five. The winner of the finals will win the tournament and the top prize. All games in the Finals will be played offline. The top team in each group will receive a bye and automatically move onto the Semifinals. The other four teams will play in the Round of Six. The winners of those two games will move on to the Semifinals, and the winner of the Semifinals will move onto the Finals. The winner of the grand finals is crowned as champion of ESL Pro League Season 5. Teams North America Broadcast Talent Commentators Tim "Brainstorm" Dunne Ben "SandMan" Green Sam "DaZeD" Marine Jordan "Elfishguy" Mays John "BLU" Mullen Kevin "KaRath" Zhu Analysts Observers David DJ "Prius" Kuntz Standings The North American final standings are shown below. The top six teams go to Dallas to play in the finals and are invited to next season's EPL. Teams that placed seventh through eleventh did not qualify to the finals but are still invited to next seasons EPL. The bottom three teams need to go through various qualifiers in order to qualify for next season's EPL. The teams' in-game leaders are shown first for each roster. (RUSH's, The Foundation's, and Winterfox's – now Animal Squad – in-game leaders are either unknown or do not have an in-game leader.) The defending EPL champions, Cloud9, made it to the finals once again. In addition, the two time major champions and runners-up from last season, SK Gaming, qualified with the top seed in North America. The same six teams who went to Brazil's finals qualified for the Dallas finals, with OpTic Gaming and Cloud9 winning crucial games while Luminosity Gaming dropped both its games to Team Liquid on the last day of the season, knocking the third Brazilian team out of finals contention. During the season, many roster changes took place. Team SoloMid's roster transferred to the Misfits after controversy surrounding Misfits captain Sean "sgares" Gares and TSM owner Andy "Reginald" Dinh. Yassine "Subroza"' Taoufik left Counter Logic Gaming. CLG brought in James "hazed" Cobb, who had just left the team, as a temporary substitute. The team then brought in Ricky "Rickeh" Mulholland from Renegades after the Australian AWPer was let go and replaced with the Swedish player Simon "atter" Atterstam. A few weeks later, Renegades leader Yaman "yam" Ergenekon stepped down from the team and returned to Australia, citing personal reasons. Michael "Uber"