StarLadder Season 3 - Na'Vi champions!

Hi, everyone! A few hours remain till Lan-final of StarLadder 3 at Cyber-Sports Arena, Kiev. Teams are gathering and begin to warm-up. Tournament starts October 18th and lasts till October 21st. 7 best teams having passed a hard online qualification will fight for the champions title and prize pool 15.000$.

1st, 2nd and 3rd game days photos: - link
Interview with finale participants: - link

Prize pool:
1st place – Natus Vincere - 6,000 $
2nd place – Team Empire - 3,000 $
3rd place – GD-Studio - 2,500 $
4th place – Pulse - 2,000 $
5th place – VP - 500 $
6th place – MYM - 500 $
7th place – M5 - 500$

Lan-finale participants:
Team Empire - Goblak, Funn1k, blow, Scandal, Silent
Moscow 5 - nexus, Sedoy, BullsEye, STALIANER, Dread
Natus Vincere - Puppey, Lost, Dendi, XBOCT, ARS-ART
Virtus.pro - NS, Crazy, kSi, Illidan, Santa
PULSE - WagamamaW, Reesion, Mini, Fishbone, Pinoy
GD Studio - Kuroky, SingSing, SexyBamboe, Alex, Black^
MeetYourMakers - CalculuS, THEneNo, Balsam, Atze, qojqva, Link

All matches will be commented by one of the best CIS' commentator Vitaliy "v1lat" Volochay, Vladislav "matrix" Suzdal' and Roman "Casper" Lepehin.

At first all teams will be devided into 2 groups. Best 2 teams for each group will go to play-off grid. All matches in group stage will be played in Bo2 format, play-off stage - Bo3 and grand-final - Bo5. As Team Empire and M5 took 1st and 2nd place in online stage of the tournament, respectively they have a chance to pick their competitors first.

Play-off stage teams:

Team Empire	Natus Vincere	Pulse	The GD-Studio
Goblak Funn1k BlowYourBrain Scandal Silent	Pupey Dendi XBOCT Lost ART-ART	Pinoy Mini Fishbone Reesion WagamamaW	Kuroky Black^ Alex SingSing SexyBamboe

Play-Off

Round 1		Round 2		Super-final		Winner
Natus Vincere
2:1		Natus Vincere
Pulse
		2:1		Natus Vincere
GD-Studio
2:1		GD-Studio		1:0, 2:1		Natus Vincere
Team Empire				Team Empire

Round 1		Small final		Low-grid final
		GD-Studio
Pulse		0:2		Team Empire
0:2		Team Empire
Team Empire

Group Stage:

Group A

Team	G	W	N	L	T
Team Empire #2	2	2	1	0	3
Natus Vincere #1	2	2	0	0	6
Virtus.pro	2	0	0	2	0

Game results: Virtus.pro [0:2] Team Empire Na'Vi [2:0] Virtus.pro Team Empire [0:2] Na'Vi

Group B

Team	G	W	N	L	T
Moscow 5	3	0	2	1	2
MeetYourMakers	3	0	1	2	1
PULSE #2	3	2	0	1	6
GD Studio #1	3	2	1	0	7

Game results: M5 [1:1] MYM PULSE [0:2] The GD The GD [1:1] M5 PULSE [2:0] MYM M5 [0-2] PULSE MYM [0-2] The GD

As we can see our guys have to play hard and that means that they needed in your support. Go for Team Empire, come to Kiev Cyber-Sports Arena and stand by our guys. GL HF!

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