With EPICENTER due to start shortly, we have prepared a viewer's guide with all the information you need to know ahead of the $500,000 tournament, including schedule, on-air team and prize distribution.

Following a first event in Moscow, EPICENTER has moved to St. Petersburg for its second edition, running until Sunday and featuring ten teams, six of whom were directly invited by the organisers, Epic Esports Events.

EPICENTER 2017 will begin with a four-team wildcard stage, featuring two best-of-three series, which will determine the last two sides making it to the double-elimination group stage, in which all matches will be played in a best-of-three format.

EPICENTER is back, now in St. Petersburg

The top two teams from both groups will progress to the single-elimination knockout stages, which will culminate with the best-of-five grand final, on Sunday afternoon.

Below you can find the group draw for the tournament:

The complete schedule for the tournament, including the wildcard qualifier, looks as follows:

Monday, October 23 17:00 FaZe TYLOO vs. Bo3 20:00 Liquid Vega Squadron vs. Bo3 Tuesday, October 24

10:00 SK Virtus.pro vs. Bo3 13:00 Astralis G2 vs. Bo3 16:00 Gambit FaZe / TYLOO vs. Bo3 19:00 North Liquid / Vega Squadron vs. Bo3





Wednesday, October 25

10:00 Group A elimination match

Bo3 13:00 Group B elimination match

Bo3 16:00 Group A winners' match

Bo3 19:00 Group B winners' match





Thursday, October 26

10:00 Group A decider match

Bo3 13:00 Group B decider match

Bo3 Saturday, October 28 12:00 Semi-final #1 Bo3 17:00 Semi-final #2 Bo3 Sunday, October 29 11:00 Third-place decider Bo3 14:30 Grand final Bo5

Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović will join event host Alex "Machine" Richardson at the analyst desk, while two famous casting duos will provide play-by-play commentary during the matches. The complete on-air team for the event is the following:

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Host Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - Analyst

Janko "YNk" Paunović - Analyst Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator

Henry "HenryG" Greer - Commentator

Jason "moses" O’Toole - Commentator

Anders Blume - Commentator

The $500,000 prize pool will be distributed among the teams as follows: