Skyesports Masters Café Qualifiers Playoffs gets underway

Following the Skyesports Masters Café Qualifiers, which were held all across India, the 17 winning teams will be headed to the Skyesports Masters Café Qualifiers Players, which kicked off from June 26, 2023.

Five of the games, including both the semi-finals and finals will be streamed on Skyesports' Facebook page. There will be one game live-streamed on June 27, 2023 on Skyesports' Facebook page while there will another one streamed on the following day as well. The entire schedule of the Café Qualifiers Playoffs can be found here.

The first game saw Retaliation face of against Vino Auty, which the later won 2-0, taking Inferno 16-13 and Vertigo 16-12.

The teams taking part in this event are:

• Kait Kait Gaming

• Built DIfferent

• Gaming Gladiators

• Run N Gun

• Bottom Gs

• Rage.GG

• VROverpowered

• Wasted Potential

• Genesis

• Vino Auty

• Reactive

• F4F

• COSMO 5

• LPLM

• Noob Kings

• RDX

The 16 teams will now take part in a best-of-three elimination bracket, with the top four teams headed to the semi-finals. The finals will be held on June 30, 2023 with the finals being a best-of-five match.

The main goal of the playoffs is for the Skyesports Masters' franchised teams to use this opportunity to scout players for their team, before the Skyesports Masters League stage gets underway from July 8, 2023.

The prize pool for the event is INR 1 lakh, with the winning team taking home INR 40,000. The second place team will take INR 20,000 while the third and fourth place teams will take home INR 12,500 each.