Northern Arena groups drawn

Sixteen teams have been drawn into four groups to butt heads at the start of September in Toronto, Canada at the Northern Arena LAN Finals.

In two weeks we will see the sixteen invitees fight for a massive $100,000 prize pool at the Northern Arena LAN Finals held in Toronto, Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Fourteen of the teams received direct invites, whilst Sythetik Gaming and Ace Gaming qualified via the Call of the North online qualifiers.

Regarding the format for the event, we will see a double elimination group stage, with Bo3 losers' and decider matches, followed by single elimination, Bo3 playoffs.

Below is a table the team distributions:





The schedule for the event has also been confirmed:

Thursday, September 1st

Group A

Match 1 - Immortals vs. Synthetik Gaming

Match 3 - Counter Logic Gaming vs. NRG eSports

Match 5 - Winner #1 vs. Winner #3

Match 7 - Loser #1 vs. Loser #3

Match 9 - Loser #5 vs. Winner #7

Group B

Match 2 - Team SoloMid vs. Luminosity Gaming

Match 4 - OpTic Gaming vs. Echo Fox

Match 6 - Winner #2 vs. Winner #4

Match 8 - Loser #2 vs. Loser #4

Match 10 - Loser #6 vs. Winner #8

Friday, September 2nd



Group C

Match 11 - Cloud 9 vs. Ace Gaming

Match 13 - Team Rogue vs. compLexity Gaming

Match 15 - Winner #11 vs. Winner #13

Match 17 - Loser #11 vs. Loser #13

Match 19 - Loser #15 vs. Winner #17

Group D

Match 12 - Team X vs. Winterfox

Match 14 - Splyce vs. Selfless Gaming

Match 16 - Winner #12 vs. Winner #14

Match 18 - Loser #12 vs. Loser #14

Match 20 - Loser #16 vs. Winner #18

Saturday, September 3rd



Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Sunday, September 4th

Third place decider

Grand final