WePlay! Clutch Island viewer's guide

WePlay! Clutch Island will run from June 16th to 28th and will serve as a ranking tournament for ESL One Rio 2020. Thirteen teams from the CIS will compete for a prize pool of $50,000 and points in the RMR ranking.

The regional championship will start with a qualifying round that will see five invited participants and three finalists from the open qualifiers. The trio of the strongest will advance to the group stage, where they will be joined by top five representatives of the current RMR-rating. The final stage will be playoffs in the format of Double Elimination with the participation of the four best teams of the tournament.

List of participants in the closed qualifiers stage:

 HellRaisers (jR, kalinka, Flarich, ProbLeM, JIaYm)
 Nemiga (mds, Jyo, speed4k, boX, lollipop21k)
 Espada (Dima, S0tF1k, FinigaN, degster, Patsi)
 Moscow Five Academy (dERZKIY, 1uke, Raider, LavL, d34dr0ck)
 forZe (facecrack, almazer, FL1T, xsepower, Jerry)
 Syman (mou, neaLaN, Keoz, n0rb3r7, kade0)
 Gambit Youngsters (interz, supra, Ax1Le, sh1ro, nafany)
 CRAZY (Sergiz, Psycho, 7oX1C, SENSEi, DemQQ)

Seeding of the first round closed qualifiers

List of invited teams to the group stage:

 Hard Legion (kinqie, svyat, Krad, Forester, rAge)
 Team Spirit (chopper, mir, sdy, iDISBALANCE, magixx)
 Virtus.pro (AdreN, SANJI, qikert, Jame, YEKINDAR)
 Winstrike (bondik, Hobbit, KrizzeN, Lack1, El1an)
 Natus Vincere (flamie, s1mple, electronic, Boombl4, Perfecto)

The schedule of matches:

Qualifiers

16 June

09:00  Nemiga –  Moscow Five Academy | BO3
09:00  HellRaisers –  Espada | BO3
12:00  forZe –  CRAZY | BO3
12:00  Syman –  Gambit Youngsters | BO3
15:00 Group А – Winners' match | BO3
15:00 Group А – Losers' match | BO3
18:00 Group В – Winners' match | BO3
18:00 Group В – Losers' match | BO3

17 June

15:00 Group А – Decider | BO3
18:00 Group В – Decider | BO3

18 June 

13:00 Slot match #1 | BO3
13:00 Slot match #2 | BO3
17:30 Slot match #3 | BO3

Groupstage

23 June

09:00 Group А – Starting match #1 | BO3
12:00 Group А – Starting match #2 | BO3
15:00 Group B – Starting match #1 | BO3
18:00 Group B – Starting match #2 | BO3

24 June

09:00 Group А – Losers' match | BO3
12:00 Group А – Winners' match | BO3
15:00 Group В – Losers' match | BO3
18:00 Group В – Winners' match | BO3

25 June

15:00 Group А – Decider | BO3
18:00 Group В – Decider | BO3

Playoffs

26 June

12:00 10th place match | BO3
15:00 Upper Bracket Semifinals #1 | BO3
18:00 Upper Bracket Semifinals #2 | BO3

27 June

12:00 Матч за 7 место | BO3
15:00 Lower Bracket Semifinals | BO3
18:00 Upper Bracket Finals | BO3

28 June

14:00 Lower Bracket Finals| BO3
17:00 5th place match | BO3
20:00 Grandfinals | BO

Distribution of the prize fund:

1. $15,000 + 2000 RMR points
2. $10,000 + 1875 RMR points
3. $6,000 + 1,750 RMR points
4. $5,000 + 1,625 RMR points
5. $4,500 + 1500 RMR points
6. $3,500 + 1,375 RMR points
7. $3,000 + 1,250 RMR points
8. $3,000 + 1,125 RMR points
9. 1000 RMR points
10. 875 RMR points

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