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With the $250,000 ESL ESEA Pro League Finals closing in, kicking off in 27 hours, we've compiled a viewer's guide for you to have everything there is to know about the event, all in one place.
ESL ESEA Pro League Finals features an uncommon tournament system. Three out of four advance from the GSL group stage, with the first advancing directly to the semi-finals, while second and third will battle each other in the quarter-finals.
Both semi-finals and quarter-finals will be played in a best-of-three, the top two sides will then meet on a best-of-five in the grand final.
Top four teams from both North America and Europe's online phases will meet in Cologne from July 2nd-5th, in the following two groups ordered according to their seeding:
| Group A | Group B |
 Cloud9 |  fnatic |
 Virtus.pro |  Keyd Stars |
| Luminosity |  TSM |
 EnVyUs | CLG |
Keep in mind that ESL are meaning to start the matches as soon as possible after previous ones end with each day starting as follows:
| Thursday, July 2nd | ||||
| 11:45 | Show start | |||
| Luminosity | vs. Virtus.pro | A1 | BO1 | |
| Cloud9 | vs. EnVyUs | A2 | BO1 | |
| fnatic | vs. CLG | B1 | BO1 | |
| Keyd Stars | vs. TSM | B2 | BO1 | |
| A1 winner | vs. A2 winner | BO1 | ||
| A1 loser | vs. A2 loser | BO1 | ||
| B1 winner | vs. B2 winner | BO1 | ||
| B1 loser | vs. B2 loser | BO1 | ||
| Friday, July 3rd | ||||
| 14:45 | Show start | |||
| Showmatch | ||||
| Quarter-final #1 | BO3 | |||
| Quarter-final #2 | BO3 | |||
| Saturday, July 4th | ||||
| 14:45 | Show start | |||
| Showmatch | ||||
| Semi-final #1 | BO3 | |||
| Semi-final #2 | BO3 | |||
| Sunday, July 5th | ||||
| 16:15 | Show start | |||
| Showmatch | ||||
| Grand final | BO5 | |||
Below you can find the talent panel for the ESL ESEA Pro League offline finals:
Alex "Machine" Richardson - Host
Joona "natu" Leppänen - Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunović - Observer
Simon "pAn" Schumacher - Observer
A total of $250,000 will be given out at the end of this weekend, with another $250,000 already spread between the teams from the online phase, in the following distribution:
1. $100,000
2. $60,000
3-4. $25,000
5-6. $12,500
7-8. $7,500
HLTV.org's Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen has prepared a preview for ESL ESEA Pro League Finals with his thoughts on all the teams taking part, take a look here to read through it.
A four-man HLTV.org team will be on site to bring you a full coverage from ESL's studios in Cologne, Germany, including galleries, statistics, interviews, live tweets and more.
Janko 'YNk' Paunović 
Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 92 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.70 
Jonatan 'Devilwalk' Lundberg 
Age: 24 Team: 1337 Rating 1.0: 0.90 Maps played: 252 KPR: 0.60 DPR: 0.66 Jason 'moses' O'Toole 
Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 13 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.68 
Joona 'natu' Leppänen 
Age: 30 Team: Ninjas in PyjamasC Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Tomi 'lurppis' Kovanen 
Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 23 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.63