CS:GO Starladder I-League Season 5 was organized in Kiev, Ukraine. The offline tournament featured 300000 u.s. dollar prize pool. 16 teams participated in the S-tier competition, with the sponsorship of LOOT.BET, CSMoney, HellCase, NVIDIA, DreamTeam and Twitch.

The dates of the event were from 2018-05-28 to 2018-06-03. The format of the tournament included group and playoff stages. The Swiss System table was for the group stage, while playoffs were in single-elimination best-of-3s, including the grand final. The winner got the 125,000 USD from the 300,000 pool. It was the Ukrainian NAVI that were the champions on the home soil. The event was organized by StarLadder and ImbaTV.

Tournament Format

The tournament will start with Qualifiers for Four regions, North America, Europe, Asia, and CIS. 

There will be twelve teams per region playing in preliminary GSL group stage format, from which four teams that have qualified will be joined by four invited teams for the second stage of the qualifier.

The winners of the North America and CIS qualifiers will advance into the LAN finals, while the Asia and European qualifier will grant 2 slots for the top two teams.

The Playoffs will be played in Single-elimination Bracket, and all matches including finals are played in best-of-three series.

The Main Event consists of a best-of-three swiss style group stage with 16 teams and the top 8 will proceed to the playoffs which is a best-o-three single elimination bracket.