Maestros of the Game (MOG for short) is a crowdfunded tournament hosted by ComeBackTV, the spiritual successor of O'Gaming SC2.

We've raised money starting the week of EWC and the CF ended three days ago with 41K € raised.

We're absolutely thrilled by how fast the community ended up funding the event aswell as selling out the tickets for the live venue with 250 seats sold in 4 hours !

The event will be played online at first and culminating into a live finals in Paris.
We're also incredibly happy that 100% of our invites received a resounding yes from the players.

This leaves us with an incredibly stacked tournament and we can't wait for it to start !

Here is the Liquipedia Page :

(Wiki)

Maestros of the Game

Format Rundown

Preliminary Stage:

8 Best-of-5 (Bo5) matches; winners earn their spot in the Group Stage.

Group Stage (GSL Format):

Opening matches are Best-of-3 (Bo3)

Winners, Losers, and Decider matches are Bo5

Top 2 in each group advance to Playoffs

Plus: two qualified players will be switched into different groups by community vote—thanks to our crowdfunding supporters!

Playoffs (Double-elimination bracket):

Upper Bracket Quarterfinals & Semifinals – Bo5

All other matches – Bo7

Grand Final – Bo7, with a potential Bo3 ReseT

Final four matches will be offline, live at the Güru in Paris.

Prize Pool

1st place: $6,600

2nd: $3,000

3rd: $2,400

4th: $1,600

5th–6th: $1,400 each

7th–8th: $800 each

9th–12th: $300 each

13th–16th: $200 each

Who’s Playing?

24 participants in all, split between those invited directly to the Group Stage and those kicking off in the Preliminary Stage.

Invited to Preliminary Stage :

(Wiki)

Astrea

Bunny

HeRoMaRinE

Invited directly to Group Stage

(Wiki)

Solar

Upcoming Matches (Preliminary Stage)

Starting on August 30th and August 31st

ShoWTimE vs. Cham – Saturday, Aug 30 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

GuMiho vs. Ryung – Saturday, Aug 30 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Zoun vs. Spirit – Saturday, Aug 30 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Rogue vs. MaNa – Saturday, Aug 30 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

SHIN vs. Creator – Sunday, Aug 31 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Astrea vs. Lambo – Sunday, Aug 31 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Bunny vs. SKillous – Sunday, Aug 31 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

HeRoMaRinE vs. trigger – Sunday, Aug 31 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Where to watch it ?

The tournament will be casted in french on ComeBackTV's twitch channel and will be open to all languages, we're expecting numerous english streams aswell as german, polish and many more !

We'll be addinng the twitch channels when every community cast will be known !

Hope you are as excited as we are and see you on the 30th of August !

honkyboinks

1 Post

9 hours ago

Let's go Funkouille <3

Kreuger

Sweden744 Posts

7 hours ago

Looking really interessting :D

WombaT

Northern Ireland25496 Posts

3 hours ago

Sick stuff, great job getting this off the ground!

Is there a reason it’s a pure invite tournament? Being slightly critical. I don’t really have an issue if a traditional big hitter like a Serral or Maru gets an invite, but the entire field?

Emphasis on the ‘slightly’ in ‘slightly critical’

FunKa

4 Posts

2 hours ago

On August 21 2025 07:26 WombaT wrote:
Sick stuff, great job getting this off the ground!

Is there a reason it’s a pure invite tournament? Being slightly critical. I don’t really have an issue if a traditional big hitter like a Serral or Maru gets an invite, but the entire field?

Emphasis on the ‘slightly’ in ‘slightly critical’

Hey WombaT, appreciate the nice words, and also the "challenge" on the invite only :D

There's a lot of factors that came into deciding to go for the all invite route as you probably anticipate. Off the top of my head the stronger arguments for it were :

We wanted to be able to broadcast every single game of the entire thing, while remaining on a nice tight schedule

We wanted to be sure that every player that agreed to play knew from the ground up they would be expected to play in Paris for the live finals. While this is fairly easy to do on a solid invite list with proper communication it's kinda impossible to do in qualifiers hapening in all the regions.

We wanted the playing field to be as strong as possible and for the 1st stage to be hype and easy to read. I feel like the ro24 aka stage 1 direct elimination allows us to do that.

I could list even more "practical" details that made it like this but mostly, we like it this way for this edition and we're also happy the amazing players that we got to talk to were excited at the idea to play.

While we were involved in tournaments like Iron Squid and Nation Wars in the past, it's our first event as ComeBackTV and I think we're also finding our footing and completely fine with revisiting ideas for next editions if we're able to make this a regular thing <3

WombaT

Northern Ireland25496 Posts

2 hours ago

On August 21 2025 08:18 FunKa wrote:

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That makes a lot of sense, many thanks for the clarification!

As my post count may imply, I’m aware of your prior work, I’ve been around for a while, and the French scene and various orgs there did a lot of good shit, and continue to do so by the looks of it!

Nation Wars was sick, especially as someone from a place that’s not a traditional SC2 powerhouse. The local scene really kicked into gear to try and earn the honour to represent, even if we were obviously fucked in terms of actual chances.

Alas my calendar has not aligned with Stara Zagora or this event, but I would have loved to go, but hey, maybe next time

<3