With the final qualifiers filling the remaining 2 spots over, it's time to take a look at group arrangements and draws that will take place this Saturday at the MidCity cafes. Without further adieu, I present Groups A & B.

Group A will play at the 1st MidCity Cafe on Russell Street, Melbourne
Group B will play at the 2nd MidCity Cafe on A'Beckett Street, Melbourne

Tournament Structure - Saturday

Twelve teams participate, six in each group
Group stage will be played in Best-of-1
Playoffs will be played in Best-of-3 and Single Elimination
First team of each group directly advance to playoffs
Second and third play a relegation, winners advance to playoffs
Mappool: de_dust2, de_inferno, de_nuke, de_train & de_tuscan

The group stage matches will be played at the 2 MidCity Cafe's in Melbourne. Games will commence at 10am and are expected to finish at 3pm. The team that finishes 1st in their respective group will advance to the playoffs directly while 2nd & 3rd finishers are required to play a relegation match.

The relegation games will begin at 6pm on the same day (Saturday 22nd) and will be played at the 2nd MidCity venue on A'Beckett Street. Format will be BO3 captains elimination.

Playoff games will begin straight after relegation and is also BO3. Maps will also be decided via captains mode elimination.

Tournament Structure - Sunday

Grand finals will be played on SUNDAY at the EsportMasters Studio's in Prahran beginning 2pm. Transportation will be organised for teams and spectators heading to the finals - a seperate spectators post will be posted tomorrow.

The address for the EsportMasters studio is:

157 High Street, Prahran Google Maps

General team information

VHM received a trickle invite via Mindfreak whom disbanded moments after capturing the lone invite on offer at the 2nd Melbourne qualifier in January.

Mindfreak trio deStiny, nezza and rickeh have been spotted playing under Immunity in what is the worst kept secret that has been unannounced while doudou and teddyt have joined and will be playing with Overklassen and XG respectively. Be sure to watch Group A if you want to see former teammates prove who's better :)

XG have shuffled their lineup quite a bit, and that was allowed as they were one of the 2 teams that signed up and agreed to play the online qualifier alongside v300, and thus their invite was treated as a wildcard. To stop this happening in the future, I encourage teams to sign up and compete in the online qualifiers. It's the only sustainable way if you want to see events to continue running in the future and actually have something on offer.

Mayhem Brothers received the trickle invite after EvilMonkeys informed us they could no longer attend due to players work commitments. Now some of the interstate (and foreign) teams will enjoy the dreamR experience and take home a memory.

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