iBUYPOWER Cup 2015 viewer's guide

This weekend will see the two-day, $100,000 iBUYPOWER CS:GO Invitational take place and we have prepared a viewer's guide to help shepherd you through the event.

With November offering a plethora of events on North American soil, we now relocate from the plains of Ohio to balmy Santa Ana, California for the $100,000 iBUYPOWER Invitational Cup.

The event brings together eight teams either living or playing in North America for two days of best-of-one group matches and best-of-three semifinals and a grand final.

The Cup takes place during iBUYPOWER's "eSports Day" at the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, and rewards a whopping $65,000 to the winner as well as an equally prestigious qualification for IEM San Jose to the highest placing, non-invited team (i.e. not Cloud9 or Luminosity).

Luminosity kick off today's tournament with a match against Winterfox

Seven of the eight teams involved (aside from Conquest) will also stay on hand at the venue for the RGN Pro Series which will kick off on November 16th from the same location and offer a $30,000 prize-pool.

A full schedule for the iBP Cup is:

Saturday, November 14th
19:15	Luminosity	vs. Winterfox	BO1
20:10	CLG	vs. Renegades	BO1
21:05	Group A winners' match		BO1
22:00	Group A elimination match		BO1
22:55	Group A decider match		BO1
23:50	Cloud9	vs. Conquest	BO1
00:45	Liquid	vs. compLexity	BO1
01:40	Group B winners' match		BO1
02:35	Group B elimination match		BO1
03:30	Group B decider match		BO1
Sunday, November 15th
19:15	Semifinal #1		BO3
21:00	Semifinal #2		BO3
23:00	Grand Final		BO3

The groups for the iBUYPOWER CS:GO Invitational Cup are once again:

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

A full list of talent for the event is:

Sue "Smix" Lee

Casters:

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

And finally the prize-pool breakdown for the Cup is as follows:

1. - $65,000
2. - $25,000
3-4. - $5,000
3-4. - $5,000 

The action kicks off later today at 19:15 (10:15 AM Californian time) and begins with Luminosity squaring off against Winterfox. The stream for the tournament can be found at twitch.tv/iBUYPOWER.

HLTV.org is already on-site in Santa Ana, California to help you through the event with interviews, photos, and Twitter updates to be delivered throughout the two days.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

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