Northen Arena Groups Annouced

On Sept. 1-4, the first of twoNorthern Arenas for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive willtake place. Double elimination group stages, with a best-of-threeformat in the loser’s bracket and deciding matches, followed by asingle elimination playoff bracket for the top-two teams from eachgroup. This means that there will be a bunch of matches at thestart of the new month.

Sixteen teams will be fightingfor the biggest bite of $100,000 and the cash willsplit as follows:

1st. $50,000

2nd. $25,000

3rd. $15,000

4th. $5,000

5-6th. $1,250

7-8th. $1,250

These teams will compete for thecash above and here are their groups: 

Group A

• Immortals
• Counter LogicGaming
• NRG
• Synthetik

Group B

• TeamSoloMid
• OpTicGaming
• Echo Fox
• LuminosityGaming

Group C

• Cloud9
• RougeEsports
• compLexityGaming
• AceGaming

Group D

• Team X
• Splyce
• Selfless
• Winterfox

These groups seem prettystraight forward, but who do you think will make it to playoffs?Let us know in the comments below and for all your updates on NorthAmerican CS:GO, make sure you are following us on Twitter, @GAMURScom.

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