ESL confirm talent and schedule for S6 Pro League Finals

With the ESL Pro League Season 6 Finals kicking off in just over a week's time, ESL have announced the full schedule for the league's final stretch in Copenhagen, as well as the broadcast talent to bring the action to everyone between December 5th-10th. 

The Group Stages are to be held over December 5th-6th, in a best-of-one round-robin format. With a day-off on Thursday, the Quarter-Finals will start the Arena Play on Friday before the Semi-Finals continue on the Saturday, both being best-of-three games. Sunday will see the tournament culimate in a best-of-five Grand Final to determine the claimant of the $225,000 grand prize.

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The top team from each group will go straight to the Semi-Finals, meanwhile the second and third teams will battle it out in the Quarter-Finals. The full tournament schedule is below, with times in EST.

Tuesday, December 5th
Group A
06:00	fnatic	vs.	FaZe
06:00	Luminosity	vs.	HellRaisers
07:15	Astralis	vs.	Liquid
07:15	fnatic	vs.	HellRaisers
08:30	FaZe	vs.	Liquid
08:30	Astralis	vs.	Luminosity
09:45	fnatic	vs.	Luminosity
09:45	HellRaisers	vs.	Liquid
Group B
11:30	North	vs.	SK
11:30	NRG	vs.	Misfits
12:45	NiP	vs.	OpTic
12:45	North	vs.	Misfits
14:00	SK	vs.	OpTic
14:00	NRG	vs.	NiP
15:15	North	vs.	NRG
15:15	Misfits	vs.	OpTic
Wednesday, December 6th
Group A
06:00	FaZe	vs.	Astralis
06:00	fnatic	vs.	Liquid
07:15	HellRaisers	vs.	Astralis
07:15	FaZe	vs.	Luminosity
08:30	FaZe	vs.	HellRaisers
08:30	fnatic	vs.	Astralis
08:30	Luminosity	vs.	Liquid
Group B
10:15	SK	vs.	NiP
10:15	North	vs.	OpTic
11:30	Misfits	vs.	NiP
11:30	SK	vs.	NRG
12:45	SK	vs.	Misfits
12:45	North	vs.	NiP
12:45	NRG	vs.	OpTic
Friday, December 8th
10:00	Quarter-Final A
13:50	Quarter-Final B
Saturday, December 9th
10:00	Semi-Final A
13:50	Semi-Final B
Sunday, December 10th
10:00	Grand Final

For the broadcast talent, the main stream will lack a North American voice on the analysis desk, but shall feature Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett and Jason "moses" O'Toole commentating with Henry "HenryG" Greer and Lauren "Pansy" Scott respectively. As usual with ESL events, there'll be a dual-stream set-up to accomodate the glut of matches in the group stages, headed up by a UK commentating quartet.

The Season 6 Finals will kick off on December 5th, with the Group A games of Fnatic vs FaZe and Luminosity vs HellRaisers at 12:00 local time (6:00 EST).

The full talent line-up is:

O.J. Borg - host

Alex "Machine" Richardson - desk host
Janko "YNk" Paunović - analyst
Chad "SPUNJ" Buchill - analyst
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche - analyst

Henry "HenryG" Greer - commentator
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - commentator
Jason "moses" O'Toole - commentator
Lauren "Pansy" Scott - commentator

Tres "stunna" Saranthus - sideline reporter

Jack "Jacky" Peters - second stream commentator
Hugo Byron - second stream commentator
Harry "JustHarry" Russell - second stream commentator
Alex "Snodz" Byfield - second stream commentator