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 Virtus.pro Na`Vi Na`Vi Liquid Liquid Titan Titan dignitas dignitas Luminosity Luminosity Conquest Conquest mousesports 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 Titan Luminosity vs.Luminosity B1 23:00 Na`Vi Na`Vi mousesports vs.mousesports B2 01:30 Liquid Liquid dignitas vs.dignitas A1 01:30 Virtus.pro Virtus.pro Conquest 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.

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