Grayhound through to ESL Pro League Season 18

Australian team Grayhound will compete at ESL Pro League Season 18, as the roster secured the ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 16 title, defeating VERTEX in the final with a scoreline of 3:1 – 16:5 on Vertigo, 13:16 on Inferno, 16:13 on Anubis and 16:13 on Mirage.

During the event, Grayhound bested Stirlzs Angels, The Big Dogs and VERTEX twice, advancing to the playoffs. Here the Australian team also secured a victory against e-LEMON-ators.

ESL Pro League Season 18 will play out in Malta from August 15 to September 24, with 32 teams competing for $850,000 in prize money. Fifteen partners of the tournament operator, ESL invitees and the winners of various qualifiers will take part in the event.

The team list for ESL Pro League Season 18 looks as follows:

 Astralis
 BIG
 Complexity
 ENCE
 Evil Geniuses
 FaZe
 fnatic
 FURIA
 G2
 Heroic
 MOUZ
 NAVI
 NIP
 Liquid
 Vitality
 ESL direct invitee #1
 ESL direct invitee #2
 ESL direct invitee #3
 Monte
 MIBR
 Lynn Vision
 Apeks
 ATK
 Rare Atom
 Movistar Riders
 Imperial
 Grayhound
 ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 winner
 Europe qualifier winner #1
 Europe qualifier winner #2
 South America qualifier winner
 Oceania qualifier winner