The champions return with the aim set on another ESL trophy.

ESL One Malaysia 2022 is bound to be the first LAN tournament outside of the Dota Pro Circuit this year and the first LAN held in Malaysia since late 2019.

Scheduled to run between August 23-28 at the Arena of Stars in Resorts World Genting, the tourney will also mark the first opportunity for Southeast Asia Dota 2 fans to see their idols playing on stage before TI11, which will come to Singapore in October.

OG, recent ESL One Stockholm Major champions, are opening the direct invites list and will be followed by six other teams that will be revealed by ESL Gaming in the coming days.

A total of 12 teams will head to Genting this August to fight for the title and a share of the $400,000 prize pool. Seven will receive direct invites from the tournament organizer and the other five competitors will earn their spot through regional qualifiers. Europe and CIS will be merged into one qualifier while the rest of the regions will have their own brackets.

ESL One Malaysia open qualifiers

Those who want to test their strength and play for a spot in the closed qualifiers for ESL One Malaysia can sign up on the ESL Play platform, HERE. The open qualifiers are scheduled to take place in July as follows:

Southeast Asia: July 18-21
South America: July 18-21
North America: July 21-24
WEU &CIS: July 21-24
China: July 21-24

Three teams per each regional open qualifier will advance to their respective regional closed qualifiers, where they will join five directly invited teams.

^{headline picture credits: ESL | Adela Sznajder}

OG headline ESL One Malaysia direct invites list, open qualifiers registrations to begin shortly