In the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada, eight world-class North American teams have been invited to Major League Gamings first invitational for Overwatch on Dec 16-18. Fnatic, FaZe Clan, compLexity Gaming, NRG Esports, Team EnVyUs, Team Liquid, Rise Nation and Cloud9 will be fighting over a prize pool of $100,000 and the title of best Overwatch team in a region that is becoming very strong in the global field.The teams are split into two groups of four and each group will play a double elimination bracket on the first two days. The top two teams will advance and be seeded into a single elimination playoff round. Each match in the group stage is a best-of-three format with the playoffs being best-of-five.The tournament promises to be interesting, as many of these teams will be competing here soon after the Overwatch NGE Winter Premiere Open Play, and some teams will be looking for payback. For those less familiar with the teams but who were enthralled by BlizzCons Overwatch World Cup in early Nov., theyll be able to see a lot of star players return but with their original team lineups.In Group A will be Team EnVyUs, Fnatic, Rise Nation and compLexity Gaming. The most anticipated team to watch in this group is Team EnVyUs with one of the sharpest hitscan players in Timo Taimou Kettunen, as he and the rest his team are fresh off a win in South Korea with a first place finish in Overwatch Apex Season 1.Group B will feature the rest with Cloud9, FaZe Clan, Team Liquid and NRG Esports. NRG Esports is known as a strong team but ever since they parted ways with Daniel GODS Graeser and Mark Pookz Rendon after BlizzCon, things havent really been the same for them. They welcomed Matthew clockwork Dias and Seb numlocked Barton, but saw a quick exit from OGN APEX in Korea and a faster exit in the Overwatch Winter Premiere open qualifiers. MLG Vegas is another chance to reclaim some of their former glory before 2016 comes to a close. Another player that fans new and old alike will be happy to see is George ShaDowBurn Gushcha competing with FaZe Clan, as the Russian player took the Overwatch Cup by storm with his fantastic Genji play.MLG Vegas will not be featuring a map drafting system like APEX or DreamHack did, but rather there is a set pool of maps that will be used throughout the tournament in an attempt to ensure map diversity. The action starts on Friday Dec 16 at 3:00 PM PDT/ 6:00 PM EST with Fnatic and Rise Nation being the first teams to duke it out in MLG Vegas. Goran Dragic Jersey . Fellow centre Pavel Datsyuk remains out because of a concussion. Zetterberg has 11 goals and 19 assists for a team-high 30 points, and Datsyuk has a team-high 12 goals and 11 assists. Kelly Olynyk Jersey . Malkin got tangled up with Detroits Luke Glendening early in the third period and his left skate took the brunt of collision with the boards behind Pittsburghs net. https://www.heatlockerroom.com/Glen-Rice-City-Edition-Jersey/ . -- Arizona raced out to a big lead and did not back off, hitting the accelerator instead. Wayne Ellington Heat Jersey . -- There were a lot of firsts for the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. Kendrick Nunn Heat Jersey . Wilson hit Schenn from behind during Tuesday nights game in Philadelphia, earning a five-minute major for charging and a game misconduct. He has a phone hearing with the department of player safety, which limits any potential suspension to five or fewer games. The Philadelphia 76ers picked up their first win of the season Friday, only to come right back and drop their next game the following night. On Sunday, the team used its day off to regain clearance for takeoff by visiting the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.Rather than focus all of their attention on Mondays matchup against the Houston Rockets, the Sixers instead received a private tour of the facility where human spaceflight training, research and flight control are conducted.Philadelphia point guard Sergio Rodriguez snapped a photo of the main control room, which featured the 76ers logo on a central monitor.NASA astronnaut Christina Hammock Koch helped guide the NBA players throughout the complex, and posted a photo of Sixers center Jahlil Okafor attempting to stand inside a space station bedroom.dddddddddddd The 6-foot-11 Okafor knows a thing or two about making moves in tight quarters, but this situation presented more of a challenge.The Sixers might have felt as if they were flying through space, but the reality is that they enter Mondays game last in the Eastern Conference with a 1-8 record.-- Nick Ostiller ' ' '