Northern Arena viewer's guide

Running from Thursday to Sunday, the Northern Arena Montreal LAN Finals will feature eight teams, hailing from Europe and North America, who will face each other for a piece of a $100,000 prize pool.

The entire tournament will take place at Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain with the exception of the grand final, which will be held on Sunday at the Bell Centre, a sports complex that is home to NHL franchise Montreal Canadiens.

Northern Arena will begin with a double-elimination group stage, featuring best-of-three matches in the elimination and decider stages. The top two teams from each group will advance to the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs.

Below you can find the group draw in full:

Group A	Group B
G2	Envy
Liquid	OpTic
HEROIC	NRG
Complexity	CLG

The tournament will have the following schedule:

Thursday, November 10th
16:30	G2	vs. Complexity	BO1
18:00	Envy	vs. CLG	BO1
19:30	Liquid	vs. HEROIC	BO1
21:00	OpTic	vs. NRG	BO1
22:30	Group A elimination match		BO3
01:30	Group B elimination match		BO3
Friday, November 11th
17:00	Group A winners' match		BO1
18:30	Group B winners' match		BO1
20:00	Group A decider match		BO3
23:00	Group B decider match		BO3
Saturday, November 12th
18:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
21:00	Semi-final #2		BO3
Sunday, November 13th
02:30	Grand final		BO3

Providing live commentary, analysis and predictions will be a mixture of talent from Canada and the United States, including the likes of Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus and Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole. Below you can find the complete on-air team that will be responsible for the English language broadcast:

Marissa Roberto - Stage Host

Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus - Desk Host

 Dustin "dusT" Mouret - Analyst
 Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Analyst (November 10 only)
 Garett "⁠Grt⁠" Bambrough - Analyst/ Color Commentator
 Steve "⁠Ryu⁠" Rattacasa - Analyst/ Color Commentator

 Alex "Vansilli" Nguyen - Commentator
 Conner "Scrawny" Girvan - Commentator 
 Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy - Color Commentator 

Kevin "kVIN_S" Swift - Observer

There will also be a Russian language stream, to which fans can connect here.

Finally, the $100,000 prize purse will be distributed between the participating teams as follows:

1. $50,000 
2. $25,000 
3-4. $10,000
5-8. $1,250