ESL Challenger League Season 40 NA playoffs and schedule

ATK Arena’s CS:GO squad has been killing it in the North American scene, ending at the top of Group A while only losing one match to make it to the ESL Challengers League Season 40 North America playoffs. To this end, we are excited to watch the playoffs. If you want to catch all the CS:GO esports action live, then we’ve got you covered with the playoffs dates and match times.

ESL Challengers League S40 playoffs details

If you want to watch ATK Arena’s CS:GO squad compete at the ESL Challengers League S40 North America playoffs, then you will probably need some coffee, or set an early alarm. Since this is a North American-based tournament, each day of the playoffs begins very early in the mornings, at 02:00 SAST to be exact.

The ESL Challengers League Season 40 playoffs begin on Wednesday, 30 March and will run until 4 April 2022. Teams are competing for a prize pool of $50,000. At the time of writing, that’s roughly R738,000. This is a double-elimination bracket affair, with all matches being best-of-three, except for the grand finals, which is best-of-five with a one-map advantage going to the team coming from the upper bracket.

Each day begins at 02:00 SAST. ATK is facing Strife Esports in the opening match. If they win, they will proceed to the semi-finals to face the winner of paiN Gaming and Party Astronauts on 31 March at 02:00 SAST. The grand finals of ESL Challenger League Season 40 North America will start on 4 April at 02:00.

You can catch all the action either via the main ESL CS:GO Twitch channel or the B stream. We can’t wait to see how ATK’s CS:GO squad performs, as it is always fantastic to see some South African players, especially under a local organization’s banner, compete against international opponents.

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