OpTic, coL invited for Americas Minor

7-1-2016 19:44

MLG have announced that OpTic Gaming and compLexity have been invited to compete at the upcoming Americas Minor.

Eight teams, hailing from North and South America, will face off from January 15-17 at the Americas Minor Championship, taking place at the MLG Arena, in Columbus, Ohio.

The winner of this tournament will take home the bulk of a $50,000 prize pool and also a spot at the MLG Columbus Major offline qualifier, taking place from February 26-28.

With six of the eight spots having been filled by the leading teams from the online qualifiers in North and South America, MLG has now revealed that invites have been handed to OpTic Gaming, who will make their first appearance for the organisation later today, at ELEAGUE Road to Vegas, and to compLexity.

ShahZaM's OpTic invited to play at the Americas Minor

Danny "⁠fRoD⁠" Montaner's team, who had failed to secure a spot in the 16-team closed qualified for the Minor, will be attending the event with Ronnie "⁠ryx⁠" Bylicki and Hunter "⁠SicK⁠" Mims, who have been playing for the team as substitutes following the departures of Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen and Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta.

The final list of participants for the Americas Minor is the following:

SPLYCE	EnemyGG
Winterfox	Obey Alliance
AlienTech	Operation Kino
OpTic Gaming	compLexity

The tournament sees the eight competing teams split into two double-elimination groups. The top two teams from each four-team group will advance to the single-elimination playoffs, which will be played in a best-of-three format.

Meanwhile, MLG has announced the full talent panel for the event, comprising seven well-known figures in the Counter-Strike scene, including Richard Lewis, Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole and Scott "SirScoots" Smith.

The full on-air crew for the tournament looks as follows:

Host:

Scott "SirScoots" Smith - Host

Analysts:

Richard Lewis
John "blu" Mullen

Casters:

Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy
Alex "Vansilli" Nguyen
Joey "Helium" Cunningham

excpected

2016-01-07 19:44

confirmed by lewka-da-fakeflagger.

Optic have to win this or their org should kick them for sucking

2016-01-07 19:50

2 replies

Not at all ;)

tranki tt

2016-01-07 20:40

nice

6 NA and 2 SA What a fucking joke

20 replies

mlg is murican, expected

2016-01-07 19:47

Why should SA get more?

15 replies

because our scene is the best in the world, with all teams at the same level that is high

2016-01-07 20:03

13 replies

You misspeled *one team

2016-01-07 20:14

6 replies

no, all teams are in high level, so they are at the same level, sorry for my england

2016-01-07 20:19

GA aint even at Liquid's level m8 how could they compete world wide?

2016-01-07 21:41

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n b8 m8 Kappa

2016-01-07 22:11

Misspelled has two l's

2016-01-07 21:45

ayyyy u got me there nice one :)

2016-01-08 14:05

You have successfully made me feel bad for correcting you by being so nice about it

2016-01-08 23:09

^Not a b8 at all Kappa

2016-01-07 20:42

you trying to troll or just stupid?

2016-01-07 22:58

no, you're stupid for not discovering it by yourself

2016-01-08 00:25

lol... just stop..

2016-01-08 05:13

i.imgur.com/9ix2n4T.jpg what was that about Brazilian teams all being at the same level as lg?

2016-01-11 00:36

just trolling mate

2016-01-11 16:33

Because NA sucks

2016-01-07 21:15

its not like any of the SA teams will win

2016-01-07 21:16

That could be said about 5 NA invited teams :)

2016-01-07 21:22

and only one can win, wow you know logic

2016-01-07 22:55

Nice one

2016-01-07 19:45

+10

#GREENWALL

ez 4 koosta

2016-01-07 19:46

ez obey

where tf is FaZe

coL could not even get past the open qualifier, the bracket before the closed qualifier, and they still get invited. FeelsFunnyMan

who's favorite among these teams? Optic or splyce?

4 replies

Definitely Optic. They are always one step ahead of all of these teams.

2016-01-07 19:48

ty for the answer

2016-01-07 19:49

Watch out for NME though

optic, by far

first

Helium, nice pick. He was the only decent Cevo caster. Good for him.

all the shit tier teams fighting to be the best of the shit tier teams lamo

rip life

where is c9?

2016-01-07 19:51

3 replies

They can't play at this event since they played at cluj.

2016-01-07 19:52

they are already invited to qualifiers,this is to get invited to qualifiers

2016-01-07 20:34

ah i see thank you

after complexity already lost twice trying to qualify this is pretty funny. proof here if anyone is interested: cevo.com/event/csgo-minor/bracket/bpip59..

2016-01-07 19:59

lol, seems fair. Money > all

2016-01-07 20:01

minor news, ban shahzam

2016-01-07 19:53

No Thorin? =(

2016-01-07 19:55

he is contracted with them so i guess he'll be at their future events.

2016-01-07 20:10

Ez Alientech

2016-01-07 19:56

ezzzz for optic

2016-01-07 19:58

coL got this roca + ryx lejunds

2016-01-08 00:59

Gl frod

2016-01-07 20:02

Nice

2016-01-07 20:08

thooooooooorin(((((((

2016-01-07 20:11

No Games Academy?

2016-01-07 20:12

They will play Last Chance to qualifiers

2016-01-07 21:18

Ohh, so great for GA. Thanks.

2016-01-07 21:24

coL. fRoD!!! cant wait

2016-01-07 20:17

2016-01-07 21:17

Awful teams LOL

2016-01-07 20:28

gl =D

always funny to see na cs

2016-01-07 20:36

why is RL an analyst he should be host :(

2016-01-07 20:38

no thoorin? :(

2016-01-07 20:43

this banned in europe retard lewis? wtf?!

2016-01-07 20:54

in my opnion should be, 2 brazilian team, 1 chilean, 1 from argentina, 2 from USA, 1 from Mexico and 1 from Canada..

"AMERICAS" MINOR I can give a list anyitme of teams in Southamerica and canada that could do better than this north american package

2016-01-07 21:21

Why the fuck they have to invite those lowbobs?, they must earn the place like anyone else. Just like in EU is happening, 4 qualifiers, 2 teams per qualifier.

2016-01-07 21:40

ryx = Zeus?

2016-01-07 21:54

Rip na zeus

2016-01-08 12:10

What a shitty talent lineup. -all the CEVO guys +Sadokist +blu (not analyst) -RLewis (definitely not analyst)

2016-01-07 22:15

Blu is the shittiest caster out there aside from Pansy.

2016-01-08 18:18

Really? I haven't heard him too much (usually mute streams) but from what I've heard of his casts I feel like he's quite decent and can improve. Though +1 Pansy is a shitty caster.

2016-01-08 21:12

Didn't Shahzam play in Katowice 2015 with C9?

2016-01-07 22:35

Only counts the most recent major, and it needs to be the core that attended the previous major for that rule to apply (see Pimp's case with SK)

2016-01-08 12:17

ez nme

2016-01-08 00:29

C9 Liquid and CLG not qualifying for a major weird...

2016-01-08 00:30

5 replies

This event is to qualify for the MAJOR QUALIFIER, they have to win the next event as well in order to go to the major. C9, Liquid and CLG were at the last major which means they automatically have spots at the major qualifier, the event which the winners of this minor one go to. Hope that makes sense =) edit: here is the link to the teams who were at the last major =) open.dreamhack.se/news/291-teams-set-for..

2016-01-08 01:00

OOOOHHHHH, Thank you so much for that clarification. Edit: Wait, they had to be in the top eight to qualify again. Cloud 9, Liquid, and CLG didn't make it out out of the playoffs.

2016-01-09 02:41

What you said is true, but the bottom 8 automatically get a spot at the next major qualifier. If they dont get through that one they will be back to the climbing through the minors to get into the next major. (someone correct me if I'm wrong)

2016-01-09 08:58

So these guys have to qualify for the qualifiers. Noice

2016-01-09 18:58

Yeah pretty much. I like the system cos unlike faceit tournaments which has 5 from EU, 2 from NA and 1 from OCEANIA, it gives opportunity for truly the best teams to go to the major regardless of their region. The regional qualifiers like the minors still give each region the opportunity so I think its great.

2016-01-11 08:16