ESL Challenger Melbourne 2022 group stage opening matchups revealed

Tournament operator ESL has announced on its official Twitter account the opening matchups in the group stage of ESL Challenger Melbourne 2022. The tournament with a prize pool of $100,000 will take place from September 2 to 9 in Australia.

According to the tournament rules, eight participants are split into two groups where they will fight for two playoff spots in the Double Elimination (GSL) format. The group stage's opening meetings will be best-of-one, while the promotions and elimination encounters will be played in a best-of-three format.

The opening matchups are:

Group A:

 OG –  Wings Up
 Entropiq –  Evil Geniuses (Party Astronauts)

Group B:

 Imperial –  VERTEX
 Grayhound –  paiN

In addition to the prize money, the ESL Challenger Melbourne 2022 participants will battle out one ticket to EPL Conference Season 17, which is the final qualifying event for the seventeenth season of the ESL Pro League.

Origin: twitter.com