true, Mouz is Tier1. NaVi + Vitality though? What did they even do this year. Is NiP tier1 too then? Because they are better than both NaVi + Vitality

20 replies

NiP better than NaVi? Next joke please

19 replies

What did NaVi do this year? NiP performed better, simple as that. Try again next year.

2019-12-16 15:41

18 replies

Team ZywOo better than each one of these and it is not t1 lmfao. They were just trolling for last couple of weeks before the break. Now they have practiced and will come back harder with ZywOo 1.60 rating.

2019-12-16 15:44

I will never understand what the fuck is wrong with you fanboys, dumb ass cucks. Sucking off CS players lmao

2019-12-16 15:45

3 replies

lmao says NiP is better than Vitality and then says others are fanboys while he is unbiased. no one is more delusional ass than you.

2019-12-16 15:47

Ye, I dont support NiP, sorry. Also, you're a fanboy, or else why would you have this flair? Pathetic

lmao then much bigger delusional fanbooyy. doesn't support NiPples and still fanboyying and mad. lmfao

2019-12-16 15:49

They reached semis at katowice, won starseries, made quarters at Berlin, semis at dreamhack, semis at EPL and a potential epicenter trophy. What did NiP achieve?

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wtf??? G2-> final at EPL, won GGL,semis at ESLNY,semis at DH Open, 3rd at WESG,5-6 at starseries,5-6 at IEM chicago, lmfao doesn't it seem a good year for G2 if Na'vi is having good year. axaxaxaxaxax

2019-12-16 15:59

10 replies

Tournaments they won???? axxaxaxaxa

2019-12-16 19:35

9 replies

lmao I didn't say they were better. axaxaxaxax G2 is a 13th ranked team and has been so all the year. So that means not much ahead. axaxaxaxaxax

2019-12-16 21:27

8 replies

Yeah, NaVi is much better than what G2 is. Now go and shit outside on ur street JAJAJJJAJAJJAJAJ

2019-12-17 06:59

7 replies

haha lost 2 bo3s and 2 bo1s to G2. lmfao Na'vi tasted my shit thats why they're so bad. axaxaxaxaxaxax

2019-12-17 07:43

6 replies

Lost to a team with a coach and standin kek

2019-12-17 08:02

lmao I'm not a G2 fan. Just saying Na'Vi not much better than G2. axaxaxaxax Why should I compare my favorite team to your shit team?

2019-12-17 08:07

Cuz ur favourite team is dogshit compared to my "shit" team? Expected from streetshitter

2019-12-17 08:13

lmfao axaxaxaxaxax see this mad fanboy. His team is literally dogshit, 0 t1 tourney and 0 t1 final finishes and he has audacity to talk. His team is worse than G2. Imagine losing 2 bo3s and 2bo1s to a utter shit which drops a series to 2 stand-ins, a team whose year is full of chokes axaxaxaxaxax See this kid being mad. lmao when his team has done literally nothing except being bait for s0mple to farm stats.

2019-12-17 08:17

They lost but they lost in overtimes u dumbfuck, much like lucky wins for g2. Ur such a 0/8er and a no-lifer on this website. Go get a job or some shit. NaVi is better than G2 and ur shit team that baits for Zywho and still loses. /closed

2019-12-17 08:22

lucky wins axaxaxaxaxax win is a win. Astralis also wins many times in OTs. And OTs was only bo1s. In bo3s they literally fucked them. Literally after 2 weeks of AmaNEk's addition they fucked you in BO3 and with this new roster in star series they fucked you again. Ahahaha so mad this guy. ZywOo is best entry fragger for the year. Like no one knows when his team is losing, he takes goes running through every site and wins every fucking duel. Runs with AWP in banana. s0mple can only imagine of it. s0mple only good at trading frags. axaxaxaxax

2019-12-17 08:26

Lmao nip fucking trash

2019-12-16 18:44

> forze best t2 atm +11

2019-12-16 15:48

Vitality 2:0 EHOME Natus Vincere 2:1 Heroic forZe 1:2 Evil Geniuses VP 0:2 mousesports

Heroic could upset, others must be 100% confirmed

can be 2-1 mouz though since mouz weren't practicing together.

Dude heroic is like Navis kryptonite they're are gonna send Navi to the elimination matchup.

2019-12-16 16:56

So you are sure about it.Forget last time.This one is gonna be different my hope says

2019-12-16 19:02

change AVANGAR to VP please

thuck forin

Return of VIRTUS.PLOW

Gone with snax

Saaaaaaadokist

forZe about to put everyone on upset alert!!!

Arent Forze just returning from US?

Weird to see VP with new flag.

cant wait to watch flukesports get sent home

2019-12-16 16:25

damn no brasil team to LOL at...

2019-12-16 16:45

You can keep lolling at ENCE on MDL or other low tier tournament they play to lose...

2019-12-16 17:42

stay mad bro...brasil CS is dead...

2019-12-17 00:39

Mad? lol majors don't die

2019-12-17 02:05

keep living in the past...brasil sucks now...no more nothing but crap teams....whole world LOL at brasil CS...

2019-12-17 04:35

So what, you call ENCE your team? What have they done besides kicking the main responsible for its "success"? lol look at yourself first before saying shit about major winning teams

2019-12-17 12:52

its not the only team i like you buffoon....when was the last time any brasil team won a major??? still crying about furia and mibr going 3-7...LOL...who is ranked higher....ence...furia or mibr??? brasil CS sucks cuz teams know their strats....keep crying while the world LOL...

2019-12-17 16:46