ESL Challenger Melbourne 2023 announced

9-12-2022 09:39

The Australian competition will be held from April 28-30.

ESL have announced that ESL Challenger #52 will be held in Melbourne, Australia as part of the DreamHack Festival at the Rod Laver Arena. The tournament is set to run from April 28-30 featuring a total of eight teams competing for the $100,000 prize pool.

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It will be the second consecutive year that an ESL Challenger event will be held in Melbourne following the 2022 iteration, where paiN hoisted the silverware after a triumphant grand final series over Imperial.

paiN won the 2022 iteration of ESL Challenger Melbourne

Money and a trophy aren't the only things on the line for the participating teams, as the eventual champions will also claim a spot at the ESL Pro League Season 18 Conference stage.

Teams will be split into two groups of four each and will follow a double-elimination GSL format, with the top two teams advancing to a single-elimination playoff bracket.

Tickets for the three-day event will go on sale starting December 12, Monday, on the official DreamHack website.

Sick

2022-12-09 09:39

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ez 4 Anthony Hopkins then

2022-12-10 13:18

pog

Esl hyping 5 months before the event

2022-12-09 13:44

unlucko bad time zone

2022-12-09 09:42

they had to come back last event was insane

2022-12-09 09:44

I AM FROM THE FUTURE, BEHOLD MY PROPHECY: GRAYHOUND WILL HAVE A MIRACLE RUN AND TAKE THE TOURNAMENT VEXITE WILL HAVE A BREAKOUT EVENT AND BECOME TOURNAMENT MVP OG WILL GET BODIED BY WINGS UP AGAIN CONKY WILL DO A SHOEY

2022-12-09 09:45

8 replies

WingsUp will not qualify since TYLOO got their prime roster

2022-12-09 09:52

7 replies

DO NOT QUESTION MY WISDOM

2022-12-09 10:35

3 replies

i believe king god sico will go sicko

2022-12-09 15:19

2 replies

good fan choice on your account

2022-12-09 23:00

only the best for the best

2022-12-10 02:25

Bro learn to read, he literally said he was from the future smh he clearly knows better

2022-12-09 19:59

No, I am from the future. TYLOO on TOP!

2022-12-09 20:02

wingsup will not qualify as they are blatant fixers

2022-12-11 14:19

FUCK YOU FOR LYING ESL YOU FUKCING LLIED TO US

How so?

2022-12-09 10:59

6 replies

THEY PROMISED US A BIG IEM TOURNAMENT IN MELBOURNE AND NOW WE GET THIS FOR THE 2ND TIME IN A ROW

2022-12-09 11:18

5 replies

Maybe because your region is dead

2022-12-09 11:53

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Our region was never alive we had only one good team before the pandemic and during

2022-12-09 12:47

You had good team and still have it! Grayhound are good they just need bootcamp for atleast year to get better. LFO was very promising aswell, good fights in TIER3 playground and very decent matches against top teams. Old Renegades were better cuz they played in NA all time cuz there were teams to pracc against and still it have those teams. Grayhound are afraid cuz on their region its easy to get a major spot that's why they don't risk and stay home.

2022-12-11 21:34

grayhound can bootcamp in EU and go back to australia for the RMRs, and AU/asia is better than NA

2022-12-12 06:38

Yes, actually what happened every RMRs, but they don't stay for a long tho.

2022-12-12 10:16

Good

2022-12-09 09:51

Not fore timzones

2022-12-09 17:33

For you ofc not

2022-12-09 17:35

My brother in christ every single event starts at 2 am for Australians shut up and remember that not everyone is from the USA

2022-12-15 11:21

Dreamhack has been missing..

2022-12-09 10:03

gon' have to miss this one 😔

2022-12-09 10:04

bruh give us an iem not esl challenger

2022-12-09 10:09

Major instead. Australia best crowd and time-zone

2022-12-09 10:45

honestly. IEM Sydney 2019 with "henry's a wanker" chants was peak of csgo

2022-12-09 13:54

+1 IEM Sydney when Grayhound won over FaZe was the best event of that year.

2022-12-09 14:03

IEM Sydney ought to make a comeback

2022-12-09 10:46

2022-12-09 10:54

+1 good timing for me as well

2022-12-09 10:58

"fan of Caught off Guard" beast 👍

2022-12-09 14:20

I wish dreamhack events were like 12 teams, 8 teams is too little

2022-12-09 10:10

Can you guys get different food vendors besides five burgers and chip stores?

2022-12-09 10:11

Just go to kfc, problem solved

2022-12-09 21:06

$4.95 double tender and receipt drink and chips.

2022-12-11 17:41

When I worked at kfc, I never had a customer who wanted the receipts, it’s basically fucking free money but the hitches go no, lol

2022-12-12 06:28

super happy to see it. I honestly believe that Australia is among, if not the best, crowd. they are always wild and always cheering :) enjoy boyz

2022-12-09 10:16

SHOEYS and fitz and swagger again??

2022-12-09 10:19

Invite 9z or I will declare war on Australia

2022-12-09 10:24

Yes lets go

2022-12-09 10:36

LETS GOOOOOO

2022-12-09 10:55

get ready for the crowd that is literally going to cheer at anything and everything the entire event xD

2022-12-09 11:26

Matches will be 4am for rest of the world (entire world)

All of Asia and Oceanic region have to comprise for time zones if they want to follow EU CS so why can't you do it once?

2022-12-09 12:29

because AUS is 0,1 % playerbase and EU is 95 %

It's literally one event and it's a challenger event too, get over it buddy

2022-12-09 12:50

idont giving, its good australia has an event

2022-12-09 13:03

2022-12-09 16:19

FINALLY GOOD NEWS

2022-12-09 11:55

Wings Up will beat OG (again)

2022-12-09 16:20

Aussie crowds are the best crowds.

2022-12-09 17:14

Portugal crowd was pretty insane. We just don’t give a fuck if we get kicked out of events, so we will do all this dumb shit

2022-12-09 21:05

Yeah, but you guys get to get away with it at Aussie events :) Man I miss IEM Sydney, that was some of the best shit, especially the 2019 salt cache showmatch on Vertigo. Bad FalleN best FalleN and Frankie meating-...I mean meeting Dick Stacy was hilarious. And let's not forget the leaning tower of pizza. Best event ever.

2022-12-10 03:27