{"id":743,"date":"2015-12-01T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eslproleaguecsgo.eslpro.gg\/uncategorized\/2015\/12\/presenting-the-groups-and-format-for-the-esl-esea-pro-league-season-2-finals\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:01:00","slug":"presenting-the-groups-and-format-for-the-esl-esea-pro-league-season-2-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/2015\/12\/presenting-the-groups-and-format-for-the-esl-esea-pro-league-season-2-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the groups and format for the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Season 2 finals of the ESL ESEA Pro League are set to take place on December the 10th to December the 13th in the ESL studios in Burbank, USA. Eight top teams from Europe and North America will be traveling to sunny California to battle it out for the Pro League Season 2 championship, and it&#x2019;s now time to present the groups and format of the tournament.&#xD;<br \/>\n&#xD;<\/p>\n<h6>The format<\/h6>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nThe tournament format has been adjusted since last season in response to feedback from pro players and the community. The finals will start off with a group stage with two groups of four teams. The matches will be best of three played out in double elimination. The top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, which will be single elimination. The semifinals will be best of three while the grand final will be a best of five.&#xD;<\/p>\n<h6>The groups<\/h6>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nThe groups for the finals are based on the team placement in the season standings of each division and are as follows:&#xD;<\/p>\n<table summary=\"\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\" dir=\"\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<thead class=\"align-center\">\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\" class=\"align-center\">Group A<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\" class=\"align-center\">Group B<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"align-center\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/c77f8ce0bb.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12781\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Team Liquid<\/td>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/ca77066404.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12621\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Team SoloMid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/6a5a60b3e1.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12622\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Fnatic<\/td>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/03369400cb.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12656\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Luminosity Gaming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/c77f8ce0bb.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12781\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Conquest<\/td>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/950d01fdc1.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12623\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Natus Vincere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/f9a4769d84.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12624\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Team EnVyUs<\/td>\n<td class=\"align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fileadmin\/user_upload\/c77f8ce0bb.png\" style=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" data-htmlarea-file-uid=\"12781\" data-htmlarea-file-table=\"sys_file\" \/> Counter Logic Gaming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#xD;<\/p>\n<h6>The battle commences in December!<\/h6>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nWe are looking forward to seeing world-class CS:GO presented by Europe and North America&#x2019;s best teams. Unfortunately, spectator tickets to the event will not be available, but feel free to tune in to all the action online over at our <link http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/esl_csgo _blank external-link-new-window>Twitch<\/link> stream. Also for the latest updates on the ESL ESEA Pro League be sure to follow&nbsp;<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/eslcs _blank external-link-new-window>@ESLCS<\/link>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/esea - external-link-new-window>@ESEA<\/link>&nbsp;on Twitter and Like the&nbsp;<link https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESLCS _blank external-link-new-window>ESL Counter-Strike<\/link>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<link https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESEA _blank external-link-new-window>ESEA<\/link>&nbsp;pages on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how the Season 2 finals will be played out in Burbank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"_blank"},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}