Northern Arena viewer's guide

Toronto Convention Centre will play host to Northern Arena 2016 which will commence on September 1 and end on September 4. The prize pool for the event taking place in Toronto, Canada will be $100,000.

The competition will kick off with a GSL format in the group stage which features four groups of four teams. The opening and winners' matches will be played as best-of-ones while the elimination and deciders will be best-of-threes. The top two squads from each group will advance to the playoffs.

Here are the groups:

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

Eight teams who manage to get through the groups will play in the single-elimination best-of-three playoffs. There will also be a third-place decider match.

The full schedule can be found below:

Thursday, September 1st
18:00	Immortals	vs.  Synthetik	BO1
18:00	TSM	vs.  Luminosity	BO1
19:30	CLG	vs.  NRG	BO1
19:30	OpTic	vs.  Echo Fox	BO1
21:00	Group A - winners' match		BO1
21:00	Group B - winners' match		BO1
23:30	Group A - elimination match		BO3
23:30	Group B - elimination match		BO3
02:30	Group A - decider		BO3
02:30	Group B - decider		BO3
Friday, September 2nd
17:00	Cloud9	vs.  ACE	BO1
17:00	HEROIC	vs.  Winterfox	BO1
18:30	Rogue	vs.  Complexity	BO1
18:30	Splyce	vs.  Selfless	BO1
20:00	Group C - winners' match		BO1
20:00	Group D - winners' match		BO1
22:30	Group C - elimination match		BO3
22:30	Group D - elimination match		BO3
01:30	Group C - decider		BO3
01:30	Group D - decider		BO3
Saturday, September 3rd
16:45	Quarter-final #1		BO3
16:45	Quarter-final #2		BO3
20:00	Quarter-final #3		BO3
20:00	Quarter-final #4		BO3
00:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
02:45	Semi-final #2		BO3
Sunday, September 4th
16:15	Third-place match		BO3
20:00	Grand Final		BO3

The following broadcast crew will be bringing you the action on Northern Arena's Twitch channel:

Marissa Roberto - Host

Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Analyst
Dustin "dusT" Mouret - Analyst

 Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy - Commentator
 Alex "Vansilli" Nguyen - Commentator
 Keith "Seaside" Lafortune - Commentator
Mirna "athxna" Noureldin - Interviewer

The prize pool breakdown will be as follows:

1. – $50.000
2. - $25,000
3. - $15,000
4. - $5,000
5-8. - $1,250
5-8. - $1,250
5-8. - $1,250
5-8. - $1,250 

If you want to catch the action on-site you can buy your ticket here.