With the European Global Challenge Guangzhou qualifier just three days away, ESL have released the brackets for the best-of-one map, double elimiation tournament. The qualifier will kick off at 15:00CET on Sunday with two Global Challenge slots awaiting the two upper bracket finalists, as well as another slot being awarded to the winner of the lower bracket.

The first round matches:



According to HLTV.org, Lions are currently in a sticky situation as on Sunday they will also be at the Kiev Cybersports Arena participating in the ASUS Summer event (presuming they are still in the tournament by that stage).

The team have been "promised" computers for their matches, however the ASUS Summer organisers have made it clear that they will not alter the tournament schedule in order for the team to participate in the qualifier.

Source(s): ESL.eu and HLTV.org

Bracket information can be found here: IEM 6 Global Challenge Guangzhou EU Qualifier