MLG Regional Minor Championship Americas

MLG Americas Minor viewer's guide

19-5-2016 17:50

With the MLG Regional Minor Championship Americas knocking on the door, we have prepared a viewer's guide in which you can find all the information you need to follow the event including groups, the schedule, the talent, and more.

Two Brazilian and six North American teams will duke it out at the MLG Arena from May 19-22 for two spots at the ESL One Cologne Offline Qualifier and a prize-pool of $50,000.

The contest will start with two groups of four teams as they will battle in a GSL format where the opening, the winners' and the elimination matches will be best-of-ones while the deciders will be played as best-of-threes.

The groups are:

Group A	Group B
Tempo Storm	OpTic
NRG	Selfless
Kaliber	Winterfox
TSM	WinOut

A double-elimination and a best-of-three format will come into effect in the playoffs where a team will have to win two series to earn a spot at the Major qualifier. The full schedule can be found below:

Thursday, May 19th
18:00	Tempo Storm	vs. TSM	BO1
19:10	NRG	vs. Kaliber	BO1
20:20	OpTic	vs. WinOut	BO1
21:30	Selfless	vs. Winterfox	BO1
22:40	Group A - elimination match		BO1
23:50	Group A - winners' match		BO1
01:00	Group B - elimination match		BO1
02:10	Group B - winners' match		BO1

Friday, May 20th
18:00	Group A - decider match		BO3
20:20	Group B - decider match		BO3
22:40	Semi-final #1		BO3

Saturday, May 21st
18:00	Semi-final #2		BO3
20:20	Upper bracket final		BO3
22:40	Lower bracket final		BO3

Sunday, May 22nd
18:00	Consolidation final		BO3
20:20	Grand Final		BO3

The eight-man broadcast crew listed below will be bringing you the action on MLG's channel:

Chris Puckett - Host

James "⁠Jame^s⁠" O'Connor - Analyst
Garett "⁠Grt⁠" Bambrough - Analyst

Joey "Helium" Cunningham - Caster
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy - Caster
Cory "Megaman" Gilbert - Caster
Chad “Sprawll” Sadler - Caster
Alex "Vansilli" Nguyen - Caster

The prize-pool breakdown of the event is:

1. - $30,000 + ESL One Cologne Offline Qualifier spot
2. - $15,000 + ESL One Cologne Offline Qualifier spot
3. - $5,000

You can check out our preview while you are waiting for the matches to start as we dive deeper into the participating teams. Also, you can check out our event page for extensive coverage of the Americas Minor.

TS gonna win

2016-05-19 17:51

1 reply

Optic*

2016-05-19 18:09

2016-05-19 17:50

NA CS 4Head

1st

Good luck

qew

ez NA

ez mixwell

ez for TS

sdfsdf

too slow

TS > ALL

first

expected

RiP Analysts and Casters :( This event gonna be real bad without any experienced talent to supplement newcomers like James or GRT (both coaches so def have the knowledge but not the experience as analysts)

2016-05-19 17:52

I hope it goes well for WinOut. They seem to have got a decent team together. Also hope for my man Relyks to do well :) Edit: Also looking forward to see young Twistzzz on LAN. He has the potential to get really good.

2016-05-19 17:53

lol why they are playing games in dawn

MLG Silver

ez for optic

2016-05-19 17:55

I remember grt from 1.6

2016-05-19 17:57

Ez for TS and OpTiC, heard it here first))

2016-05-19 18:01

3 replies

For sure. The other teams are shit. Optic and TS are good (even on the whole scene EU included, they aren't ridiculous at all).

2016-05-19 21:28

2 replies

yup

2016-05-19 21:38

Selfless isn't that bad to be honest. NRG used to be good (in terms of NA) but they failed vs Selfless on previous LAN and only 16-13 vs Team Kaliber today.

2016-05-19 21:39