After the fifth round of the Swiss group stage came to an end, ELEAGUE drew the playoffs bracket which begins with the quarter-finals on Friday. Day four saw the group stage slowly coming to a close with the last two rounds, as three teams advanced to playoffs from the fourth round with a 3-1 record, while three more joined them in the fifth round. After Astralis secured the last quarter-finals spot with a confident win over Liquid, ELEAGUE drew the playoffs bracket, which looks as follows: Keep in mind that there will be one off-day on Thursday, January 26th, before the competition will move on to the Fox Theatre from Friday on.
Astralis and Natus Vincere will kick off the quarter-finals on FridayFriday, January 27th 16:00 Natus Vincere
vs. Astralis
18:30 fnatic
vs. Gambit
21:00 Virtus.pro
vs. North
Saturday, January 28th 16:00 FaZe
vs. SK
FaZe #7
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli
Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey
Philip 'aizy' Aistrup
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Natus Vincere #9
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Denis 'seized' Kostin
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
North #6
Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel
René 'cajunb' Borg
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen
Emil 'Magisk' Reif
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke
Astralis #1
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye
Liquid #17
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin
Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Gambit #16
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov
Rustem 'mou' Telepov
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov Time is adjusted to your selected timezone
SK #3
Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga
Marcelo 'coldzera' David
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo
Virtus.pro #4
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas
Filip 'NEO' Kubski
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski
Paweł 'byali' Bieliński
fnatic #20
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Dennis 'dennis' Edman
Simon 'twist' Eliasson
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson
Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun