ESL release IEM Chicago schedule
The schedule for the North American IEM stop in Chicago was silently released on the event's website, with all matches carefully and neatly planned out for which stream they are on and when they are to be played.
With the groups announced the other day, it was just a matter of time to when we'd find out which games are played at what time. With the release, it means NRG will be the first North American team to play at the event in the windy city, as they face off against the Danes of North. MIBR would be next, facing off against fellow North American-based Renegades in their opener, whilst eUnited and Liquid will have to wait until later in the day to face off against Natus Vincere and Luminosity, respectively.
With the amount of games to be played, ESL will utilise a dual-stream set-up for the majority of the group stage, split between the main Twitch stream and ESL's b-stream for the first three days of competition.
The full schedule for IEM Chicago, with times in EST and indicating which stream the matches are on, is as follows:
| Tuesday, November 6 | |||
| 1:00 PM |  Astralis vs.  MVP PK |
B Stream | BO1 |
| 1:00 PM | North vs.  NRG |
A Stream | BO1 |
| 2:15 PM |  MIBR vs.  Renegades |
A Stream | BO1 |
| 2:15 PM |  LDLC vs.  FaZe |
B Stream | BO1 |
| 3:30 PM |  Natus Vincere vs. eUnited |
B Stream | BO1 |
| 3:30 PM |  fnatic vs.  BIG |
A Stream | BO1 |
| 4:45 PM | mousesports vs.  AVANGAR |
A Stream | BO1 |
| 4:45 PM | Luminosity vs.  Liquid |
B Stream | BO1 |
| 6:00 PM | Group A upper-bracket semi #1 | A Stream | BO3 |
| 6:00 PM | Group A lower-bracket #1 | B Stream | BO3 |
| 9:35 PM | Group A upper-bracket semi #2 | A Stream | BO3 |
| 9:35 PM | Group A lower-bracket #2 | B Stream | BO3 |
| Wednesday, November 7 | |||
| 1:00 PM | Group B lower-bracket #1 | B Stream | BO3 |
| 1:00 PM | Group B lower-bracket #2 | A Stream | BO3 |
| 4:35 PM | Group B upper-bracket semi #1 | A Stream | BO3 |
| 4:35 PM | Group A lower-bracket semi #1 | B Stream | BO3 |
| 8:10 PM | Group B upper-bracket semi #2 | A Stream | BO3 |
| 8:10 PM | Group A lower-bracket semi #2 | B Stream | BO3 |
| Thursday, November 8 | |||
| 1:00 PM | Group B lower bracket semi #1 | A Stream | BO3 |
| 1:00 PM | Group B lower bracket semi #2 | B Stream | BO3 |
| 4:35 PM | Group A upper bracket final | A Stream | BO3 |
| 4:35 PM | Group A lower bracket final | B Stream | BO3 |
| 8:10 PM | Group B upper bracket final | A Stream | BO3 |
| 8:10 PM | Group B lower bracket final | B Stream | BO3 |
| Friday, November 9 | |||
| 1:00 PM | Quarterfinal #1 | BO3 | |
| 4:35 PM | Quarterfinal #2 | BO3 | |
| Saturday, November 10 | |||
| 2:00 PM | Semifinal #1 | BO3 | |
| 5:50 PM | Semifinal #2 | BO3 | |
| Sunday, November 11 | |||
| 1:00 PM | Collegiate Final | ||
| 3:00 PM | Grand final | BO5 | |
IEM Chicago is a $250,000 event set to start tomorrow, November 6th. It is also a stop on the first Intel Grand Slam season, where attendees Astralis, FaZe, MIBR, Fnatic, Natus Vincere, North and mousesports can all notch up another win on their quest for the $1,000,000 prize.
