ESL Challenger Katowice groups announced

14-10-2024 20:41

Eternal Fire and MIBR come into the $100,000 event as top seeds.

s1mple's Falcons have been put into Group A

ESL has revealed the group distribution for their $100,000 Challenger Katowice event. Eternal Fire come into the tournament as the highest seed and have been put into Group A alongside SAW, Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev's Falcons, and B8.

MIBR have the highest seed of Group B, with Lucas "⁠Lucaozy⁠" Neves and company joined by paiN, Monte, and Legacy OCE in a Brazilian-majority affair.

Eternal Fire are the only top-10 team in attendance and will undoubtedly be the favorites, but there are several other names gunning for the title. SAW enter the tournament fresh off replacing Rafael "⁠arrozdoce⁠" Wing with André "⁠Ag1l⁠" Gil, while Falcons are set to make their debut with s1mple.

The Brazilian duo of paiN and MIBR also come into the event with outside chances for the title, with the latter buoyed by their semi-final appearance at ESL Pro League S20.

The tournament will take place in Katowice from October 25-27. The two groups will follow a GSL format, with the top two teams from each advancing to the single-elimination best-of-three playoff stage.

Group A

Group B

cool dont care

2024-10-14 20:41

1 reply

Simpleeeeeeeee🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

2024-10-15 00:11

ez 4 falcons

2024-10-14 20:42

EF clears

2024-10-16 00:34

ez4monte

nope

clears

2024-10-16 09:03

L groups

why are all 3 brazillian teams in the same group???

2024-10-14 20:43

15 replies

because

2024-10-14 20:46

So they can have at least 1 team in playoffs. Brazil brings good viewership

2024-10-14 20:47

11 replies

not like MiBR or paiN wouldnt qualify in a full EU group

a lot of money too and people are trash talking about Rio major in 2027 xDDDD

2024-10-14 20:51

mad bcs 3 br teams are going to humble Monte, just like we humbled polish ENCE?

2024-10-14 21:12

5 replies

Monte is fucking trash so it's not an achievement. Siuhy just destroyed your best team 2x13:3

2024-10-14 21:21

4 replies

Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek 18-20 -2 62.1 84.4% 1.03 carried by EU players, nice!!!

2024-10-14 21:23

FURIA isnt their best team tho. paiN and MiBR humble them if the match is not played in RIo

2024-10-14 21:25

What is the best Polish team?

2024-10-14 21:28

2024-10-15 08:30

At this point in your life, you should already know how group division works in an 8-team tournament... the picture clearly shows the seeds (according to the ranking)... it's not very hard to understand

2024-10-14 21:33

I think you'd better explain it in fewer words, he might have a stroke trying to understand more than one sentence

2024-10-14 22:34

They will have at least two teams in the playoffs.

2024-10-14 22:39

#36

2024-10-14 21:19

I will tell this to you slowly: look at the picture on the tweet, and it will tell you that the teams are put to groups according to the seed, in a way it is usually done in 8 team tournaments :)

2024-10-14 21:22

B stands for Brazil it seems like

Monte just happy to be there

It would either be amazing or dreadful, both will I enjoy.

no mvp sadly, but looks promising

polska = brasil

2024-10-14 20:44

Why brazil in one group

2024-10-14 20:45

1. EF 2. Pain 3. mibr 4. SAW when you look at the ranking and understand the seeds, it makes some sense 1 and 4 in a group, 2 and 3 in the other group... and by draw Legacy went to group B It seems strange, but it happens

2024-10-14 21:10

looks like an easy group for monte?? maybe ?? probably not?????

monte vs 3 brazlian teams welcome back 9ine

wasnt it polish ence who got r..ped by 3 br teams?

biguzera will singlehandedly own all of these teams

group B ????????

easy playoff brasil viewership, 200 iq!

Group B-razil >>>

man i hope he does great... but now its ¨s1mple's Falcons¨?

B(razil) kek

2024-10-14 20:48

I feel like there is one team that is kinda different than others in Group B. Cant put my finger on it tho... oh well

2024-10-14 20:49

s1mple playing challenger, LOL

2024-10-14 20:52

poland vs 3 brazil teams monte 0-2

s1mple vs npl

we will be there

polish teams curse in matches against Brazilian teams continues

2024-10-14 20:58

brajiluski luz will 2-0 them all

2024-10-14 21:17

top 4 teams in one group lol

2024-10-14 20:59

easy start for s1mple, ESL is probably in on this

2024-10-14 21:02

LETS GO GOAT

2024-10-14 21:09

s1mple and esl challenger, wow

2024-10-14 21:11

monte legacy and falcons attending = zzzzzzzzzzz

2024-10-14 21:14

fuck it i predict saw will pull win out they butt even with this org problems

Will there be Fantasy for this one? I am curious to see what will simple's price be. I am making a guess: 205 K.

no way they will make him 205k, 215k minimum. My guess is 220-225k

2024-10-14 21:36

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He is rusty. We'll see I guess.

2024-10-14 21:38

Hehe, I got it right on the money!

2024-10-21 05:25

He was 215K when he played with Falcons. But they shouldn’t put him above 200K considering he’s had only 1 official game with 0.93 stats.

2024-10-14 22:45

I remember when hampus comeback and his price was 153k xd, people picking zywoo for 250k with hampus

2024-10-15 02:19

EF vs. s1mple boutta be CINEMA

2024-10-14 21:29

tier2 tournament, if Eternal Fire loses it, its not good for them because they are aiming towards tier1

2024-10-14 21:52

Wrong Legacy team tagged once again.

2024-10-14 21:59

3 Brazilian team put in same group?

2024-10-14 22:31

s0mple, lul

2024-10-15 01:15

Swap Monte with saw and everybody talk Portuguese

2024-10-15 02:18

if falcons don't win...

2024-10-15 02:46

Fanboyism at its finest with "s1mple's Falcons" statement when he could say "s1mple returns to LAN with Falcons"

2024-10-15 09:22

Tf is this unbalenced groups?!?! Xd

2024-10-15 09:55

horrible seeding as always

2024-10-15 16:57

headtrick and npl smashing tox1mple gonna be legendary

2024-10-16 12:29

mvp have or no ?

2024-10-18 22:56

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