With just two days left until the commencement of StarSeries i-League Season 7,video tudung lucah HLTV.org presents a comprehensive viewer's guide for the $500,000 event.
Shanghai is set to host the LAN finals of StarSeries i-League Season 7, kicking off on Saturday, March 30, where sixteen teams from across the world will duke it out over the course of eight days, looking to cop the lion's share of a sizeable $500,000 prize pool — a record amount in the history of StarSeries i-League competitions.
The group stage will see contenders battle in a Swiss, best-of-3 setting, upon conclusion of which eight top teams will be determined to advance into the playoffs stage. In the playoffs, both the quarter and semi-finals will adhere to a single-elimination, best-of-3 format, while the culmination of the event, the grand final, will witness a best-of-5 marathon.
Following are the sixteen participants:
North
ENCE
FaZe
TYLOO
fnatic
MIBR
BIG
Natus Vincere 
NRG
SpiritpaiN
RenegadesNinjas in PyjamasPanda
VitalityViCi Groups will take place over the course of March 30 - April 3, with a single-day-break taking place on April 4. Afterward, the playoffs will commence, seeing the quarter and semi-finals played out over the course of two days on April 5-6 and featuring three best-of-3 series per day. On April 7 the event will conclude with a showmatch, followed shortly by the best-of-5 grand final.
Below is a comprehensive schedule for the event:
Saturday, March 30
04:00 |
04:00 |
07:00 |
07:00 |
10:00 |
10:00 |
13:00 |
13:00 |
Sunday, March 31
05:00 | Round 2 Match #1 | Bo3
05:00 | Round 2 Match #2 | Bo3
08:00 | Round 2 Match #3 | Bo3
08:00 | Round 2 Match #4 | Bo3
11:00 | Round 2 Match #5 | Bo3
11:00 | Round 2 Match #6 | Bo3
14:00 | Round 2 Match #7 | Bo3
14:00 | Round 2 Match #8 | Bo3
Monday, April 1
05:00 | Round 3 Match #1 | Bo3
05:00 | Round 3 Match #2 | Bo3
08:00 | Round 3 Match #3 | Bo3
08:00 | Round 3 Match #4 | Bo3
11:00 | Round 3 Match #5 | Bo3
11:00 | Round 3 Match #6 | Bo3
14:00 | Round 3 Match #7 | Bo3
14:00 | Round 3 Match #8 | Bo3
Tuesday, April 2
08:00 | Round 4 Match #1 | Bo3
08:00 | Round 4 Match #2 | Bo3
11:00 | Round 4 Match #3 | Bo3
11:00 | Round 4 Match #4 | Bo3
14:00 | Round 4 Match #5 | Bo3
14:00 | Round 4 Match #6 | Bo3
Wednesday, April 3
08:00 | Round 5 Match #1 | Bo3
11:00 | Round 5 Match #2 | Bo3
14:00 | Round 5 Match #3 | Bo3
Friday, April 5
06:00 | Quarter-final #1 | Bo3
09:00 | Quarter-final #2 | Bo3
12:00 | Quarter-final #3 | Bo3
Saturday, April 6
06:00 | Quarter-final #4 | Bo3
09:00 | Semi-final #1| Bo3
12:00 | Semi-final #2 | Bo3
Sunday, April 7
09:00 | Showmatch
10:00 | Grand Final | Bo5
After some time out of the fray, Duncan "Thoorin"Shields returns to the analyst panel alongside colleagues Halvor "vENdetta"Gulest?l, Mathieu "Maniac"Quiquerez and Jacob "Pimp"Winneche. The aforementioned quintet will be working alongside desk hosts James "BanKs"Banks and Tres "stunna"Saranthus to bring pre and post-match analysis to the English stream.
A wide array of casters have been selected for the tournament, including Matthew "Sadokist"Trivett, Chad "SPUNJ"Burchill and Mohan "launders"Govindasamy. Last, but not least, Frankie Ward will be hosting the stage in Shanghai, in addition to taking interviews over the course of the tournament.
The English on-air talent list for Shanghai is:
Frankie Ward — stage host/interviewer
Halvor "vENdetta"Gulest?l — analyst
Mathieu "Maniac"Quiquerez — analyst
Mohan "launders"Govindasamy — caster
The $500,000 prize pool will be distributed as found below:
1. $250,000
2. $80,000
3-4. $30,000
5-8. $15,000
9-11. $8,500
12-14. $5,500
15-18. $4,000
Spirit #41 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoPavlo 'COLDYY1' VeklenkoViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov 
MIBR #7 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloJo?o 'felps' Vasconcellos 
Vitality #10 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlex 'ALEX' McMeekinMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut 
paiN #155 Vinicios 'PKL' CoelhoPaulo 'land1n' FelipeAlef 'tatazin' PereiraArthur 'f4stzin' SchmittRodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt 
Panda #69 Bin 'Savage' LiuBingYuan 'tb' LiZhen 'HZ' HuangLei 'bottle' MaoYangYang 'ayaya' Zheng 
FaZe #5 
Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevOlof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' Kova?H?vard 'rain' Nygaard 
fnatic #15 Richard 'Xizt' Landstr?mJesper 'JW' WecksellSimon 'twist' EliassonFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #6 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundWilliam 'draken' SundinJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonFredrik 'REZ' Sterner 
TYLOO #24 YuLun 'Summer' Cai
Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto 
NRG #11 Damian 'daps' SteeleTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' Arnold
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov 
ViCi #28 Zhuo 'advent' LiangWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongZhiHong 'aumaN' Liu
Andrew 'kaze' Khong
WingHei 'Freeman' Cheung 
BIG #18 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' Maget
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' D?rtkarde? 
ENCE #3 Aleksi 'allu' JalliJani 'Aerial' JussilaSami 'xseveN' LaasanenAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenJere 'sergej' Salo Time is adjusted to your selected timezone 
Renegades #8 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardJoakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad
Sean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiJay 'Liazz' Tregillgas 
North #9 Casper 'cadiaN' M?llerPhilip 'aizy' AistrupMarkus 'Kjaerbye' Kj?rbyeNicklas 'gade' GadeValdemar 'valde' Bj?rn Vangs? 
Natus Vincere #4 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov