ESL Challenger Katowice 2023
The next ESL Challenger Series Championship will take place in Katowice, Poland. The venue of the event will be ESL Studio. Eight teams from the CIS, Europe, North America, South Africa and Latin America will take part in the tournament, which will be held from June 9-11.
ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 The International will feature a trip to ESL Pro League Season 18 for the winner. On top of that, the champion will receive a $50,000 cash prize as well as ranking points for the BLAST Premier season table.
Match Schedule
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Virtus.pro11.06.23 12:05Bo32:1
#33
ENCEESL Challenger Katowice 2023#56
forZe11.06.23 08:55Bo30:2#33ENCEESL Challenger Katowice 2023#11Virtus.pro11.06.23 06:30Bo32:0
#37
9zESL Challenger Katowice 2023#33ENCE10.06.23 13:30Bo32:0
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Party AstronautsESL Challenger Katowice 2023#379z10.06.23 09:45Bo32:1
#36
ECSTATICESL Challenger Katowice 2023
#685
Bravado Gaming10.06.23 06:30Bo31:2#109Party AstronautsESL Challenger Katowice 2023#36ECSTATIC09.06.23 13:20Bo32:0
#14
paiN GamingESL Challenger Katowice 2023#56forZe09.06.23 12:00Bo116:11#379zESL Challenger Katowice 2023#33ENCE09.06.23 10:20Bo117:19#11Virtus.proESL Challenger Katowice 2023#14paiN Gaming09.06.23 09:10Bo17:16#379zESL Challenger Katowice 2023#36ECSTATIC09.06.23 07:50Bo112:16#56forZeESL Challenger Katowice 2023#109Party Astronauts09.06.23 06:15Bo113:16#11Virtus.proESL Challenger Katowice 2023#33ENCE09.06.23 05:00Bo116:11#685Bravado GamingSee morePrize pool Distribution
Brackets
Virtus.pro
9z
forZe
ENCEGroup play
Highlights
Format of ESL Challenger Katowice 2023
The championship will be divided into two stages:
- Group stage: 9-10 June.
- Play-offs: 11th June.
The group stage of ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 will be held in a GSL format. All eight teams will be pre-divided into two groups, with two runners-up from each group qualifying for the play-offs. The first leg and the winning games will be played as BO1 (one match) while all other matches will be BO3 (two matches).
The play-offs of the tournament will take place in a Single-Elimination grid format. Here, all matches will be played in BO3 format.
List of participants at ESL Challenger Katowice 2023
Eight teams will take part in the event:
- Virtus.pro (Direct Invitational winner).
- ENCE (Direct Invitee).
- FORZE (Direct Invitee).
- paiN Gaming (Direct Invaite Winner).
- ECSTATIC (European Qualification Winner).
- Party Astronauts (North American qualification winner).
- 9z (Winner of South American qualification).
- Bravado Gaming (Winner of South African qualification).
Group stage draw
The group stage draw for ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 was carried out in advance by the organisers, splitting the participants into two quartets:
Group A:
- ENCE, Virtus.pro, Party Astronauts and Bravado Gaming.
Group B:
- paiN Gaming, FORZE, 9z and ECSTATIC.
Prize pool distribution
ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 will offer participants an aggregate cash prize of $100,000. The winner will receive exactly half of this amount and will also be invited to the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 18.
The runner-up team will receive $20,000 while the semifinalists will each receive $10,000. The 5-6th place teams will win $3,000 each, while the teams that finish in last place will receive $2,000.
Where to watch ESL Challenger Katowice 2023
ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 will be streamed live on ESL's official Twitch and YouTube channels in English. There will also be multi-language broadcasts from third party presenters and lighting studios.
If you like, you can choose your favourite match and find the broadcast you like on our portal. We have multi-language broadcasts of ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 games in high quality.
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