{"id":29031,"date":"2023-03-19T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T02:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=29031"},"modified":"2023-03-20T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T04:32:10","slug":"esl-pro-league-17-enters-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/esl-pro-league-17-enters-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL Pro League Season 17 enters playoff stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/esl-pro-league\/\" title=\"CS:GO ESL Pro League betting guide\">ESL Pro League<\/a> Season 17 playoff bracket was finalised over the weekend, with FORZE, ENCE, Natus Vincere, and Team Liquid taking the final four spots.<\/p>\n<p>After defeating Natus Vincere and Team Spirit on their way to the Group D upper-bracket final, FORZE went on to finish undefeated by beating ENCE 2-0 in the decider to secure a spot in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Most <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a> had FORZE as underdogs to win Group D, but the Russian team dominated ENCE 16-3 and 16-13 in an easy 2-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing in the upper-bracket final, ENCE secured a spot in the second round of the playoffs, leaving two spots in the first round to be filled from the lower-bracket final and last-chance stage.<\/p>\n<p>After losing to FORZE in their first series, Natus Vincere finished the group stage strong with 2-1 wins over Astralis and Rare Atom before defeating Team Spirit in the lower-bracket final to secure their spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Team Liquid faced Astralis in the fourth-place decider, which the North American team won 2-0 (16-8, 16-12), allowing the world no.3 to take the final playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>The ESL Pro League now moves on to the first round of the playoffs, with the first four games set to take place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ESLProLeague?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ESLProLeague<\/a> Season 17 Playoff Stage Bracket! \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Which teams do you think will make it to the Grand Final on Sunday? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TPV41IvuxZ\">pic.twitter.com\/TPV41IvuxZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1637575076596834308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of the opening-round matchups, with odds courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/go\/betonline\/\"  title=\"Claim bonus at BetOnline\"  target=\"_blank\">BetOnline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li>Natus Vincere (-1428.57) vs 00Nation (+650) @ 3:30pm CET<\/li>\n<li>FURIA (-151.52) vs Fnatic (+110) @ 3:30pm CET<\/li>\n<li>paiN Gaming (+275) vs Team Liquid (-400) @ 7pm CET<\/li>\n<li>G2 Esports (-2000) vs Movistar Riders (+750) @ 7pm CET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ESL Pro League Season 17 will enter the opening round of the playoffs on Tuesday, after the completion of Group D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[152,508,11,651,430,725,132,1522,128,434],"class_list":["post-29031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-astralis","tag-counter-strike","tag-csgo","tag-ence","tag-esl-pro-league","tag-forze","tag-natus-vincere","tag-rare-atom","tag-team-liquid","tag-team-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29031"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29057,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29031\/revisions\/29057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}