Complexity go down under

ESEA announced this morning the direct invites for ESL Challenger Melbourne 2023. Alongside Complexity, the three other teams invited to the tournament are IHC, Bad News Eagles, and local heroes Grayhound.

ESL Challenger Melbourne will grant its winner a spot in ESL Pro League Season 18, as well as a grand prize of $50,000, and 1,000 BLAST Premier points (in comparison, G2 got 3,000 for winning IEM Katowice).

Complexity will be flying to Melbourne just two weeks after the end of the Americas RMR for the BLAST.tv Paris Major, as ESL Challenger Melbourne will be played from April 28th until April 30th.

There will be four more teams joining the invited squads through qualifiers, with North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania each set to have one more representative in Australia. The eight teams will then be separated into two groups of four, which will be played according to a double-elimination format, in which the opening and upper-bracket matches will be BO1, and the elimination and lower-bracket final will be BO3. The playoffs will be a single-elimination bracket with all games being BO3.

To be the second NA team to represent the region in Australia, teams will have to go through an open qualifier that will happen on March 19th and 20th, qualifying two teams for the closed qualifier, which will be running from March 27th to 28th, which will see only one team booking a flight to Melbourne.

This is a good opportunity for Complexity to finally add some hardware to their trophy cabinet with this roster iteration, and get solid practice ahead of the Paris Major, should they qualify.