The first ever North American Major Championship in Counter-Strike, MLG Columbus 2016, has released groups and schedule for the top 16 teams attending this event on Instagram. Being the first major to feature $1,000,000 in prize money, as we have already reported, everything is set for this to be one of the most exciting LAN events of the year. The groups and seed pools were decided upon team's performance at the previous major, DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca, and the main qualifier.


Like with any event such as this, there are no easy groups, but there's always a 'group of death'. That certainly refers to the group D, which features teams that are similar in skill. Certainly Na'Vi is the strongest contender to take the top spot of this group, especially since Virtus.pro has been showing some weak performance lately; all the while G2 Esports and Cloud9 are looking strong at the moment. Is that the reason to write off Virtus.pro before the event even started? Most certainly not. Hopefully they will step up their game and prepare for this competition properly.

The event itself will be taking place at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio from March 29th to April 3rd, 2016. So be ready to clear your schedule and tune into streams to watch the best gameplay CS:GO has to offer. Also expect some betting fixtures!

Links: MLG Columbus 2016, Schedule