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　　The offline finals for the eighth season of Star Ladder is set to be played off later this weekend and features an ever growing prize pool that currently stands at $133,000 thanks to the help of their revenue sharing Dota TV ticket that has helped boost it way past the initial starting point of $50,000.

　　With first place guaranteeing a 50% cut of the total prize pool it should help make for an entertaining finals. You can find a full breakdown of the prize pool and track it live here: http://dota2.cyborgmatt.com/starladder

　　The attendees who have made it the offline finals will be Alliance, Na'Vi, Sigma.int and Fnatic who just managed to make it through the online based group stages due to their victory over RoX.KIS who they tied with for fourth place.

　　The offline event will also feature a 1v1 tournament during the weekend which will see Jerry 'EGM' Lundqvist from Alliance, Gleb 'Funn1k' Lipatnikov from Na'Vi, Kalle 'Trixi' Saarinen from Fnatic and a member of Sigma.int compete in the mini 1v1 tournament.

　　The initial brackets and play off schedule can be found below.

Friday 17th of January

Saturday 18th of January

Sunday 19th of January

　　The Kiev Cybersport Arena has played host to a number of Star Ladder finals and will once again be used for the eighth season's finals.Source: starladder.tv