CEVO Season 8 finals viewer's guide

The Season 8 finals for the CEVO Professional division kick off tomorrow in Columbus, Ohio and we have accordingly prepared a viewer's guide to help walk you through the event.

Eight teams have travelled to Columbus, Ohio in the United States to compete in the CEVO Season 8 finals for a $100,000 prize-pot (with an additional $50,000 having gone the way of travel support) at the MLG.tv arena this weekend.

The format for CEVO-P Season 8 is a GSL group stage with four teams in each group. All matches are best-of-three in the group stage.

The top two teams from each group then advance to a best-of-three single elimination bracket with the grand finals playing out as a best-of-five series.

Virtus.pro will be defending their title as CEVO Season 7 champions

Interestingly enough, mousesports will be replacing G2 at the event, who themselves replaced HellRaisers who qualified for the European spot but were then unable to attend.

The groups for the event are once again:

Group A	Group B
Virtus.pro	Null element Na`Vi
Liquid	Titan
dignitas	Luminosity
Conquest	mousesports

A schedule has also now been released for the matches and can be found below:

Friday, November 6th
22:00	Doors open to spectators
23:00	Titan	vs. Luminosity	B1
23:00	Null element Na`Vi	vs. mousesports	B2
01:30	Liquid	vs. dignitas	A1
01:30	Virtus.pro	vs. Conquest	A2
Saturday, November 7th
15:00	Doors open to spectators
16:00	B1 winner	vs. B2 winner	B3
16:00	B1 loser	vs. B2 loser	B4
18:30	A1 winner	vs. A2 winner	A3
18:30	A1 loser	vs. A2 loser	A4
21:00	B3 loser	vs. B4 winner
23:30	A3 loser	vs. A4 winner
Sunday, November 8th
15:00	Doors open to spectators
16:00	Semi-final #1
18:30	Semi-final #2
21:00	Grand final

All matches will be broadcast over two English streams on MLG.tv hosted by CEVO, each one with a dedicated observer. The full on-air team for the event is the following:

Desk Host:

Scott "SirScoots" Smith

Analysts:

Richard Lewis
Duncan "Thooorin" Shields

Casters:

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett
Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer
Joseph "heliumbrella" Cunningham
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy
Luca "misled" Graham
Pat "Sabo" Flannigan

CEVO have also released the prize-pool breakdown for the event, which is:

1. - $40,000
2. - $25,000
3-4. - $10,000
3-4. - $10,000
5-6. - $5,000
5-6. - $5,000
7-8. - $2,500
7-8. - $2,500

HLTV.org is already on-site in Columbus with a two-man team so you can expect breaking news, score updates over Twitter, photos in our galleries, and new interviews.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

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