eXTREMESLAND ANZ Regional Finals set to begin

eXTREMESLAND Australia & New Zealand Regional Finals is ready to kick off this Saturday, with four of Oceania's top teams clashing for a spot to the Chinese event.

The Oceanic qualifier for eXTREMESLAND 2017 has reached its final stage following the completion of two online phases: the open (July 22-23) and closed (August 5-6) qualifiers.

Kings and Athletico survived the online stage and qualified for the offline ANZ finals at the ESL Sydney studios, joining the invited teams: Chiefs and Grayhound. The four teams will compete against each other in a standard best-of-three, single-elimination format.

tucks' Chiefs skipped the online phases and have been invited to the ANZ finals

Below you can see the list of participants:

Invited	Qualified
Chiefs	Kings
Grayhound	Athletico

Here is the schedule for the one-day event:

Saturday, September 9
04:00	Chiefs	vs. Athletico	BO3
07:00	Grayhound	vs. Kings	BO3
10:00	Grand Final		BO3

ESL Australia has announced their on-air talent for the event including notable names in the form of two-time Major attendee Iain "⁠SnypeR⁠" Turner and current Legacy OCE player Stuart "⁠sonic⁠" Rayner. The broadcast team will take you through the live action on ESL's Twitch channel here.

Ben "SandMan" Green - Stage Host

Iain "⁠SnypeR⁠" Turner - Commentator
Jordan "Elfishguy" Mays - Commentator
Stuart "⁠sonic⁠" Rayner - Commentator
Danny "dK" Kim - Commentator

Michael "⁠MC⁠" Campagna - Observer

There is no monetary prize pool for the event, so only the qualification spot will be up for grabs. The winner of the ANZ Finals will join The MongolZ and other winners of their respective Asian qualifier in Shanghai, China for the $100,000 USD tournament on October 19-22.

Athletico #102 Sam 'flickz' JonesMatthew 'Texta' O'RourkeMitchell 'Sync' DaleWillem 'badger' ClarkeOllie 'DickStacy' Tierney Iain 'SnypeR' Turner Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.87 Maps played: 149 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.69 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Grayhound #62 Christopher 'dexter' NongCallum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonMontheara 'prakM' PrakSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiErdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga Stuart 'sonic' Rayner Age: 22 Team: Legacy OCE Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 152 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.68 Legacy OCE Kyran 'dizzyLife' CrombieSam 'mizu' RichardsonNikhil 'NikkeZ' VictorStuart 'sonic' RaynerMatthew 'mattcd' Lenard Kings #56 Chris 'emagine' RowlandsSimon 'Sico' WilliamsTravis 'wizard' RichardsonJay 'Liazz' TregillgasJordan 'Hatz' Bajic The MongolZ #118 Temuulen 'Zilkenberg' BattulgaTsog 'Tsogoo' MashbatEnkhtaivan 'Machinegun' LkhagvaBold 'ncl' Batsuh Michael 'MC' Campagna Age: 18 Team: Noxide Rating 1.0: 0.77 Maps played: 32 KPR: 0.56 DPR: 0.76 Chiefs #38 Tyler 'tucks' ReillyPeter 'pecks' NguyenAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJoshua 'INS' PotterLiam 'malta' Schembri