The inaugural season of CS:GO's Flashpoint league gets under way on Friday as HAVU Gaming take on MAD Lions in the opening match.

The teams meet in the first semifinal in Group A, with Copenhagen Flames vs c0ntact in the othe semi.

HAVU vs MAD Lions - who wins?

HAVU vs Mad Lions is due to go live at 5pm GMT / 6pm CET on Friday, March 13. MAD Lions are strong favourites to win the best-of-three clash, at 1.33, with HAVU available at 3.05.

A €10 winning bet on HAVU to win 2-0 would return €60, while a 2-1 win for the underdogs returns €32.

MAD Lions are 1.45 to win the first map, while HAVU are 2.55. A knife kill in map 1 is 5.00, and it's 8.00 for any map to go to overtime.

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Flashpoint CS:GO schedule

The Flashpoint CS:GO schedule will be somewhat fluid after organisers confirmed matches would be arranged 'dynamically' to suit audiences. Match times, however, are known and the schedule looks like this:

Match dates and start times - phase 1

All times GMT (CET -1) - latest live streams

Friday, March 13

17:00 Group A Semi-final: MAD Lions vs HAVU
20:00 Group A Semi-final: Copenhagen Flames vs c0ntact

Saturday, March 14

17:00 Group B Semi-final: GenG vs Envy
20:00 Group B Semi-final: Chaos vs MIBR

Sunday, March 15

17:00 Group C Semi-final: Orgless vs Dignitas
20:00 Group C Semi-final: FunPlus Phoenix vs Cloud9

Tuesday, March 17

17:00 Group A Lower Round 1
20:00 Group A Upper final

Wednesday, March 18

17:00 Group B Lower Round 1
20:00 Group B Upper final

Thursday, March 19

17:00 Group C Lower Round 1
20:00 Group C Upper final

Saturday, March 21

16:00 Group A Consolidation final
19:00 Group B Consolidation final
22:00 Group C Consolidation final

Sunday, March 22

16:00 Group A final
19:00 Group B final
22:00 Group C final

Phase 2 schedule

Friday, March 27

17:00 Group A Semi-final #1
20:00 Group A Semi-final #2

Saturday, March 28

17:00 Group B Semi-final #1
20:00 Group B Semi-final #2

Sunday, March 29

17:00 Group C Semi-final #1
20:00 Group C Semi-final #2

Tuesday, March 31

17:00 Group A Lower Round 1
20:00 Group A Upper final

Wednesday, April 1

17:00 Group B Lower Round 1
20:00 Group B Upper final

Thursday, April 2

17:00 Group C Lower Round 1
20:00 Group C Upper final

Saturday, April 4

16:00 Group A Consolidation final
19:00 Group B Consolidation final
22:00 Group C Consolidation final

Sunday, April 5

16:00 Group A final
19:00 Group B final
22:00 Group C final