Eight teams stood at the start of the ESL One New York North America qualifier, including some of the biggest names such as Cloud9, Immortals and OpTic, and played for a single spot at the $250,000 event kicking off in just under three days. Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert's team defeated CLG in a narrow best-of-three in the quarter-finals and quickly disposed of TSM on their way to the grand final.  OpTic snatched the last spot at ESL One New York
On the other side of the bracket, the Brazilians and OpTic won their initial battles over Complexity and NRG respectively before meeting in the semi-finals. Oscar "mixwell" Cañellas and company squeaked by Immortals and took on Cloud9 in today's grand final. After two close encounters, on Train and Overpass, OpTic comfortably secured Cobblestone and grabbed the last spot at ESL One New York. ESL One New York 2016 North America QualifierBest of 3 Cloud9 Matchpage 1 2 28th September 2016  OpTic 14Train 16 16Overpass 13 6Cobblestone 16
Tarik 'tarik' Celiktarik | 73 - 55 | +18 | 85.3 | 1.26 | Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellasmixwell | 65 - 52 | +13 | 83.5 | 1.23 | William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH | 66 - 56 | +10 | 91.4 | 1.21 | Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw | 56 - 53 | +3 | 80.7 | 1.13 | Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF | 46 - 54 | -8 | 65.6 | 0.97 |
Timothy 'autimatic' Taautimatic | 79 - 62 | +17 | 99.1 | 1.30 | Jake 'Stewie2K' YipStewie2K | 48 - 63 | -15 | 80.8 | 1.00 | Mike 'shroud' Grzesiekshroud | 56 - 61 | -5 | 64.2 | 0.93 | Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamSkadoodle | 43 - 57 | -14 | 59.3 | 0.84 | Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbertn0thing | 43 - 63 | -20 | 62.5 | 0.81 |
All teams are now locked in for the event running from September 30-October 2: SK | Virtus.pro | G2 | Astralis | Natus Vincere | Liquid | fnatic | OpTic |
ESL One New York will begin with a group stage played in the Swiss format, with top four sides advancing to best-of-three single-elimination playoffs. Make sure to stay tuned to HLTV.org as we'll roll out the event's preview as well as the viewer's guide in the next two days.  Liquid #13  Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche Nick 'nitr0' Cannella Josh 'jdm64' Marzano Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski  Virtus.pro #2  Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas Filip 'NEO' Kubski Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Paweł 'byali' Bieliński  fnatic #26  Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer Dennis 'dennis' Edman John 'wenton' Eriksson Simon 'twist' Eliasson Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson  CLG #35  Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler James 'hazed' Cobb Kenneth 'koosta' Suen Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold Yassine 'Subroza' Taoufik   TSM #24   Kory 'SEMPHIS' Friesen Pujan 'FNS' Mehta Skyler 'Relyks' Weaver Hunter 'SicK' Mims Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken  Natus Vincere #10  Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Denis 'seized' Kostin Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev  G2 #3  Richard 'shox' Papillon Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro  Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Age: 25 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 520 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.67  OpTic #17  William 'RUSH' Wierzba Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz Keith 'NAF' Markovic Tarik 'tarik' Celik  Cloud9 #5  Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek Timothy 'autimatic' Ta Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip  Astralis #8  Finn 'karrigan' Andersen Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen Nicolai 'device' Reedtz Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye  Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas Age: 20 Team: OpTic Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 225 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.66   Complexity #32   Rory 'dephh' Jackson Cory 'APE' Bate Kia 'Surreal' Man Bradley 'ANDROID' Fodor Michael 'Uber' Stapells   NRG #25   Fatih 'gob b' Dayik Nikola 'LEGIJA' Ninić Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz Jacob 'FugLy' Medina Peter 'ptr' Gurney   SK #1   Lincoln 'fnx' Lau Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga Marcelo 'coldzera' David Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo  Immortals #12  Wilton 'zews' Prado Henrique 'HEN1' Teles Lucas 'LUCAS1' Teles Ricardo 'boltz' Prass João 'felps' Vasconcellos |