ELEAGUE announce Boston Major schedule
With now just under a month to go until the Major Qualifier, TBS and ELEAGUE have announced the structure for the upcoming Boston Major, including new names for each portion of the event.
The action will be set to kick off on January 12th with "The New Challengers", replacing the Major Qualifier. This portion will feature the finalists from each Minor Championship facing off against the bottom eight teams from the PGL Krakow Major.
The top eight teams from that stage will then move onto "The New Legends" stage, the new name for the Group Stage, where the top eight teams from the PGL Krakow Major will join in the competition. Both of these stages are held at the ELEAGUE Arena, Atlanta.
From there the top eight teams, who'll be the new legends, will move to the Agganis Arena in Boston. This section of the tournament will be known as "The New Champions", where the remaining teams will battle it out to become the new Major Champion.
All action will begin at 10am EST on each tournament day, except for the final day where the action will begin at Noon. The schedule for the ELEAGUE Major: Boston is as follows:
- The New Challengers stage - January 12th-15th
- The New Legends stage - January 19th-22nd
- The New Champions stage - January 26th-28th
With the Major effectively expanding to 24 teams, some questions are still to be answered. Neither Valve nor ELEAGUE have announced if the $1,000,000 prize pot will have a different distribution, but ELEAGUE General Manager and VP Esports Christina Alejandre has confirmed in a tweet that all 24 teams will be receiving in-game stickers and signatures in game.
The 24 teams competing at the ELEAGUE Major: Boston will be:
| Minor Champions and runners-up | |
 Renegades |
 Tyloo |
 AVANGAR |
 QB Fire |
 Space Soldiers |
 EnVyUs |
 Liquid |
Misfits |
| Current Challengers | |
| Cloud9 |
 FaZe |
| G2 |
 Natus Vincere |
| mousesports |
 Sprout |
| FlipSid3 |
Vega Squadron |
| Current Legends | |
| Gambit |
 100 Thieves |
 Astralis |
 Virtus.pro |
| North |
BIG |
| SK |
 Fnatic |
All action will be covered on the ELEAGUE Twitch Channel, as well as on ELEAGUE's own 'Game Command' video player. They will also be releasing a five-part feature series on the Boston Major, released weekly with the first to be released on February 9th on TBS. This will be an "all-access journey with tournament favorites and hopefuls as they pursue The ELEAGUE Major: Boston trophy."
