The international tournament will take place soon, on November 1-3, with 12 teams from the APAC region in contention for the $50,000 prize pool. For most of the spots, online national qualifiers were held, with the Thailand qualifier seeing Alpha Red overcome Beyond for a spot, while Absolute took down Ignis 2-0 to secure the Japan slot. The Hound are overwhelming favorites for the $50,000 event OMEN Challenger Series 2019 Oceania Qualifier was held on LAN, in Auckland, New Zealand, with four prominent teams in the competition. Grayhound and Chiefs bested Genuine and ORDER, respectively, in the semi-finals of the single-elimination bracket, with the #17 team in the world, Grayhound, taking down Chiefs in the final with a narrow 2-0 victory, 16-12 on Nuke and 19-16 on Dust2. Many of the teams in the competition will also be present at the eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals two weeks later in China, with November proving to be an action-packed month for the region. Some of the notable teams which managed to qualify, such as 5POWER and BOOT, and BTRG, decided to pull out of the event, making Alpha Red (#77 in the world) Grayhound's biggest threat on the way to the title. With all the qualifiers concluded, the team list for OMEN Challenger Series is as follows: Grayhound
Alpha Red
Bren
Absolute
ikarus
LaZe BOOM
NASR
FrostFire
Let's Quit
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Syntax  Bren #85  Chris 'Pro.' Martir Patrick 'Derek' Lacson Jim 'BORKUM' Timbreza Riley 'witz' Go Deko 'Papichulo' Evangelista  ikarus #130  Ryu-Hyuk 'Denny' Gyu Yang-Jun 'inter' Mo Jae-Woo 'autist' Lee Ye-Hoon 'CsGoSnex' Lee  ahq #235  Tzu-an 'cedrik' Chen Chi-hsuan 'ChanZ' Huang Sung-chieh 'hRRR' Chen Tzu-hsiang 'FlykingJVE' Cho Huei-en 'xiaogen' Jian  LaZe #158  Brandon 'Dark' Goh Tidus 'StyroN' Goh Jorell 'Retla' Teo Ranny 'MyeHvz' Leong Marcus 'nephh' Tan  Beyond #147  Tosapol 'TOR' Saekow Pakorn 'veta' Treeronarit Warittorn 'RoLEX' Kalanukarn Kritthee 'Geniuss' Sawatmuang  Let's Quit #222  Xuefeng 'xf' Lai RunBo 'sakula' Wu Quanqing 'qz' Wu Ye 'DG' Zhigao Vadim 'Reckless' Dudin  BOOT #68  Nevin 'splashske' Aw Benedict 'Benkai' Tan Alexandre 'alecks' Salle Leslie 'Bobosaur' Soen Khalish 'd4v41' Rusyaidee  Genuine #94  Chris 'Jinxx' Moseley Hugh 'HUGH' Anderson Tom 'apocdud' Henry Jordan 'SkulL' Newland Daryl 'Mayker' May  5POWER #93  Bin 'Savage' Liu Lei 'bottle' Mao Peng 'xiaosaGe' Song Wei 'shuadapai' Wang Lifan 'Viva' Ran  NASR #193  Love 'havoK' Paras Obaid 'breAker' Al-Muhairi Abdulaziz 'Nami' Al-Hammadi Mohammed 'k1tkat' Al-Nuaimi Mohammed 'kAzoo' Daher  Absolute #106  Koji 'Laz' Ushida Ryu 'Reita' Oshiro Tomoaki 'crow' Maruoka Ryo 'barce' Takebayashi Takemori 'takej' Shogo  Syntax #250  Fikri 'famouz' Zaki Muhammad 'Snyder' Henryda Radya 'Raphleen' Prakoso Edward 'Fat Penguin' . Ival 'DelvaS' Restu Febrian  BTRG #108  Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto ZhiTao 'Drea3er' Zhang Kevin 'Eeyore' Gunawan Adrian 'adrnking' Setiawan  Alpha Red #77  Peeratch 'Olivia' Ingkudanonda Maitri 'MAIROLLS' Sukrob Krit 'Kntz' Chaiprasit Kitisak 'SeveN89' Kititharakun Itthirit 'foxz' Ngamsaard  BOOM #169  Baskoro 'roseau' Dwi Putra Dwi 'Gruvee' Prasetyo Aaron 'mindfreak' Leonhart Jason 'f0rsakeN' Susanto Saibani 'fl1pzjder' Rahmad  Ignis #198  Shibasaki 'poem' Yumeki Shuma 'RIPablo Escobar' Ikeda Ishikawa 'hornet' Yuki Yusuke 'neth' Matsuda Masayuki 'oitaN' Takahashi  Grayhound #17  Simon 'Sico' Williams Christopher 'dexter' Nong Joshua 'INS' Potter Liam 'malta' Schembri Ollie 'DickStacy' Tierney  Chiefs #62  Ryan 'zewsy' Palmer Chris 'ofnu' Hanley Tyler 'tucks' Reilly Matthew 'Texta' O'Rourke Peter 'BL1TZ' Athanasatos  FrostFire #196  Aiman 'aimaNNN' Azham Ashraf 'acAp' Firdaus Shamir 'Subbey' Zaman Mohd 'Avirity' Arsad Haiqal 'hiqa1' Nagib  ORDER #63  Chris 'emagine' Rowlands Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston Jordan 'Hatz' Bajic Matthew 'Valiance' Hartrick |