The Manila Majors Group Stage Schedule, Broadcast Teams Revealed
The Manila Majors group stage will commence on June 3 to 4, three days before the main event at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena, Pasay City, Team Secret’s (Secret) manager revealed yesterday evening (Philippine Standard Time) ahead of grouping announcements from Valve.
“The schedule usually gets announced when the groups have been made and the groups aren’t usually made until all the teams arrive on location,” Matthew “Cyborgmatt” Bailey, Secret’s Manager, said in a Reddit post.
“However I don’t think it does any harm to tell you that the group stage will be played on the 3rd & 4th of June and will start at 10am local time. (Two day group stage like we had in Frankfurt),” he added.
The Manila Majors will follow the usual group stage to main event format in the past two Majors events. During the group stage, four groups of four teams will be made playing in a double-elimination format of best-of-three matches. The top two teams of each group will be seeded in the upper bracket of the main event while the bottom two will fight for their lives in the lower bracket.
Valve has yet to announce the groups for the Manila Majors.
They’re going to Manila
The English Broadcast talent pool for the Manila Majors. (Photo grabbed from Wykrhm Reddy)
Professional Gamers League (PGL), organizer of the Manila Majors, announced the set of talent pool for the English, Chinese and Russian broadcast of the 3-million dollar tournament yesterday evening (PST).
The English broadcast pool includes returning commentators and analysts from ESL One Manila 2016 Jacob “SirActionSlacks” Kanner, Austin “Capitalist” Walsh, Toby “Tobiwan” Dawson and more. New faces to Manila such as Niklas “Wagamama” Hogstrom joining the caster team and Alan “Nahaz” Beste and Dominik “Black” Reitmeier joining the analyst pool.
Meanwhile, the Russian broadcast team will feature familiar shout casters such as Roman “CaspeRRR” Lepokhin, Dmitry “Lightofheaven” Kupriyanov and Yaroslav “NS” Kuznetsov to name some.
Ukrainian commentator Vitalii “v1lat” Volochai will declined to join the Russian broadcast team in the Manila Majors due to undisclosed “personal reasons.”
“I was invited [but I] could’nt accept due to personal reasons,” v1lat said in a tweet. He also said that he will be shout casting the group stage matches remotely.
The Chinese talent pool will showcase famous shout casters and players from their region like Wang “SanSheng” Zhaohui, Zhang “BBC” Hongsheng and Yao “3577” Yi.
Wait! There’s more
Valve’s very own the Secret Shop is coming to the Manila Majors!
(Photo grabbed from Wykrhm Reddy)
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