MDL Relegation bracket reseeded as XFORCE drop out

ESEA have reseeded the bracket for the upcoming MDL Relegation tournament after learning that XFORCE does not plan to field a roster to fight for their slot in MDL. The news comes just a day before the start of the tournament, seeing 14 of the 15 teams up against new opponents. 

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With XFORCE out, the bracket has been reseeded by bumping up each team originally seeded below XFORCE up by a seed. This means that MWNL, who had the top seed, are granted a bye to advance to the second round of the upper bracket. The change also has the knock-on effect of splitting up the controversial matchup between oNe and Big Frames, who already played in the grand finals of ESEA Advanced Season 28 with oNe emerging with a dominant 2-0 win.

With these changes, the eight matchups for the first round of MDL Relegation are as follows:

MWNL (1)	vs.         BYE
ETHEREAL (9)	vs.   Big Frames (8)
Infamous (5)	vs.   Geostorm (12)
Whatever It Takes (13)	vs.   Vikings (4)
Forty Six and 2 (3)	vs.   VAULT (14)
Hysteria (11)	vs.  subtLe (6)
oNe (7)	vs.  The Fundamentals (10)
Glockoma (15)	vs.  ex-Atmosphere (2)

Also read: FURIA and myRevenge qualify for Advanced Season 29

MDL Relegation for Season 28 is set to kick off tomorrow at 9:30 PM EDT, and will run until September 1st. The double-elimination best-of-three bracket will see five teams claim a spot in MDL Season 29, while the remaining 11 will be relegated to Advanced.