{"id":486,"date":"2016-04-22T18:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T18:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=486"},"modified":"2016-04-22T18:56:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T18:56:40","slug":"major-league-gaming-host-counter-strikeglobal-offensive-americas-minor-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/04\/22\/major-league-gaming-host-counter-strikeglobal-offensive-americas-minor-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Gaming to Host Counter-Strike:Global Offensive Americas Minor Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Gaming (MLG) is happy to announce the MLG Counter-Strike:Global Offensive Americas Minor Championship to be held at the MLG Arena May 19 \u2013 May 22, 2016 with a $50,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>Coming fresh out of the record setting MLG CS:GO Major Championship: Columbus 2016, the MLG Americas Minor Championship will feature 8 teams selected through invitation and Online qualification. The 4 invited teams include Tempo Storm, OpTic Gaming, Selfless Gaming and NRG eSports. The 4 additional teams include 3 that will obtain a spot via the North America Online Qualifier and 1 team through the South American Online Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>The 8 Teams will begin the Americas Minor Championship in one of two Groups. The final two Teams in each Group will advance to a Double Elimination Bracket. The final two Teams in the Bracket will qualify for the Major LAN Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers can tune into the MLG Americas Minor Championship on MLG.tv and Twitch.tv. You can find the tentative match schedule below.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 19<br \/>\n\u202211:45 AM Pregame Show<br \/>\n\u202212:00 PM Group X \u2013 Match 1<br \/>\n\u20221:10 PM Group X \u2013 Match 2<br \/>\n\u20222:20 PM Group Y \u2013 Match 1<br \/>\n\u20223:30 PM Group Y \u2013 Match 2<br \/>\n\u20224:40 PM Group X \u2013 Losers Match<br \/>\n\u20225:50 PM Group X \u2013 Winners Match<br \/>\n\u20227:00 PM Group Y \u2013 Losers Match<br \/>\n\u20228:10 PM Group Y \u2013 Winners Match<\/p>\n<p>Friday,  May 20<br \/>\n\u202211:45 AM Pregame Show<br \/>\n\u202212:00 PM Group X \u2013 Final Match (Bo3)<br \/>\n\u20222:20 PM Group Y \u2013 Final Match (Bo3)<br \/>\n\u20224:40 PM Bracket \u2013 Winners Round 1 (Bo3)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 21<br \/>\n\u202211:45 AM Pregame Show<br \/>\n\u202212:00 PM Bracket \u2013 Winners Round 1 (Bo3)<br \/>\n\u20222:20 PM Bracket \u2013 Losers Round 1 (Bo3)<br \/>\n\u20224:40 PM Bracket \u2013 Winners Final (Bo3)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, May 22<br \/>\n\u202211:45 AM Pregame Show<br \/>\n\u202212:00 PM Bracket \u2013 Losers Final (Bo3)<br \/>\n\u20222:20 PM Bracket \u2013 Grand Final (Bo3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Gaming (MLG) is happy to announce the MLG Counter-Strike:Global Offensive Americas Minor Championship to be held at the MLG Arena May 19 \u2013 May 22, 2016 with a $50,000 prize pool. Coming fresh out of the record setting MLG CS:GO Major Championship: Columbus 2016, the MLG Americas Minor Championship will feature 8 teams &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/04\/22\/major-league-gaming-host-counter-strikeglobal-offensive-americas-minor-championship\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esports-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}