With a bit less than a month away from the finals of ESL Pro League Season 4, we already know a fair share of the information regarding the tournament itself. When compared to the 3^rd season finals, this year is going to have more teams competing for the prizes. Last year, 4 teams were representing Europe together with 4 North American teams. This year, these numbers were increased by 2 additional teams on each continent which means we will be seeing a total of 12 professional teams competing for the grand prize. With almost a full month of qualifiers still left to be played, Cloud 9 has already secured its place as the first North American team to compete in the finals by acquiring a whopping 69 points, 20 more than the second placed team SK Gaming (this information was current at the time of writing this article). On the European side of the qualifiers, NiP and FaZe Clan are on the first 2 places with the exact same number of points – 39, but NiP is first because of their superior rounds won ratio.

With an exotic location, a top-notch tier of teams and a whopping grand prize of $200,000; one thing is for sure – ESL Pro League Season 4 is going to be an amazing tournament filled with great matchups and great odds! With all of this in mind, let’s take a closer look at the facts of this tournament!

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 ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals | Facts

Betting / Livestream

• Organizers: ESL and ESEA
• Location and venue: Ginásio do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Total prize pool: $600,000
• Start date: 26/10/2016
• End date: 30/10/2016
• Maps: Cache, Cobblestone, Dust II, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass, Train
• Number of teams: 12

Semifinals 

Semifinal #1:  SK Gaming vs.  NiP     2  :  1  (10/16) | (16/7) | (16/10)
Start Time: October 30th, 05:30 AM PDT / 08:30 AM EDT / 14:30 CEST

Semifinal #2:  mousesports vs.  Cloud9     0  :  2  (9/16) | (10/16) 
Start Time: October 30th, 10:00 AM PDT / 01:00 PM EDT / 19:00 CEST

Grand Final 

Grand Final:  Cloud9 vs.  SK Gaming
Start Time: October 30th, 01:30 PM PDT / 04:30 PM EDT / 22:30 CEST

 Groups and standings

As we already stated in the introductory paragraph, the 4^th ESL Pro League season will feature a total of 12 teams, 6 being from North America and the other 6 from Europe. With this being said, the finalists will be divided into 2 groups with 6 teams each. In each of the groups there will be 3 North American teams and European teams, as usual.

GROUP A
1.	mousesports	3-1
2.	Team EnvyUs	3-1
3.	OpTic Gaming	2-2
4.	Team Liquid	1-3
5.	Immortals	1-3
6.	Fnatic	0-0
Schedule / Results

GROUP B
1.	SK Gaming	4-1
2.	Cloud9	4-1
2.	Ninjas in Pyjamas	3-2
4.	Team Dignitas	2-3
5.	FaZe Clan	2-3
6.	NRG Esports	0-5
Schedule / Results

 Teams and players

•  Fnatic: olofmeister, dennis, wenton, twist, Lekr0. (Fnatic will not attend due to personal problems with one of their players.)
•  Ninjas in Pyjamas: Xizt, GeT_RiGhT, f0rest, friberg, Maikelele.
•  mousesports: chrisJ, NiKo, denis, Spiidi, loWel.
•  FaZe Clan: rain, jkaem, aizy, kioShiMa, allu.
•  Team EnvyUs: NBK, Happy, kennyS, apEX, SIXER.
•  Team Dignitas: MSL, k0nfig, RUBINO, cajunb, Magiskb0Y.
•  Cloud9: n0thing, shroud, Skadoodle, Stewie2k, autimatic.
•  Immortals: boltz, HEN1, LUCAS1, felps, zews.
•  SK Gaming: FalleN, coldzera, fnx, TACO, fer.
•  OpTic Gaming: NAF, RUSH, mixwell, tarik, stanislaw.
•  NRG Esports: gob b, LEGIJA, ptr, tabseN, FugLy.
•  Team Liquid: nitr0, EliGE, Hiko, jdm64, Pimp.

 Betting odds comparison

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 Schedule and results

Not much information has been released about the schedule. All we know up to this point is that the official tournament start is on 28^th of October and its respective end is 2 days later, 30^th of October to be more precise.

Group A 

Match #1:  OpTic vs.  Liquid     16  :  2  
Start Time: October 26th, 06:00 AM PDT / 09:00 AM EDT / 15:00 CEST

Match #2:  Immortals vs.  EnvyUs     5  :  16  
Start Time: October 26th, 07:10 AM PDT / 10:10 AM EDT / 16:10 CEST

Match #3:  mousesports vs.  Liquid     16  :  12  
Start Time: October 26th, 08:20 AM PDT / 11:20 AM EDT / 17:20 CEST

Match #4:  Immortals vs.  OpTic     4  :  16  
Start Time: October 27th, 06:00 AM PDT / 09:00 AM EDT / 15:00 CEST

Match #5:  EnvyUs vs.  Liquid     16  :  4  
Start Time: October 27th, 07:10 AM PDT / 10:10 AM EDT / 16:10 CEST

Match #6:  mousesports vs.  OpTic     16  :  10  
Start Time: October 27th, 08:20 AM PDT / 11:20 AM EDT / 17:20 CEST

Match #7:  Immortals vs.  mousesports     16  :  14  
Start Time: October 28th, 07:00 AM PDT / 10:00 AM EDT / 16:00 CEST

Match #8:  OpTic vs.  EnvyUs     5  :  16  
Start Time: October 28th, 08:30 AM PDT / 11:30 AM EDT / 17:30 CEST

Match #9:  Immortals vs.  Liquid     14  :  16  
Start Time: October 28th, 10:00 AM PDT / 01:00 PM EDT / 19:00 CEST

Match #10:  mousesports vs.  EnvyUs     16  :  9  
Start Time: October 28th, 10:00 AM PDT / 01:00 PM EDT / 19:00 CEST

Group B 

Match #1:  Cloud9 vs.  FaZe Clan     16  :  14  
Start Time: October 26th, 09:30 AM PDT / 12:30 PM EDT / 18:30 CEST

Match #2:  NRG vs.  Dignitas     3  :  16  
Start Time: October 26th, 10:40 AM PDT / 01:40 PM EDT / 19:40 CEST

Match #3:  SK Gaming vs.  NiP     10  :  16  
Start Time: October 26th, 11:50 AM PDT / 02:50 PM EDT / 20:50 CEST

Match #4:  Cloud9 vs.  NRG     16  :  9  
Start Time: October 26th, 01:00 PM PDT / 04:00 PM EDT / 22:00 CEST

Match #5:  NiP vs.  Dignitas     14  :  16  
Start Time: October 26th, 02:10 PM PDT / 05:10 PM EDT / 23:10 CEST

Match #6:  SK Gaming vs.  FaZe Clan     16  :  2  
Start Time: October 27th, 09:30 AM PDT / 12:30 PM EDT / 18:30 CEST

Match #7:  NiP vs.  NRG     16  :  14  
Start Time: October 27th, 10:40 AM PDT / 01:40 PM EDT / 19:40 CEST

Match #8:  FaZe Clan vs.  Dignitas     16  :  7  
Start Time: October 27th, 11:50 AM PDT / 02:50 PM EDT / 20:50 CEST 

Match #9:  SK Gaming vs.  Cloud9     16  :  6  
Start Time: October 27th, 01:00 PM PDT / 04:00 PM EDT / 22:00 CEST

Match #10:  FaZe Clan vs.  NRG     22  :  20  
Start Time: October 28th, 11:30 AM PDT / 02:30 PM EDT / 20:30 CEST 

Match #11:  SK Gaming vs.  Dignitas     16  :  7  
Start Time: October 28th, 01:00 PM PDT / 04:00 PM EDT / 22:00 CEST

Match #12:  NiP vs.  Cloud9    9  :  16  
Start Time: October 28th, 02:30 PM PDT / 05:30 PM EDT / 23:10 CEST

Match #13:  SK Gaming vs.  NRG     16  :  10  
Start Time: October 28th, 04:00 PM PDT / 07:00 PM EDT / 01:00 CEST (next day)

Match #14:  Cloud9 vs.  Dignitas     16  :  3  
Start Time: October 28th, 04:00 PM PDT / 07:00 PM EDT / 01:00 CEST (next day)

Match #15:  NiP vs.  FaZe Clan     16  :  7  
Start Time: October 28th, 04:00 PM PDT / 07:00 PM EDT / 01:00 CEST (next day)

Playoffs / Knockout Stage 

Match #1:  OpTic vs.  Cloud9     0  :  2  (12/16) | (2/19) 
Start Time: October 29th, 10:00 AM PDT / 01:00 PM EDT / 19:00 CEST

Match #2:  EnvyUs vs.  NiP     0  :  2  (9/16) | (17/19) 
Start Time: October 29th, 01:30 PM PDT / 04:30 PM EDT / 22:30 CEST

 Prize pool

We already mentioned that the grand prize is going to be amazing $200,000 and that the overall size of the prize pool is $600,000… But now we are going to show you the complete breakdown of it.

Here it is:

• 1^st place – $200,000
• 2^nd place – $90,000
• 3^rd place – $45,000
• 4^th place – $45,000
• 5^th place – $35,000
• 6^th place – $35,000
• 7^th place – $30,000
• 8^th place – $30,000
• 9^th place – $25,000
• 10^th place – $25,000
• 11^th place – $20,000
• 12^th place – $20,000

With all of this in mind, we believe that it is pretty clear that this season of ESL Pro League is going to be a real eye candy. With so many top quality teams fighting for the ultimate prize of $200,000, it is safe to say that we are in for one hell of a tournament!

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