ESL AU&NZ Championship S6 set to begin

The online league will run for seven weeks from March 7 to April 18, splitting the list into two groups of eight teams. Within their groups, they will face each other in a best-of-two, round-robin format.

At the conclusion of the online regular season, the top four teams from each group will qualify for the LAN Finals in June.

After IEM Katowice, ORDER will compete in the ESL online tournament

Several top teams from the region including Tainted Minds, ORDER, Grayhound and Chiefs are favoured to advance to the offline stage. Below you can find the list of competitors in their respective groups: 

Group A	Group B
Athletico	Conspiracy
Carnage	Surge
Chiefs	Corvidae
Ground Zero	Control
Lucky7	Dark Sided
ORDER	Grayhound
R!OT	Taboo
STREAMLINE	Tainted Minds

Iain "⁠SnypeR⁠" Turner, a former player of Immunity and Vox Eminor is among the broadcast talent announced for the league:

Tim "brainstorm" Dunne - Commentator
Jordan "Elfishguy" Mays - Commentator
Kevin "KaRath" Zhu - Commentator
Danny "dK" Kim - Commentator
Iain "⁠SnypeR⁠" Turner - Commentator
Mitchell "⁠pilski⁠" Pilipowski - Commentator

The winner will take $8,000 AUD (~$6,210) of the total prize pool. Depending on the format used for the offline finals (single-elimination or double-elimination), the full prize distribution has yet to be officially announced.

All matches will be broadcasted on ESL's main Twitch channel and on a secondary stream (to be confirmed). Check our event page regarding the lineups, schedule and other information here.