The MCS Open Season 1 Finals will kick off on Friday, with 32 teams facing off for the first prize of $5,000.
Held at the Moscow Cyber Stadium, Europe's largest esports Arena with more than 2,500 square meters of space, from January 9-10, the MCS Open Season 1 Finals will feature 32 teams, 29 who qualifier for this event plus thre who were invited by the organisers.
The three invited side were Moscow Five, featuring former Virtus.pro member Sergey "Fox" Stolyarov, Andrey "B1ad3" Gorodenskiy's dAT Team, and the CIS-based mix team Nostalgie, featuring the likes of Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev and Kirill "ANGE1" Karasiow.
s1mple with kucher, Dosia and ANGE1 in Nostalgie
Among the qualified teams are also a couple of big names, from Kazakh side Check-Six to Russian team The Old Guard, boasting players like Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov and Eduard "ed1k" Ivanov.
Below you can find how the teams are distributed among the groups:
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
 BTW | EYESPorts | 4spb | 4SIDE |
 Check-Six | LOLPANIC | HiveGO |  97club |
| Null element dAT Team | ONLY | Oneshot | FBI |
| GNet | Time2Win | The Old Guard | Battlehall |
| Goup E | Group F | Group G | Group H |
| -CCM- | 1221 | ACES | Inception |
| Easy4 | D3_74 | COMBACK | Null element Nostalgie |
| Moscow Five | EXPLODERS | Lost Souls | tiNi |
| Team46 | WOW | Onlineri | Veritas |
The schedule for the first day of the tournament is the following:
The 32 teams will be competing for a $10,000 prize purse, to be split among the top eight finishers as follows:
1. $5,000
2. $2,000
3. $1,000
4. $700
5-8. $350
Sergey 'Fox' Stolyarov 
Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 150 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.64 Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov 
Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 117 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.72 
Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow 
Age: 25 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 429 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.69 
Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy 
Age: 28 Team: dAT Rating 1.0: 0.86 Maps played: 155 KPR: 0.60 DPR: 0.74 Eduard 'ed1k' Ivanov 
Age: 26 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.75 Maps played: 38 KPR: 0.58 DPR: 0.82 Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev 
Age: 17 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 112 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.69 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone (责任编辑：casebattles)
