MLG have finished revealing the groups, which were based on seeding pools that depended on the teams' results at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca and MLG Columbus Main Qualifier. While at a major no group can be considered easy to any of the teams, but it seems that group D teams have received the short end of the stick, as it features Natus Vincere, Virtus.pro, G2 and Cloud9.  Ex6TenZ's G2 will fight Virtus.pro, Natus Vincere and Cloud9 for a spot in the playoffs
Group C, on the other hand, will offer two teams that are in the current top five of our world ranking, Astralis at number three and Envy as the fifth-best team in the world, joined by the improving CLG and Gambit. From March 29-31, the following four groups will be played out at the upcoming major, MLG Columbus 2016: Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Ninjas in Pyjamas | FaZe | Envy | Natus Vincere | Luminosity | fnatic | Astralis | Virtus.pro | MOUZ | Splyce | Gambit | G2 | FlipSid3 | Liquid | CLG | Cloud9 |
 FaZe #10  Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Philip 'aizy' Aistrup Håvard 'rain' Nygaard Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad  Ninjas in Pyjamas #11  Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund Richard 'Xizt' Landström Adam 'friberg' Friberg Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi  Cloud9 #13  Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip  CLG #14  Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler Josh 'jdm64' Marzano James 'hazed' Cobb Jacob 'FugLy' Medina Tarik 'tarik' Celik  Astralis #3  Finn 'karrigan' Andersen René 'cajunb' Borg Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen Nicolai 'device' Reedtz  MOUZ #8  Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač Johannes 'nex' Maget Timo 'Spiidi' Richter Denis 'denis' Howell  Natus Vincere #2  Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Denis 'seized' Kostin Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev  Liquid #15  Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Nick 'nitr0' Cannella Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski Eric 'adreN' Hoag  Gambit #18  Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Rustem 'mou' Telepov Jan 'wayLander' Rahkonen   Envy #5   Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Timothée 'DEVIL' Démolon  Splyce #23  Arya 'arya' Hekmat Abraham 'abE' Fazli David 'DAVEY' Stafford Jason 'jasonR' Ruchelski Andrew 'Professor_Chaos' Heintz  Luminosity #4  Lincoln 'fnx' Lau Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga Marcelo 'coldzera' David Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo  fnatic #1  Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer Dennis 'dennis' Edman Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist Jesper 'JW' Wecksell Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson  G2 #9  Richard 'shox' Papillon Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom  FlipSid3 #16  Yegor 'markeloff' Markelov Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy Oleksandr 'Shara' Hordieyev Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Georgi 'WorldEdit' Yaskin  Virtus.pro #6  Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas Filip 'NEO' Kubski Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Paweł 'byali' Bieliński |