The group draw for this weekend's WinOut CS:GO Championships tournament has taken place.

The WinOut CS:GO Championships powered by Azubu.tv will be taking place this weekend at the WinOut Gaming Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

12 teams out of the 16 were directly invited to the event, with others progressing via a series of online qualifiers, a total of 15 teams were therefore determined going into the tournament.

Unfortunately, due to the volatility of the North American scene, at least three teams had to back out of the event: compLexity, Sponsorless (ex-Tempo Storm), and Orgless (ex-LunatiK).

Luminosity drawn in the same group as their fellow countrymen of Games Academy

WinOut have managed to fill the spots with several newly invited teams, however this change means that two teams will be progressing to the main event via the last chance qualifier which will take place on-site on September 4th. Sign-up for the last chance qualifier remains open until Thursday, Sep. 4, 03:00 .

The groups will play out in a GSL best-of-one bracket series, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the playoffs. The groups for the event are as follows:

Group 1	Group 2
CLG	3sUP
Excellence	Enemy
ACE Gaming	SWARM
BitterSweetGG	CLG Red
Group 3	Group 4
Method	Luminosity
Nexus	Games Academy
WinOutNET	Levitate Gaming
Last Chance Qual.	Last Chance Qual.

Groups 1 and 2 will play out on Friday, September 4th whereas Groups 3 and 4 will play out on Saturday, September 5th. The playoffs will begin that same day and conclude on Sunday the next day.

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