AMD Sapphire group draw

The group draw for the AMD Sapphire CS:GO tournament has been made, with the 10 participants having learned their fate.

The Czech tournament, held by Heaven Media in association with the Mind Sports festival, will kick off with a group stage, with the 10 participating teams having been divided into two groups of five teams. 

ESC Gaming are set to tackle Ninjas in Pyjamas once again after losing to the Swedish side during the group stage of DreamHack Winter. French team BuyKey, zNation of Russia and Belgium's Brussels Guardians make up the rest of the group.

In Group B, ESWC and DreamHack Winter runners-up VeryGames will lock horns with fellow countrymen eXtensive!, Portuguese side k1ck, Slovakian-Czech team MYDGB.NET and the Russians of dAT Team - who will be using Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov as a stand-in for Georgi "worldedit" Yaskin.

Group A	Group B
Ninjas in Pyjamas	VeryGames
ESC Gaming	k1ck
BuyKey	eXtensive!
zNation	MYDGB.NET
Brussels Guardians	dAT Team

The top four teams from each group will progress to the quarter-finals, which will use a best-of-three format.