VRL MENA: Resilience's two qualifiers ended today, each seeding four teams into the two leagues: Levant & North Africa and GCC & Iraq.
The Middle East & North Africa's VRL is subdivided into two sub-regions, each with its own league. Eight teams from the Levant & North Africa and eight from GCC & Iraq will have several weeks of league play leading into playoffs, where the winning team from each will have access to the MENA grand final. The best team from the Levant & NA will meet the best team from GCC & Iraq in a Bo5 to decide the first VRL MENA champion and who will represent the region in the VCT Promotion Tournament.
For both regions, the qualifying process was similar. The signed-up teams would be evenly split into groups. The sixteen best squads, the four best from each group in GCC & Iraq and the two best in the Levant & NA, advanced into a single-elimination bracket, from where eight qualified into the regular season.
The GCC & Iraq side of the qualifier saw SCYTES SCYTES Inactive hoveRR Yaser Akkad Foxy Blitz M7MD Peps Ali Marashi , redCore redCore Inactive xelouz Saleh Abdulaziz NaTTs SnipKw EpicoN JustnatioNN Abdulaziz Salem , vSlash Esports vSlash Esports Inactive Ebeeee DVDOV Abdulrahman Alawadhi Carlito vAgue Saif Al Ameri , and 01 Esports 01 Esports Inactive Dazlly Mohammed Abushal ExiT Abdullah Al-Twaijri triumph without any difficulties. All the qualified teams ended their group in first place.
In the Levant & North Africa, many top teams fell at unexpected times. Fox Gaming Fox Gaming Inactive Aspire Imad Salman Mapo Othmane Djebbour Slap Mohamed Ayoub Sabouni Loop Diaa Ghannam NoXuS Sabir Habibi 's new roster, who succeeded a championship-winning Moroccan team, was unable to make it past the qualifier's group stage. In the bracket stage, 3BL Esports 3BL Esports Inactive sickrey Nikolay Novozhilov Razvy Egor Ogrin Bgg Vladislav Boev moner Kirill Matsanov were stunned by LinxLegacy Esports LinxLegacy Esports Inactive ExEnN 's newly-formed roster. Twareg Esports Twareg Esports Inactive Uzi Sohayb Naceri Mount Mountassir Houmani 9ondoss Achraf Mouhsine Smoxx Ziad El Masoudi , who finished second in the North African final of the MENA Cups, were swept by aAa aAa Inactive Overflow siz Slimen Zneidi m0sy 2-0 in the opening round.
In the final games of the Levant & NA qualifier, it was GT3 RS GT3 RS Inactive tirexa Badis Zerzeri Dryson LUNIX Lord ruben , mcdonalds shift mcdonalds shift Inactive fr0st Amr Mohamed chrollo Omar Hussein iFly Naif Ahmed TERNOS Abdo Gebril Shalaby Mohamed Shalaby —a mix with three ex- Anubis Gaming Anubis Gaming Inactive players— MLC Esports MLC Esports Inactive MenT Nisuh , and aAa who earned the final slots.
Both VRL MENA: Resilience subregion's leagues are set to start on February 14 and last through to March 10. The best teams will then be flown to a common location to play the all-important VRL MENA grand final on March 20.
The VRL MENA: Resilience team list is:
Levant & North Africa:
- Geekay Esports Geekay Esports MENA Rank #6
- NASR Esports NASR Esports MENA Rank #5 xenon Vladimir Lobov vakk Vakaris Bebravičius
- Team Majesty Team Majesty MENA Rank #39 Vamp1r
- Team RA'AD Team RA'AD MENA Rank #3 Shalaby Mohamed Shalaby Shniider Yousef Osama chrollo Omar Hussein Depyro Nour Sherif SkaNoodles Yousef Mohamed Yassien Yassien Ahmed
- GT3 RS GT3 RS Inactive tirexa Badis Zerzeri Dryson LUNIX Lord ruben
- mcdonalds shift mcdonalds shift Inactive fr0st Amr Mohamed chrollo Omar Hussein iFly Naif Ahmed TERNOS Abdo Gebril Shalaby Mohamed Shalaby
- MLC Esports MLC Esports Inactive MenT Nisuh
- aAa aAa Inactive Overflow siz Slimen Zneidi m0sy
GCC & Iraq:
- Team Falcons Team Falcons Inactive
- Team Duelist Team Duelist Inactive Toon bucher1 Mohamed Bucheeri aimhunterr Khalid Mohammed INFESTOR Sultan Alawadhi
- YaLLa Esports YaLLa Esports Inactive ShawateRR Mohammad Yousef Near Fahad Salem Kitkat Mohamed Alnuaimi B4HA Baha Mohamad Oqap ISSAA Issa Murad VIPP33R Omar Adwan
- Piercer Esports Piercer Esports Inactive Nartzie Elyes Zoghlami
- SCYTES SCYTES Inactive hoveRR Yaser Akkad Foxy Blitz M7MD Peps Ali Marashi
- redCore redCore Inactive xelouz Saleh Abdulaziz NaTTs SnipKw EpicoN JustnatioNN Abdulaziz Salem
- vSlash Esports vSlash Esports Inactive Ebeeee DVDOV Abdulrahman Alawadhi Carlito vAgue Saif Al Ameri
- 01 Esports 01 Esports Inactive Dazlly Mohammed Abushal ExiT Abdullah Al-Twaijri