eXTREMESLAND 2018 ANZ qualifier announced; invites revealed-cs case

One team from Oceania will earn a place at the $100,000 tournament through the ANZ qualifier that will culminate with a BO5 LAN match next month.

The competition will start on August 18 with the first open qualifier, which will be organized by InstaFrag and hosted on FACEIT, with signups already open. Four open qualifier teams will make it into the second, closed portion, which will be played on August 25-26.

Four squads have been directly invited to the closed qualifier stage: Grayhound, Tainted Minds, ORDER, and Chiefs — the quartet that established themselves as the four best teams Down Under.

yam's Tainted MInds are one of the closed qualifier teams

After the eight-team closed qualifier is played out, the two best-placed teams will be flown to Sydney, where a BO5 final series will be played September 8, at the Bankstown Sports Club where a live audience will be present.

The winner of the final will be representing the Oceanic region at the eXTREMSLAND Asia Finals in Shanghai on October 18-21. You can find out more about the $100,000, 16-team final event here.