iBP Cup groups, casters released

10-11-2015 07:38

Official seeded groups and a talent list have now been released by iBUYPOWER for their upcoming $100,000 Invitational in Santa Ana, California this weekend.

The $100,000 iBUYPOWER CS:GO Invitational takes place on November 14-15 inside the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California.

Eight North American region teams were selected to compete in the event, which features a double elimination bracket with all group stage matches being in a best-of-one format and with the semifinals and grand final being best-of-three games on the second day.

Sadokist will cast at the iBUYPOWER Cup

iBUYPOWER have now announced the group draw for the event, which sees the following seeding breakdown take place:

Group A	Group B
Luminosity	Cloud9
Winterfox	Conquest
CLG	Liquid
Renegades	compLexity

Both groups will play out on the 14th of November and two teams progress from each group to the semifinals after battling through the Upper and Lower brackets, respectively.

iBUYPOWER have also released a casters list for the event, and it is:

Host:

Sue "Smix" Lee

Casters:

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
John "BLU" Mullen

Although tickets for the event, which runs in conjunction with an official community "eSports day" which iBUYPOWER will be hosting at the venue, have sold out, you can still view the action over at twitch.tv/iBUYPOWER.

#IBPCUP seeding and casters are out now! We're excited for this weekend, whose going to win our $100k CSGO tourney? pic.twitter.com/aCMsngg06B

— iBUYPOWER (@iBUYPOWER) November 10, 2015

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

Not bad, let's go RNG!

2015-11-10 07:40

21 replies

not really im actually somewhat disappointed in the event that imma be attending

19 replies

this is pretty much the best an NA event can offer... why are you disappointed in the teams of an NA only event?

2015-11-10 08:12

18 replies

CEVO Lan was in NA and it was awesome to go to.

2015-11-10 13:15

11 replies

im not talking about events that were in NA, im talking about events that only include teams from NA leagues which is what this is.

2015-11-10 13:16

10 replies

Yeah it's always funny to watch silver teams :)

2015-11-10 13:32

3 replies

shit joke because its always painful to watch silver teams, nt toilet

2015-11-10 18:36

2 replies

IKR :D nt w/e 3rd world shithole xD

2015-11-10 20:34

1 reply

If you want to make it interesting than at lest make it bo3 and not bo1... NA is super random and making the groups random even more doesn't help...

2015-11-12 23:23

ah nevermind

2015-11-10 13:54

Well at least this event might have an interesting finals :c

2015-11-10 14:07

expecting LG - TL

2015-11-10 14:27

LG is from SA not NA

2015-11-10 16:30

if you could read he said teams for NA LEAGUES and that's what LG is

2015-11-10 17:15

I dont like it at all,especially after how na got rekt by eu this major... In my opininon the prize money is just too high

2015-11-10 22:06

these teams can show us some real csgo as well theres no need to mock them every time respect every team from every continents we all play the game we love

2015-11-10 14:03

4 replies

hear hear

2015-11-10 14:56

+1 The feels.

2015-11-10 15:38

+1 you're a god!

2015-11-10 15:45

2015-11-10 18:50

i suppose for a free event this is amazing but id have paid some cash to get better casters and like 3-4 euros

2015-11-11 02:01

yes moarphine m8

2015-11-10 08:03

sue :3

Pls more asian lady on csgo scene <3

2015-11-10 08:10

glCoL

i bet renegades wont even get to the top 4

2015-11-10 07:41

6 replies

same. :/

Could be fun if c9 didn't either conquest, lg, clg are pretty much through already, I think

2015-11-10 09:17

its between renegades and c9 for the last top 4 spot i think

2015-11-10 09:52

Renegades wont even go through vs clg and lg

2015-11-10 10:04

:o i thought it was a single group,didnt pay attention

2015-11-10 10:10

Cq tl lg clg

2015-11-10 22:12

C9 out in groups again

2015-11-10 07:45

inb4 liquid chokes and let c9 out of groups

2015-11-10 12:44

Inb4 C9 wins the entire thing. Which would have been predictable but with how they are doing now I would be surprised af.

2015-11-10 17:29

finnaly tourney that a team from NA can win

2015-11-10 07:46

Wouldn't be suprised if its OCE vs South America final :p

2015-11-10 07:48

u retard

2015-11-10 08:25

9/11

It thought it said iBP gets released lel

omg Smix :X

2015-11-10 17:47

why its invitational? i mean why other teams(eu teams) have no chance to participate aswell?

9 replies

Ibp pissed that eu wins every tourny so they made this. Rofl. 100k for noobs

2015-11-10 07:53

8 replies

hahahah so true, almost made this a major in prize money, and EU teams are not invited so NA teams can win LOL

2015-11-10 12:03

5 replies

this is basically NA's qualifier for IEM San Jose lol

2015-11-10 12:45

100k qualifier to 100k tourny? :D

2015-11-10 14:06

winner of this gets final spot for iem san jose

2015-11-10 22:54

and why did u day that?

2015-11-10 22:56

nvm thought you were disagreeing

2015-11-10 23:00

For that reason i hope Brazilian or Australian team wins, NA teams dont even deserve to be invited to any lan, freaking noobs.

2015-11-10 12:05

See #120

2015-11-10 16:53

Finally tier 1 casters Cant wait!

2015-11-10 07:50

Kappa.

2015-11-10 12:57

Ns , I want to see renegades ye

Me too, matey. Me too :D

2015-11-10 14:31

Lets goooo aussies

2015-11-11 10:15

goLG

Conquest clg final

2015-11-10 07:54

luminosity to the finals or disband pls

2015-11-10 07:55

stupid monkey

2015-11-10 08:26

Hold on, the 8th team going to iem San Jose will be the winner of this tournament right? What happens if c9 or luminosity wins?

2015-11-10 07:56

then the team in 2nd place (finalist) is invited

2015-11-10 08:02

And if those are both Cloud9 and Luminosity they are fucked, since there is no 3/4 place.

2015-11-10 08:19

dw, Plowed9 is going to get rekt in groups again no chance my friend

2015-11-10 08:28

2015-11-10 10:20

Group b group of death

2015-11-10 07:59

Gogogo Conquest

2015-11-10 08:04

go conquest

2015-11-10 08:09

holy shit, an event NA can finally be in the finals in at least O WAIT Luminosity vs Renegades finals [*] NA

2015-11-10 08:14

LMAO

2015-11-10 18:02

Now this tournament will decide which team is the best in NA

2015-11-10 08:18

Not really. Group B is fucking stacked. LG > C9 CLG < Liquid Renegades < Conquest Winterfox < Complexity

2015-11-10 08:20

Renegades < Conquest Kappa

2015-11-10 08:44

No kappa :)

2015-11-10 13:27

WTF? GROUP B IS STACKED!

Wtf how come ibp aren't at their own event??

2015-11-10 08:21

come one conqest i hope they are win

2015-11-10 08:33

2015-11-10 11:06

Rofl RNG might get out of groups

2015-11-10 08:34

Group A = LG, CLG Group B = Conquest, Liquid Thank me later

2015-11-10 09:03

ok Liquid is finally gonna do something and win this lan. Lets go TL! and GO Fugs!

2015-11-10 09:06

No iBUYPOWER, no iBP Cup

2015-11-10 09:08

Battle for #1 Muricia, gon b gud

2015-11-10 09:10

luminosity vs conquest le grande final

2015-11-10 09:34

baguette

2015-11-10 09:54

hehe xD

2015-11-10 12:00

Let's see if CQ can build on their decent showing at CEVO. NA teams tend to fall off after a good showing on any LAN. Wondering if RNG changed up anything strat wise, especially on T side. Also, are they used to the A4 now or what? Or will it be all A1s again?

2015-11-10 09:42

Well they did 16-0 compLexity, (not sure how good they are in terms of the NA top 20 or so) and actually kept going and made it to 22-0 before compLexity won a round. So yes, they should be fine unless they choke on cock or are drunk.

2015-11-10 12:16

Ez lg

2015-11-10 10:05

The final of this event is already being played tomorrowmorning hltv.org/match/2299147-clg-luminosity-es.. :D

2015-11-10 10:06

U mean throw cup?

2015-11-10 10:13

twitter.com/smixity oh, ok

2015-11-10 10:16

GRILL!

2015-11-10 14:32

jks ezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2015-11-10 10:27

smix bestest

2015-11-10 10:28

Can this be the shittiest 100k$ tournament in CS history?

2015-11-10 10:45

sure why not

2015-11-10 10:50

+1 They are working hard for it, the only thing that is really missing is: -twitch +hitbox Then you'll have top1 worse lan events ever.

2015-11-10 10:55

Waste of money.

2015-11-10 10:52

Plot twist. Every team throws for skins

2015-11-10 10:59

8 NA teams why is Renegades invited?

2015-11-10 11:02

Because Australia is NA, It's kinda obvious.

2015-11-10 11:28

What are you talking about? RNG are as NA as LG.

2015-11-10 11:56

As of now RNG live in America like Luminosity so they got an invite.

2015-11-10 15:28

GL Conquest

2015-11-10 11:14

wait... 100k for THESE teams?!

2015-11-10 11:21

Because NA = The entire world edit: whops, wrong guy

2015-11-10 11:27

c9 to get out of groups again

2015-11-10 11:22

what a waste of money.. tier 3 tournament with 100k :o invite e-frag or some shit, ez money for them

2015-11-10 11:44

and then pasaNoob gets beaten by tier 3 teams if VP came

2015-11-10 18:37

nt, but Virtus.Pro is the only top world team who dont get beaten by america at any time. na noob xaxaxa pure polish powerino for u my freind

2015-11-10 18:40

thx. mr fsznycel for the power

2015-11-10 18:48

LG, CLG, Liquid and compLexity to leave groups. Cloud9 only if the players will actually step up =D

2015-11-10 11:49

Id like to see semmler :>

2015-11-10 12:07

Australians... NA's nemesis

2015-11-10 12:12

AUS vs SA final

2015-11-10 12:17

Group B is gonna be fun to watch

2015-11-10 12:31

Cloud 9 or LG win :)

2015-11-10 12:43

GROUP B OHHHH :)

2015-11-10 12:53

probably will be: A: LG,CLG B: Liquid,C9 LG vs C9 Liquid vs CLG 100k tornament nice

Wow finally NA team will be able to win LAN! O wait no EU teams...

Dont bet on this tournament lol

2015-11-10 13:18

Group B 3X harder then group A smh

2015-11-10 13:33

why is semmler not at the ibp cup? ;)

2015-11-10 13:38

Probably wanted too much money, or wanted a weekend off, or was booked for IEM and events need to spread the love to other casters.

2015-11-10 15:30

haha it was a joke, semmler hates ibp ;)

2015-11-10 15:31

Oh yaaaaa his whole rant on them haha. So hard to read into stuff on the interwebz

2015-11-10 15:40

Ez conquest

2015-11-10 13:42

Can Clown9 at least win this one ?

2015-11-10 14:01

it seems that theres a huge chance for an american or an australian team to win the tourny

2015-11-10 14:04

sado & moses GO!

2015-11-10 14:11

Ez for Conquest

2015-11-10 14:28

Money, lets go BRAZIL #LG

2015-11-10 14:38

t2 events..

2015-11-10 15:10

Let's go coL!!!!

2015-11-10 15:11

ez LG

2015-11-10 15:32

ez pz LG squizy

2015-11-10 15:39

inb4 C9 out of groups aigan Kappa... noKappa

2015-11-10 15:44

at NA can win at least one tourny right RIGHT?

2015-11-10 16:08

2015-11-10 16:43

i dont even know what i wanted to type so what was the mistake

2015-11-10 20:18

i aren't think that. renegades win

No henry?

2015-11-10 16:21

liquid's group tough, gl though :>

2015-11-10 16:27

Liquid or Luminosity will take this!

2015-11-10 16:38

Winterfox will Kappa 10x

C9 out in groups again :/

2015-11-10 16:47

EZ Lg

2015-11-10 16:52

That time when you look into the groups and start to thinking...man i don't wanna be cloud9...lol

2015-11-10 17:06

BLU... as a caster... what a joke.

2015-11-10 17:30

eZ4Conquest

2015-11-10 17:38

conquest nice

2015-11-10 17:46

LG CLG / Conquest Liquid

2015-11-10 17:56

ez for LG

2015-11-10 17:57

gogo Liquid and Conquest xd

2015-11-10 18:07

Group B is a killer group. All 4 teams are pretty good.

2015-11-10 18:15

hahah IBuyPower IShipPower

2015-11-10 18:28

when they make event in EU they HAVE TO invite NA team, even if they are untalented as fuck when they make event in NA noone gives a fuck about EU teams

2015-11-10 18:43

bo1 or bo3 groups?

c'mon LG

2015-11-10 19:06

they will suck,overplayed af

2015-11-10 19:13

swap c9 and complexity with winterfox and renegades and it would be perfect.

2015-11-10 19:09

nice to see Blu casting this

2015-11-10 19:10

nice t10 tournament

2015-11-10 19:12

where is thoorin ? the ginger indeed

2015-11-10 19:14

ez for coldzera

2015-11-10 19:15

they put RNG and LG in the same group to avoid the embarassment of a non NA final in an NA only tournament

2015-11-10 19:51

It's still possible for a non NA final lol. NV and Na'vi were in Grand Finals and they started in the same group.

2015-11-10 20:11

Luminosity can take it

2015-11-10 20:07

ez LG :)

2015-11-10 20:08

well this is what na has to offer atm dunno if this can in any way top cevo lan

2015-11-10 20:19

it already has: no misled no laundry no patflinnishit no mlg player still sadokist tho na cs is always entertaining

2015-11-10 22:53

mlg player works better than twitch for me tho

2015-11-10 23:22

" iBUYPOWER Cup 2015 " But no iBUYPOWER team...

2015-11-10 20:20

They proved to be a pretty shitty org in he past. I'm sure they would salary their players if they were to pick up a team now, but it's kind of good they haven't. Giving your players computers and peripherals is not good enough for the best/second best team in NA.

2015-11-11 15:32

ez for Conquest

2015-11-10 21:04

grill host PogChamp

2015-11-10 21:47

Group B ez for Conquest

2015-11-10 21:58

lmao ez money for LG

2015-11-10 22:04

LG Conquest Complexity Renegades THe favorites to take this tourney. Others will not matter./s

2015-11-10 22:16

Does anybody know the prize distribution?

2015-11-10 22:31

since IBP cup determines last seed in IEM and c9 already qualified.....what happens if c9 win IBP cup!?!!?

2015-11-10 23:11

Group A - EZ Group B - Death

2015-11-11 04:58

Should be easy for Luminosity, but Liquid and C9 have a chance as well. I'm so salty that Conquest can not attend. I think they were a contender. After this LAN we can have a somewhat stable idea of top4 NA.

2015-11-11 15:26