MLG revealed the groups and the schedule for the MLG Regional Minor Championship Americas that will take place in Columbus, Ohio.

Six teams from North America and two from Brazil will battle it out at the MLG Arena from May 19-22 for a prize pool of $50,000 and two spots at the ESL One Cologne Main Qualifier.

The squads are divided into two groups where a GSL format will be in effect as the opening, the winners' and the elimination matches will be best-of-ones while the deciders will be played as best-of-threes.



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The team participating via the South American qualifier will not be BigGods as they had visa issues and the newly formed WinOut team will be replacing them in Group B, where they'll go up against teams such as OpTic and Selfless. Below is the full groups:

The playoffs will be adopting a double-elimination format and all the matches will be best-of-threes. Winning two best-of-three series in the playoffs will guarantee a spot at the Major qualifier. The full schedule can be found below:

Thursday, May 19th 18:00 Tempo Storm TSM vs. BO1 19:10 NRG Without a Roof vs. BO1 20:20 OpTic WinOut vs. BO1 21:30 Selfless Winterfox vs. BO1 22:40 Group A - elimination match

BO1 23:50 Group A - winners' match

BO1 01:00 Group B - elimination match

BO1 02:10 Group B - winners' match

BO1 Friday, May 20th 18:00 Group A - decider match BO3 20:20 Group B - decider match BO3 22:40 Semi-final #1 BO3 Saturday, May 21st 18:00 Semi-final #2 BO3 20:20 Upper bracket final BO3 22:40 Lower bracket final BO3

Sunday, May 22nd 18:00 Consolidation final BO3 20:20 Grand Final BO3

You can go to our event page for more information about the Americas Minor.

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