The Fantasy game for the group stage of Nine to Five 3 has gone live and you can now create your teams to compete for prizes.

The group stage of the third edition of the Nine to Five series will kick off on August 17 and will be played in a Swiss format, with the top-eight sides earning a place in the playoffs, where MIBR, HEROIC, Spirit, and North are already waiting as directly invited teams.

Eyes will be on FORZE as the highest-ranked team of the group stage, followed by two other CIS sides in Winstrike and the recently rebranded K23 squad, formerly known as Syman.

xsepower is a hot commodity in the Fantasy game

To play the Fantasy game for the Swiss group stage, join the official league to play for prizes, or you can create your own league, drafted live or on a budget, to play against your friends or members of various communities.

The prizes of the official HLTV x Nine to Five league are:

1. Bowie Knife | Scorched (Field Tested)
2. AK-47 | Fuel Injector (Field Tested)
3. M4A1-S | Master Piece (Field Tested)

The winners will be contacted via the email provided in their HLTV profile, and are required to respond to the email within a month to be eligible to receive their prizes.

FORZE #28 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov Syman Winstrike #31 Vladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' Gusev HEROIC #19 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerJohannes 'b0RUP' BorupNikolaj 'niko' KristensenMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' Madsen MIBR #16 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoVito 'kNgV-' GiuseppeFernando 'fer' AlvarengaEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloAlencar 'trk' Rossato Spirit #20 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovNikolay 'mir' BityukovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovBoris 'magixx' Vorobiev K23 #33 Rustem 'mou' TelepovSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovNicolas 'Keoz' DgusDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanAidos 'kade0' Khairzhan North #24 René 'cajunb' BorgMathias 'MSL' LauridsenPhilip 'aizy' AistrupNicklas 'gade' Gade