WePlay! Lock and Load group stage participants and match

WePlay! has announced all the details regarding the group stage pairings for its "Lock and Load" tournament, kicking off Wednesday.

Eight teams will duke it out in two groups of four over January 30 through February 1 for a total of four placements in the playoffs of the $50,000 tournament. The top two teams from both groups will proceed to face squads that received direct invites to the playoffs.

blameF set to make his Heroic debut

Below are the group stage participants broken down into their respective groups:

Group A
HEROIC
Winstrike
Spirit
FURIA Group B
Gambit
Virtus.pro
Kinguin
pro100

The opening and winners' matches of the group stage will both see a best-of-one setting, while the deciders and the elimination matches will feature a best-of-three format.

Below you can find a comprehensive schedule for the tournament:

Wednesday, January 30

12:00 - FURIA vs. Spirit | BO1
13:15 - HEROIC vs. Winstrike | BO1
14:30 - Kinguin vs. pro100 | BO1
15:45 - Virtus.pro vs. Gambit | BO1

Thursday, January 31

16:00 - Elimination #1 | BO3
19:00 - Elimination #2 | BO3

Friday, February 1

14:30 - Winners' match #1 | BO1
15:45 - Winners' match #2 | BO1
17:00 - Deciders' match #1 | BO3
20:00 - Deciders' match #2 | BO3

Saturday, February 2

11:00 - BIG vs. Group A 1st seed | BO3
14:00 - HellRaisers vs. Group A 2nd seed | BO3
17:00 - OpTic vs. Group B 1st seed | BO3
20:00 - Vitality vs. Group B 2nd seed | BO3

Sunday, February 3

14:00 - Semi-final #1 | BO3
17:00 - Semi-final #2 | BO3
20:00 - Grand final | BO3

The following four sides have secured direct entry into the playoffs:

BIG
HellRaisers OpTic
Vitality BIG #13 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşOwen 'smooya' Butterfield Virtus.pro #140 Janusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'byali' BielińskiMichał 'MICHU' MüllerMichał 'snatchie' RudzkiMateusz 'TOAO' Zawistowski Winstrike #35 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' RahkonenAurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan Spirit #23 Vadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoPavel 'COLDYY1' VeklenkoViktor 'sdy' Orudzhev Kinguin #34 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasJacek 'MINISE' JeziakKarol 'rallen' RodowiczMikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski FURIA #44 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior OpTic #22 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferRené 'cajunb' BorgJakob 'JUGi' HansenKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeIsmail 'refrezh' Ali pro100 #46 Ivan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsDima 'def' LemeshchukVadim 'Flarich' KaretinLeonard 'kenzor' VolodarchukMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis HellRaisers #16 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBence 'DeadFox' BöröczIssa 'ISSAA' Murad Vitality #19 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlex 'ALEX' McMeekinMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut HEROIC #26 Adam 'friberg' FribergAsger 'AcilioN' LarsenPatrick 'es3tag' HansenDaniel 'mertz' MertzBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer Gambit #37 Mihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukNikolay 'mir' BityukovSergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov