ESEA reveal Global Challenge groups

casebattles2025-04-20 00:46:043

ESEA have revealed groups for the Season 22 Global Challenge, set to start tomorrow at ESL studios in Katowice, Poland.

Eight teams have been split into two groups according to their seeds. The entire group stage will be played in a GSL format in best-of-one matches.

Winners of the Oceanic and North American leagues, Chiefs and Echo Fox, were placed in Group A alongside European runners-up ENCE and semi-finalists ALTERNATE aTTaX.

MK were matched up to g3x in Group B

In Group B European winners MK will be facing Brazilian champions g3x in the initial match, while Pnda was put up against Crowns, who were invited for the event upon VG.CyberZen and Bravado dropping out.

The groups are as follows:

Group A	Group B
Echo Fox	MK
ENCE	Pnda
ALTERNATE aTTaX	Crowns
Chiefs	g3x

You can find the full schedule below:

Saturday, August 27th
10:00	Echo Fox	vs. Chiefs	BO1
11:20	ENCE	vs. ALTERNATE aTTaX	BO1
12:40	MK	vs. g3x	BO1
14:00	Pnda	vs. Crowns	BO1
15:20	Group A elimination match		BO1
16:40	Group B elimination match		BO1
18:00	Group A winners' match		BO1
19:20	Group B winners' match		BO1
20:40	Group A decider		BO1
22:00	Group B decider		BO1

Sunday, August 28th
11:00	Semi-final #1 (A1 vs. B2)		BO3
14:30	Semi-final #2 (B1 vs. A2)		BO3
18:00	Grand final		BO3

And the prize distribution is once again:

1. $18,000
2. $10,000
3-4. $5,000
5-6. $3,000
7-8. $3,000

The $50,000 event will be streamed on ESEA's Twitch channel, which you'll be able to find on the match pages, as well as in the Stream section on the main page once it goes live.