iBP Cup groups, casters released

Official seeded groups and a talent list have now been released by iBUYPOWER for their upcoming $100,000 Invitational in Santa Ana, California this weekend.

The $100,000 iBUYPOWER CS:GO Invitational takes place on November 14-15 inside the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California.

Eight North American region teams were selected to compete in the event, which features a double elimination bracket with all group stage matches being in a best-of-one format and with the semifinals and grand final being best-of-three games on the second day.

Sadokist will cast at the iBUYPOWER Cup

iBUYPOWER have now announced the group draw for the event, which sees the following seeding breakdown take place:

Group A	Group B
Luminosity	Cloud9
Winterfox	Conquest
CLG	Liquid
Renegades	compLexity

Both groups will play out on the 14th of November and two teams progress from each group to the semifinals after battling through the Upper and Lower brackets, respectively.

iBUYPOWER have also released a casters list for the event, and it is:

Host:

Sue "Smix" Lee

Casters:

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
John "BLU" Mullen

Although tickets for the event, which runs in conjunction with an official community "eSports day" which iBUYPOWER will be hosting at the venue, have sold out, you can still view the action over at twitch.tv/iBUYPOWER.

#IBPCUP seeding and casters are out now! We're excited for this weekend, whose going to win our $100k CSGO tourney? pic.twitter.com/aCMsngg06B

— iBUYPOWER (@iBUYPOWER) November 10, 2015

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Jason 'moses' O'Toole Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 13 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.68