IronGaming starts with NiP, Na`Vi

IronGaming LAN's $13,000 CS:GO tournament, featuring the likes of NiP, Na`Vi and Exertus, is about to finally kick off.

A total of eight teams are present in Austin for the tournament, which convinced the two DreamHack Summer finalists to extend their stay in the United States after ESEA Finals.

As we previously reported, Ioann "Edward" Sukhariev has finally arrived in Austin, and will be suiting up for Na`Vi after having been temporarily replaced by Arseny "ceh9" Trynozhenko last weekend.

Group A is set to begin any minute, while group B is schedule to start tomorrow at 16:00 . Each team will advance to the playoffs from the groups, which are used only to determine seedings.

Group A	Group B
NiP	Natus Vincere
Frag Machines	MM3
Hold My Purse	Armata
Heat	Exertus

Playoffs will be played using a standard single elimination best-of-three format, with IronGaming sticking to the five maps from the previous CS:GO majors, without de_cache or de_season.

We've also managed to gather the full rosters for each of the eight participants, including a surprise team with former 3D members Salvatore "Volcano" Garozzo and Kyle "Ksharp" Miller:

NiP	f0rest, Fifflaren, friberg, GeT_RiGhT, Xizt
Natus Vincere	Edward, GuardiaN, seized, starix, Zeus
Frag Machines	kire, Ksharp, Miller, Volcano, warmachine
Exertus	moses, TM, Storm, Warden, Xp3
Hold My Purse	emuhleet, moXie, kalypso, Sapphire, Starlight
Heat	godson, odjur, pho, prism, tomcho
MM3	boyer, freeway, Frisco, klutch, webster
Armata	d00m, samr0ck, Romulus, N/A, N/A

Grand final is tentatively scheduled to begin at 16:00 on Sunday, and we will do our best to add hot matches for the most important games of IronGaming LAN.

Below is an estimated schedule for the entire event, though delays are, as usual, possible:

Friday, July 4
22:00	NiP	vs. Frag Machines	Stream
22:00	Hold My Purse	vs. Heat
23:30	NiP	vs. Hold My Purse	Stream
23:30	Frag Machines	vs. Heat
01:00	NiP	vs. Heat	Stream
01:00	Hold My Purse	vs. Frag Machines
Saturday, July 5
16:00	Natus Vincere	vs. MM3	Stream
16:00	Armata	vs. Exertus
17:30	Natus Vincere	vs. Armata	Stream
17:30	Exertus	vs. MM3
19:00	Natus Vincere	vs. Exertus	Stream
19:00	Armata	vs. MM3
20:00	Quarter-finals #1 & #2		Stream
22:00	Quarter-finals #3 & #4		Stream
00:00	Semi-finals		Stream
Sunday, July 6
16:00	Grand final		Stream

IronGamingTV, which is listed under our streams list on the front page, is streaming all of NiP's and Natus Vincere's matches that do not collide. Trynozhenko is also streaming the event.

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