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The online regular season stage of the tournament has come to an end after more than seven weeks of total world class action and the eight finalists from both Europe and North America has now been determined.

The group stage began on May 4th and ran until 24th of June, with the match between Titan eSports and Team Dignitas being the last of the series.

The finalists or the top four teams of each continent that will fly to Cologne in order are Fnatic, Virtus.pro, Team SoloMid and Team EnVy representing Europe and Cloud 9, Keyd Stars, Luminosity Gaming and Counter Logic Gaming representing North America.

The final standings of the regular season stage of EEPL season one are the following:

European division:
1st -

Fnatic - $18,000
2nd -

Virtus.pro - $16,500
3rd -

Team SoloMid - $15,000
4th -

Team EnVy - $13,500
5th -

Ninjas in Pyjamas - $13,000
6th -

HellRaisers - $11,500
7th -

Natus Vincere - $10,000
8th -

Team Dignitas - $8,500
9th -

Titan eSports - $7,000
10th -

mousesports - $5,500
11th -

PENTA Sports - $4,000
12th -

Flipside Tactics - $2,500

North American division:
1st -

Cloud 9 - $18,000
2nd -

Keyd Stars - $16,500
3rd -

Luminosity Gaming - $15,000
4th -

Counter Logic Gaming - $13,500
5th -

Team Liquid - $13,000
6th -

Nihilum - $11,500
7th -

eLevate - $10,000
8th -

Tempo Storm - $8,500
9th -

SYNRGY - $7,000
10th -

Paradox USA - $5,500
11th -

MouseSpaz - $4,000
12th -

ACE - $2,500

Congratulations to the finalists for their incredible performance during these approximately seven weeks and reaching the global finals in Cologne, Germany.

The LAN event will be held inside the ESL's state-of-art arena from 2nd to 5th of July. The schedule can be found here. More information regarding the tournament's format and structure will be revealed soon.

If you have missed a number of matches or simply want to review them again, you can find VOD replays on ESL TV for European and ESEA TV for North American matches. Results and statistics are also available in our tournament section.

The organizers has also revealed the groups for the offline finals. The mentioned eight teams above will be divined in to two groups, which will look as the following:

Group A:

Cloud 9 (fREAKAZOiD, n0thing, sgares, shroud & Skadoodle)

Virtus.pro (byali, NEO, pasha, Snax & TaZ)

Luminosity Gaming (anger, LeX, NAF-FLY, ptr & pyth)

Team EnVy (Happy, kioShiMa, NBK, shox & SmithZz)

Group B:

Fnatic (flusha, jw, KRiMZ, olofm & pronax)

Keyd Stars (boltz, FalleN, fer, steel & zqk)

Team SoloMid (cajunb, device, dupreeh, karrigan & Xyp9x)

Counter Logic Gaming (FNS, hazed, jdm64, reltuC & tarik)

The $250,000 prize purse for the LAN finals will be distributed as the following:

1st. $100,000
2nd. $60,000
3rd-4th. $25,000
5th-6th. $12,500
7th-8th. $7,500

Furthermore to ensure that the competition have the best teams in the world each season, ESL and ESEA announced move up and down system between the Pro League and the ESEA Premier division. The top nine teams of each continent will directly secure a spot for the next season, while the last three remaining will have to prove themselves again.

The winner of the Premier division will replace the twelfth team in the Pro League. The runner up will face the eleventh team of the Pro League for a chance to promote themselves and Premier's third team to take on the tenth.

SK Gaming are currently second in the European Premier division with ten victories and three defeats. Our Danish squad will have the chance to reach the Pro League by passing the group stage and securing one of the first three spots in the playoffs.

Stay tuned to SK Gaming for more information.

Source: Multiple (HLTV.org, ESEA.net)