The fantasy game for EPL Group A poses a challenge for users to make a team considering the heavy impact of padding points. ESL Pro League Season 18 is about to kick off on August 30, with the month-long league dividing 32 teams into four groups. Each group will have its own fantasy game, and in the first one we have the No. 1-ranked team in the world, Vitality, housing four gold-tier players. - You can create your teams on the Fantasy page here. - 8 teams in double elimination BO3 bracket with Last Chance stage bracket. - Teams that reach the UB final get padding points for 3 rounds: LB Semi-finals, 6-7th place decider, and 4th place decider - The winner of the LB final gets padding points for 2 rounds: 6-7th place decider and 4th place decider - The format heavily favors teams that are expected to reach the UB final and get triple padding points. But padding can also be negative if a player had poor performances in preceding matches, although it can be partially offset by +6 points for each round. - The status of Vitality as a top 1 team led to all players having a high price. Nevertheless, apEX was affordable enough to be picked by 72% of players, while ZywOo is present on 40% of the teams with $240K price. Astralis, though, has three silver-priced players, despite being a second second-highest-ranked team in the group. -The users can count on both Season points and skin prizes as follows: 1.Hydra Gloves | Mangrove (Field-Tested) In this episode of Fantasy Focus by 22BET, Conner "Scrawny" Girvan explains the EPL format, gives his player takes on Group A, and explains the extraordinary 98-point run of "AnotherUser"in the last five games of the season.Format
Teams
Vitality
GamerLegion
FURIA
ORKS
Astralis
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Grayhound
Movistar Riders
Things to note
Player prices
Fantasy Prizes
2. AWP | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)
3. AK-47 | Asiimov (Field-tested)Scrawny's Fantasy tips for the EPL format and Group A
ORKS #52
Kevin 'HS' Tarn
Arek 'Vegi' Nawojski
Łukasz 'mwlky' Pachucki
Patryk 'olimp' Woźniak
Rafał 'sNx' Snopek
Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann
GamerLegion #7
Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand
Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov
Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus
Isak 'isak' Fahlén
Sebastian 'volt' Maloș
Ashley 'ash' Battye
Conner 'Scrawny' Girvan
Age: 29 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00
Ninjas in Pyjamas #11
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner
Hampus 'hampus' Poser
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin
Daniil 'headtr1ck' Valitov
Daniel 'djL' Narancic
Movistar Riders #71
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet
Tiago 'JUST' Moura
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano
Adam 'adamS' Marian
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Galder 'bladE' Barcena
FURIA #23
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Nicholas 'guerri' Nogueira
Grayhound #33
Simon 'Sico' Williams
Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas
Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston
Joshua 'INS' Potter
Declan 'Vexite' Portelli
Vitality #1
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Emil 'Magisk' Reif
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi
Danny 'zonic' Sørensen
Astralis #6
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer
Victor 'Staehr' Staehr
Christian 'Buzz' Andersen
Peter 'casle' Ardenskjold