With the Esports Championship Series (ECS) Season 6 Finals set to start on Thursday, we bring you a viewer's guide with all the information you need regarding the competition.
The tournament will run from November 22-25 at the Esports Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where the top four teams from both the European and the North American online divisions will square off for their share of the $660,000 prize pool.
The group stage will be played in a double-elimination format, with only the opening matches being best-of-one series. The top two teams from both groups will then advance to the best-of-three, single-elimination playoff bracket.
The group seeding was based on the online standings. Reigning ECS champions Astralis have been placed in Group A alongside MOUZ, MIBR and Cloud9 - who will be replacing Renegades due to the Australians' visa issues. As for Group B, it features Liquid, Ninjas in Pyjamas, North and NRG.
Group A
Astralis
MOUZ
MIBRCloud9 Group B
NRG
LiquidNorth
Ninjas in Pyjamas Below you can find the tournament schedule in full:
Thursday, November 22
16:00 |
17:30 |
19:00 |
20:30 |
22:00 | Group A winners' match | BO3
01:00 | Group B winners' match | BO3
Friday, November 23
16:00 | Group A elimination match | BO3
19:00 | Group B elimination match | BO3
22:00 | Group A decider | BO3
01:00 | Group B decider | BO3
Saturday, November 24
19:00 | Semi-final #1 | BO3
22:00 | Semi-final #2 | BO3
Sunday, November 25
18:30 | Texas Collegiate Showdown | BO1
19:30 | Movember ECS Showmatch | BO1
22:00 | Grand final | BO3
The on-air team crew will be led by host Alex "Machine"Richardson, who will be joined by Jason "moses" O'Toole, Jacob "Pimp" Winneche, Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen and Mohan "launders" Govindasamy on the analyst desk. Pala "Pala" Gilroy Sen and Freya Spiers will be conducting interviews with the players between matches, while four casters will be calling the action as they see it.
The complete on-air team for the event looks as follows:
Alex "Machine"Richardson - Host
Tomi "lurppis"Kovanen - Analyst
Mohan "launders"Govindasamy - Analyst
Finally, here is how the $660,000 prize pool will be distributed:
1. $250,000
2. $120,000
3-4. $65,000
5-6. $45,000
7-8. $35,000
Mohan 'launders' Govindasamy 
Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.76 Maps played: 3 KPR: 0.57 DPR: 0.76 
Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif 
Renegades #21 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' Ward
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad
Sean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiJay 'Liazz' Tregillgas Time is adjusted to your selected timezone 
Liquid #3 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken 
MIBR #6 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoTarik 'tarik' CelikFernando 'fer' AlvarengaJake 'Stewie2K' YipMarcelo 'coldzera' David Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche 
Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 974 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.64 
MOUZ #5 
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný
Chris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' Kemppi
Martin 'STYKO' Styk
Robin 'ropz' Kool Jason 'moses' O'Toole 
Age: 31 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 16 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.69 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #7 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundDennis 'dennis' EdmanJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonFredrik 'REZ' Sterner 
Cloud9 #24 Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist
Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieyWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTimothy 'autimatic' TaMaikil 'Golden' Selim 
NRG #8 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' Arnold
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Pala 'Pala' Gilroy Sen 
Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 3 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.57 
North #10 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerPhilip 'aizy' AistrupMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeNicklas 'gade' GadeValdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Tomi 'lurppis' Kovanen 
Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 27 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.65 (责任编辑：skinhub)