ESL ESEA Finals viewer's guide

With the $250,000 ESL ESEA Pro League Finals closing in, kicking off in 27 hours, we've compiled a viewer's guide for you to have everything there is to know about the event, all in one place.

ESL ESEA Pro League Finals features an uncommon tournament system. Three out of four advance from the GSL group stage, with the first advancing directly to the semi-finals, while second and third will battle each other in the quarter-finals.

Both semi-finals and quarter-finals will be played in a best-of-three, the top two sides will then meet on a best-of-five in the grand final.

Top four teams from both North America and Europe's online phases will meet in Cologne from July 2nd-5th, in the following two groups ordered according to their seeding:

Group A	Group B
Cloud9	fnatic
Virtus.pro	Keyd Stars
Luminosity	TSM
EnVyUs	CLG

Keep in mind that ESL are meaning to start the matches as soon as possible after previous ones end with each day starting as follows:

Thursday, July 2nd
11:45	Show start
Luminosity	vs. Virtus.pro	A1	BO1
	Cloud9	vs. EnVyUs	A2	BO1
fnatic	vs. CLG	B1	BO1
Keyd Stars	vs. TSM	B2	BO1
A1 winner	vs. A2 winner		BO1
A1 loser	vs. A2 loser		BO1
B1 winner	vs. B2 winner	BO1
B1 loser	vs. B2 loser	BO1
Friday, July 3rd
14:45	Show start
Showmatch
Quarter-final #1	BO3
Quarter-final #2	BO3
Saturday, July 4th
14:45	Show start
Showmatch
Semi-final #1	BO3
Semi-final #2	BO3
Sunday, July 5th
16:15	Show start
Showmatch
Grand final	BO5

Below you can find the talent panel for the ESL ESEA Pro League offline finals:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Host

 Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg - Analyst
 Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen - Analyst
 Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Analyst

 Auguste "Semmler" Massonat - Caster
 Anders Blume - Caster
 Jason Kaplan - Caster
 Leigh "Deman" Smith - Caster
 Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Caster

 Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Observer
 Simon "pAn" Schumacher - Observer

A total of $250,000 will be given out at the end of this weekend, with another $250,000 already spread between the teams from the online phase, in the following distribution:

1. $100,000
2. $60,000 
3-4. $25,000
5-6. $12,500
7-8. $7,500 

HLTV.org's Tomi "⁠lurppis⁠" Kovanen has prepared a preview for ESL ESEA Pro League Finals with his thoughts on all the teams taking part, take a look here to read through it.

A four-man HLTV.org team will be on site to bring you a full coverage from ESL's studios in Cologne, Germany, including galleries, statistics, interviews, live tweets and more.

Janko 'YNk' Paunović Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 92 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.70 Jonatan 'Devilwalk' Lundberg Age: 24 Team: 1337 Rating 1.0: 0.90 Maps played: 252 KPR: 0.60 DPR: 0.66 Jason 'moses' O'Toole Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 13 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.68 Joona 'natu' Leppänen Age: 30 Team: Ninjas in PyjamasC Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Tomi 'lurppis' Kovanen Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 23 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.63