The event will be hosted at the Spodek Arena in Poland, and will be available live on Twitch or in-game, as always it will offer the chance to win Katowice 2015 Souvenir Packages. Be sure to link your Twitch account though!

ESL One Katowice begins 13:00 CET - Thursday, March 12 with the Counter-Strike grand final being shown Sunday, March 15 at 13:00 CET. With the best teams and players from all around the world, it's not going to be an event you should miss.

The casters guiding you through this event will be:


The Groups:

The tournament groups appear to be relatively mixed, with Group B appearing to be the group of death; all four teams are extremely strong. The full groups are as follows:


The schedule sees group B play first, with the two French powerhouses Team EnVyUs and Titan going head to head to open the show, they are then followed by LGB eSports taking on PENTA. The full schedule can be found below or at ESL CS:GO.


Who to watch?

Australian team Vox Eminor proved to be the surprise package of the offline qualifiers a few weeks back, can they repeat those performances against the world's best? Their first match sees them play Fnatic and will be a good indicator.

The Brazilian scene has come on a long way recently, as we saw with Keyd Stars, or as there were known at the MLG X-Games Kabum eSports they are more than capable of causing an upset. Keyd start their tournament off against NiP, another team to keenly watch due to it being Aleski 'allu' Jalli first tournament for the Swede's.

With the tournament being played on Polish soil, you can never count out Virtus.pro, the Pole's are currently ranked second in the world coming into the tournament and the home fans will certainly be expecting a big performance.

Make sure to stay tuned to SK for all the news surrounding ESL One Katowice 2015.

Source(s): HLTV.org, ESL-one & Gosu Gamers