ESL ANZ Championship Season 7 announced

ESL Australia has announced the seventh edition of the Oceanic championship, with $20,000 AUD (~$14,770) prize pot.

Almost a month has passed away since Chiefs' victory at the ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 6 Finals, and a new season awaits with sixteen teams being a part of the online league again from August 1 to September 20.

During the upcoming season, the same format will be used with teams being separated into two groups of eight, where they will face their opponents in a best-of-two per matchday. The top four teams of each group will advance to the offline finals.

Chiefs will be defending their title for the upcoming season

Twelve teams will be invited to the league, with ten squads already confirming their attendance. The last two direct invite slots will be given to teams based on their performance and results. The remaining four slots will be determined through two open qualifiers, which will send the top two teams from each qualifier to the league.

The current list of participants are:

Chiefs
Tainted Minds
SYF
Surge
Corvidae
Invite #11
Open Qual.
Open Qual. Grayhound
ORDER
Ground Zero
Conspiracy
Rise and Grind
Invite #12
Open Qual.
Open Qual.

Teams from Oceania can register for the qualifiers on ESEA:

Open Qualifier #1: July 21-22
Open Qualifier #2: July 28-29

Grayhound #34 Christopher 'dexter' NongSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiErdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaLiam 'malta' SchembriOllie 'DickStacy' Tierney Conspiracy #185 Brady 'KStaar' KindtRaymond 'Dezibel' OdishoDamian 'JD' SimonovicIsaac 'Ayrez' AyreDalton 'swede' Vinar Surge #192 Edward 'Chub' LeeDaryl 'Mayker' MayForrest 'Pride' YipToby 'Lyt' BiramBenny 'tensai' Phan Tainted Minds #68 Yaman 'yam' ErgenekonRyan 'zewsy' PalmerChris 'ofnu' HanleyCallum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonJoshua 'INS' Potter Chiefs #56 Mike 'ap0c' AliferisKyran 'dizzyLife' CrombieTyler 'tucks' ReillySam 'flickz' JonesMatthew 'Texta' O'Rourke Rise and Grind #173 James 'James' QuinnAlec 'Noisia' GulabovskiGeorgio 'sK' PoumpoulidisAndrew 'YDNA' AdamsCooper 'void' Farrell Ground Zero #186 Dylan 'kyoto' BrownNikhil 'NikkeZ' VictorSteve 'InJect' HonanWilson 'willyKS' SugiantoChase 'Xtinct' DicksonMartin 'waffe' Chan Corvidae #148 Michael 'Lightstep' HallChris 'CHRiSOAOW' FormanAaron 'pzK!D' PereiraJosh 'Misfit' HazellDaylan 'goa' Fabbro ORDER #44 Chris 'emagine' RowlandsSimon 'Sico' WilliamsJay 'Liazz' TregillgasAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJordan 'Hatz' Bajic SYF #109 Andy 'Noobster' ZhangMontheara 'prakM' PrakJireh 'J1rah' YouakimEdward 'eLUSIVE' KongLuke 'Llamas' Merchant