GODSENT's ESL Pro League relegation match against eXtatus has been postponed due to the winter storm that has hit the United States.

According to a Twitter post from Simon "⁠twist⁠" Eliasson, the flight carrying several of the Swedish team's players was forced to turn back to Germany due to poor weather conditions in the US, which are wreaking havoc at several airports in the country.

The other Upper Bracket Round 1 match, featuring Space Soldiers and Natus Vincere, will go ahead as normal, with the rest of the tournament due to played at a later date, either online or offline as part of a different event.

GODSENT unable to travel to New York for the Pro League relegation stage

This is the first time that the Pro League relegation stages have been held on LAN. Eight teams - four European and four North American - will be taking part in these two double-elimination bracket tournaments, with two Pro League spots up for grabs per region.

.@natusvincere vs. @SpaceSoldiersTR will still take place as the only EU match.

— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) January 7, 2018

Simon 'twist' Eliasson Age: 23 Team: GODSENT Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 776 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.69 Space Soldiers #24 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor Natus Vincere #14 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov