This weekend saw the end of the qualifications for the first season of the Intel Overwatch APEX. The online qualifiers had more than 200 teams and 64 of them advanced to the next stage: the offline qualifiers. These were just played this Saturday and Sunday on LAN (with 60Hz monitors).

A few notable teams failed to qualify for the main competition, but will enter the Challenger division of APEX (LW Red, Afreeca Red, RG Wings, MVP Infinity).

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Source: ruliweb.com

We now know the name of the 12 Korean teams and the 4 invited teams who will participate in the main APEX competition. This will be played through a Group Stage (4 groups of 4 teams). Then the Playoff will feature the top2 teams from each group into single elimination brackets.

The groups have also been released today (04/10/2016) on OGN.

Group A
1. Flash Lux
2. Rhinos Gaming TITAN
3. Afreeca Freecs Blue
4. Rogue

Group B
1. BK Stars
2. KongDoo Uncia
3. MVP Space
4. NRG eSports

Group C
1. T6
2. Mighty Storm
3. Lunatic-Hai
4. Team EnVyUs

Group D
1. LW Blue
2. Runaway
3. KongDoo Panthera
4. REUNITED

 
Pictures of the groups boards
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The matches will be played on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:30 UTC, starting October 7th 2016.

The competition will be casted in English by Erik "DoA" Lonnquist and Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles (OGN @ Twitch & maybe Afreeca). The total prize pool is 200,000,000 KRW (~180,000 EUR).