Az IHC és a BIG Academy kvalifikálta magát az IESF világbajnokság főversenyére

Major attendees IHC, academy squad NAGY Akadémia, és végül IESF have made it through the Play-In to complete the team list for IESF World Championship 2022 LAN, which kicks off December 6.

Eight teams will battle through a double elimination best-of-three bracket in Bali for a spot in the best-of-five grand final, where the team coming from the upper bracket will be granted a 1-0 map advantage. $50,000 will go to the eventual winner.

By far the highest-ranked team in attendance at the IESF World Championship will be Mongolian representatives IHC, who sit at No. 35 in the world and just recently competed at the IEM Rio Major. There they crashed out of the Challengers Stage in 12-14th with a single series win over 00NEMZET to their name.

IHC‘s path to qualification was largely straightforward, beginning with a quick 2-0 over Belgium. The Mongolians dropped a map in their quarter-final against Szerbia, three of the Serbian team coming from the current iNation lineup, before sweeping the Romanians of OneTap to secure a spot in the main event.

Germany will be represented by NAGY Akadémia who arrived in Bali with Elias "s1n" Kőedénykorsó és a Karim “Krimbo” Moussa in the roster in place of Tiziano “tiziaN” terepbokor és a Nico “⁠Aqua⁠” Kembitzky, the latter having played for the squad during the most recent WePlay Academy League season.

A legjobbítás után Spanyolország, NAGY Akadémia faced a stiff test in the quarter-finals of their qualification run, coming up against a Bulgária side that featured four of the Ördög roster that peaked as high as No. 17 in the world in 2021. The Bulgarians showed their pedigree by spanking their German opposition 16-2 in the first map of the series, Dust2, but NAGY Akadémia recovered to grind out the remaining maps.

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IESF World Championship set to start

Another close battle ensued for the Germans as they faced IESF, but they ultimately overcame the Russian squad 2-0 to secure qualification.

As for the final qualified team IESF, they breezed through their first two matches of the Play-In 2-0 over Ausztria és azután Norvégia, mielőtt leesik NAGY Akadémia in two close maps. They had one last chance to qualify however, and they took it with both hands by besting OneTap in a routine 2-0 victory. IESF are the Russian team in attendance, largely consisting of the core of QUAZAR.

The three qualified squads join Indonézia in the main event, who made it directly there by virtue of being the host nation. Also waiting are BLUEJAYS, who won the European Championship 2022 to earn their spot, Vietnám és a Algéria who won the Asia and Africa qualifiers respectively, and IESF Panam Open 2022 winners Argentína.

The opening matches for the IESF World Championship 2022 are as follows. The bracket order matches the schedule order: