The Electronic Sports League has released groups and the schedule for NA Offline Qualifiers, set to take place on August 1st-2nd.
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There are eight teams ready to duke it out for two spots available to the North-American region for ESL Cologne Major tournament. There are two groups both containing four teams. The favourites for the two spots are: Cloud9, CLG and Team Liquid. There are also two teams that could potentialy upset the big names: eLevate and ex-Luminosity, now going under the name of Mythic.
The groups will be simulating a GSL-like format with best-of-one games. Two teams from each group will advance into the playoffs. Later on, as the tournament progresses, the format will be changed to single elimination bracket with a best-of-three games. The torunament is set to take place on August 1st-2nd.
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