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We have put together a viewer's guide which contains all the essential information you need in order to follow the $300,000 event, including the teams in attendance, schedule, talent, and more.

The Kiev Cybersport Arena in Ukraine will play host to the 16-team event which will take place from February 17-25. The total prize pot for the tournament is $300,000 and the champions will take home $130,000.

StarSeries i-League S4 will have a unique format as all sixteen teams will be in a best-of-three Swiss group. StarLadder have expressed that they see this change as an improvement as it eliminates "random best-of-one results".

Niko & co. will look to bounce back after their grand final loss at the Major

The first five days of the event will feature the Swiss stage during which three victories guarantee qualification for the eight-team single-elimination playoffs while three losses mean elimination.

Below are the teams taking part in the competition:

Astralis	FaZe
Cloud9	fnatic
G2	Gambit
MOUZ	SK
Natus Vincere	Virtus.pro
TYLOO	MVP PK
HEROIC	HellRaisers
Liquid	Renegades

The full schedule can be found below:

Saturday, February 17
09:00	Cloud9	vs. HEROIC
09:00	SK	vs. MVP PK
12:00	fnatic	vs. Gambit
12:00	FaZe	vs. TYLOO
15:00	Natus Vincere	vs. HellRaisers
15:00	G2	vs. Renegades
18:00	Astralis	vs. Liquid
18:00	MOUZ	vs. Virtus.pro
Sunday, February 18
09:00	Round #2 - Two 0-1 pool matches
12:00	Round #2 - Two 0-1 pool matches
15:00	Round #2 - Two 1-0 pool matches
18:00	Round #2 - Two 1-0 pool matches
Monday, February 19
09:00	Round #3 - Two 0-2 pool matches
12:00	Round #3 - Two 1-1 pool matches
15:00	Round #3 - Two 1-1 pool matches
18:00	Round #3 - Two 2-0 pool matches
Tuesday, February 20
11:00	Round #4 - Two 1-2 pool matches
14:00	Round #4 - 1-2 pool match & 2-1 pool match
17:00	Round #4 - Two 2-1 pool matches
Wednesday, February 21
11:00	Round #5 - match #1
14:00	Round #5 - match #2
17:00	Round #5 - match #3
Thursday, February 22
	Off-day
Friday, February 23
09:00	Quarter-final #1
12:00	Quarter-final #2
15:00	Quarter-final #3
18:00	Quarter-final #4
Saturday, February 24
14:00	Semi-final #1
17:00	Semi-final #2
Sunday, February 25
14:00	Third-place decider
17:00	Grand final

*All matches are best-of-threes

There will be two streams as the event will have simultaneous matches, one on StarLadder's main channel, and the other on their second channel. The following broadcast crew will be bringing you the action live from Kiev:

Alex "Machine"Richardson – host
Tres "stunna"Saranthus – host

Duncan "Thorin"Shields — analyst
Janko "YNk"Paunovic — analyst
Chad "SPUNJ"Burchill — analyst
Joona "natu"Leppänen — analyst

Henry "HenryG"Greer — caster
Matthew "Sadokist"Trivett — caster
Tom "Tombizz"Bissmire — caster
Jason "moses"O'Toole — caster
Harry "JustHarry"Russell — caster
Halvor "Vendetta"Gulestøl — caster
Hugo Byron — caster
Anders Blume — caster

Pala "Mantrousse"Gilroy Sen — interviewer

The Russian-language studio lineup is:

Antonina "Tonya"Predko – host
Roman "CaspeR"Lepokhin – host

Alexey "XAOC"Kucherov – analyst
Aleksandr "Petr1k"Petryk – analyst
Alexey "уХо"Maletskiy – analyst

Igor "SL4M"Sopov – caster
Fyodor "KvaN"Zakharov – caster
Juriy "Strike"Tereshenko – caster
Aleksandr "HomeR"Lysenko – caster
Taufik "Tafa"Khidri — caster
Mikhail "okrOha"Shmygel — caster
Konstantin "leniniw"Sivko — caster

The prize money will be distributed in this manner:

1. $130,000
2. $50,000
3. $30,000
4. $15,000
5-8. $10,000
9-11. $6,000
12. $4,000

Astralis #7 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Gambit #11 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovDenis 'seized' KostinAbay 'HObbit' Khassenov Natus Vincere #10 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov MVP PK #46 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim HellRaisers #19 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBence 'DeadFox' BöröczIssa 'ISSAA' Murad G2 #4 Richard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro SK #2 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo FaZe #1 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard Liquid #9 Lucas 'steel' LopesNick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken TYLOO #30 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto Renegades #18 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadKarlo 'USTILO' PivacNoah 'Nifty' Francis Cloud9 #3 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Time is adjusted to your selected timezone HEROIC #12 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMarco 'Snappi' PfeifferRuben 'RUBINO' VillarroelJakob 'JUGi' HansenNikolaj 'niko' Kristensen MOUZ #8 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' StykRobin 'ropz' Kool Virtus.pro #17 Filip 'NEO' KubskiJarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskiJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'byali' BielińskiMichał 'MICHU' Müller fnatic #5 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonMaikil 'Golden' Selim