ESL has revealed the group distribution for ESL One New York taking place in late September. The group stage of the $200,000 tournament will see the current No.1 team Liquid joined by the new-look ENCE in Group A alongside G2, who are reportedly amidst lineup changes as well, and the team coming from the North American qualifier, eUnited. StarLadder Major champions Astralis headline Group B, where they will compete against NRG, FaZe and their compatriots OpTic, who qualified for the tournament via the GG.BET New York invitational and are set to play their first offline event since adding René "cajunb" Borg in August. ESL One New York will take place on September 26-29, with the group stage held on the first two days, while the playoffs will run during the weekend at the Barclays' Center. The groups are the following:Liquid
ENCE
G2
eUnited Group B
Astralis
NRG
FaZe
OpTic
NRG #3
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz
Tarik 'tarik' Celik
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov
ENCE #5
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli
Jani 'Aerial' Jussila
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen
Jere 'sergej' Salo
FaZe #10
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
G2 #9
Audric 'JACKZ' Jug
Richard 'shox' Papillon
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub
François 'amanek' Delaunay
Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang
OpTic #22
René 'cajunb' Borg
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen
René 'TeSeS' Madsen
René 'cajunb' Borg
Age: 29 Team: OpTic Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 1394 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63
Liquid #1
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Astralis #2
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Emil 'Magisk' Reif
eUnited #100
Victor 'food' Wong
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado
Anthony 'vanity' Malaspina
Kaleb 'moose' Jayne
Austin 'Cooper' Abadir