deprEST take down Team Titan; playoff bracket drawn
As BESL Pro Season 5 competition reaches the end of its fifth week, the initial Swiss group stage is now officially over and we can move onto the spicy part - the playoffs!
In case you have not heard about the Swiss format before, feel free to check out our season announcement article’s format section that has an in-depth explanation of how this format works.
Swiss round 5 recap
The final week of the Swiss group stage was do or die time for six teams that after four weeks of play held a win-loss record of 2-2. While the importance of these last matches was undeniable and suffering another defeat here was just not an option for any of the teams, someone had to lose in order for someone else to win.
Before drawing the matchups, teams were seeded using the Buchholz system that takes into consideration what level of opponents each team has played against previously. It determines how hard a team's route has been thus far by summing up the scores of their opponents.
After that, teams were matched up against each other based on these seeds while keeping in mind the fact that during the Swiss group stage teams can’t play each other more than once. Week 5 match results can be seen below.
Lithuanian broadcast - EoN [1-2] 1944
(16:10 vertigo, 7:16, mirage, 12:16 dust2)
Latvian broadcast - Team Titan [1-2] deprEST
(11:16 mirage, 16:11 inferno, 14:16 train)
Lithuanian broadcast - FiGURE05 [2-1] WORTEX
(19:15 nuke, 17:19 inferno, 16:10 train)
The end of the Swiss group stage marks the finish line for eight of the sixteen competitors, while the other set of eight moves onwards to the playoffs. Here’s how it looks right now:
Playoffs
The aforementioned eight teams have now been drawn into a single-elimination playoff bracket. In order to draw the bracket, teams were seeded based on two criteria:
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Win-Loss record in the Swiss group stage (main criteria);
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Buchholz score - the sum of the scores of their opponents (secondary criteria).
All the ¼ final games are going to be played out in the time period of the next two weeks. The winner of each of the duels is going to advance to the LAN finals happening on the 15th of February at Kipsala exhibition center in Riga, Latvia at the HyperTown Riga 2020 urban & esports festival.
At the event, these teams are going to finish playing out the playoff bracket in order to determine who goes home with the lion's share of the €9,000 prize pool and the right to call themselves the best in Baltic states!
Visit hypertown.pro for more information about the festival and tickets.
Game broadcasts
For the final two weeks of our online part of the competition we’ve decided not to choose a specific game series to feature on our broadcasts, but instead, we’re going to show them all!
Yes, you read that correctly! All the ¼ final games are going to be broadcast for our viewers and here’s the schedule:
*the starting time is approximate and it may change depending on the end time of the previous duel
BESL Pro Season 5 is a seven-week competition between the sixteen best Baltic state CS:GO teams for their share of the €9,000 prize pool and the right to call themselves the best in Baltic states.
The four best teams from the online part of the competition are going to meet each other in the LAN finals happening on the 15th of February at Kipsala exhibition center in Riga, Latvia at the HyperTown Riga 2020 urban & esports festival. Visit hypertown.pro for more info about the festival and tickets.
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News by: Bruno ‘Gekons’ Gailītis
