Starladder announced the start of qualifying in the North American region, which begins today, August 8. Online-part of this championship will consist of 2 stages. First, the teams need to pass the group stage, after which the 4 best teams will take place in the second stage.
Group stage is as follows:
Group A:
coL
Kaliber
Prospects
Blight Gaming
Group B:
Selfless
Luminosity
RUSH
TBA
The teams that occupy 1-2 places in their groups, are in the second stage of closed training in Single Elimination BO3 format, where they will compete with teams invited by the organizers: CLG, Echo Fox, Renegades, NRG. Collectives, victorious in the opening game of the second stage, will meet with Optic, Cloud9, TSM, Immortals, who also received invites. The winners of the final confrontation will be the owners of the two places in the championship LAN-finals in China.