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' Højsleth Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander Nicolai 'device' Reedtz Emil 'Magisk' Reif  Gambit #11  Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Rustem 'mou' Telepov Denis 'seized' Kostin Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov  Natus Vincere #10  Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov  MVP PK #46  Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang Min-Soo 'glow' Kim Min-Seok 'zeff' Park Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee Hae-Sung 'HSK' Kim  HellRaisers #19  Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Özgür 'woxic' Eker Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz Issa 'ISSAA' Murad  G2 #4  Richard 'shox' Papillon Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro   SK #2   Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga Ricardo 'boltz' Prass Marcelo 'coldzera' David Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo  FaZe #1  Finn 'karrigan' Andersen Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač Håvard 'rain' Nygaard  Liquid #9  Lucas 'steel' Lopes Nick 'nitr0' Cannella Keith 'NAF' Markovic Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken  TYLOO #30  Ke 'captainMo' Liu Hui 'DD' Wu Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand HaoWen 'somebody' Xu Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto  Renegades #18  Justin 'jks' Savage Aaron 'AZR' Ward Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac Noah 'Nifty' Francis  Cloud9 #3  Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham William 'RUSH' Wierzba Tarik 'tarik' Celik Timothy 'autimatic' Ta Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Time is adjusted to your selected timezone   HEROIC #12   Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen  MOUZ #8  Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi Martin 'STYKO' Styk Robin 'ropz' Kool  Virtus.pro #17  Filip 'NEO' Kubski Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Paweł 'byali' Bieliński Michał 'MICHU' Müller  fnatic #5  Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist Jesper 'JW' Wecksell Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Maikil 'Golden' Selim |