ECS Season 8 Finals (Esports Championship Series Season 8)
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Prize Pool | $500,000 |
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Region | North America |
Location | Arlington, USA |
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Final stage of the Esports Championship Series Season 8 tournament with the prize pool in the sum of $500,000.
Match schedule
Bracket
Group play
Map pool
The general information
The LAN final of Esports Championship Series Season 8 Finals will begin on November 28 and finish on December 1. The championship will take place in the United States, namely, in Arlington. Esports Stadium will be a venue and the overall prize pool of ECS Season 8 will amount $500,000. The winner of ECS Season 8 Finals will earn the main money prize in the sum of $225,000.
Participants
Eight participants who have passed preliminary qualifiers in the European and the North American division will fight at Esports Championship Series Season 8 Finals. AVANGAR, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Astralis, and Fnatic were the best in Europe. Sharks Esports, Evil Geniuses, Team Liquid, and MIBR showed the best results in North America.
The distribution of the prize pool of ECS Season 8 Finals
The winner, as it has been said, will take home the main money prize in the sum of $225,000. The silver medalist, in turn, will earn $100,000. The teams to place 3rd-4th in the standings of ECS Season 8 Finals will earn $50,000. The teams to win at least one match and place 5th-6th will grab $25,000 and the participants, which can’t win a match, will receive the smallest prize in the sum of $12,500.
The format
Eight participants will initially start fighting in the group stage. There, they will be put into two groups with four participants in each one. AVANGAR, Evil Geniuses, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and Team Liquid got in Group A, by the way, and Group B includes Astralis, Fnatic, MIBR, and Sharks Esports. The first matches will be hosted in a bo1 format, while the rest of the matches will be carried out in a bo3 format. The top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, while the rest of the teams will finish their participation in the championship. In the final stage, the top four participants will fight in a single-elimination bracket and all matches will be hosted in a bo3 format.