Two top ten squads, FURIA and Virtus.pro, have been added to the team pool. The four invited teams for ESL Challenger February, the now online tournament formerly taking place at DreamHack Anaheim, have been announced by ESL on Friday. FURIA, Virtus.pro, Movistar Riders, and Dignitas are all set to compete in the $100,000 event beginning in February.  The four invited sides will face off against four qualified teams from different regions. The newly signed HEET won the European qualifier, Complexity (then playing as Extra Salt) topped North America, 9z came in through South America, and ORDER won the Oceanic qualifier. The tournament was originally slated to take place as a LAN event at DreamHack Anaheim in California, but due to a surge in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic caused by the virus's Omicron variant, it was moved online and will take place in Europe with the same teams and format. Here is the full team lineup for ESL Challenger February 2022:  FURIA Movistar Riders HEET 9z  Virtus.pro Dignitas Complexity ORDER  Movistar Riders #19 Alejandro 'alex' MasanetAlejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo CanoRaúl 'DeathZz' Jordán NietoÁlvaro 'SunPayus' GarcíaDavid 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo  Dignitas #32 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergAdam 'friberg' FribergJonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Håkon 'hallzerk' FjærliLudvig 'HEAP' Alonso  ORDER #61 Ricardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandKarlo 'USTILO' PivacJireh 'J1rah' YouakimMatthew 'Valiance' HartrickDeclan 'Vexite' Portelli   9z #40 Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda Lima Maximiliano 'max' GonzalezFranco 'dgt' Garcia Martin 'rox' Molina  Virtus.pro #7  Timur 'buster' Tulepov Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis   Complexity #28  Johnny 'JT' TheodosiouRicky 'floppy' KemeryMichael 'Grim' WincePaytyn 'junior' Johnson Justin 'FaNg' Coakley   HEET #29 Alexandre 'bodyy' PianaroLucas 'Lucky' ChastangThomas 'Djoko' PavoniPierre 'Ex3rcice' BulingeAurélien 'afro' Drapier  FURIA #10 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRafael 'saffee' CostaAndré 'drop' Abreu |
Uber to stand in for Rickeh at EPL RelegationBLAST Premier Spring Finals Fantasy games live with prizesOG defeat Heroic in csTYLOO qualify for DreamHack Masters Malmö over ViCiValiance cruise past mousesports to DH Tours playoffsNRG invited to ESL One New YorkforZe eliminate Virtus.pro in MoscowVitality edge out FaZe; advance to BLAST Premier Spring Europe grand finalAVANGAR defeat Valiance; to face FURIA in DreamHack Open Rio grand finalNONAME, Extremum qualify for CIS Minor closed qualifier; conclude participants' list