ESL Pro League Season 18 seeding unveiled
Tournament operator ESL has unveiled the seeding for the eighteenth season of its flagship league, ESL Pro League. A big event with a prize pool of $850,000 will play out in Malta from August 30 to October 1.
32 teams will take part in the tournament. 15 are invited as league partners, 3 – based on ESL rankings, and 14 –
as winners of various qualifiers.
At the moment, only four participants are unknown. Two will be determined in the European qualifier, while the remaining spots will be secured by the best lineups from the qualifiers for South America and Oceania.
In the group stage, the organizers will form four groups, the fight in which will take place in a Triple Elimination BO3 format. The group winners will kick off the playoffs from the quarter-finals, the runner-ups – from the Round of 16, while the teams that secure third and fourth places will face off in the Round of 32.
The teams are seeded are follows in the group stage:
Group A
Vitality GamerLegion
FURIA
NIP
Astralis 
Movistar Riders
Grayhound 
TBD
Group B
Heroic ENCE MOUZ
Monte
BIG MIBR 
Evil Geniuses TBD
Group C
FaZe NAVI Apeks fnatic Imperial ATK
Rare Atom TBD
Group D
Cloud9 G2 Liquid
9INE Complexity Virtus.pro Lynn Vision TBD
Origin: twitter.com
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