The Professional Gamers League comprises of four team knockout rounds, a group stage, four revival rounds, four individual knockout rounds and two Final rounds.

Team knockout phase
16 players are split into four groups of four and each group will play as a team in this phase. This phase will decide which group will have more players advance to the future knockout phase. Two finalists in this phase will be branded as upper groups, while two losing groups will in the meantime branded as lower groups. This phase will be double elimination and matches will be played on King of the Hill basis.

Group stage
The players will play against their group opponents through double elimination playoffs and matches will be played on best of three basis. Upper groups will see top two performers in respective group advance to the individual knockout phase, while bottom two players enter the revival phase. The lower groups will meanwhile see top two performers in respective group enter the revival phase, while bottom two players will be eliminated from the competition.

Revival phase
The players will be drawn against their respective opponents prior to the kickoff of this phase. They will play against each other on best of three basis through a double elimination playoffs. The 4 winners of second round will join a similar number of automatic entrants in the individual knockout phase.

Individual knockout phase
The rules in this phase will be the same as the revival phase applied. The 4 winners of second round will advance to the Final phase.

Final
The players will be drawn against their respective opponents prior to the kickoff of this phase. They will play against each other on best of five basis through a single elimination playoffs.

Map pool
Ancient Isles
Death Trap
Melting Valley
Road to Stratholme
Snowdrop
Tidewater Glades
Twisted Meadows

Prize distribution
1. USD 11,700
2. USD 5,850
3-4. USD 2,925
5-6. USD 1,432
7-8. USD 726

Fixtures

Team knockout phase
1 January 2009 09:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 1
2 January 2009 06:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 2 and 3

Group stage
3 January 2009 06:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Group B & Group C
4 January 2009 06:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Group A & Group D

Revival stage
5 January 2009 09:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 1
6 January 2009 11:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 2

Individual knockout phase
7 January 2009 09:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 1
8 January 2009 11:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 2

Final
9 January 2009 11:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Semi-finals
10 January 2009 11:00 - 15:00 (CET) - Final

wow thats a lot of WCIII,5 phases of matches, NICE! :)

they need ENDURANCE Aura

We'll wait 6 months for replays so.....

one of the commentators constantly keeps saying HM HM HM HM .... damn annoying

is it just me or is the commentarys abit boring? i mean, the korean ones is screaming things like DJI-DJI when its over and screaming alot of things when a hero dies etc.. but the chinese ones is just quiet.. -.-

it is because of cultural differences. Chinese are taught to be quiet, polite and emotionless ... mostly :)

mbc commentators > all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHwIalb0YTk&feature=related

I've gotta second that the Korean shout-casters are way better than most of Chinese shout-casters, though I don't understand a shit, I can feel the passion inside. The only Chinese shout-caster pair I find most interesting is MagicYang and BBC. They are not yelling like psychos either, but they get humor at the very least(I know it's the still same for those who don't understand Chinese).

Maybe, but Cang... ;D~

I will pick bunny over Cang any day of a week :p

Yes,Chinese lacks passion for lots of things.So taiji (a kind of kung fu) appeared on ceremony of opening of beijing2008 Olympic games. Korea is a wise nation,and Korean is littler professional for the job or career .in my opinion,Korean lets me feel sick.

this chinese language is sick :D

lol. mouz.lyn vs sk.lyn

mouz.lyC not N -.-

对不起，目前PPLive网页插件（98KB）暂不支持Firefox、Opera等浏览器，请使用IE观看，谢谢^_^ You can't read it? Let me translate a little. That means :i am sorry that Pplive web plugin (98k) temporally don't support FF,Opera,please do it with IE,thx ^_^.

You gotta love "The corrs" song before the matches XD

hahaha, infi only lost against sky in semi finals and Who lost 5 times but they win the same amount of money ...

What is name of the song which is played after twice shown Kappa commercial? I mean this song when there is shown PGL logo. Lyrics are like "break your way, its time to choose".

I cant load the stream, only thing that is displayed is: '对不起，目前PPLive网页插件（98KB）暂不支持Firefox、Opera等浏览器，请使用IE观看，谢谢^_^', does anybody have a solution for me please ? I use firefox

use ie

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