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What to watch for this weekend in esports

Six teams are tied atop the LCS standings entering Week 4 at 4-2, with Team Liquid facing the Golden Guardians and TSM matching up against OpTic Gaming to determine which teams will pick up their fifth win. Provided by Riot Games

League of Legends

This week: Week 4 of LCS 2019 summer split

Saturday, starting at 5 p.m. ET:

Team Liquid vs. Golden Guardians

Team SoloMid vs. OpTic Gaming

100 Thieves vs. Cloud9

Counter Logic Gaming vs. FlyQuest

Echo Fox vs. Clutch Gaming

Sunday, starting at 3 p.m. ET:

Cloud9 vs. Counter Logic Gaming

Flyquest vs. 100 Thieves

Clutch Gaming vs. Team Liquid

Golden Guardians vs. Team SoloMid

OpTic Gaming vs. Echo Fox

For more schedules and game times, check out our calendar.

Overwatch League

This week: Week 3 of Stage 3 for Season 2.

Thursday, starting at 7 p.m. ET:

San Francisco vs. Boston

Paris vs. Houston

Hangzhou vs. Dallas

Shanghai vs. Los Angeles Valiant

Friday, starting at 7 p.m. ET:

London vs. New York

San Francisco vs. Florida

Los Angeles Gladiators vs. Shanghai

Chengdu vs. Vancouver

Saturday, starting at 3 p.m. ET:

London vs. Washington

Atlanta vs. Philadelphia

Toronto vs. Guangzhou

Hangzhou vs. Seoul

Sunday, starting at 3 p.m. ET:

Chengdu vs. Dallas

Boston vs. Paris

Houston vs. Florida

Los Angeles Valiant vs. Vancouver

Call of Duty

This week: Week 11 of the CWL Pro League

Notes: Two weeks remain in the regular season. OpTic Gaming have secured a playoff spot with a 14-4 record in Division A. FaZe Clan and Gen.G are tied for second play at 11-7. eUnited and 100 Thieves have locked up playoff spots in Division B, where Heretics (10-8) are in third place.

CS:GO

This week: ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals, June 18-23

Location: Sud de France Arena, Montpellier, France

Prize pool: $600,000

Teams: 16

Defending champion: Astralis

Format: Double-elimination group stage consisting of best-of-one matches. Group winners automatically advance to the semifinals, with the second- and third-place teams advancing to the first round of the playoffs. Grand final will be best-of-five.

Group A: fnatic, NRG, G2, Grayhound, Astralis, Cloud9, Heroic, DETONA

Group B: FaZe, TYLOO, North, Liquid, mousesports, MIBR, HellRaisers, Luminosity

Notes: Liquid and Astralis are the top two-ranked CS:GO teams in the world. The teams have met three times this year, with Liquid winning two of the three matches. The current mousesports lineup has won 29 of 41 maps played, including a 10-0 record on Train, per HLTV.org statistics. Cloud9 has an 18-27 map record since adding Daniel "vice" Kim and Rene "cajunb" Borg, including a 1-11 mark in three LAN tournaments.

Dota 2

This week: Epicenter Major, June 22-30

Location: Moscow

Prize pool: $1,000,000; 15,000 Pro Circuit Points

Teams: 16

Format: Sixteen teams divided into four GSL groups of four teams each playing best-of-three matches. The top two teams from each group advance to the upper-bracket playoffs, while the bottom two teams advance to the lower bracket. The double-elimination playoffs begin with eight teams in both the upper and lower brackets. All games are best-of-three until the best-of-five grand finals.

Europe: Team Secret, Team Liquid, OG

CIS: Gambit Esports, Virtus.pro

China: PSG.LGD, Royal Never Give Up, Vici Gaming

North America: Forward Gaming, Evil Geniuses

Southeast Asia: TNC Predator, fnatic

South America: paiN Gaming, Infamous

Notes: Team Secret lead the Dota Pro Circuit Rankings, followed by Virtus.pro, Evil Geniuses and Vici Gaming. ... Epicenter will be the final Major before The International 19. The final playoffs will take place in the CSKA Arena. This is the first Major Dota tournament to take place in Russia, which did host Epicenter XL in 2018. Teams that have failed to qualify for T19 after Epicenter will have to try to earn a spot through regional qualifiers, where only one spot is available for each region.

--Field Level Media