After their success at the preceding DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 event in Romania earlier this month, Team EnvYus are one of eight top Counter Strike: Global Offensive teams in the 
running for the $100,000 first price at this weeks FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals event in Jonkoping, Sweden.
Indeed, all eight of the teams who have qualified for this event, which boasts a total prize pool of $250,000, participated at the Cluj-Napoca event and they will do battle once again from Thursday 26th November through to Sunday 29th November to decide who comes out on top of this next event in the series.
The teams have been split into two groups of four, who will contest the group stages, of the competition and then the top two teams in each group will qualify for the Semi Finals. There’s no losers bracket in operation here, so once you are knocked out of the competition, your chances of success are gone.
The draw for the Group stages have the teams lining up as follows:
- Group A – Virtus.pro, Team Liquid, Team Solomid, Legacy eSports
- Group B – Team EnvYus, Luminosity Gaming, Fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas
The action gets under way on Thursday afternoon Central European Time (CET) with Legacy eSports taking on Virtus.pro in the opening match up. This is followed a short time later by the second match up in Group A between Team Liquid and Team SoloMid.
Later that day, Group B matches start with Team EnvYus taking on Ninjas in Pyjamas, before Fnatic face off against Luminosity Gaming.
There will be one more group match played on the 26th in each group before the final two group game matches are played on the 27th to decide who reaches the Semi Finals, which will be contested on the 28th, along with the final of the event which is slated for a 21:00 start time, CET.
This is one of the most interesting and important eSports betting opportunities of the week and as such, Bet365 Sport are already offering odds on which team will be the winners come next Sunday. Team EnvYus, fresh from their success in Romania are the 3/1 favourites but it is fair to say that this is an open competition based on the odds available.
Team SoloMid are currently 7/2 as are Fnatic, while Virtus.pro are 4/1 shots. Ninjas in Pyjamas are 7/1, Luminosity Gaming 8/1, Team Liquid 10/1 and Legacy eSports are the 25/1 outside chance with the bookmaker at present.
Betting is also available on each match up with Bet365, so you can expect plenty of great eSports bets on this event throughout the four days of high quality Counter Strike: Global Offensive action, kicking off on Thursday this week.
DreamHack ROCCAT Legacy of the Void Championship Also Takes Place This Week In Sweden
Jonkoping is certainly the hub for eSports this week. The city in southern Sweden may be more famous as the birthplace of Abba singer Agnetha Faltskog, but this week, it is the home of eSports as not only is it hosting the FACEIT Stage 3 Finals for CS:GO as outlined above, but also the StarCraft 2 based DreamHack Roccat Legacy of the Void Championship.
There’s a prize pool of $50,000 up for grabs in this individual event which sees 24 of the best Legacy of the Void players competing against each other from all four corners of the globe.
The 24 finalists are composed of eight players that have Protoss as their in game race, six that have selected Terran and ten that have opted for Zerg.
The finalists have been split into four groups of six players as follows:
- Group A – PartinG, Bly, Probe, SortOf, HuK, ShoWTimE
- Group B – Solar, Elazer, Avokado, Semper, Reynor, Lambo
- Group C – Bomber, Happy, Zanster, puCK, PtitDrogo, FireCake
- Group D – TY, Nerchio, Bunny, Majestic, Lilbow, TLO
Each player in each group will play off against all the other opponents in their group in a marathon group stage over the first day. The bottom three players in each group are eliminated with the top player from each group entering the Winners Round playoffs and those placing 2nd and 3rd entering the Losers Round playoffs.
The Winners Round is a straight knockout between the four group-topping teams, with the two winners from the semi final clash heading into the Winners Final. The Winner of this heads into the Grand Final on the 29th.
Losers from the Winners stage drop down into the Losers Round, which sees all the teams finishing 2nd and 3rd starting off by battling it out against each other with the winners progressing to face off against teams dropping down from the Winners bracket until one team remains to progress to Sunday’s Grand Final.
Keep checking back to Bet365 Sport’s eSports betting section throughout the week for more bets on this popular StarCraft 2 event.
Dota 2 ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season 4 Playoffs Get Under Way This Week
After a tense and nailbiting online qualifying competition between eight of the best teams, six teams remain in with a shout of lifting the DreamLeague Season 4 title as the action recommences 
this week with the final playoff stage of one of the biggest Dota 2 events in Europe.
There’s over $150,000 in prize money up for grabs, with a top prize of $55,000 for the top team as the six remaining teams battle it out over three days of playoff action this week in Sweden starting on the 26th November, through until the 28th November.
After a very keenly contested group stage, two teams finished in the top two places making it through to the Final Bracket on merit, those teams being Alliance (who finished second with a 9-5 record) and group winners OG who finished with a 10-4 record.
Four other teams, Vega Squadron, Monkey Freedom Fighters, 4 Clover & Lepricon and Team Empire earned a spot in the Round of 6 play offs to battle it out against each other to see which two teams will progress to take on Alliance and OG in the Final Bracket semi finals.
The long (and somewhat complicated) playoffs begin with Vega Squadron taking on Team Empire and Monkey Freedom Fighters facing 4 Clover and Lepricon in the first round games. The two losers will head into the Losers round for a best of 3 match up to remain in the competition. The two winners will move on to Round 2, with the winner of that match earning one of the qualification spots.
The loser of the match between the winner of the two first round matches will play the winner of the match between the two first round loser and the winner of this game will claim the second qualifying spot in the Final Bracket.
Once these two teams are known the Final Bracket will be played out in a similar way with losing teams from their games given the chance to progress in the losers bracket. All games are best of three matches, apart from the Grand Final which is a best of five game.
Do remember to check back with Bet365 Sports eSports betting section this week to catch all the latest bets and market news ahead of these trio of massive eSports competitions taking place in Sweden this week.
