Americas Minor group draw and schedule announced

10-7-2019 22:00

StarLadder has announced the group draw and schedule for the Americas Minor, kicking off on July 17.

The eight contestants, who came through the closed qualifiers that were held in South America and North America, have been drawn into two double-elimination groups for the first stage of the tournament, which will be held in Berlin from July 17-21.

The top two teams of the Americas Minor will secure participation in the Challengers Stage of the StarLadder Major, while the third-placed side will have another chance to qualify via the Minor Play-In, offering three slots in the first stage of the Major.

stanislaw looks to lead his team to the New Challengers stage

Much like its European counterpart, the Americas Minor will see a GSL group stage format, featuring best-of-one opening matches and best-of-three series in all following match-ups. Two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, which will also feature a double-elimination format.

Below are the groups for the Americas Minor:

Group A

Group B

The clear favourites of Group A are NRG, who recently debuted their newly-adjusted lineup, featuring Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz, at ESL One Cologne, securing a quarter-final finish at the $300,000 event. Group B is spearheaded by FURIA, the sole remaining Brazilian roster in the top 10 of the world rankings. The team will look to repeat their endeavour from the previous Minor, where they finished in second place to book a spot at the IEM Katowice Major.

The comprehensive schedule for the Americas Minor is the following:

Wednesday, July 17

10:00 - NRG vs. TeamOne | BO1
10:00 - FURIA vs. INTZ | BO1
11:15 - Singularity vs. Sharks | BO1
11:15 - eUnited vs. Luminosity | BO1
12:30 - Group A winners' match | BO3
12:30 - Group B winners' match | BO3

Thursday, July 18

10:00 - Group A elimination match | BO3
10:00 - Group B elimination match | BO3
13:00 - Group A decider match | BO3
13:00 - Group B decider match | BO3

Friday, July 19

10:00 - Group A #1 vs. Group B #2 | BO3
13:00 - Group B #1 vs. Group A #2 | BO3

Saturday, July 20

10:00 - Elimination match | BO3
13:00 - Winners' bracket final | BO3

Sunday, July 21

14:00 - Lower bracket final | BO3

Nice

2019-07-10 22:00

19 replies

EZ for eUnited and NRG

2019-07-10 22:01

16 replies

Brazil is taking over

3 replies

not really

2019-07-10 22:34

the airport

2019-07-11 03:25

1 reply

XAXZAXAAXAAXAXAAXXAXAXA

2019-07-11 06:02

Nrg yes Eunited fucking no 1 Nrg 2 Furia 3 Lg

2019-07-10 22:12

10 replies

eUnited >>> lulminosity wtf u on drugs??? Big delusional

2019-07-10 22:39

9 replies

I agree with mister brasil. eUnited is shit

2019-07-10 22:45

4 replies

eUnited is not that shit, they are playing good cs but I'm going with mister brasil in this one.

2019-07-11 00:30

I think INTZ is going 3rd

2019-07-11 03:12

eUnited just owned Furia lmao eUnited easily is qualifying

2019-07-11 05:15

Nice joke!

2019-07-14 06:26

they have felps now

2019-07-10 22:47

LG can be realy good man Boltz was top 20 player back in 2017 Steel prety respectable igl and ok aimer Hen1 great Awp but inconcistent Felps has lots of talent just needs a fit Nekiz did great in a couple os evenst last year

2019-07-11 00:05

Flag, flair and name checks out

2019-07-11 00:34

+1 cumpa

2019-07-11 07:35

Tell me where u buy your drugs, i need some. Btw, ez for FURIA and NRG

2019-07-17 05:44

wtf youre not BIGGEST_BIG_FAN

2019-07-10 22:02

GROUP A HAHAHAH

2019-07-10 22:10

Wow

EZ4NRG

noice

eunited or nrg to win

2 replies

Fuck eunited piece of shot org

2019-07-10 22:58

u forgot Furia.

2019-07-11 16:28

EZ FURIA NRG

Group A is a joke

2019-07-10 22:32

Sharks can win, mark my words

2019-07-10 22:44

I agree, they always show a nice CS on majors.

No and no

2019-07-11 03:54

Ez4nrg

Sharks t1 sin in the same group while group b is so stacked

+1 Nrg with the easy spot

2019-07-11 05:27

2019-07-11 13:59

no mexican teams, maybe racism

2019-07-10 22:03

maybe mexico dont have teams lol

2019-07-11 01:59

At least no teams that can compete

That's what I mean

2019-07-11 18:10

none of these teams deserve to be at the major

2019-07-10 22:04

6 replies

And which team does? Lol

2019-07-10 22:23

5 replies

2019-07-10 23:28

0/8

2019-07-10 23:34

VP is worst than Sharks man, what you talking about

2019-07-11 00:43

hltv.org/matches/2333311/sharks-vs-virtu.. men

2019-07-11 11:10

Yes, the most popular American team... 0/8

2019-07-11 04:38

group B is the group of the death

2019-07-10 22:06

5AM for us the first game. :( feelsbad

2019-07-10 22:07

2019-07-10 23:59

Group B unfair 5 BR teams in NA minor kkkkkk

2019-07-10 22:09

"Americas"

Ik but was basically NA minor until SA got money and now they fuck NA

2019-07-10 23:13

americas minor is not north america minor

2019-07-11 16:36

1) NRG 2) FURIA 3) eUnited

Ez4Luminosity

Ez4sharks

05:00 AM in brazil FUCK

2019-07-10 22:13

u mean brazil minor

2019-07-10 22:14

BR minor

2019-07-10 22:15

2019-07-10 22:19

hope furia dont choke

imagine if no brazilian teams qualify

2019-07-10 22:29

Totally possible, there's only 3 br teams

2019-07-10 22:35

WTF this schedule... 4am here

EU schedule

2019-07-11 00:32

For Na/Br Qualify nice one Starladder

2019-07-11 05:30

When played on EU soil, then played with EU schedule

2019-07-11 12:32

That is basically they saying fuck the viewers and fans, they could have delayed the games in 5-6 hours and still have a decent schedule for EU timezone

2019-07-11 19:00

You do realize that EU minor is played at the same time at the same place?You have to think their schedule too

2019-07-11 19:23

lol I just saw that, it actually makes no sense and its even worst if you think about it, they really dont care about NA/BR fans. Why would they put EU minor after NA? I know that swapping both would make it a little worst to EU viewers, but it would also make a huge difference for NA/BR ones.

2019-07-11 19:44

What a joke this seeding, should've swapped intz with sharks

They should have put all brazilians in one group except sharks that goes to other group with NA teams

2019-07-11 00:33

would be way too easy to sharks, i mean, they should've swapped intz with sharks so nrg can have a chance

2019-07-11 00:58

Lets fking go marke, destroy these br nonamers Nrg, furia qualify eUnited to play in or maybe they beat furia and go thru

2019-07-10 22:41

EZ4FELPS

2019-07-10 22:43

Sharks ALWAYS play better on lan, watch out. I really don't understand why people think eUnited will get the second apot over FURIA, I mean, I know FURIA is playing bad but they still 2-0 Renegades and got very close maps vs Na'Vi... It's not like eUnited has shown better results lol

2019-07-10 23:18

Furia nothing but noobs

NRG > TeamOne FURIA > INTZ Singularity > Sharks Luminosity > eUnited

nrg intz sng luminosity

2019-07-11 00:06

ez for intz.

2019-07-11 00:18

tier 12

2019-07-11 00:21

2019-07-11 00:31

NRG, singularity furia, LG nrg and furia stickers LG will lose in the 3rd place run off

2019-07-11 00:47

T2-3 NA should honestly just move to Brazil during qualifying time to snag spots from BR since they're moving to NA to take spots.

2019-07-11 00:55

They wouldn't qualify there though lmao

2019-07-12 01:37

Group A is rigged af for NRG

2019-07-11 00:57

The time is sucks

2019-07-11 01:03

NRG Furia Singularity Eunited/Intz Top 4

2019-07-11 01:05

Ez furia

2019-07-11 01:21

EZ4FURIA

2019-07-11 01:38

NRG and Furia, with either Eunited or Luminosity getting 3rd

furia eleminated after the first 2 matches

2019-07-11 02:41

rename it to Brazilian minor LULZ

Terrible schedule for both NA and Br, good job Starladder

2019-07-11 05:33

Too EZ 4 NRG and Furia

2019-07-11 07:02

is this america or brasil

2019-07-11 08:47

guys, guys. Imagine coldzera gets benched in mibr and goes to play at Luminosity. Maybe replaces HEN1 (transferred to mibr, playing alongside LUCAS1). Would be a great team imo. Looking forward to see NRG, FURIA and LG play here. Sadly, there are only two spots available. FURIA probably most interesting team tbh, we all want to know if they can continue playing at a Tier 1 level.

2019-07-11 09:55