Groups A and B for MLG Columbus 2016 announced

The first two groups for the upcoming major have been announced, featuring teams like NiP, Fnatic, Luminosity and FaZe.

MLG have announced the groups A and B in two short videos on their Instagram today. The videos can be found in this post as well.

The groups have been drawn based on seeds from the previous major, DreamHack: Cluj-Napoca, as well as results from the Lan qualifiers for the major, where the 1st pool features the top 4 and pool 2 is the 5th-8th place finishers from Cluj. Pools 3 and 4 are determined by the qualifiers, the group winners from the LAN qualifiers are pool 3 leaving the 2nd place finishers in the groups in pool 4.

The groups are as follows:

Group A

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Luminosity

mousesports

FlipSid3

Group B

FaZe Clan

fnatic

Splyce

Team Liquid

The final two groups are to be drawn and announced tomorrow and revealed on the MLG instagram account.

Remaining teams:

Pool 1

EnvyUs

Natus Vincere



Pool 2

Virtus.Pro

Astralis

Pool 3

G2.Esports

Gambit

Pool 4

Counter Logic Gaming

Cloud 9

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