EPTFunKa here, bringing you some infos about our upcoming tournament with ComeBackTV, Maestros of The Game
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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 :
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 :
AstreaBunnyChamCreatorGuMihoLamboMaNaRogueRyungSHINSKillousShoWTimEtriggerZounSpiritHeRoMaRinEInvited directly to Group Stage
ClassicByuNReynorherOClemSerralMaruSolarUpcoming 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 !
