ESL Impact Season 3 line-up complete

After completing the qualifying tournaments in Europe, South America, and North America, ESL has announced the complete list of all the teams that will participate in the ESL Impact League Season 3.

There will be 28 teams participating in this ESL Impact League S3 divided as follows: 12 from Europe, eight from South America, and eight from North America.

ESL Impact Season 3

The third season of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive women’s league starts next March 8, 2023, and ends on April 16 of the same year. Teams from Europe, NA, and SA will battle for a $9,000 prize pool in the stage played online in each region. At the same time, the finals will be played in a LAN event from June 2-4 at DreamHack Dallas, USA. For the finals will be the top eight teams of the season online and will play for a prize pool of $150,000.

Now last Friday, March 3, the official ESL Impact account published on Twitter the groups of the third edition of the regional league of the main championship of the women’s CS:GO scene. Below is how the groups will be divided into each region.

South America

Group A

• FURIA
• W7M
• MIBR
• Parabellum

Group B

• B4 Esports
• Black Dragons
• Endgame
• LRV Esports

All these teams, except LRV Esports (Argentina), are from Brazil, which shows us that the Brazilian female CS:GO community in this region is growing.

Europe

First, we should note that the two finalists of ESL Impact Katowice 2023, Nigma Galaxy and Natus Vincere Javelins, will be in separate groups. But, undoubtedly, both teams are favorites to lead their respective groups and advance to the final in Dallas.

Group A

• Nigma Galaxy
• NiP
• BIG Equipa
• Astralis
• MVP
• Aces

Group B

• NaVi Javelins
• 9 Pandas Fearless
• Angels
• Flames Shieldmaidens
• OUTCASTS
• We Run This Place

There is no doubt that Astralis, NiP, and BIG Equipa are other teams to watch out for in this season 3 of the ESL Impact League.

North America

Finally, CLG Red and Saints are some of the favorites in the North American region.

Group A

• Saints
• CLG Red
• Shimmer
• Byte

Group B

• EG Gold
• Chimkin
• Starfish
• Team Factor Ruby

ESL Impact Season 3 format

In the European region, we will have a best-of-three (BO3) format where teams will play each other in their respective groups. The winners of each group will get a direct ticket to the finals in Dallas. Meanwhile, the runners-up in each group will have to play for their lives in the Play-In stage, where they will fight for third place in the LAN in June.

The format will be different in the Americas, as all the teams will play each other twice in the Group Stage. However, the teams from each region of America (NA and SA) will fight for two places in the playoffs. These will be decided between the top two teams from each group in a single elimination playoff bracket.

This means that the first and second-place teams from each region will advance to the finals in Dallas.

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