ESEA announce teams and lack of Global Challenge for MDL Season 28
ESEA have announced the team lists for the North American, European, and Australian Mountain Dew League divisions.
For North America, the list holds few surprises, as the top four teams from Main, and the winners of Intermediate and Open have all been promoted, mirroring previous seasons.
The full team list for ESEA MDL S28 (in order of S27 placing) is as follows:
ex-Atmosphere
Squirtle Squad- Gorilla Gang
- ex-BlackOut
- The Entourage
- Mythic
- Normal People and Rustun
- ex-eRa
- F1-racecar-PEEK
- The Pioneers
- Grizzlys
- subtLe
- Freedom 35
- CheckSix
- AZIO
- Dignitas (ESL Pro League relegation)
TBD (ESL Pro League relegation)- TBD (ESL Pro League relegation)
Bravado (Main #1)- Fam143 (Main #2)
- FeelsUnderAgeMan (Main #3/4)
- Vikings (Main #3/4)
- Prospects (Intermediate #1)
Forty Six and 2 (Open #1)
With the release of the list, both AZIO and CheckSix can breathe sighs of relief, as they escaped demotion despite being in the bottom eight teams of the Season 27 table. As the majority of last seasons FeelsUnderAgeMan contingent is well, under age, it is unknown what the future of that slot will be. Likewise, both Grizzlys and subtLe are severely depleted in terms of players.
The two ESL Pro League Relegation spots will be resolved this upcoming week, at the ESEA MDL Global Challenge in Leicester, UK. They will be filled by some combination of Swole Patrol, eUnited, compLexity, eUnited and ex-Splyce, with the other three fortunate teams heading off to ESL Pro League Season 8.
In an earlier announcement yesterday, ESEA also revealed that there will be no Global Challenge attached to Season 28. However, the prize pool has been bumped up to $37,000. The reasoning ascribed to this was factors such as the FACEIT Major, and August player break.
