Read on for teams, brackets, schedules, streams and any other information you might need.
This tournament is beginning with a double elimination group stage consisting of four groups. They matches will be a best-of-one and the top two from each group will move on to the winner's bracket. The bottom two teams will be placed in the loser's bracket. During the bracket stage it will be a double elimination, best-of-three. The grand finals are going to be a best-of-seven with the team coming from the winner's bracket starting with a 2-0 game advantage. It lasts from today until December 2nd. First things first, let's look at the teams. Team SoloMid was the only invited team since they won IPL 4. Everyone else had to make it in on their own:
- Team Dynamic
- World Elite
- Azubu Blaze
- FnaticRC
- Team FeaR
- Counter Logic Gaming Europe
- Counter Logic Gaming North America
- IcelanD
- Meat Playground
- Curse Gaming Europe
- Singapore Sentinels
- Team SoloMid
- Curse Gaming
- Moscow Five BenQ
- Taipei Assassins
- Blackbean
Have you ever seen such an AMAZING line-up in one tournament before? It's going to be a great compitition! We have a ton of great casters for the event as well. I introduce to you:
- Joe "Joe Miller" Miller
- Leigh "Deman" Smith
- David "Phreak" Turley
- Joshua "Jatt" Leesman
- James "Red Baron" Reilman
- AJ "HatPerson" Mazur
- Tom "Optimus Tom" Searfoss
- Chris "Studio" Grant
Teams will be playing for an awesome prize pool(Which they obviously want to share with me) that looks like this:
- 1st: $50,000
- 2nd: $20,000
- 3rd: $7,500
- 4th: $3,000
- 5th-6th: $2,500
- 7th-8th: $1,750
- 9th-12th: $1,500
- 13th-16th: $1,250
For ease of use, I've taken a screenshot of the schedule from our friends over at Leaguepedia instead of typing it out. There are a TON of games today and this schedule has several different time zones, which will be helpful to some of out international readers as well!
Lucky for everyone, the stream will be done in free HD! It is located here
There is also a stream located on Twitch.tv for those interested.
