ESL One New York: What to Expect This Weekend

ESL One New York, one of the world's biggest gaming tournaments, is taking over Brooklyn this weekend, and you cannot walk into such an intense (and intensely fun) event without some prep work beforehand. Here's a few tidbits on the event, which takes place from October 1-2 at Barclays Center, to get you hyped up.

ESL One will feature the world’s top eight Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams in a $250,000 tournament, and local and international Street Fighter V players in a $75,000 event. The teams who will go head-to-head for the grand prize are: SK Gaming, G2 Esports, Team Liquid, Virtus.pro, Natus Vincere, Fnatic and Astralis. As of now, the final competing team has not been announced.