D2L Western Challenge is now on its final stage of the competition, with the six-day, double elimination playoffs slated to start today. Kicking off will be Cloud9 vs RoX.KiS at 18:00 CEST (09:00 PST), and it will be followed by Natus Vincere against Fnatic at 21:00 CEST (12:00 PST).
After more than two-and-a-half months since the tournament started, we are now moving on into the final phase of the D2L Western Challenge. The tournament, originally starting with eight teams, now only has six teams competing for the championship and biggest share of the prize pool.
The playoffs will run over six consecutive days, following a double-elimination format. The top two teams from the group stage gets seeded directly into round 2 of the upper bracket.
Evil Geniuses was a clear first place after their 6-1 groups record. However, it was more complicated to determine the second place team because of a three-way tiebreaker. In the end, it was team Empire who got the second place after being deemed to have a better map and head-to-head performance against the two other teams who finished with a 5-2 record, Cloud9 and Natus Vincere.
All games will be best-of-three, except for the best-of-five finals. It will kick off today with Cloud9 vs RoX.KiS at 18:00 CEST (09:00 PST), and it will be followed by Natus Vincere against Fnatic at 21:00 CEST (12:00 PST). Streams are available in English, Russian, Spanish, German, Vietnamese and Chinese.
Price distribution:
1st Place: $25,000 + 25% of ticket sales increase - ($28,600 currently)2nd Place: $15,000 + 25% - ($18,600 currently)
3rd Place: $7,500 + 15% - ($9,700 currently)
4th Place: $2,500 + 15% - ($4,700 currently)
5th Place: 10% of ticket sales increase - ($1,460 currently)
6th Place: 10% of ticket sales increase - ($1,460 currently)
Source: Gosugamers, D2L Official
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