by Kia KahaNorthern Arena viewer’s guide
With Northern Arena knocking on the door, we have put together a viewer’s guide where you can find all the information you need to keep up with the event, including the groups, schedule, and broadcast crew.
Toronto Convention Centre will play host to Northern Arena 2016 which will commence on September 1 and end on September 4. The prize pool for the event taking place in Toronto, Canada will be $100,000.
The competition will kick off with a GSL format in the group stage which features four groups of four teams. The opening and winners’ matches will be played as best-of-ones while the elimination and deciders will be best-of-threes. The top two squads from each group will advance to the playoffs.
Here are the groups:
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
 Immortals |
 TSM |
 Cloud9 |
 Heroic |
| CLG |
 OpTic |
Rogue |
Splyce |
 NRG |
Echo Fox |
compLexity |
Selfless |
| Synthetik |
Luminosity |
ACE |
 Winterfox |
Eight teams who manage to get through the groups will play in the single-elimination best-of-three playoffs. There will also be a third-place decider match.
The full schedule can be found below:
| Thursday, September 1st | |||
| 18:00 | Immortals |
vs. Synthetik |
BO1 |
| 18:00 | TSM |
vs. Luminosity |
BO1 |
| 19:30 | CLG |
vs. NRG |
BO1 |
| 19:30 | OpTic |
vs. Echo Fox |
BO1 |
| 21:00 | Group A – winners’ match | BO1 | |
| 21:00 | Group B – winners’ match | BO1 | |
| 23:30 | Group A – elimination match | BO3 | |
| 23:30 | Group B – elimination match | BO3 | |
| 02:30 | Group A – decider | BO3 | |
| 02:30 | Group B – decider | BO3 | |
| Friday, September 2nd | |||
| 17:00 | Cloud9 |
vs. ACE |
BO1 |
| 17:00 | Heroic |
vs. Winterfox |
BO1 |
| 18:30 | Rogue |
vs. compLexity |
BO1 |
| 18:30 | Splyce |
vs. Selfless |
BO1 |
| 20:00 | Group C – winners’ match | BO1 | |
| 20:00 | Group D – winners’ match | BO1 | |
| 22:30 | Group C – elimination match | BO3 | |
| 22:30 | Group D – elimination match | BO3 | |
| 01:30 | Group C – decider | BO3 | |
| 01:30 | Group D – decider | BO3 | |
| Saturday, September 3rd | |||
| 16:45 | Quarter-final #1 | BO3 | |
| 16:45 | Quarter-final #2 | BO3 | |
| 20:00 | Quarter-final #3 | BO3 | |
| 20:00 | Quarter-final #4 | BO3 | |
| 00:00 | Semi-final #1 | BO3 | |
| 02:45 | Semi-final #2 | BO3 | |
| Sunday, September 4th | |||
| 16:15 | Third-place match | BO3 | |
| 20:00 | Grand Final | BO3 | |
The following broadcast crew will be bringing you the action on Northern Arena’s Twitch channel:
Mirna “athxna” Noureldin – Interviewer
The prize pool breakdown will be as follows:
1. – $50.000
2. – $25,000
3. – $15,000
4. – $5,000
5-8. – $1,250
5-8. – $1,250
5-8. – $1,250
5-8. – $1,250
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