ESL Challenger Jönköping groups determined

Eight teams from all over the world will compete in this $100,000 tournament in less than two weeks.

ESL has revealed the groups and the seeding for the upcoming Challenger event in Jönköping. The tournament, which will be held from November 24-26 as part of the DreamHack Winter festival, will feature eight teams, two of which are currently in the top 10.

ESL Challenger Jönköping will begin with a double-elimination group stage, in which only the elimination and decider stages will be played in a best-of-three format. The top two teams from both groups will advance to the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs.

The seeding was determined by ESL's world ranking, with Monte and Virtus.pro getting the two highest seeds and Looking4Org and TYLOO the two lowest ones. MIBR and Eternal Fire, two of the mid seeds, will travel to Jönköping from Belgrade, where they will take part in PARI Please later this week.

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The groups for ESL Challenger Jönköping are the following:

One of the most interesting storylines of the tournament will be a potential rematch between Monte and Virtus.pro. The two teams recently faced each other in the grand final of the Roobet Cup and in the semi-finals of the Thunderpick World Championship, with Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali's troops winning both series.

The event could also serve as an opportunity for Looking4Org to prove themselves as they continue their quest to find an organisation to represent. The French team, which is currently ranked 29th in the world, qualified for the event after beating Spirit in a clean 2-0 fashion in the European closed qualifier.