The third season of the ESL Australia & New Zealand Championship kicks off tomorrow, with four teams in attendance clashing for a share of the ~$7,600 ($10K AUD) prize pot.
During the online best-of-two regular season, eight Oceanic teams versed each other for seven weeks, to decide amongst themselves - the top four teams who will move on to the offline playoffs.
The LAN finals will be held this weekend at the ESL Studios in Sydney, Australia from May 20-21, featuring Iain "SnypeR" Turner's Athletico, the Adelaide Crows' Legacy, AVANT GARDE and the young upstarts known as Funky Monkeys, who'll be making their first appearance on LAN.
A best-of-three double-elimination format will be used for the offline playoffs. Here is the schedule:
| Saturday, May 20th | ||||
| 04:00 |  Athletico | vs. Funky Monkeys | BO3 | |
| 07:00 | AVANT | vs. Legacy OCE | BO3 | |
| 10:00 | Upper Bracket final | BO3 | ||
| Sunday, May 21st | ||||
| 01:00 | Lower Bracket final | BO3 | ||
| 04:00 | Consolidation final | BO3 | ||
| 07:00 | Grand Final | BO3 | ||
| 10:00 | Grand Final #2* | BO3 | ||
| * Note: LB team needs 2xBO3 wins; UB team needs 1xBO3 win | ||||
The full broadcast team that will keep you in sync with all the action is as follows:
The distribution of the prize pool can be found below:
1. $4,000 AUD (~$2,970)
2. $2,500 AUD (~$1,860)
3. $2,000 AUD (~$1,485)
4. $1,500 AUD (~$1,115)
The matches will be streamed on ESL's main twitch channel here. If you're near the area, you can buy your tickets here.
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Iain 'SnypeR' Turner 
Age: 30 Team: Athletico Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 110 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.67 
Legacy OCE #165 Michael 'Lightstep' HallKyran 'dizzyLife' CrombieDale 'deoxiDE' CartaJoshua 'spiKez' QualischefskiMatthew 'mattcd' Lenard 
AVANT #130 
Simon 'Sico' WilliamsDylan 'kyoto' BrownEgor 'LONSDALE' BaranovChris 'yellow' McGillivrayJordan 'Hatz' Bajic Stuart 'sonic' Rayner 
Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.92 Maps played: 148 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.68 
Funky Monkeys #197 Andrew 'YDNA' AdamsMartin 'waffe' ChanHugh 'HUGH' AndersonGeoffrey 'yorimato' TranPeter 'BL1TZ' Athanasatos 
Michael 'MC' Campagna 
Age: 18 Team: Noxide Rating 1.0: 0.69 Maps played: 7 KPR: 0.51 DPR: 0.79 
Mitchell 'pilski' Pilipowski 
Age: 21 Team: Skyfire Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 25 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.69 Athletico #151 Iain 'SnypeR' TurnerNikhil 'NikkeZ' VictorIyengaran 'IyeN' RajuBobby 'zedzke' JohnsonSam 'jokes' Molan (责任编辑：keydrop cs)
