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:

• 09:00 - Groups A to D (Group A on stream)
• 12:00 - Groups E to H (Group H on stream)
• 15:30 - Round of 16
• 18:45 - Quarter-finals

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