IEM Beijing 2019: viewer's guide

IEM Beijing 2019 will take place November 7-10 at Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. The group stage of the championship will be held in the format of Double Elimination (GSL) BO3, while the for main stage there will be drawn Single Elimination BO3 + BO5 bracket.

Groupstage seeding:

Group A

 Astralis (Xyp9x, dupreeh, gla1ve, device, Magisk)
ViCi (advent, zhokiNg, aumaN, Kaze, JamYoung)
 100 Thieves (jks, AZR, jkaem, Gratisfaction, Liazz)
 ENCE (allu, Aerial, suNny, xseveN, sergej)

Group B

 Vitality (shox, RpK, apEX, ALEX, ZywOo)
 TYLOO (Summer, BnTeT, Attacker, somebody, Freeman)
 FaZe (olofmeister, NiKo, rain, coldzera, broky)
 Evil Geniuses (stanislaw, tarik, Brehze, Ethan, CeRq)

Tournament schedule:

November 7

05:00 Astralis vs. ViCi BO3
05:00 100 Thieves vs. ENCE BO3
08:50 Vitality vs. TYLOO BO3
08:50 FaZe vs. Evil Geniuses BO3
12:40 Group A - BO3 Winners' Match
12:40 Group A - Losers' Match BO3

November 8

05:00 Group B - BO3 Winners' Match
05:00 Group B - Losers' Match BO3
08:50 Group A - Decisive match BO3
12:25 Group B - Decisive match BO3

November 9

07:00 Semifinal #1 BO3
10:50 Semifinal #2 BO3

November 10

08:30 Grand Final BO5

Distribution of the prize fund:

1. $125 000
2. $50 000
3-4.$25 000
5-6. $8 500
7-8. $4 000 

Official broadcasts:

RU - twitch.tv/csruhub and twitch.tv/csruhub2
EN - twitch.tv/esl_csgo and twitch.tv/esl_csgob