We are about to head over to the offline finals of the third season of StarLadder's i-League StarSeries, which will take place this week starting from 4th to 9th of April, inside Palace "Ukraina" located in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

A total of sixteen teams will battle each other in a single group best-of-one pre-seeded swiss format. This season finale's participants are the following:

Top seed:
SK Gaming (FalleN, fer, coldzera, TACO & felps)
Astralis Denmark (device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, gla1ve & Kjaerbye)
Virtus.pro (TaZ, NEO, pasha, Snax & byali)
Natus Vincere (Edward, seized, GuardiaN, flamie & s1mple)

High seed:
FaZe (rain, kioShiMa, allu, karrigan & NiKo)
Gambit Gaming (Dosia, AdreN, mou, HObbit & Zeus)
Ninjas in Pyjamas (f0rest, GeT_RiGhT, Xizt, friberg & draken)
North (MSL, Magiskb0Y, k0nfig, cajunb & aizy)

Medium seed:
Fnatic (flusha, JW, olofmeister, KRiMZ & dennis)
Immortals (hen1, lucas, boltz, steel & fnx)
G2 Esports (shox, bodyy, kennyS, apEX & NBK)
HellRaisers (ANGE1, bondik, STYKO, Zero & DeadFox)

Low seed:
Counter Logic Gaming (reltuC, koosta, nahtE, Rickeh & FNS)
MVP Project (XigN, HSK, rindA, Argency & kAyle)
TyLoo (Mo, HZ, DD, somebody & BnTeT)
UYA (forget, Stevie, Not7, QKA & shuadapai)

Eight teams will then move forward to the season finale playoffs, which will use the traditional single elimination best-of-three format.

Meantime your viewing experience will be handled by the following nine experts in the field live on SLTV's primary English Twitch.tv channel:

Host:
Alex 'Machine' Richardson

Analysts:
Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Jason 'moses' O'Toole
Janko 'YNk' Paunovic

Commentators:
Anders Blume
Auguste 'Semmler' Massonnat
Henry 'HenryG' Greer
Matthew 'Sadokist' Trivett
Tom 'TomBizz' Bissmire

The initial matchups have been determined based on the host's seeds and are the following:

4th of April - Tuesday
11:00 CEST - North vs. Immortals
11:30 CEST - Virtus.pro vs. MVP Project
13:00 CEST - SK Gaming vs. TyLoo
14:30 CEST - Astralis Denmark vs. Counter Logic Gaming
16:00 CEST - FaZe vs. HellRaisers
17:30 CEST - Gambit Gaming vs. Fnatic
19:00 CEST - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. G2 Esports
20:30 CEST - Natus Vincere vs. UYA

The event organizers will spend a total of $300,000 in prize winnings for their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive challenge, which will be distributed as the following:

1st - $125,000
2nd - $50,000
3rd-4th - $25,000
5th-8th - $10,000
9th-11th - $6,000
12th-14th - $4,000
15th-16th - $2,500

Our Brazilian CS:GO team will kick off with a match versus the Chinese squad TyLoo at 13:00 CEST on Tuesday, 4th of April.

Stay tuned to SK Gaming for more news and updates.