ESL One New York qualifiers announced

27-6-2017 23:54

ESL has revealed the first details about the qualifying process for ESL One New York.

The North American event will run from September 14-17 at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, with half of the eight tournament spots having already been filled through invites.

Two of the remaining spots will be determined by qualifiers, held in Europe and North America. In both regions, the qualifiers will consist of an open and a closed stage.

Europe and North America will have qualifiers for ESL One NY

Seven teams will be invited to both closed qualifiers, in which they will be joined by the winning sides of the open qualifiers in a best-of-three single-elimination bracket.

Below you can find the dates for the qualifiers:

Open Qualifiers (EU & NA) - August 14-15
Closed Qualifiers (EU & NA) - August 19-20

The prize fund for ESL One New York remains unannounced but it is certain to be above $200,000 as the event will count towards the $1 Million Intel Grand Slam.

The team list for the North American event currently looks as follows:

Natus Vincere	Virtus.pro
FaZe	SK
TBA	TBA
EU Qualifier	North America qualifier

2017-06-27 23:55

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2017-06-27 23:58

2 ez 4 s1mple

2017-06-27 23:57

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My baby simple <3

2017-06-28 08:09

nice

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Where is China qual or Tyloo's invite? WTF ESL

2017-06-28 02:13

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They have no chance against EU / NA xddd

2017-06-28 02:41

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Wow... czech toxic towards me? wtf bro...

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I'm not toxic just telling the truth :D

2017-06-28 02:46

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2017-06-28 09:55

The truth is oskar b8er, eco and exit fragger

2017-06-28 11:42

Invite G2 ffs

of course sk would be there.

why just 1 team ?

VP and Navi invited, what a joke lol.

2017-06-27 23:59

last year's finalists yeah let's not invite current major champions for the next major - your logic

2017-06-28 00:09

in that case fnatic should have been invited for katowise 20167 since they were 2016 champions.but they had to qualify.

2017-06-28 00:20

but that was a different lineup m8

2017-06-28 00:22

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same lineup.jw,flusha,olof,krimz,dennis.

yeah my bad well, then esl is retarded

2017-06-28 00:26

In fact, in Katowice they invited NiP who won the last IEM tournament before, which was Oakland 2016.

2017-06-28 07:08

NaVi VP final inc

2017-06-28 00:00

Should be 1 more qualifier for SA and other to ASIA-OCEANIA

and africa as well

2017-07-21 01:07

agreed, don't know why they don't get that mixing the whole world gives you more views and more sponsors

2017-07-21 01:20

So hyped! Hope G2 gets invited!

2017-06-28 00:04

ez 4 SK

2017-06-28 00:06

Only 8 total teams in the event and two of four announced so far are in massive slumps. Doesn't sound like it will be a success. I still believe that CS would be better suited to doing fewer events that last longer with larger prize pools. Expand these events to include a larger number of teams and do a BO3 Swiss system. Where each match is a BO3 and teams with the same record play each other until a certain number of losses. This will make the players happy because a vast majority dislike the BO1 group setup and the fans get to see a greater number of games. By doing fewer events, the event length can be increased to accommodate the BO3 format. Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that at some point CS will become regulated and formed into some type of an association/league/group. Which I also think will help with the longevity of the game.

2017-06-28 00:10

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2017-06-28 00:19

Glad I'm not alone in this...

-1. even with bo1 swiss format in a 16 team tournament,it will need nearly 4 days to complete the group stage. so its not feasible to do bo3 swiss format

2017-06-28 00:31

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That's why the number of events is decreased to accommodate the length of the tournament. Also, it's not like 8 days (i just doubled the four days as an estimate) is a long time for group stages. Look at other sporting events for example. CONCACAF Gold Cup has 12 teams, the group stages last a week. So with that in mind what's wrong with 1) getting more games for the fans and 2) ensuring the best teams are advancing?

2017-06-28 00:41

Yea i agree Major should be like that

2017-06-28 00:59

What I think would be cool in the long run is to do something like in Tennis where they have the grand slams. Maybe CS could do 4 or 5 Majors each year and then teams can do the pro-league to maintain their skills and partake in smaller local tournaments that go Friday-Sunday to boost the local scene. This way teams won't be traveling as far as often and smaller teams get to compete in something other than online tournaments.

2017-06-28 01:06

4 or 5 major each year will rip the hype

2017-06-28 09:00

Please explain?

2017-06-28 16:58

It won't be fun if its 5 majors per year and the major won't be so special too. The prize pool will probably decrease too.

2017-06-28 17:16

How many majors are there currently?

2017-06-28 17:25

2017-06-28 17:30

I get your point. But a lot of event have actually the good format. An advantage to have a lot event, it is that allow some others teams (T2) to attend big event. If few event with same format, we will see the same teams and same games every time.

2017-06-28 01:15

I don't think we will see the same matchups if the draw is random. Again going back to my tennis reference (#52), the same heavy hitters play in the grand slams, but each event isn't the same. The same can be said for CS. If the draw is purely random then we will see T1 teams playing early or T2 teams possibly getting an easy route to two wins. But I do see your point. Obviously, my idea isn't perfect but neither is the current system.

2017-06-28 01:25

There was a video on youtube (by 3killsphilip or something) where guy pointed out that oversaturated events actually kills viewership and I agree with him. I love watching cs:go but I can hardly sit through three bo3 in one day or one bo5 final (even tho I freaking love the idea of bo5). The more cs =/= better. It's very good in small doses, but when it's fully stacked day after day it's killing all the fun for viewers and therefore views for the org. In theory your idea is awesome but on practice it won live up to the theory.

2017-06-28 02:47

SO Na'vi, that won the tournament year ago and virtus pro who came 2nd have to qualify? WTF LUL, they should've got invite spot.

2017-06-28 00:08

0/8

Read it again guy, they were invited to the tournament.

Oh sorry, yea i just see. I thought these are the qualifiers that they put. Thanks for that.

2017-06-28 00:11

Ez for Faze! jk

They probably will invite Fnatic and C9 G2 and Liquid probably will qualify, I don't see astralis trying to make it to this event I hate events like these that aren't solid T1 events, but also don't hive chances to a lot of T3 teams like CLG, Immortals, Envyus, etc. All the teams in the ~8-16 range on hltv can compete with each other pretty solidly. We need more tournaments for teams who "never make it out of groups" and less of these events with such a skill spread. I'd rather see 8 closely ranked teams. It seems like this is just a big org meme event so whatever, another Faze SK final will be fun assuming they keep form

2017-06-28 00:32