ESL announce New York format

ESL One New York will bring back the Swiss format which we saw in use for the first time in CS:GO during the ESL One Cologne Main Qualifier back in June.

The system remains mostly the same, though this time we'll only see eight teams in play, which means 16-17 matches will be played in the group stage in total.

To quickly explain the Swiss system: in this case it features five best-of-one rounds, with only the first round match-ups being pre-determined.

Every round's match-ups afterwards will be chosen randomly between teams within the same pool (based on win-loss score) that have not played each other yet, until the participants reach three wins to qualify for semi-finals or three losses to get eliminated from the tournament.

The only exception to the rule above will happen in round four, when one team with a 1-2 score will have to meet a team from a pool above (2-1) due to an odd number of teams in the two pools.

The full schedule of ESL One New York is following:

* matches will start as soon as possible after the previous ends

ESL have already previously announced three out of the eight teams, who are:

SK

G2

Liquid

The first day will unfold behind closed doors, the teams will move on to the Barclays Center stage for Saturday and Sunday. Tickets ranging from $49 to $89 can be purchased via the Ticketmaster website.