Northern Arena group draw

24-8-2016 00:07

The draw for the group stage of Northern Arena has been made, with the 16 competing sides having been placed into four groups.

From September 1-4, the Metro Toronto Convention will stage the first of two Northern Arena events that will take place until the end of the year, each one featuring an international Counter-Strike tournament with $100,000 on offer.

The competition will kick off with a double-elimination group stage, featuring a best-of-three format in the losers' and the decider matches, followed by the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs with the remaining eight sides.

Immortals to face Synthetik in the opening match in Toronto

Of the 16 competing teams, 14 were invited by the event's organisers, while the other two came from online qualifiers that gave regional up-and-coming teams the chance to fight for spots at the showpiece event.

Below you can find the group draw in full:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Immortals	TSM	Cloud9	X
CLG	OpTic	Rogue	Splyce
NRG	Echo Fox	Complexity	Selfless
Synthetik	Luminosity	ACE	Winterfox

ez 4 ence

2016-08-24 00:07

6 replies

EZ 4 ACE.

2016-08-24 00:08

5 replies

simple 4 s1mple

2016-08-24 00:19

2 replies

Hello HLTV I may go to this event so tell me what I should bring (kappa poster, dildos) whatever and I will bring to show on stream

2016-08-24 02:45

1 reply

Get a harambe costume and hold a sign that says dicks out

2016-08-24 03:35

ez 4 allu

2016-08-24 00:46

ENCE 4 EZ

2016-08-24 02:14

Lets go Cloud9!!

4 replies

fjakmiay

tfw C9 gets an ez group in another NA tourny

2016-08-24 01:14

Not to present myself like a triggered 12 year old baby but I'm just wondering when and how many times c9 has have an ez group in a a tourny cause when I first saw the groups my reactions were "finally c9 get a very ez group in the US with no treats"

2016-08-24 04:53

Lol they get shit groups at majors tho

2016-08-25 20:58

cool!

always top 10...

okay

ez for X

wooooo

rip Sean

c9 will win

rip group b

deas

Nice!

Group B is clearly the toughest.

easy for optic

2016-08-24 00:09

group B stacked asf. imo A: IMT, NRG B: OpTic, TSM C: c9, CoL D: X, Splyce (?)

compLexity doesn't win shit, Rogue & c9 are gonna win ez group C

2016-08-24 10:49

Immo/NRG Optic/Lumino C9/Rogue X/Selfless Thats the way

2016-08-24 18:10

Lets go IMT

Why is Liquid not playing in any tournament? Are they afraid to show pimp's face to the world?

2016-08-24 00:10

I guess its to have more time to practice with the new roster. I dont agree with the way they're doing it because I think it might be better to get some LAN experience with the team before they just jump into ESL NY

2016-08-24 00:52

Ez for X

easy group for C9, hard group for Optic, hope optic can make it out as its a tricky group, also wanna see splyce in business

2016-08-24 00:11

I hope Rogue will take the second spot on Group C. Sorry for coL but i would like to see more than group stage play from Rogue. I also hope Splyce will get out of groups.

2016-08-24 00:12

EZ C9

2016-08-24 00:13

Tarik won't attend btw, OpTic are using desi

2016-08-24 00:15

3 replies

wat

2016-08-24 00:17

twitter.com/noshirt_tv/status/7681851105..

just saw it, rip us

2016-08-24 00:18

Am I supposed to know even 1 player from Winterfox?! lol.

2016-08-24 00:16

No but you can always do research

2016-08-24 00:29

We need more North American LANs like these. Hopefully its a success. FeelsHopefulMan Edit: Feels like groups C and D are much easier than groups A and B* though. But that's just my shitty subjective opinion.

2016-08-24 00:25

yeah group C is gonna be a snore fest... too ez for C9.

2016-08-24 00:28

I would've broken the teams into the following four pools and randomly drawn one from each. [Immortals, C9, OpTic, X] [TSM, EchoFox, Luminosity, NRG] [Selfless, Splyce, Rogue, CLG] [coL, Winterfox, Syntheik, Ace] I think each pool has its own story line. But this is just me after 30 seconds of squinting my eyes at it.

2016-08-24 00:45

Complexity out of groups please

2016-08-24 00:30

Meh c9 and rogue propably

Go winterfox!

2016-08-24 00:37

watch c9 go out in groups still

2016-08-24 00:47

inb4 LG makes out of groups beating TSM ayyy

2016-08-24 01:07

A B C D IMT TSM C9 X NRG EF RG SPY

2016-08-24 01:25

I'm very excited for this tournament, by far the most random lan of CS:GO, everything can happen.

2016-08-24 01:28

Lmao

2016-08-24 15:10

Rip LG.

2016-08-24 01:41

EZ FOR C9

2016-08-24 01:48

LG is so fucked

2016-08-24 01:50

Rip group b

2016-08-24 02:39

An Australian team has a chance of getting out of groups.

2016-08-24 03:10

group of death B

2016-08-24 03:11

finaly clowns9 on LAN with same skill lvl teams leedit probably die with this amount shrud sick actins

2016-08-24 04:28

go Machinegun, keep it up

2016-08-24 07:24

ez for TEAM X

2016-08-24 07:48

ez 4 HS and Rogue

2016-08-24 09:48

Immortals, C9 and X should be in the top 4. A complete failure for every one of them, if they wont succeed in that.

2016-08-24 10:58

EZ 4 ACE

2016-08-24 10:59

Tier 2 LAN? Cute...

2016-08-24 12:05

so easy for winterfox...

2016-08-24 13:32

A and B so much stronger than C and D...

2016-08-24 15:04

Will the group stages also be played on the big screen? Or will they just stream them and then have only the last two days actually casted as a tournament? Does anyone know? I ask cause I'm going.

2016-08-25 02:39