GG.BET New York Invitational groups and schedule revealed

The GG.BET New York Invitational organizers have announced the groups and schedule for their latest online tournament, which will serve as a qualifier for ESL One New York.

The GG.BET New York Invitational will be another qualifier for an ESL event, similar to the ones put together for IEM Sydney, ESL One Cologne, and IEM Chicago, with eight teams playing for a spot at ESL One New York.

forZe will have a shot at winning another GG.BET Invitational

The tournament will feature two four-team GSL groups with best-of-one opening matches and best-of-three winners, elimination, and decider matches, which will feed the four best teams into a single-elimination best-of-three playoff bracket. The winner will qualify for ESL One New York, while the loser will earn a $5,000 consolation prize.

The groups, which feature teams like Winstrike—who have been brought on to replace CR4ZY—, HellRaisers, Sprout, or FORZE—who won the last Invitational but were unable to travel to IEM Chicago due to visa issues—, are the following:

Group A
AVANGAR
BIG
FORZE
HellRaisers Group B
OpTic
Bpro
Sprout
Winstrike

The schedule for the tournament is the following:

Saturday, August 3rd
16:00 - AVANGAR vs. BIG | BO1
17:15 - FORZE vs. HellRaisers | BO1
18:30 - Group A winners | BO3

Sunday, August 4th
16:00 - OpTic vs. Bpro | BO1
17:15 - Sprout vs. Winstrike | BO1
18:30 - Group B winners | BO3

Monday, August 5th
17:00 - Group A elimination | BO3
20:30 - Group B elimination | BO3

Tuesday, August 6th
17:00 - Group A decider | BO3
20:30 - Group B decider | BO3

Wednesday, August 7th
13:00 - Semifinal #1 | BO3
16:30 - Semifinal #2 | BO3
20:00 - Grand Final | BO3

When all is said and done, the winner of the GG.BET Invitational will close out the ESL One New York 2019 roster, joining the following seven teams:

Liquid
Astralis
ENCE
NRG FaZe
G2
eUnited
GG.BET InvitationalNRG #5 Peter 'stanislaw' JarguzTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov FORZE #22 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov HellRaisers #32 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowTomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýChristian 'loWel' Garcia AntoranIssa 'ISSAA' MuradŽygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas BIG #23 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschDenis 'denis' HowellIsmailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş Astralis #3 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif eUnited #38 Victor 'food' WongEdgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoAnthony 'vanity' MalaspinaKaleb 'moose' JayneAustin 'Cooper' Abadir Sprout #21 Florian 'syrsoN' RischeTimo 'Spiidi' RichterSabit 'mirbit' CoktasarNils 'k1to' GruhneJosef 'faveN' Baumann G2 #8 Audric 'JACKZ' JugRichard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayLucas 'Lucky' Chastang Winstrike #83 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukAurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysAleksei 'El1an' GusevDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan AVANGAR #31 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevSanjar 'SANJI' KulievTimur 'buster' TulepovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Liquid #1 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken OpTic #19 Mathias 'MSL' LauridsenKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeNikolaj 'niko' KristensenIsmail 'refrezh' AliRené 'TeSeS' Madsen CR4ZY #16 Nemanja 'huNter-' KovačNestor 'LETN1' TanićNemanja 'nexa' IsakovićOtto 'ottoNd' SihvoRokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas ENCE #4 Aleksi 'allu' JalliJani 'Aerial' JussilaSami 'xseveN' LaasanenAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenJere 'sergej' Salo FaZe #6 Filip 'NEO' KubskiOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard Bpro #92 Ivan 'Rock1nG' StratievDenislav 'dennyslaw' DimitrovKrasen 'Zix' MinchevKostadin 'rafftu' TurbinovValentin 'viltrex' Tsvetanov