ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals kicks off tomorrow with OpTic facing Liquid in the initial match of Group A. Here's all you need to know about the 11-team, $600,000 event taking place in São Paulo, Brazil.

Brazil's most populous city, São Paulo, will host Season 4's ESL Pro League Finals, taking place from October 26-30.

The first two days will be played behind closed doors at the ESL studios, while Ginásio do Ibirapuera arena will play host to the last group stage day and playoffs.



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Originally 12 teams were supposed to attend the event, however fnatic announced their withdrawal in the last minute due to personal reasons.

ESL were unable to find a replacement in such short notice, as numerous European teams below the regular season's top six declined the invitation.

The teams were split into two best-of-one, round-robin groups according to their placement in the online part:

Group A Group B Immortals NiP mousesports SK OpTic FaZe Envy Dignitas Liquid Cloud9 NRG

Teams who place first in their group will advance directly to semi-finals, while second placed teams will play third placed teams from the other group in the quarter-finals.

Here's the full schedule of the five-day tournament:

Wednesday, October 26th 16:00 OpTic Liquid vs. 17:10 Immortals Envy vs. 18:20 mousesports Liquid vs. 19:30 Cloud9 FaZe vs. 20:40 NRG Dignitas vs. 21:50 SK NiP vs. 23:00 Cloud9 NRG vs. 00:10 NiP Dignitas vs. Thursday, October 27th 16:00 Immortals OpTic vs. 17:10 Envy Liquid vs. 18:20 mousesports OpTic vs. 19:30 SK FaZe vs. 20:40 NiP NRG vs. 21:50 FaZe Dignitas vs. 23:00 SK Cloud9 vs. Friday, October 28th 16:00 Immortals mousesports vs. 17:30 OpTic Envy vs. 19:00 Immortals Liquid vs. 19:00 mousesports Envy vs. 20:30 FaZe NRG vs. 22:00 SK Dignitas vs. 23:30 NiP Cloud9 vs. 01:00 SK NRG vs. 01:00 Cloud9 Dignitas vs. 01:00 NiP FaZe vs. Saturday, October 29th 19:00 Quarter-final #1 22:30 Quarter-final #2 Sunday, October 30th 14:30 Semi-final #1 19:00 Semi-final #2 22:30 Grand final

And here's the broadcast team for the official English stream:

The $600,000 prizepool will be distributed as follows:

1. $200,000

2. $90,000

3-4. $45,000

5-6. $35,000

7-8. $30,000

9-10. $25,000

11. $20,000

If you'd like to know more about the attending teams, make sure to check out Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin's preview of the ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals.