ESL announce New York format

3-8-2016 22:12

ESL have announced the format and schedule for the $250,000 ESL One New York tournament, taking place in Barclays Center from September 30-October 2.

ESL One New York will bring back the Swiss format which we saw in use for the first time in CS:GO during the ESL One Cologne Main Qualifier back in June.

The system remains mostly the same, though this time we'll only see eight teams in play, which means 16-17 matches will be played in the group stage in total.

ESL brings back the Swiss format for New York

To quickly explain the Swiss system: in this case it features five best-of-one rounds, with only the first round match-ups being pre-determined.

Every round's match-ups afterwards will be chosen randomly between teams within the same pool (based on win-loss score) that have not played each other yet, until the participants reach three wins to qualify for semi-finals or three losses to get eliminated from the tournament.

The only exception to the rule above will happen in round four, when one team with a 1-2 score will have to meet a team from a pool above (2-1) due to an odd number of teams in the two pools.

The full schedule of ESL One New York is following:

Friday, September 30th
17:00	Round 1 - Match 1	BO1
18:15	Round 1 - Match 2	BO1
19:30	Round 1 - Match 3	BO1
20:45	Round 1 - Match 4	BO1
22:00	Round 2 - Match 1	BO1
23:15	Round 2 - Match 2	BO1
00:30	Round 2 - Match 3	BO1
01:45	Round 2 - Match 4	BO1
03:00	Round 3 - Match 1	BO1

Saturday, October 1st
17:00	Round 3 - Match 2	BO1
18:30	Round 3 - Match 3	BO1
20:00	Round 3 - Match 4	BO1
21:30	Round 4 - Match 1	BO1
23:00	Round 4 - Match 2	BO1
00:30	Round 4 - Match 3	BO1
02:00	Round 5 - Match 1	BO1
03:30	Round 5 - Match 2 (if needed)	BO1

Sunday, October 2nd
17:00	Semi-final #1	BO3
21:00	Semi-final #2	BO3
01:00	Grand final	BO3

* matches will start as soon as possible after the previous ends

ESL have already previously announced three out of the eight teams, who are:

Liquid

The first day will unfold behind closed doors, the teams will move on to the Barclays Center stage for Saturday and Sunday. Tickets ranging from $49 to $89 can be purchased via the Ticketmaster website.

ez 4 ence

2016-08-03 22:12

3 replies

2016-08-03 22:13

wont invite em, too ez for ence

2016-08-04 01:19

ez 4

2016-08-04 01:29

1 reply

tokmakkafa my bro

2016-08-03 22:20

numba 8 ffs ez4ence

ROFL

ohhh noooo

bteb

Nice ^^

Bush did 9/11

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topkek

what the fucK

nice format

Swiss format worst format as there is

2016-08-04 01:09

ez for SK

EZ 4 G2 THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD.

navi ez win with s1mple!

Awesome!

who will be invited predictions: SK G2 Liquid Virtus.pro NIP Astralis NA'VI fnatic

2016-08-03 22:15

ez vp intive final sk vs vp kappa

Same system was used at some IEM event right? Where gob said fak you know? :D

4 replies

Only ever been used in the qualifier for ESL One Cologne. The event you're talking about used the 3-lives format

2016-08-03 22:18

I mean the team picks. Sorry

2016-08-03 22:19

no that was a completely different thing

2016-08-03 22:44

Okey sorry me very dumb

2016-08-03 22:50

This format sounds silly and confusing

2016-08-03 22:16

EZ 4 ENCE

Nice to see the swiss system in a big tournament.

2016-08-03 22:21

Fnatic, Astralis, Mouz, Virtus Pro and NAvi

2016-08-03 22:25

What's the difference between Swiss format and round robin?

2016-08-03 22:41

2 replies

swiss format has significantly fewer games, you only play against people with same/similar record instead of everybody

2016-08-03 22:47

Oh ok. Thanks.

2016-08-03 22:48

250k wataf

2016-08-03 22:43

ahahahahha "01:00 Grand final BO3" #NoMoreEventsInNA

2016-08-03 22:45

problem?

2016-08-03 23:20

yep

2016-08-04 16:34

the cock are you talking about?

2016-08-03 23:21

2016-08-03 23:14

+VP +fnatic +NiP +mouz +Flipsid3

2016-08-03 23:28

Mouz and flipsde nope )

2016-08-03 23:32

dont tell me they should invite those cocksucking navi

2016-08-03 23:34

Mby faze)

2016-08-03 23:42

but faze are bots boring to watch with their mm strats

2016-08-03 23:43

oh not this shit format... let's certain teams basically sit out.

2016-08-03 23:58

This is going to be good

2016-08-04 00:03

vp will win this easy

2016-08-04 00:53

Lets-go-V-P !

2016-08-04 01:06

Expected! Good luck with more brazilian teams! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL!

2016-08-04 06:39

NA EleGiggle

2016-08-04 07:50

49 to 89$ to see people play video games LMAO. EDIT : it's to me one of the best, probably the best format because it's as close as you can get to "fair". Not the bullshit ESL gives in the ESL Pro League when they do their best to get VP back to Pro division :)

2016-08-04 15:36