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The groups and the full schedule of ELEAGUE Premier, which will take place on July 21-29, have been announced by the organizers.

Group A features three teams currently residing in the top-five of our ranking, Astralis, Liquid, and MIBR. They are accompanied by Cloud9, who have yet to announce who their fifth player for the tournament will be.

Astralis and Cloud9 will kick off the $1,000,000 event

In Group B, Natus Vincere will attempt to fend off serious competition from FaZe — who will field Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer for the first time in over three months —, MOUZ, and fnatic.

Group A
Astralis
Liquid
MIBR
Cloud9 Group B
Natus Vincere
FaZe
MOUZ
fnatic

ELEAGUE have also released the full schedule of the tournament taking place in their studios in Atlanta, which will begin on July 21, with the GSL group stage running until July 25. The playoffs will then take over after a two-day break on July 28-29 with the best-of-three semi-finals and the grand final.

The full schedule, with approximate starting times in case of the second matches each day, looks as follows:

Saturday, July 21
20:00 - Astralis vs. Cloud9 | BO3
~23:00 - Liquid vs. MIBR | BO3

Sunday, July 22
20:00 - Natus Vincere vs. fnatic | BO3
~23:00 - FaZe vs. MOUZ | BO3

Monday, July 23
20:00 - Group A winners' match | BO3
~23:00 - Group B winners' match | BO3

Tuesday, July 24
20:00 - Group A elimination match | BO3
~23:00 - Group B elimination match | BO3

Wednesday, July 25
20:00 - Group A decider |BO3
~23:00 - Group B decider | BO3

Saturday, July 28
20:00 - Semi-final #1 | BO3
~23:00 - Semi-final #2 | BO3

Sunday, July 29
20:00 Grand final | BO3

Liquid #4 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken MOUZ #6 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiRobin 'ropz' Kool Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer Age: 26 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 1077 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.65 FaZe #3 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard Cloud9 #11 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' Ta Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif fnatic #8 Richard 'Xizt' LandströmRobin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonWilliam 'draken' Sundin MIBR #5 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassJake 'Stewie2K' YipMarcelo 'coldzera' David Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Natus Vincere #2 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov