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Related: EPICENTER CS:GO 2019 opening matches preview
Playoff stage
The EPICENTER CS:GO 2019 playoff stage will take place on December 21st and 22nd. It is a single elimination bracket where all matches are best-of-three. Teams finishing first of their groups in the EPICENTER 2019 group stage are directly qualified to semifinals. The other teams are qualified to quarterfinals as high or low seed according to their group final rankings.
Team Vitality is your EPICENTER CS:GO 2019 Champion!
Schedule
Day 2, December 22nd
Semi-finals (BO3)
- 10am CET - Team Vitality 2-0 Heroic
- 1pm CET - mousesports 2-0 Evil Geniuses
Grand Final (BO3)
- 4pm CET - Team Vitality 2-1 mousesports
Results
Day 1, December 21st
Quarter-finals (BO3)
- 12pm CET - forZe 0-2 Heroic
- 3pm CET - Natus Vincere 0-2 Evil Geniuses
Group stage
The EPICENTER CS:GO 2019 group stage will take place from December 17th to December 19th. It will be two double-elimination GSL groups of four teams where all matches are best-of-three. Three of the four teams are qualified for the playoff stage.
The team finishing first of their groups qualify directly for EPICENTER CS:GO 2019 semifinals. The teams finishing second of their group are qualified to quarterfinals as high seed and the teams finishing third too but as low seed.
Results
Day 1, December 17th
Group A opening matches (BO3)
- 11am CET - Team Vitality 2-0 EHOME
- 2pm CET - Natus Vincere 2-0 Heroic
Group A winners' match (BO3)
- 5pm CET - Team Vitality 2-1 Natus Vincere
Day 2, December 18th
Group B opening matches (BO3)
- 11am CET - forZe 0-2 Evil Geniuses
- 2pm CET - Virtus.pro 1-2 mousesports
Group B winners' match (BO3)
- 5pm CET - Evil Geniuses 0-2 mousesports
Day 3, December 19th
Group A elimination match (BO3)
- 10am CET - EHOME 0-2 Heroic
Group B elimination match (BO3)
- 1pm CET - forZe 2-1 Virtus.pro
Group A decider match (BO3)
- 4pm CET - Natus Vincere 2-1 Heroic
Group B decider match (BO3)
- 7pm CET - Evil Geniuses 1-2 forZe
Related: Virtus.pro announce new CS:GO roster
Teams rosters
Virtus.pro (Invited)
- buster
- qikert
- Jame
- SANJI
- AdreN
- dastan
Team Vitality (Invited)
- apEX
- RpK
- ZywOo
- ALEX
- shox
- XTQZZZ
Evil Geniuses (Invited)
- Brehze
- CeRq
- Ethan
- tarik
- stanislaw
- ImAPet
Natus Vincere (Invited)
- flamie
- s1mple
- electronic
- Boombl4
- GuardiaN
- B1ad3
Heroic (EU qualifier)
- es3tag
- stavn
- b0RUP
- Snappi
- cadiaN
- LOMME
mousesports (EU qualifier)
- chrisJ
- ropz
- karrigan
- woxic
- frozen
- Rejin
forZe (CIS qualifier)
- facecrack
- Jerry
- almazer
- xsepower
- FL1T
- liTTle
EHOME (Chinese qualifier)
- Marek
- SLOWLY
- DeStRoYeR
- 4king
- equal
- Despair
Picture Credit: Helena Kristiansson for ESL Pro League in Odense
