Groups have been drawn for the RGN Pro Series Championship, a 16-team event taking place in Santa Ana, California from November 16-18.

Taking place as the middle event in a packed two weeks of CS:GO tournaments in California, the $30,000 RGN Pro Series Championship will allow mostly North American teams the chance to compete for bragging rights in said region.

The event is notable for transpiring at the same venue as the iBUYPOWER CS:GO Invitational, which will conclude the day before the RGN Pro Series Championship kicks off.



The final teams are ready for the RGN Pro Series offline finals

Since the publication of our original article, a few changes have taken place to the list of teams attending.

SKDC have replaced the Mexican team Quetzal whereas 3sUP have replaced Coastless following that team's decomposition. In addition, Swarm Gaming were signed by Nexus and are now under that name.

RGN have now announced the official group draw for the event, which will have best-of-one round robin groups and a double elimination, best-of-three playoffs as its format.

Group A Group B Group C Group D CLG CLG Cloud9 Cloud9 Liquid Liquid Luminosity Luminosity Renegades Renegades compLexity compLexity CSGOLounge CSGOLounge Conquest Conquest 3sUP 3sUP Method Method Games Academy Games Academy Winterfox Winterfox Enemy Enemy Nexus Nexus SKDC SKDC CLG Red CLG Red

Group matches will play out on November 16th except for Group D which will take place on the 17th alongside the upper bracket. The lower bracket of the playoffs and the grand final will take place on November 18th.

The event will feature two streams for the group stages, with simulatenous matches going on, which will be found at azubu.tv/gorgntv and azubu.tv/gorgntv2.

Tickets for the event, which will take place the eSports Arena in Santa, Ana California, are free for daily attendances and $20 for a three-day VIP pass. VIP attendees will be able to do team meet-and-greets as well as get access to side tournaments run by RGN at the event. They can be purchased here.

We will have a viewer's guide closer to the event's kick-off with an up-to-date schedule and casters' list. Additional info can be found on RGN's site as well.

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