The eight competing sides have been split into two double-elimination groups, featuring a best-of-three format after the initial round of matches. Group A is headlined by two top 15 teams in FURIA and ENCE. Henrique "HEN1" Teles will return to action for FURIA after recently missing cs_summit 5, with the Brazilians set to face TYLOO, who could be playing their last event with Hansel "BnTeT" Ferdinand as reports continue to link the Indonesian star with a move to Gen.G. As for ENCE, the Finnish team will take on Movistar Riders, who finished top-six at DreamHack Open Sevilla last weekend. ENCE placed in a tricky group that includes FURIA G2 will be confident of their chances of success after being placed in a group with only one other top 30 team in Spirit. In their opening match in Malta, the cs_summit 5 runners-up will play BIG, who were sent packing in Sevilla in the group stage following three heart-breaking overtime losses. The Champions Cup Finals will take place from December 19-22 at InterContinental Malta, in Saint Julian's, with $300,000 at stake. Earlier on Monday, Eden Esports announced the on-air team for the English broadcast, featuring the likes of Tres "stunna" Saranthus, Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez and Henry "HenryG" Greer. Below you can find the groups: Group A
FURIA
ENCE
Movistar Riders
TYLOO Group B
Hard Legion
G2
BIG
Spirit The complete schedule for the tournament looks as follows: Thursday, December 19 10:00 - FURIA vs. TYLOO (BO1) 11:30 - Hard Legion vs. Spirit (BO1) 13:00 - ENCE vs. Movistar Riders (BO1) 14:30 - G2 vs. BIG (BO1) 16:00 - Group A winners' match (BO3) 19:30 - Group B winners' match (BO3)
Friday, December 20 10:00 - Group A elimination match (BO3) 13:30 - Group B elimination match (BO3) 17:00 - Group A decider match (BO3) 20:30 - Group B decider match (BO3)
Saturday, December 21 16:30 - Semi-final #1 (BO3) 20:00 - Semi-final #2 (BO3)
Sunday, December 22 13:00 - Third-place decider (BO3) 18:00 - Grand final (BO3)
 ENCE #12  Aleksi 'allu' Jalli Jani 'Aerial' Jussila Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen Jere 'sergej' Salo   BIG #33   Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch Johannes 'nex' Maget Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş Owen 'smooya' Butterfield  Spirit #29  Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev Artem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev  Movistar Riders #30  Christian 'loWel' Garcia Antoran Rajohn 'EasTor' Linato Lucas 'steel' Lopes Alejandro 'alex' Masanet Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano  TYLOO #22  YuLun 'Summer' Cai Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng HaoWen 'somebody' Xu WingHei 'Freeman' Cheung   Gen.G #52   Damian 'daps' Steele Timothy 'autimatic' Ta Kenneth 'koosta' Suen Sam 's0m' Oh Henry 'HenryG' Greer Age: 31 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.75 Maps played: 14 KPR: 0.49 DPR: 0.70  Henrique 'HEN1' Teles Age: 24 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 787 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.58 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 830 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.67 Tres 'stunna' Saranthus Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.64 Maps played: 4 KPR: 0.30 DPR: 0.54  Hard Legion #45  Semyon 'kinqie' Lisitsyn Svyatoslav 'svyat' Dovbakh Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko Anton 'speed4k' Titov Igor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy  Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand Age: 24 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 738 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.61  FURIA #13  Henrique 'HEN1' Teles Andrei 'arT' Piovezan Yuri 'yuurih' Santos Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato  G2 #11  Audric 'JACKZ' Jug Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub François 'amanek' Delaunay Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković |