The European squad qualified based on their global ranking.

ESL have announced OG as the latest addition to the cast of ESL Challenger Melbourne 2022, the offline tournament set to take place in Australia at the beginning of September. The event will run alongside DreamHack Melbourne at the Rod Laver Arena and will see eight teams compete for $100,000.

OG are the sixth team to be announced, and only the second based on their ESL World Rankings alongside ORDER, with two additional squads set to join them in the upcoming weeks. Meanwhile, Wings Up, Entropiq, EG White, and VERTEX all came through their respective regional qualifiers.

nexa is set to return Down Under

It will be Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković's first big competition in the Oceanic region since IEM Sydney 2017. The Serbian in-game leader was representing the home team of Renegades during the Australian core's 6-7th place finish.

The list of teams attending ESL Challenger Melbourne is:

ORDER
Wings Up
VERTEX
EG White Entropiq
OG
ESL World Ranking
ESL World Ranking OG #16 Nemanja 'nexa' IsakovićAdam 'NEOFRAG' ZouharShahar 'flameZ' ShushanAbdul 'degster' GasanovMaciej 'F1KU' Miklas Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković Age: 25 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1246 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.63 Wings Up #71 Yi 'gas' DingLiu 'lan' QiXueBing 'B1NGO' DaiZhengjie 'Martin' ZhuoJunhao 'ChildKing' Peng Renegades Nemanja 'nexa' IsakovićJustin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardKarlo 'USTILO' PivacNoah 'Nifty' Francis Entropiq #34 Nikolay 'mir' BityukovAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy VERTEX #72 Liam 'malta' SchembriToby 'BRACE' BarnesMatthew 'Valiance' HartrickDeclan 'Vexite' PortelliJordan 'pz' White EG White #56 Jonathan 'djay' DallalJonathan 'Jonji' CareyBen 'ben1337' SmithJosh 'PwnAlone' PigueWesley 'viz' Harris ORDER #48 Simon 'Sico' WilliamsJay 'Liazz' TregillgasAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJoshua 'INS' PotterJordan 'Hatz' Bajic