Get ready for the playoffs of the Awesome Cup! Eight teams will lock horns during the weekend to settle who the champion will be. Find the brackets and schedule below. Matches will be streamed live!
The format of the playoffs is double elimination, with all matches being best of three. Double elimination refers to the fact that a team needs to lose two matches to get eliminated. A loss in the winner bracket results in a drop down to the loser bracket to fight for further survival. At the end the road, the winner of the winner bracket will meet the winner of the loser bracket in the grand final. The team from the winner bracket will carry an advantage and does only need to win one best of three set of the grand final, whereas the team from the loser bracket needs to win two sets. The grand final can thus be between two and six games long.
The schedule for the weekend can be found below. Note that matches may start later as the first match will need to end before the second one starts and so on. Exception being the first round of the loser bracket since those matches will not be streamed.
PLAYOFFS SCHEDULE
Saturday, Jan 17
17 CET / 11 EST -- Allstars vs Gal-o Sengen
18 CET / 12 EST -- BOOM vs BO$$
19 CET / 13 EST -- Ion vs Latin American Gamers
20 CET / 14 EST -- 99cents vs Team APE
21 CET / 15 EST -- Winner Bracket, semi final #1
21 CET / 15 EST -- Losers bracket, round 1 - both matches (will not be streamed)
22 CET / 16 EST -- Winner Bracket, semi final #2
23 CET / 17 EST -- Winner Bracket, final
Sunday, Jan 18
17 CET / 11 EST -- Loser Bracket, round 2, match 1
18 CET / 12 EST -- Loser Bracket, round 2, match 2
19 CET / 13 EST -- Loser Bracket, semi final
20 CET / 14 EST -- Loser Bracket, final
21.30 CET / 15.30 EST -- Grand Final
22.30 CET / 16.30 EST -- Grand Final #2, if necessary
Matches will be streamed live at Ronimo's twitch channel, as opposed to the replay casts featured during the qualifiers. You can follow your favourite team directly as they play!
